About INGA

INGA Talent and Advisory is a global executive search firm anchored in the Africa-Europe corridor and built to serve mission-driven organisations. Our work spans foundations and philanthropy, NGOs, multilateral institutions, social enterprises, and the impact-driven businesses reshaping what development looks like. Female-owned and rooted in Africa, we operate globally through networks spanning Europe, North America, and beyond.

Our focus is on bringing visibility to a wider range of leaders by diversifying the candidate pools that we present our clients. Our candidates could be the step-up candidate, ready for a more senior role but not yet seen as "ready." It could be talent crossing in from another sector, as global shifts call for a broader range of backgrounds at the table. And it could be talent that has simply never been seen.

For our clients, a wider, more rigorously built field means a genuine choice. It means leadership that fits the context as well as the CV, and that reflects the partners and communities your work depends on. For mission-driven organisations, that fit shapes how credible and effective your leadership will be with the boards, funders, and people you answer to.

INGA‘s strength lies in seeing potential across the full landscape because we believe the organisations that will define the next era of this work will be led by talent, experience, and perspectives that better reflect the world they serve.

Big ideas, real impact

Our principal recruiters bring fluency in the world you operate in, paired with the craft of search itself. As technology widens the candidate pool and the demands on mission-driven leadership grow sharper, the advantage is no longer in finding names. It is in the discernment to know which leaders will hold up in the role, the context, and the relationships your work depends on.

  • A Nairobi base with global reach across Europe, the United States and beyond allows us to combine donor-facing fluency with the ability to assess leadership across different contexts. Our Brussels anchor brings two decades of relationships inside the institutions and foundations that fund and implement the work

  • Limiting the number of active searches at a time means every client gets a principal’s full attention. We believe the quality of a search is directly proportional to how much of it we can hold in our heads at once.

  • We stay engaged because we know that a strong hire in a fragile environment can unravel quickly if nobody is paying attention. Leadership integration support and embedded talent partnership shows how our service is optimized for outcomes rather than transactions

  • Francophone Africa is a major talent pool. Delphine’s native French fluency shapes how we communicate and build trust in a region where language influences relationships and determines who you can reach.

  • Many senior hiring mistakes happen not because the wrong person was chosen, but because the right person wasn’t seen clearly or didn’t know how to be seen. We work both sides: helping candidates surface what they actually bring, and helping clients look beyond the obvious presentation. We believe it is one of the most important parts of our work.

  • ONE CONSULTANT. START TO FINISH.

    The person you meet at kickoff owns your mandate through every stage — one contact, one consistent thread for clients and candidates alike. Any support behind them is run by people who know the sector and treat every candidate conversation with the same care. No transactional handoffs, no box-checking — because first impressions shape how candidates experience the organizations we represent.

Work With Us