The executive coaching market in Kenya is growing, and with that growth comes a widening range of practitioners with varying levels of training, experience, and credentialing. From the outside, observers cannot tell who has the qualifications to work at the level you need. If you’re a senior executive or founder considering coaching, the decision of who you work with matters as much as the decision…
When you’re running a growing business, the decisions get bigger faster than the support around them. Market entry. Hiring senior leadership. Restructuring operations. Committing capital to a direction that will shape the next two years. These decisions affect livelihoods, culture, and the trajectory of something you built from nothing, and the thinking behind them often happens alone. You might have a management team, but they’re…
I didn’t find coaching because I was looking for it. I found it at a group event, because someone happened to mention that she had finished her coach training. I followed up out of curiosity. She set up a meeting that turned into a coaching demo. I walked away knowing I wanted to continue. The reason I wasn’t looking for coaching is simple. I didn’t…
I knew other founders. Some of them understood exactly what running a business felt like. We could sit together and talk honestly about how hard it was, and there was real comfort in that. Someone across from you who didn’t need you to explain why last month was brutal or why you’re questioning everything again. The shorthand alone was a relief. What I found, though,…
Delegation is supposed to lighten the load. I believed that for a long time. When I was actively running my school, I did what every leadership book and business adviser tells you to do. I identified the tasks that other people could handle, and I handed them off. My to-do list got shorter. I could see the difference on paper and in my calendar, and…
You’ve heard the term. Maybe a colleague mentioned it after a particularly rough quarter, or a board member brought it up during a conversation about your development. Someone you respect told you it changed how they lead, and you filed it away under things to look into when you have a moment. The moment hasn’t come. What executive coaching actually is tends to get lost…
You pressure-test your strategy before you commit to it. You stress-test your financials before you present them. You vet your hires before you make the offer. The thinking behind all of those decisions, the reasoning that shapes what you commit to, present, and offer, almost never gets the same scrutiny. Every major call you make starts as a thought that either gets properly examined before…
At some point in the last few years, your title started answering questions it was never meant to answer. Someone asks what you do and the title comes out before your name does. Someone asks how you’re doing and the answer maps to how the business is doing, as though the company’s health and yours are the same thing. The role has become the lens…
