About Us

Protégé Management is a premier boutique executive search and human capital advisory firm dedicated to helping organisations solve their most demanding leadership needs and HR challenges. We achieve this by connecting organisations with the most sought-after exceptional talents, diversed global-minded leaders, and providing intelligence that organisation needs to optimise their businesses and navigate today’s turbulent, disruptive business environment. Protégé Management was founded (2011) but officially started operations July (2017) in a one room shared office. Today Protégé Management has emerged as number one nation’s premier leading boutique executive search and human capital advisory brand that resonates with both national and international businesses seeking executive leadership talent and professional people management advise to compete through change and commercial competitive growth. Less than a decade of operations, we have revolutionised the space with our exceptional services and outstanding track record, underpinned by unsurpassed quality service delivery and long-term business relationships that have been crafted on our (4) core values acronym ‘TIME’; Teamwork, Integrity, Motivation, and Excellence, aimed at understanding of clients’ and candidates’ needs.

At Protégé Management, we’ve defined and brought executive search to its root and reinvent the wheels from orthodox recruitment with cutting-edge and state-of-the-art methodology. In a business space where complacency and bureaucracy prevail, we foresaw an opportunity to distinguish ourselves. Most competitors rely on inexperienced specialists and artificial networks, but we’re outstanding. We’ve emerged as the most reliable partner to both national and multinational organisations in their people management and intelligence quest. We understand organisations investments must translate to tangible improvements in human capital and corporate growth. This understanding has enabled us to leverage our strong in-house organic research competences, global reach network, proprietary database, and situational knowledge of a team of over 85 years of combined experienced in the industry covering a broad range of services such as; Board of Directors Search and Headhunting, Talent Acquisition, Leadership Development, Human Resource Interim Management, Human Resource Consulting and Advisory, Business Sector Mapping, and Human Resource Outsourcing Services to assist organisations to grow at scale, generate value, and drive results. We understand the challenges African organisations are facing, and pride ourselves in leveraging our proven methodology and expertise in delivering bespoke solutions to help organisations find the right competent leaders with a deep understanding of the local market, skill sets, and the cultural-fit needed to achieve competitive growth.