Why
It defines who we are as recruiters, empowering us to achieve the things in life that matter most. It also fuels how we live. Commitment to excellence in mind, body and soul makes us ambassadors for change. Beyond striving to be the best in the world at what we do, we intend to be the best for the world through how we do it.
Client, candidate or recruiter, our why supports yours.
How
Change the game.
Be radically transparent.
By offering autonomy and rewards unparalleled in the market, we continue to attract and engage the industry’s finest. Our recruiters are free to unleash their full passion, agility and expertise toward achieving extraordinary results.
What
Three divisions.
One culture.
We’re an exclusive, award-winning tribe bound by common purpose. Fanatical service powered by a revolutionary cloud-based platform. Whether you excel at finding talent, hiring talent, or exuding talent, we’ve got you covered.
Fifteen years of award-winning service and Japan’s undisputed champion of legal and compliance recruitment.
Our ‘blue ocean’ division, making big waves across diverse industry sectors. Specialists working for specialists.
Our creative hub. Mobilizing the region’s finest to deliver one-stop solutions for brand, marketing, digital and social.
What
Two divisions.
One culture.
We’re an exclusive, award-winning tribe bound by common purpose. Fanatical service powered by a revolutionary cloud-based platform. Whether you excel at finding talent, hiring talent, or exuding talent, we’ve got you covered.
Fifteen years of award-winning service and Japan’s undisputed champion of legal and compliance recruitment.
Our creative hub. Mobilizing the region’s finest to deliver one-stop solutions for brand, marketing, digital and social.
Our ‘blue ocean’ division, making big waves across diverse industry sectors. Specialists working for specialists.
Story
Zensho Agency is the brainchild of Japan’s top legal recruitment expert and lifelong martial arts devotee, Robin Doenicke. With headquarters in Tokyo, we’re making news by breaking all the old-school rules about how recruitment is done.
Tribe
/traIb/ noun
a social division consisting of people linked by social, economic, or blood ties, with a common culture and dialect.
Council of Tribal Mentors
It’s not only the destination that matters: it’s also the journey.
And when you’re on a journey, guides can bring fresh insight to the experience. We’ve assembled a group of the most extraordinary business leaders and philosophers on the planet — our CTM. Their perspective, wisdom, and resonance with our why affirm us as we venture forward.
NICHOLAS BEAMES is a wildly successful and dynamic serial entrepreneur who started his first ventures while still in high school. After a decade of founding, growing and taking public his first big business, Astute Payroll, he returned to grass-roots entrepreneurship with Rounded, Recstra, Solo Cover, Cloud Gigs and NerdSearcher. He is also an active investor and advisor through the private equity firm he established in 2008, Beames Capital, with a particular passion for start-ups that empower people in the gig economy. An authority on HR Tech & Fin Tech, he speaks at conferences worldwide. In 2011 he authored Different Thinking, a book that shares the wisdom of twenty inspiring business owners. Nick studied commerce at Sydney University and took an MBA at Southern Cross University. He is a fellow of the Australian Human Resource Institute (AHRI) and Recruitment and Consulting Services Association (RCSA), and a member of the Australian Institute of Company Directors (AICD).
CEO, COO, advisor and entrepreneur, ROB SHEFFIELD has over thirteen years of experience building and managing businesses in the digital, marketing, creative services and advertising industries across Europe, APAC and the US, taking them from start up to public listing. He is renowned in the recruitment industry for creating and implementing the vision, mission and direction of global giant Nakama PLC, and continues to direct the growth, performance and management of their group operations. Rob serves as Non-Executive Director of Australia’s Leading Recruitment Agency (ALRA), and in 2018 became APAC COO of Opus, a multiple-award-winning talent consultancy and recruitment firm. Through ‘The Boardroom,’ an international network of top business experts, Rob advises CEOs and SMEs on how to take their firms to new heights.
TIM FREKE is a pioneering philosopher whose work has touched the hearts and minds of hundreds of thousands of people worldwide. He is the author of thirty-five books, translated into more than fifteen languages, including an Amazon top-six bestseller and Book of the Year in the UK Daily Telegraph. In his latest books Deep Awake and Soul Story, he offers a revolutionary new approach to spiritual awakening and a visionary new understanding of the cosmos. Tim is a wonderful communicator with a contagious enthusiasm for life, who speaks and leads retreats internationally. He has been exploring spirituality since a spontaneous awakening when he was twelve years old and now guides others directly to the 'deep awake' state.
As Managing Director of Connemara UK for the past fifteen years, ANGELA CRIPPS is one of the recruitment industry’s leading performance and development specialists, working with SMEs and the internal teams of large corporations all over the world to support them in sustained growth. Her areas of specialization include coaching executives on three-year objectives and business plans, creating management programs, sales at any level, and the induction and onboarding of staff. Since 2010, Angela has been a volunteer board member of The Recruitment Society – the only professional membership body of its kind in the UK. Representing the Midlands, she organizes events and speakers to help individuals and firms with an interest in best practice and innovation stay abreast of the latest industry developments and trends. She is a member of the Institute of Directors, the UK’s longest-running organization for company directors, senior business leaders and entrepreneurs.
Success comes from what we do.
Fulfillment from why we do it.
Andean mountain communities like the Q’ero of Peru understand reciprocity not as the Western idea of quid pro quo, but rather as the most important of life principles. Ayni, broadly defined, is the exchange of energy between humans, nature and the universe. It benefits all.
We appreciate this interconnectedness. Recruitment has given us extraordinary opportunities and success, and in the spirit of Ayni we are determined to share our abundance with those in need, whether they live next door or on the other side of the globe.
Photo taken by Robin Doenicke in the remote Himalayan village of Khare, Nepal, in 2013.