HR Consulting | Leadership Development | Executive Coaching

Strengthen leadership. Align culture. Improve execution.

Tawi Talent Solutions helps CEOs, founders, and HR directors solve the leadership and people issues that limit growth. We bring strategic advisory that improves decision-making, strengthens leadership pipelines, and builds organisations that can execute at scale.

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Strategic Advisory

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Helping People Grow. Strengthening Organisations. Creating Lasting Impact.

20+ years

Senior HR leadership experience helping organisations turn people strategy into business performance

Africa-focused

Regional perspective grounded in the realities of growth, complexity, and change across African markets

Boardroom to execution

Advisory support that helps leaders make better decisions and carry them through

Credibility

Trusted advisory shaped by senior leadership experience across Africa.

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Founder & Lead Advisor

Lynette Gitobu

Founder | Senior HR Leader | Strategic Advisor | Executive Coach

Senior HR leader, strategic advisor, and executive coach with more than two decades of experience helping organisations strengthen leadership, talent, culture, and business performance across Africa.

Experience Summary

20+ years

Senior HR leadership and strategic advisory experience

Africa focus

Regional perspective grounded in real operating conditions

More than 20 years of senior HR leadership experience across multinational organisations in Africa
Former Africa Head of Talent Engagement at Diageo with cross-functional and regional business partnering experience
Trusted by senior leaders to strengthen talent pipelines, leadership capability, and business-aligned people strategy
Master’s degree in Human Resources and certified Executive Coach

Types of Organisations Served

Experience across multinational businesses, regional operations, growth-stage companies, and mission-driven organisations where leadership quality and people decisions directly affect results.

FMCG & Consumer GoodsFinancial Services & BankingManufacturing & Supply ChainTechnology & Growing BusinessesNGOs & Development Organisations

Regions We Work In

East Africa | West Africa | Central Africa | Southern Africa

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The Problem

The people issues slowing performance usually become business issues.

Leadership gaps, culture drift, and avoidable attrition are not HR side issues. They show up in execution quality, growth capacity, and the confidence with which leaders can scale.

Weak leadership pipelines

When leadership depth is thin, growth depends on a few overstretched individuals and succession becomes reactive.

The cost: slower decisions, weaker continuity, and higher dependence on external hires.

Culture misalignment

A strategy may be sound, but if leadership behaviours and team norms do not support it, execution drifts.

The cost: lower accountability, inconsistent decisions, and strategy that fails to land.

Poor talent retention

Top performers do not stay where leadership is unclear, growth paths are weak, or performance standards are inconsistent.

The cost: rising replacement spend, capability gaps, and lost momentum in critical teams.

Authority

Trusted when people decisions affect growth, execution, and leadership credibility.

Tawi combines senior HR judgement, African market experience, and hands-on delivery to help leadership teams solve complex people challenges with clarity and pace.

20+ years

Senior HR leadership experience helping organisations turn people strategy into business performance

Africa-focused

Regional perspective grounded in the realities of growth, complexity, and change across African markets

Boardroom to execution

Advisory support that helps leaders make better decisions and carry them through

Why Leaders Work With Tawi

Why leaders choose Tawi when people decisions have business consequences

Senior-level judgement shaped by more than 20 years of HR leadership inside complex organisations, not from the sidelines
Practical execution support that helps leaders turn decisions into operating reality, not just presentation decks
People strategy tied directly to business priorities such as growth, leadership continuity, execution quality, and retention
Regional insight grounded in the realities of African markets, where context matters as much as best practice
Focused, high-trust advisory that works with leadership teams on the issues that materially affect performance

Sector Reach

Supporting organisations navigating growth, complexity, and change.

FMCG & Consumer GoodsFinancial Services & BankingManufacturing & Supply ChainTechnology & Growing BusinessesNGOs & Development Organisations

Our Services

Advisory designed around the outcomes leadership teams care about.

We work on the issues that directly affect performance: leadership depth, talent retention, organisation effectiveness, and culture alignment.

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Strategic HR & People Advisory

What you get

Build the people strategy, operating structure, and governance discipline required to scale with confidence.

Create clearer operating accountability across critical teams
Strengthen succession for roles the business cannot afford to miss
Reduce execution drag caused by weak structure or unclear ownership
Put governance in place that supports better leadership decisions
Align culture priorities to business performance, not optics

Talent & Leadership Development

What you get

Build leadership pipelines that sustain growth and reduce dependency on external hires.

Prepare high-potential talent for bigger leadership mandates
Improve management quality where execution is won or lost
Clarify the capabilities required for future growth
Strengthen succession depth before leadership gaps appear
Improve retention of talent the organisation cannot afford to lose

Inclusion & Belonging Solutions

What you get

Build a stronger, fairer culture that improves retention, trust, and leadership credibility.

Improve fairness in hiring, development, and promotion decisions
Strengthen leadership trust across diverse teams
Build credible pathways for underrepresented talent to advance
Turn inclusion goals into practical management action

Executive & Leadership Coaching

What you get

Help senior leaders lead with sharper judgement, stronger presence, and greater impact.

Accelerate effectiveness during transitions and role expansion
Strengthen executive presence where influence matters most
Improve judgement and communication under pressure
Support leaders carrying higher strategic responsibility

Process

A disciplined approach to solving leadership and organisation challenges.

We work from diagnosis to implementation, helping leaders define the issue, shape the response, and embed the change required for lasting results.

Step 101

Diagnose

We identify the leadership, culture, and organisation issues that are affecting execution, growth, or change.

Step 202

Design

We shape a focused response aligned to business priorities, operating context, and leadership reality.

Step 303

Deliver

We work closely with leaders and teams to embed the actions, behaviours, and capability shifts that matter.

Step 404

Sustain

We help you build the structures, leadership discipline, and follow-through needed to sustain results.

Insights

Thought leadership for leaders shaping stronger organisations.

Sample topics that reflect the issues we help clients solve across leadership, culture, and talent.

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Insight

Building Leadership Pipelines in African Markets

What leadership teams need to do to build succession depth, stronger managers, and leadership continuity in fast-changing environments.

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Insight

Why Culture Fails Strategy

How misaligned behaviours, weak accountability, and inconsistent leadership quietly erode execution.

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Insight

Retaining Top Talent in Growth Economies

How stronger leadership, clearer development paths, and better people decisions improve retention where competition is intensifying.

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Let’s build a stronger organisation together.

If leadership capability, culture, or people strategy is holding back performance, we can help you address it with practical, high-trust advisory support.

Start with the business problem, not the template

Use evidence and practical judgement to shape decisions

Build leadership capability while solving the issue

Stay close to implementation until change takes hold

A short conversation can quickly clarify the issue, the opportunity, and the right intervention.

Strengthen leadership. Align culture. Improve execution.

Trusted advisory shaped by senior leadership experience across Africa.

Lynette Gitobu

The people issues slowing performance usually become business issues.

Weak leadership pipelines

Culture misalignment

Poor talent retention

Trusted when people decisions affect growth, execution, and leadership credibility.

Why leaders choose Tawi when people decisions have business consequences

Supporting organisations navigating growth, complexity, and change.

Advisory designed around the outcomes leadership teams care about.

Strategic HR & People Advisory

Talent & Leadership Development

Inclusion & Belonging Solutions

Executive & Leadership Coaching

A disciplined approach to solving leadership and organisation challenges.

Diagnose

Design

Deliver

Sustain

Thought leadership for leaders shaping stronger organisations.

Building Leadership Pipelines in African Markets

Why Culture Fails Strategy

Retaining Top Talent in Growth Economies

Let’s build a stronger organisation together.

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