Bio

Tiago Forjaz is Partner at Jason Associates, a Innovative Strategic Talent Management Consultant.  

 

Tiago Forjaz (1972), Portuguese, was born and lived in South Africa until 1985, when he came to Portugal and studied economics at the  Universidade Lusíada in Lisbon. 

 

After initiating his career as Risk Analyst in Banif (a Portuguese retail bank), he moved to Madrid to participate in the set-up strategy of and implementation of Michael Page in Portugal. 

 

Later, he was Manager, at Heidrick & Struggles, specialized in projects of 

Executive Search, Middle Management and talent management consulting in 

several industries, covering from Financial to Professional Services, Industry 

and Consumer Goods. 

 

In November 2004, Tiago Forjaz founded the Jason Associates, a national 

consulting firm of Talent Management, which advises clients on matters relating 

to strategic decisions about talent. Their work focuses on the management of 

talent, leadership, organizational effectiveness and entrepreneurship. 

 

Tiago Forjaz was one of the main drivers of the initiative Star Tracking 

(www.startracking.org) which later came to launch the first social network of 

Portuguese global talent - The Star Tracker. Today this network connects 

around 15,000 talented Portuguese with a global perspective, in over 107 

countries and counts with the presence of the President of the Portuguese 

Republic.  

 

Tiago Forjaz is a member of the committee for Forum de Administradores de 

Empresas (FAE) - a member committed to develop and distribute knowledge 

about leadership through several generations of business leaders and is also a 

member of the Advisory Board of COEUR - European University Network.  

 

Tiago Forjaz is guest speaker at several prestigious universities such as UCP – 

Universidade Católica Portuguesa and ISCTE – Instituto Superior das Ciências 

do Trabalho e da Empresa and EGP - Escola de Gestão do Porto on topics 

related to talent such as Mentoring, Talent Management, the power of 

Networking, Entrepreneurship, the future of CEO's strategy and Corporate 

Philanthropy.  

 

Tiago is trilingual in Portuguese, English and Spanish. Father of two sons, 

Tiago lives in Lisbon and is interested in contemporary art and fine dining. 

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