Affiliations and Achievements:
As a Passion, I have chosen to do Professional Coaching, Mentorship, and Training of Teams to improve their abilities to work together and advance a common goal embracing their diversity and talents. This is something I have also pursued in the organisations I worked with previously.
I am also keen about supporting women-led/owned businesses to thrive and grow. I have been actively involved in engaging Business Owners and Managers to ascertain their growth challenges and together with their teams explore opportunities for growth and development to translate into programs or projects. I have also directly supported business start-ups and facilitated the scaling of existing micro and small enterprises mainly in East, Horn, and Southern Africa.
I am also an ardent advocate for inclusion of the under-served communities and populations, which passion has formed a great part of my career journey, and also influenced where I choose to work. I have had the opportunity to closely engage with marginalized populations (women, youth, and forcibly displaced persons) to fully comprehend their challenges as well as dreams/aspirations related to improvement of their wellbeing and Livelihoods.
Evidence-based initiatives and interventions in any development related space tend to record better and more tangible results. It is in this regard that I picked interest in generating evidences to back many development initiatives and business ideas that I have supported over the twenty years. I believe in market-driven investments whose demand is ascertained through collating data, facts, and figures. The interest in evidence-generated projects has also led me to focus on Evaluation as a skill because assessing performance will establish if indeed the desired outcomes and impact have been achieved, and if the beneficiaries can attest to the results.
All the above have since become skills that I have acquired through my passion for Development and Private Sector Led economic growth.