Strategy | Partnerships | Institutional Growth.
Strategy | Partnerships | Institutional Growth.
Areas of Work
Focused on the systems, relationships, and execution needed to help mission-driven organisations grow, secure opportunities, and deliver meaningful impact.
Strategy, Systems & Operational Execution
I help mission-led organisations translate strategy into practical plans, clearer processes, and stronger coordination. My work focuses on improving how teams organise priorities, make decisions, manage workflows, and move from ideas to structured implementation.
Strategic Partnerships & Stakeholder Engagement
I support organisations in building and managing purposeful relationships with partners, funders, institutions, networks, and senior stakeholders. This includes stakeholder engagement, partnership coordination, relationship management, and preparing teams for meaningful external conversations.
Funding, Grants & Opportunity Development
I support the full opportunity development process, from identifying and assessing funding prospects to coordinating proposals and strengthening submission readiness. My work includes donor intelligence, go/no-go assessment, grant writing support, proposal coordination, and funder-facing materials.
Business Development Support & Pipeline Management
I help organisations strengthen how they track, prioritise, and advance opportunities. This includes CRM and pipeline management, opportunity tracking, reporting, follow-up systems, and internal processes that make business development more visible, disciplined, and actionable.
Strategic Communications & Executive Materials
I develop clear and structured materials that help organisations communicate priorities, influence decisions, and engage stakeholders. This includes reports, presentations, executive briefings, concept notes, event narratives, stakeholder messages, and strategic communications content.
Education, Workforce Development & Human Capital
I bring experience across education, higher education, employability, youth development, and workforce readiness. My work supports initiatives that strengthen learning pathways, career transitions, institutional growth, skills development, and human capital outcomes.
Professional Journey & Global Work Experience
A snapshot of roles and organisations that have shaped my work in partnerships, institutional growth, education, stakeholder engagement, and structured execution across Europe, Southeast Asia, Sub-Saharan Africa and North America.
Global Proposal and Project Developer
International education, donor diversification, and multi-country project development.
At VVOB, my work sits within global education systems strengthening, supporting opportunity development, institutional funding strategy, donor diversification, and coordination across teams and regions. This role has deepened my experience in translating complex priorities into fundable initiatives, improving pipeline visibility, and helping teams move from strategic opportunity to structured proposal development.
Brussels, Belgium
Member, International Board of Trustees
Governance, people, culture, and youth-led development.
My role was connected to youth-led development, governance, and organisational stewardship at the board level. As Board member and Chair of the People and Culture Committee, I contributed to conversations on leadership, organisational culture, accountability, recruitment, and the conditions that enable mission-driven teams to do their best work.
United Kingdom / Global
Director, Office of Global Advancement
Institutional growth, higher education operations, and external engagement.
My time at A.D.U. brought together higher education leadership, institutional advancement, operations, communications, student experience, and partnership development. Across several leadership roles, I worked on the systems, relationships, and narratives needed to support a growing university, from external engagement and funding efforts to digital learning, student transitions, convenings, and organisational delivery.
Niamey, Niger
Founder and Convener
Leadership & Capacity-Building Platform
I design and convene learning experiences, workshops, and community initiatives that help emerging leaders and young professionals build confidence, clarify direction, strengthen practical skills, and take purposeful action. The platform connects people to ideas, networks, resources, and conversations that support personal growth, career readiness, leadership development, and social impact. Through this work, I bring together my interests in education, human capital development, and activating people to move from potential to measurable contribution.
Africa Careers Network Manager
Career pathways, employer engagement, and young African talent.
At African Leadership Academy, I worked at the intersection of talent, opportunity, and employer engagement. The role strengthened my experience in building relationships that connect young people to pathways beyond the classroom, while deepening my understanding of career transitions, employability, and the institutional partnerships needed to support them
Johannesburg, South Africa
Senior Associate
Entrepreneurship, youth development, and ecosystem engagement.
My work with The Future Project placed me within a youth development and entrepreneurship ecosystem, supporting programme delivery, stakeholder engagement, and capacity-building for young entrepreneurs. It reinforced my interest in opportunity creation, skills development, and partnerships that help people move ideas into action.
Lagos, Nigeria
Chief of Staff
Education operations, executive coordination, and programme delivery.
Practice Makes Perfect gave me a close view of education delivery in a fast-moving social enterprise environment. Working with the executive team, school partners, and programme staff strengthened my ability to coordinate across priorities, support leadership execution, and keep programme delivery aligned with organisational goals.
New York, United States
Chief of Development and Capacity Building
Capacity-building, professional learning, and social impact practice.
At Evaluate for Change, I focused on strengthening learning and community among evaluation and social impact professionals. This experience shaped my interest in capacity-building, knowledge exchange, and the role of professional communities in improving practice across the social sector.
New York, United States
Elevate Your Game: The Ultimate Guide to Gain Clarity, Make Local Impact and Grow Global Influence
The book reflects my long-standing interest in leadership, capacity-building, purposeful action, and helping individuals and institutions translate ideas into meaningful impact. It serves as a practical guide, tool, and resource for emerging leaders, young professionals, and individuals who are mindful, intentional, and deliberate in their efforts to make a positive impact in the world and leave their mark on history. Ultimately, it aims to inspire imagination, empower possibilities, and activate action, enabling you to create local impact while expanding your global influence.
In The News
Selected media features highlighting my work across education, leadership, social impact, youth development, and institutional change
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