Talentos is a Kenyan management consultancy helping founder-led businesses across the country build a culture of performance: clear expectations, managers who follow through and progress the founder can see.
Peter has spent more than six years inside Kenyan organisations building HR functions and operational systems, and delivering multi-million-shilling programmes with partners including the World Bank and GIZ-EnDev. Rita’s background is in data and monitoring systems that people use to make decisions, including work alongside UNEP teams.
Between us, we know how to set up the structures that make work run, and how to measure whether they are working.
Founder-led businesses in Kenya grow on the founder’s energy. Then they reach a point where the team is real, the payroll is serious, and progress still depends on the founder remembering, chasing and pushing. Good managers are on the payroll, but nobody has written down what good looks like, and nobody owns what is in the way.
We started Talentos for that moment: to help the business build a culture of performance that its managers run, and to show, with evidence, whether it is working.
Peter Thuita and Rita Wanjeri
To help founder-led Kenyan businesses build a culture of performance: clear expectations, managers who follow through, fair decisions and progress the founder can see.
Kenyan businesses that move with their people, and whose growth no longer depends on the founder holding everything together.
People should know what is expected of them before anyone judges their work.
A missed target is a question. The answer decides the next action.
Decisions about people rest on evidence the people affected have seen and can respond to.
If a founder can’t read it at a glance, it isn’t finished.
What we build belongs to your business and keeps running after we step back.
We measure before and after on the same scale, and we say so when something hasn’t moved.
Every engagement uses PACE, our method. Four principles, assessed through six conditions you can observe in your own business.
Start with what the business needs.
Make responsibilities clear on both sides.
Understand what helped or prevented delivery.
Base decisions on facts shared with the person.
Co-founder
Peter has more than six years of experience building HR functions and operational systems in Kenyan organisations. He has delivered multi-million-shilling programmes with partners including the World Bank and GIZ-EnDev.
He leads every Talentos engagement, from the Performance Picture through implementation and follow-up.
Co-founder, Research and Measurement
Rita leads how Talentos gathers, assesses and compares evidence. Her background includes data and monitoring systems and work alongside UNEP teams.
She graduated with First Class Honours from the University of Nairobi and is completing an MSc in Environmental Science at Eötvös Loránd University in Budapest.
Tell us what is happening in your business. We reply within one working day, or write to us directly at hello@talentos.co.ke.