Program Director

Lead integrated programs and service design combining health, climate resilience, and youth economic empowerment with a strong HCD lens. • Designed the Paraboda maternal health system using journey mapping and iterative prototyping to target a 20% improvement in immunization adherence above national rural averages. • Facilitated innovation labs engaging 500+ children and youth in problem framing, prototyping, and venture creation, embedding user testing cycles into each cohort. • Developed repeatable playbooks and service blueprints for scaling child-centered innovation models across multiple communities and partners.

Child-Centered Design Lead ( Volunteer)

Design digital learning platforms and educational content reaching 20+ schools and innovation hubs nationwide. • Co-designed TANZE digital climate platform (2M+ targeted child reach); embedded environmental stewardship in school curricula • Authored Kenya's first child-centered design toolkit, piloted in schools and innovation hubs nationwide • Delivered no-code app development training for 50+ youth, enabling grassroots health and climate innovation

Country Manager / Board Advisor ( Volunteer )

Directed a national multi-sector portfolio and designed a flagship innovation hub showcasing integrated climate-smart and livelihood solutions. • Co-designed Ruiru Sensory Garden flagship hub learning site for schools and government extension workers • Strengthened programme design frameworks and M&E systems; enabled 40% programme expansion • Cultivated institutional partnerships with government and NGOs to amplify programme reach

Chief operations / Programme Officer and Board Adviser (Consultant)

• Guided transition from CBO to NGO, establishing robust governance, systems, and MEAL frameworks. • Secured and managed over USD 100,000 in new and expanded donor funding, including DKK 200,000 for women’s and youth empowerment. • Delivered evidence-based program design and led a cross-functional, results-oriented team. • Implemented audit-ready financial management, procurement, and compliance processes.

Human-Centered Design Architect

Designed and delivered capacity-building programs for 300+ women and youth entrepreneurs in clean energy and health enterprises. • Trained 300+ entrepreneurs in clean cookstove production and business management; achieved 65% fuel reduction and 80% indoor air pollution reduction • Co-developed Jiko Raha award-winning stove (recognized by the Gates Foundation), teaching case for product innovation and social enterprise • Designed Shujaa Navigators and ParaBotuks mobile-based learning tools, improving community health worker disease detection by 85% • Strengthened coffee cooperative resilience through integrated climate-smart agriculture training and farmer field schools Relevant Skills: Curriculum design for entrepreneurs, large-scale delivery, behavior change integration

BOMA.NGO

Supported 240+ women-led enterprises through enterprise training and business model strengthening. • Localized enterprise training curricula in local languages and cultural contexts, improving adoption and learning effectiveness • Implemented Salesforce and TaroWorks M&E platforms for real-time monitoring and evidence-based programme adjustment

Doctor of Philosophy in Business Management

Entrepreneurship and Strategic Advisory

Master of Arts in Community Care HIV and AIDS

1. Master's Dissertation: "The Influence of Localized Policies on the Livelihoods of Women's Self-Help Groups—A Case Study of Kawangware Slums in Nairobi, Kenya." 2. Strategies and Models for Enhancing Community Care and HIV/AIDS 3. Community-Based Research: Developing Care Delivery in Practice 4. Theology, Law, and Ethics: Principles Shaping HIV Responses and Interventions 5. Focus and Framing: Introducing Community Care for HIV and AIDS 6. Reflection and Action: Research Tools for Evaluating Professional Practice 7. Practical Theology and Social Sciences Informing Community Care, HIV, and AIDS

Global Business and Sustainability Social Entrepreneurship Track, Social Impact and Entrepreneurship

Units Business Model design, business strategy and scaling, Business planning, social impact measurement, Business ethics, creativity, and Business model in progress. 2. Human resources (HR management and leadership) 3. Law (Business law and taxation, corporate governance, and legal issues) 4. Accounting and finance (Basic accounting, financial planning 1 & 2, financial reporting, Entrepreneurial finance) 5. Marketing (Market analysis, Entrepreneurial Marketing, Start-up sales) 6. Operations (logistics, Project management)

Top Idea

Recognized for Royalty Rewards, an incentive-based model to address barriers to immunization uptake in vulnerable communities.

1st Runners Up Renewable Energy Awards ( Clean Cooking Technologies )

The Renewable Energy Awards Working Group hosted its first renewable energy awards on 6th December 2018, to recognize and celebrate the achievements of counties, micro, small, and medium-sized enterprises (MSMEs), and journalists in Kenya whose efforts have significantly promoted the adoption of renewable energy in Kenya.

Winner and Best Idea

UNICEF Eastern & Southern Africa Regional Office (ESARO). Hackathon. Best idea for a disruptive idea to mitigate cholera spread using motorcycles in Kenya, improving last-mile response and community safety.

Top 10 Global Winner

Issued by the United Nations Science and Technology Summit · May 2018 for impact-driven climate and health innovation (New York, USA).