Personal Development

In 2008, I sat in a meeting where a gentleman narrated how, in the early 1990s, he left a “Big 3” audit firm to join a struggling financial institution as a Finance & Strategy Director. Central Bank of Kenya had declared the financial institution technically insolvent and had therefore called…

In 2019, I passed by a recreational facility to make an enquiry and met a gentleman who introduced himself as the Facility Manager. We developed a rapport when, during our conversations, he realized that we both hail from the same County and that I attended the same high school with…

In May 2017, I sat as a co-facilitator in a bank strategy review workshop – the bank’s third such workshop since April 2016. The bank was going through hard times after suffering panic withdrawals the previous year upon the collapse of Chase Bank. The Chief Executive was vocal and sounded…

Last week, I was facilitating a personal financial and entrepreneurship training for women community based organizations (CBO) leaders in one of the rural counties. During one of the discussions, I floated a question in regard to why there were no men in the forum to which a participant responded by…