About US
building your future
Oaktree Talent Group is a premium Management Consulting recruitment firm catering for the exclusive Strategy and Transformation market. Combining over thirty years of executive recruitment experience in this community, Oaktree Talent is spearheaded by two of the most highly regarded, professional and sought-after executive recruitment experts in Australia. Many of our clients and candidates stem from the pre-eminent consulting firms such a McKinsey & Co, Bain & Co and The Boston Consulting Group.
MEET YOUR experienced recruiters
The Partners at Oaktree Talent Group have established relationships with both clients and candidates over many years and are seen as career partners to many professionals in Australia. This meeting of minds is welcomed by the market, with many citing that their combined 30 years of Strategy & Transformation recruitment experience and consultative approach will offer their clients a one stop solution for consulting and strategy talent.
Ilan Leshetz
Partner
Ilan Leshetz was a former Partner at Ethos Corporation, leading their Strategy practice where he was also one of the highest performing consultants most years. He was then head-hunted into Partners in Performance as Executive Manager Talent Acquisition to help attract senior Strategy talent from around the globe. In 2015 he set up Oaktree Talent Partners and has been placing Strategy and Transformation talent successfully for both Industry and Consulting clients alike.
Ilan is qualified CA and has worked in business at Financial Controller level before changing his career into Executive Recruitment. He later completed a Masters in NLP and as such is excellent at reading people and matching personalities to role profiles. He also holds a Masters in Coaching Psychology and prides himself on using this skill to deeply understand his contacts, their drivers and ultimately their needs at a granular level.
Anika Stokes
Partner
Anika Stokes has been excelling in the Strategy & Transformation consulting space for over 17 years. The last eleven of which have been based in Sydney, Australia. Anika set up Morgan McKinley’s Strategy division in 2010 and established herself as a leader in the market, growing the team year on year and taking out the award for top performing permanent consultant every year since the award was established.
Anika is known for being an expert at spotting talent and understanding exactly which environment they will thrive in, as well as for creating and building genuine, long-standing relationships with both candidates and clients.
Anika is a creative and authentic leader who loves to inspire those around her by leading from the front, as a business entrepreneur, leading executive recruiter and a qualified Zumba instructor.
Asha Walsh
Associate Partner
Asha started her career in a boutique financial services organisation before moving to London for three years. Back in Australia, Asha joined Macquarie Bank where she spent seven years specialising in corporate broking services. Since then, Asha has specialised in Strategy recruitment across all areas of Financial Services, more recently Commerce and Industry where she has helped grow numerous internal strategy teams, finding the highest quality candidates by taking the time to truly understand her clients’ culture and requirements. Asha has built her reputation through authenticity, commitment and prides herself on supporting her client and candidate relationships, always being there to provide consultative advice whenever they need it.
Asha is a fitness enthusiast, enjoying outdoor adventures and finding new places to explore. She has climbed Everest base camp, completed 100km Oxfam walk as well as several ultra-marathons.
Amy has over 15 years in recruitment and comes with a broad knowledge and extensive experience recruiting in financial services and commercial sectors. Amy’s career spans both the Australian market and overseas where she played a key part in launching the Dublin office of a well-known global recruitment agency before returning to Sydney in 2010 to work with a boutique agency.
Amy’s most recent role has been working on-site with Westpac recruiting senior roles across finance and transformation. Amy’s strengths are in her ability to build trusted and lasting relationships with both clients and candidates alike by focusing on creating a long term partnership and providing support and guidance to people throughout their careers.
Amy also holds a degree in Nutritional Medicine and is a qualified Nutritionist with a passion for health and wellbeing.
Amy Savage
Associate Partner
our approach
FOR OUR CANDIDATES
The advantage of partnering with Oaktree Talent Group is that we work uniquely by acting as coach, career mentor and consultant to assist global Strategy & Transformation talent in making the right move at the right time. We do this whilst balancing career ambition, motivation and personal circumstances at the same time. It is this authentic, genuine and highly consultative approach to recruitment that sets us apart when partnering on talent solutions.
FOR OUR CLIENTS
It is no secret the Strategy & Transformation market is talent-short, however with our vast global network, deep relationships and unique blended-approach to recruitment, clients are confident to partner with Oaktree because we bring what the recruitment industry aspires for but seldom achieves, “sticky” placements, resulting in both engaged employees and clients that can boast a better recruitment ROI than their competition.
IN GENERAL:
Oaktree Talent Group work predominantly on an exclusive basis with clients to secure the best talent the industry has to offer. We achieve this by drawing upon our deep, loyal and unrivalled global network of top-tier consulting talent which provides assurance for our client partners locally. We also operate as a strategic partner for our large network of senior executive candidates, many of whom we have coached and helped navigate complex career moves over the years.
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