Thabiso

Legoete

Managing Director

Thabiso Legoete is the Managing Director for Korn Ferry Sub-Saharan Africa, based in Johannesburg.

Mr Legoete joined the firm from one of the four big banks in South Africa where he held senior roles spanning change, human resources, operations and strategy over a 12-year period with the bank.

In his last role as Managing Executive: Transformation & Change, he led large-scale change programs across the Retail & Business Bank. In previous roles within the human resources space, he advised and supported the Chief Executives of the business clusters on a myriad of human capital topics including building the top team, top team alignment, cultural transformation and post-merger integration. He was a member of the various business cluster Executive Committees in his last eight years with the bank.

Prior to joining the bank, Mr Legoete spent two and half years at the Johannesburg office of a leading management consulting firm, where he was a Senior Associate and served clients from both the private and public sectors across a number of disciplines.

His current area of focus is building out the Board/CEO practice to support clients across the African continent. To this end, Mr Legoete has been supporting clients across various industries (healthcare, financial services, mining, oil & gas) and geographies on topics including Board Effectiveness Reviews, CEO Succession and Top Team Performance.

Thabiso holds an undergraduate Mechanical Engineering degree and an MBA (with Distinction) from the University of the Witwatersrand. He also completed a post-graduate non-degree management program in Germany with the Carl Duisberg Gesellschaft and the Advanced Management Program (AMP) from INSEAD.