Home-grown Leadership
From a family base in Tanzania, Kiondo traveled tirelessly throughout East Africa, meeting with government and private-sector officials to listen to their visions of the future and to promote the new company. He sought out local experts with both flawless credentials and practical experience who might one day join our staff and strengthen our local ties.
During this period, Kiondo returned regularly to the U.S., concentrating especially on New York and Washington, to establish contact with expert international consultants and trainers and with leaders of the international development community. In the space of a few years, the new company established itself as a reliable, value-added, cost-effective consulting and training organization devoted to customer service and working tirelessly to meet client expectations.
Kilimanjaro International, headquartered in New York with a branch office in Washington, D.C. grew to include member firms and affiliates throughout Sub-Saharan Africa staffed with the outstanding local professionals Kiondo identified in his regional travels--supported by the company's network of consultants from around the world. KI is truly a global company.
Kiondo himself, along with our local staff, remains always available for discussion. We insist that flexibility is demonstrated in every engagement and that communication with clients is continuous and seamless. Opinions matter here, whether from a client, colleague, international expert, or local manager.
We are proud that we provide solid opportunities for African professionals who might otherwise join the alarming exodus to the developed world. And we look forward to expanding our reach to emerging nations beyond the African sub-continent.
We are also proud that our company has begun to operate as a talent incubator, providing seasoned professionals to other local entities -- experienced people who remain devoted to their home countries. It's exactly what Kiondo envisioned all those years ago.
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Off to America, with good luck
and . . . $50
The Guardian, July 17, 2009
A Quick Look
Our local professionals are truly the ones who realize our pledge to transform management consulting and training into sustainable value, because they have experienced it firsthand. They grew up locally and are raising their families in the local community. They speak local languages. They understand local cultures. And most importantly, they are personally devoted to making their communities the best they can be--free of corruption, disease, ignorance, and debilitating poverty.
The local KI teams are richly diverse groups of professionals with sound credentials and practical development experience in strengthening political participation and leadership, and also building the relevancy of local organizations. They are familiar with societies with entrenched laws, customs, attitudes, and behaviors--some that may be detrimental to the community's development and should be abandoned and some that must be respected and worked around. Our local staff members have dealt with these problems at the grassroots level and have the advantage of personal experience in how the community will be affected by their actions.
The lives of our home-grown leadership center on the communities they serve. They have the most to gain when our interventions succeed--and the most to lose when efforts and resources are wasted. They have a personal stake in the outcome and because of that, become more effective leaders.
