Kestria presents a new partner in Portugal
Kestria is proud to announce the addition of a new partner in Portugal, marking an exciting step in our continued European growth. This expansion reinforces our commitment to connecting deep local expertise with a truly global perspective, ensuring clients benefit from seamless cross-border collaboration and exceptional leadership solutions.

Kestria Portugal: Thrive Partners is a boutique consulting firm focused on executive search, helping organisations identify and attract exceptional leaders who deliver lasting impact. Its senior consultants combine extensive corporate and advisory expertise to deliver searches grounded in strategic insight, deep human understanding and precise execution. In addition to executive search, the firm provides Leadership Development and People Strategy & Advisory services, supporting organisations in aligning culture, leadership and talent across the employee lifecycle. By helping clients build digitally enabled yet genuinely human organisations, Thrive Partners unlocks potential, accelerates growth and creates sustainable value for people, businesses and society.

João Miguel Antunes
Managing Partner, Kestria Portugal

‘We are truly delighted to join the Kestria alliance. This is a natural step in our journey to connect cultures, leadership and talent across borders. It reflects our ambition to deliver outstanding service to our clients - combining global reach with deep local insight. Through Kestria’s international network, we can now connect with leaders and organisations anywhere in the world, while leveraging sector-specific expertise to design tailor-made high-impact solutions.’

Stepan Motejzik
Kestria Global Alliance Director

‘In Thrive Partners, we’ve found a partner that allows us to strengthen our portfolio by adding the important Portuguese market. From our very first interaction, we’ve felt a mutual synergy and business alignment that sets the foundation for a long-term partnership - one that will benefit Thrive, Kestria, and most importantly, our clients and candidates both locally and internationally. We’re truly looking forward to working together!’

About Kestria

Kestria is a global professional alliance of executive search firms, united in their commitment to support clients in sourcing and retaining key leadership talent. Our partners are as culturally and geographically diverse as our clients. Located in 40+ countries, 90+ cities on six continents, Kestria has the footprint and agility needed to serve multinationals and SMEs with dedication and a personal touch.

We’ve successfully completed 40,000+ searches for over 4,000 clients, serving everyone from game-changing start-ups to major global players. Ranked as the world's largest retained executive search alliance in terms of geographical coverage, Kestria is Fluent in finding leaders.

Contact information
Stepan Motejzik, Kestria Global Alliance Director 
Email: stepan.motejzik@kestria.com
Phone: + 420 608 102 893