News Archive
News Archive
Context Is Everything…..
What a Stradivarius Teaches About Leadership By our Executive Search Consultant, Louise Baumann. A world-class violinist once played a $3.5 million Stradivarius in a Washington DC subway station during rush hour. Dressed in jeans and a cap, he played six classical pieces to more than 1,000 commuters. Few paused. He made $32. Later, that same […]
How I Make An Impact
Uche Ofodile is CEO Benin with MTN, Africa’s largest mobile network operator. We caught up with Uche to get her take on leadership, culture, and making an impact. When you first stepped into your role, what was your vision? My vision was to make sure that being number one wasn’t just about history – it […]
AI in Africa: Why the Continent is Poised to Benefit from Applied AI
By Simon Poole, Non-Executive Director and AI Advisor to Boards across Africa. Former Operating Partner, Helios Investment Partners. There’s a growing narrative that Africa is being “left behind” in the global AI race, particularly in the development of large language models (LLMs). I believe this concern is misplaced. Africa is uniquely positioned to accrue outsized […]
Focus On Consumer/FMCG
Our Search specialist, Stephen Barham, has been taking a look at Fast Moving Consumer Goods (FMCG) markets across Africa – here are his six key product and workforce trend observations: Significant Diversification within countries impacted by FX volatility and devaluation. Recently, in Nigeria, due to the large devaluation, many multinational companies have cut back on […]
The Secrets Of Our People Success
Hans Nilsson is Chairman of E-commerce and payment platform provider, Hubtel. CEO, Director, Advisor, Mentor, Coach, NED: some of his titles from a wide-ranging career that describe his contribution to organisations over the decades. We caught up with him to get his take on leadership, culture, motivation and how people make the difference. On the […]
Work In Africa – Our View
Welcome to our first ‘new look’ newsletter, a focus on the workforce and leadership across African organisations – because it’s what we are focused on every day. We hope you find the articles and videos useful and do let us know if there is anything you would particularly like to see us cover in the […]
Identifying Employee Results for Any Role – By Paul Marsh, Lightbulb & EiA Client Trainer
There is now no length of service requirement to make a flexible working request – so this potentially means an increase in remote working and for some leaders this means a lack of visibility. Which means they say it makes it harder to manage performance “But if I’m getting the job done why does it […]
The Problem with Competency-Based Interviewing – An Alternative Approach
81% of the reason why people fail in their roles or do not pass their probation period comes down to attitude and behaviour. It’s that slightly intangible thing that we only really see when we get away from the recruitment interview and actually see the person doing their thing at work once hired. For example, […]
How do you find the right leader to deliver sustainable growth in Africa?
We have worked with founders and companies at various fundraising stages to find leaders with experience in new country set-up, creating a blueprint for scaling, fundraising, and investor relations as well as leveraging technology and working across all aspects of product design for tech-enabled businesses. These are often newly created positions which will place a […]
Celebrating 10 years of AFSIC – Investing in Africa: An Interview with MD, Rupert McCammon
What can I expect to experience when attending AFSIC? AFSIC, now in its 10th year, is believed to be the largest African investment event taking place annually outside Africa and has become one of the most important conduits of investment into Africa. Over the past ten years AFSIC […]