Sprout People

Sprout People is an Auckland-based firm that combines executive and specialist recruitment with organisational design and consulting, and leadership training and development. It works with owners, innovators and leaders, and says its executive recruitment and leadership consulting teams work together for clients.

Its case studies describe a global search for the first chief executive of a founder-led deep tech start-up, and recruitment for a waste plastic technology company that grew into an embedded Head of People function. Its organisational design and leadership work includes aligning a company's leadership team around a shared charter, and a two-day Growing Leaders programme for middle managers delivered across three months.

Brien Keegan is the founder and managing director, and Pip Spyksma is chief executive and leadership advisor. The team includes principal and senior consultants, one of them a search specialist.