Getting to know Progressive Edge

Leigh has spent more than 15 years in specialist search. Before founding Progressive Edge, she built and ran the technology-focused talent sourcing branch in Cape Town for one of South Africa’s largest ICT enterprises, giving her a foundation in this market that very few search professionals in the country can match.

That experience shaped the way Progressive Edge was built. She scaled the firm, then deliberately contracted it into a focused, senior-led practice working exclusively in SaaS and software product. A deliberate choice made around doing fewer things to a higher standard.

Moving her focus from enterprise to scale-ups opened a different kind of work. She helped business leaders solve complex talent problems in fast-moving environments, finding the kind of people who thrive in smaller, high-growth businesses and who would never have surfaced through an enterprise search process. Scale-up hiring operates by different rules. Leigh learned those rules from the inside and built Progressive Edge’s approach specifically around them.

Outside of search work, Leigh served on the board of a business accelerator and participated in the Entrepreneurs’ Organization Accelerator programme. She understands the world her clients operate in.

She is most at home outdoors, in a forest or on a padel court, or deep in a problem worth solving.

Leigh has spent more than 15 years in specialist search. Before founding Progressive Edge, she built and ran the technology-focused talent sourcing branch in Cape Town for one of South Africa’s largest ICT enterprises, giving her a foundation in this market that very few search professionals in the country can match.

That experience shaped the way Progressive Edge was built. She scaled the firm, then deliberately contracted it into a focused, senior-led practice working exclusively in SaaS and software product. A deliberate choice made around doing fewer things to a higher standard.

Moving her focus from enterprise to scale-ups opened a different kind of work. She helped business leaders solve complex talent problems in fast-moving environments, finding the kind of people who thrive in smaller, high-growth businesses and who would never have surfaced through an enterprise search process. Scale-up hiring operates by different rules. Leigh learned those rules from the inside and built Progressive Edge’s approach specifically around them.

Outside of search work, Leigh served on the board of a business accelerator and participated in the Entrepreneurs’ Organization Accelerator programme. She understands the world her clients operate in.

She is most at home outdoors, in a forest or on a padel court, or deep in a problem worth solving.