Hogan is excited to announce a significant milestone for Career Connections, an authorized distributor in East Africa, through a newly established strategic joint venture with Adili Group to continue building and strengthening one of Africa’s largest integrated advisory and professional services firms. With more than 150 years of combined experience, the joint venture aims to accelerate growth and expand solution delivery to more organizations, leaders, and teams, guided by a vision to extend transformational impact regionally and globally.
Adili Group is a leading pan-African corporate advisory firm with a presence in Kenya, Rwanda, Tanzania, and Uganda, leveraging its regional footprint to serve clients seamlessly across borders and helping them navigate complexity. It is also an affiliate of ALN Kenya | Anjarwalla & Khanna, East Africa’s largest full-service law firm.
Career Connections, an experienced people consulting firm in East Africa, complements this by supporting organizations in unlocking their people’s competitive advantage, enhancing effectiveness, and maximizing the return on talent. It has served as a trusted advisor since 1997.
This joint venture is built on trusted relationships, shared capabilities, and continuity, while expanding the range of services they offer together. For clients, this means seamless, integrated solutions delivered without compromise on quality. Adili Group will continue to offer its leading corporate, risk, cyber, outsourcing, crisis and PR, and strategy advisory services, alongside fiduciary support. In parallel, Career Connections will continue to deliver its expert people solutions, including executive search and board services, leadership development, coaching solutions, talent advisory, and assessments. For their people, this strategic partnership creates broader opportunities across markets, disciplines, and career paths, supported by greater resources, a shared culture, and a unified vision for growth.
Career Connections will continue to operate under the leadership of Managing Director Zia Manji and Founder Madeleine Dunford. The firm’s senior management team remains fully in place, ensuring continuity in strategic direction, purpose, and trusted relationships.
Together, the two organizations operate as one integrated professional services firm, upholding the same values and quality, now with a broader reach. This joint venture unites their shared vision to shape Africa’s future and drive transformative impact as trusted, integrated advisors to the continent’s leading organizations.
“After 20 years of growing the East African market together with Career Connections, Hogan is happy to think of going beyond the current territories and sharing the science of personality more broadly now in the region,” said Maya Krzyzanowska, regional director of the MENA and UK regions at Hogan Assessments.
“This joint venture stands firmly on a foundation of shared values and complementary strengths,” said Zia Manji, managing director at Career Connections. “Over my years leading Career Connections’ consulting practices, I have seen organizations confront challenges that demand integrated solutions across corporate advisory and people strategy. In Adili Group, we have found partners who share our commitment to integrity, professionalism, and quality client service. This is a blend of global standards with deep local insights, a strong reputation built through resilience, and long-lasting legacy work that drives transformational impact. Together with ALN Kenya, Adili Group’s affiliate firm, this creates a uniquely integrated platform across Africa, combining legal, tax, advisory, and human capital expertise, enabling us to support clients not just in solving discrete challenges, but in delivering coordinated, end-to-end solutions across markets. Importantly, what remain unchanged are the trusted relationships, people, quality, and responsiveness that define Career Connections.”
Madeleine Dunford, founder at Career Connections, said, “Over 29 years, the people and culture agenda have evolved to become central to organizational strategy. The leaders who head up these functions are critical members of their senior leadership teams. As a result, clients are increasingly investing in integrated talent solutions aligned with their business strategies. This joint venture with Adili Group responds to that evolution. We are combining Career Connections' expertise in identifying and developing the best talent for its clients with Adili Group's corporate advisory and governance capabilities and, through its affiliate firm ALN Kenya, legal advisory services across the continent. This creates what the regional market needs: a pan-African firm that delivers people and business solutions as interconnected drivers of organizational success. This is the professional services model Africa deserves”
As a Hogan authorized distributor in East Africa, Career Connections remains committed to helping organizations strengthen leadership and organizational effectiveness. Through its joint venture with Adili Group, the firm is further enhancing its ability to support clients across Africa through expanded capabilities and a growing regional footprint.
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