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International & Emerging Markets

Think Global, Act Local

International:

Today’s market is a global stage. Many of our clients are international and increasingly our searches are borderless: the best candidates may be anywhere in the world. We are members of Panorama, a global network of partners that together form an exclusive alliance of leading independent executive search firms, active over the world’s major time zones. Together, Panorama has 27 offices and over 60 partners across Africa, Europe, Asia Pacific, North- and Latin America. Panorama has a like-minded approach to quality work and shared values and ethics. We operate beyond geographical constraints which means each of our partners offer clients both global capability and local sensitivity. We have a long track record of advising clients at the most senior level in our own markets and through Panorama share a strategic commitment to excellence.  www.panoramasearch.com

Global Partner Offices: 

Atlanta: Auckland: Bangalore: Berlin: Campinas: Delhi: Düsseldorf: Frankfurt: London: Montreal: Mumbai: Munich: Nashville: New York: Pune: Rio de Janeiro: San Francisco: São Paulo: Vancouver: Washington: Wellington

Africa & Emerging Markets:

The successful global expansion of organisations depends on talented leaders who have the ability to expertly manage complex and diverse cultures and structures.  We offer you global capability with local sensitivity, we think global and act local.

Ferreira & Associates are particularly qualified to handle your search in emerging markets having successfully completed numerous searches in East, West and Sub-Saharan Africa. Candidates are sourced from across the globe, whether South Africans, locals, expats or diaspora.

With our South African background you have a gateway to Africa guiding you on exactly what a leader in an emerging market needs for success in their role.

  • ‘ A business has to be involving, it has to be fun, and it has to exercise your creative instincts ’ – Sir Richard Branson, self-made billionaire, entrepreneur

  • ‘ In the current state of the world I believe that we must recommit humanity to a vision of shared destiny and collective effort for a better future ’ – Reuel Khoza, Author of Attuned Leadership: African Humanism as Compass
  • ‘ All our businesses comprise of the BEST people money can buy. My policy is hire the best and pay them well ’ – Patrice Motsepe, Chairman African Rainbow Minerals & leading SA mining entrepreneur
  • ‘ I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it ’ – Nelson Mandela, Nobel Peace Prize winner, former South African President
  • ‘ Leadership is ultimately about having the ability to inspire others. Inspiration comes from within and one is able to do this when there is motivation, maturity and personal satisfaction ’ – Christine Ramon, Among SA’s Top Woman in Leadership, WEF Young Global Leader
  • ‘ The success to getting to greatness is to start charting a course to that future in which our children will be able to live ’ – Dr. Mamphela Ramphele, South African Businesswoman and Author
  • ‘ The way you achieve the best long-term value is by building real value in the world… if we can do that, I don’t think we’ll have a hard time making a lot of money ’ – Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook founder & one of the world’s youngest billionaires
  • ‘ Diversity is the art of thinking independently together ’ – Malcolm Forbes, Publisher of Forbes magazine
  • ‘ We created competitive advantage by changing the rules of the game ’ – Laurie Dippenaar, Co-founder FirstRand