2015 — Present
Brands and Beyond Ltd
Founder & Chief Energising Officer
Nairobi · East & Central Africa · Continental
A sustainable marketing, climate strategy and stakeholder consultancy. Brands and Beyond contracts the assignment, assembles the specialist partners and delivers; the client relationship and strategic work stay with me.
- ▸Supported stakeholder engagement and launch activities for Lake Turkana Wind Power, including work around community compensation concerns.
- ▸Led capital-mobilisation and stakeholder work within a consortium appointed for a proposed national water PPP programme, producing the investor documentation.
- ▸Supported stakeholder engagement and market education for the Kenya Off-Grid Solar Access Project.
- ▸Founder and lead convener of six awards and industry platforms, built from concept to commercial operation.
Where this applies DFIs, governments, pension funds and developers who need stakeholder alignment, a capital narrative, or a platform that convenes their sector.
Related service: Stakeholder Engagement & Social Licence
2000 — 2015
Kenya Power (KPLC)
Head of Strategy & Change / Senior Leadership
Nairobi, Kenya
The situation. Kenya's national utility was expanding access far faster than public understanding, payment behaviour or internal culture could keep up. The task. Make connection, billing and payment something customers chose — and make a 14,000-person organisation behave like the strategy said it would.
- ▸Action. Led the culture-change and rebranding programme within a Kenya Power transformation involving approximately 14,000 employees, reporting to the MD steering structure.
- ▸Action. Led customer-adoption communications for EasyPay and the Umeme Pamoja access platform, and helped professionalise measurable marketing as the approved budget expanded substantially.
- ▸Result. During the wider transformation, annual connections grew to approximately one million. Internal records report a 15% collection increase, a 9% customer-satisfaction improvement and debt age reduced from 1.5 to 1.1 months.
- ▸Result. Contributed to KEPSA policy dialogue spanning the Energy Bill, PPP memoranda and EAC trade engagement.
Where this applies National utilities and parastatals where an access, metering or tariff programme will succeed or fail on customer behaviour and internal culture.
Related service: Organisational Transformation & Behaviour Change
2016 — 2022
KOSAP — Kenya Electricity Modernisation
Programme Advisory (Brands and Beyond)
Kenya — nationwide off-grid
The situation. A national off-grid electrification programme reaching counties with little prior utility presence, where households had no reason yet to trust solar home systems, clean cookstoves or the people selling them. The task. Build community understanding and a route to market ahead of the hardware.
- ▸Action. Community education, stakeholder engagement and route-to-market specialist support for the Kenya Off-Grid Solar Access Project.
- ▸Action. Contributed to the Turkana County energy master-planning work and the partnership structure behind it.
- ▸Result. Programme scale figures — sites, boreholes, cookstoves and beneficiaries — are being reconciled against official programme records and are not published here until confirmed.
Where this applies Universal-access and rural electrification programmes funded by AfDB, the World Bank or USAID, where adoption depends on community confidence.
Related service: Stakeholder Engagement & Social Licence
2021 — 2024
Transport Licensing Appeals Board
Board Member
Kenya
Public-sector appeals work on transport licensing, at the point where regulation meets new business models the law had not anticipated.
- ▸Served on the Transport Licensing Appeals Board, contributing to transport dispute resolution and sector-policy dialogue.
- ▸Contributed to dispute resolution involving ride-hailing operators — labour rights, commission structures and gig-economy policy.
- ▸Contributed to policy dialogue on e-mobility licensing and on barriers facing young transport workers.
Where this applies Ministries and regulators writing e-mobility and transport frameworks, and operators who need to be understood by them.
Related service: Government, Regulator & Investor Engagement
2017 — 2024
Epicenter Africa
Chairman & Head of Strategy and Communications
Kenya · South Sudan · Uganda
Board leadership and market development for off-grid energy and water across East Africa.
- ▸Led strategy and market development for the 'Kilimo Solar / Turudi Shambani' solar-pumping campaign with Lorentz and Grundfos; internal records report more than 1,400 pumps sold in 13 months.
- ▸Provided strategic leadership for off-grid generation work in Turkana, including the AfDB partnership and market development behind it.
- ▸Led partnership and commercial-model development for solar-desalination pilots with county and Finnish partners. Installed and planned quantities are reported separately once verified.
- ▸Partnership with Kenya Airways (Fahari Aviation) on drone utility inspection and precision agriculture.
Where this applies Off-grid energy and water businesses that need a route to market, not just a product.
Related service: Market Entry, Brand Growth & Product Adoption
2020 — 2021
UNON — United Nations Office Nairobi
Change & Communication Consultant
Nairobi, Kenya
Designed change and communication support for UNON's flexible-work and workplace transformation, affecting approximately 4,500 staff.
- ▸Built the change and communication approach for a move to flexible working across an international workforce.
- ▸Contributed a sustainability-first office concept to the campus remodelling work.
- ▸Advocated for solar generation in workspace design.
Where this applies UN agencies, multilaterals and large employers changing how and where people work.
Related service: Organisational Transformation & Behaviour Change
