Nicholas Kasidhi

Founder & Managing Partner @PATH | Top 100 CIO Times Most Admired Business Leaders 2025| Global Talent Leader| Pan-African Headhunter| Leadership Development Facilitator| Career Coach| Conference Speaker & Moderator

Kenya

About

An award-winning Global Talent Leader recently named among the top 20 disruptive people leaders in Kenya 2023. He has over 15 years of substantive exposure and experience in various HR Leadership roles of increasing responsibility within executive search & headhunting portfolios, talent management, leadership development, performance enablement and DEI cutting across diverse sectors within International development, private sector, consultancy, and start-up environments. He is also a renowned career coach, conference speaker and thought leader passionate about unleashing people’s potential and its impact on spiralling organizational growth. He has partnered with organizations both in corporate & consulting capacities to drive high productivity and strong business results through teams within multiple sectors ranging from Oil & Gas, Financial Services, Healthcare, Manufacturing, Aviation, FMCG, Aviation, Renewable Energy & Power, NGO, Transportation, Mining and Technology sectors. With his deep Talent insight & Market knowledge across the region, He has supported placement and executive search in some of the most difficult geographies to find talent; like Angola, Mozambique, Tanzania, Equatorial Guinea, Cape Verde, Pakistan and Mauritius – in addition to other emerging markets. Passionate about shaping and inspiring possibilities for the youth through coaching to unlock their potential for excellence; I hold a Post-graduate Diploma in Human Resource Management and a Bachelor’s degree in Philosophy.

Experience

  • Founder & Managing Partner at Pan African Talent Hub
    May 2024 - Present · 2 yrs 2 mos

    We are here to solve Africa's most pressing Talent Challenges! Pan-African Talent Hub specializes in discovering and shaping the next generation of African leaders through innovative methods like market mapping/talent pipelining, executive search, and professional development. Our goal is to unleash Africa's potential on the global stage by forming strategic partnerships with like-minded organizations in the region to enable them to identify & develop emerging leaders for sustained succession and future leadership. With over 30 years of collective industry experience, we provide expert talent intelligence, management & HR advisory services, enterprise digital learning solutions, customized leadership and management development programs designed to tackle Africa's distinct challenges within a pan-African context.

  • Global Director, Talent & Capability Management at Living Goods
    Jan 2021 - May 2024 · 3 yrs 5 mos

    Responsible for leading an Integrated Talent Management & Capability Development framework that supports our ambitious growth strategy for the overall achievement of organizational goals at scale while strengthening our Employer Branding and EVP leverage in the market.

  • Head of Talent Engagement, EABL at Diageo
    Aug 2015 - Dec 2020 · 5 yrs 5 mos

    Leads the talent engagement business partnership across EABL's multi-market teams to ensure we strategically position our brand to deliver exceptional talent by leveraging strong external pipelines and internal moves for sustainable succession pools to enhance consistent organizational performance.

  • Senior Partner at Genesis Consulting & Advisory (Africa) Ltd
    Nov 2014 - Jul 2015 · 9 mos

    Partner with an integrated outfit specializing in delivering integrated People solutions around advisory, Talent search & deployment, Corporate Learning & Skills development, SME business support, Market Research & Investment support across emerging markets within Africa. We work with a network of Consultants and Associates/subject matter experts spread across 10+ countries on various multi-million dollar projects/businesses in the region.

  • GE (5 yrs 5 mos)
    • Talent Sourcing Leader, Eastern Africa
      Jun 2011 - Oct 2014 · 3 yrs 5 mos

      Driving wing to wing talent acquisition and hiring initiatives across businesses within GE's Global Growth & Operations platform in Eastern Africa.

    • Africa Staffing Leader
      Jun 2009 - Jul 2011 · 2 yrs 2 mos

      Engages in high profile talent search and responding to the hiring needs within GE's Global Business Services in the African region.