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 qualified, exceptional, and global mind-set diverse leaders, and the provision of intelligence that organisations need 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 the country’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 has been crafted on our (4) core values acronym ‘TIME’; Teamwork, Integrity, Motivation, and Excellence, aimed at understanding of client’s and candidate’s 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.

Protégé Management is an independent exclusive member of Global Executive Search Network (GESN), a reputable network of executive search firms known for its blue-ocean strategic values and pedigree in exceptional leadership hiring services. GESN is one of the world’s leading executive search networks with widest global reach spanning 73+ countries and across the continents in the world. GESN independent exclusive members are carefully selected because of their breadth of professionalism, knowledge, and local market experience, united by a singular purpose of leveraging their proprietary network of both regional and global reach to uncover exceptional scalable top-tier executives that possess the required skill sets and vision needed for organisations growth and competitive advantage through international cross-border assignments. Our international collaboration presents us a significant opportunity to strengthen our global reach through exclusive partnership with Global Executive Search Network which means as a client you can have peace of mind knowing that your projects will receive the same quality of service internationally.