“This week was special, so special that I can only say things will always fall in place at their time.” Two years ago, what began as an idea scribbled in a notebook on how to create a program that helps professionals find clarity, build character, and step into leadership with intention has now…

By CPA Hillary Oonge Leadership Strategist, Personal Effectiveness Coach & COO, SKM Africa LLP “We always live in the present. The future is something we build in our minds.” – Marcus Aurelius In the boardrooms I sit in, the coaching conversations I hold, and the lives I observe around me, one truth repeatedly…

Last week the FPKE learning platforms were full. The book club met. The leadership class ran on Wednesday. The parenting group had its session. The live podcast and SUCA 3 also took place. Each had its own focus, but one topic kept showing up: how we steer our careers. On the live podcast,…

There are three kinds of greatness in life that you won’t find in job titles or corner offices: personal greatness, leadership greatness, and organizational greatness. 1. Personal Greatness: Start with You You don’t need a promotion to be great. You just need to remember that you were born with three powerful gifts: freedom…

“If you are not shaping your story, someone else is — and they may not tell it as well as you would.” This past week, I spent time with a group of ambitious professionals in our SUCA 2 coaching class — a room filled with energy, reflection, and truth. We weren’t polishing CVs…

“Criticism, like rain, should be gentle enough to nourish a man’s growth without destroying his roots.” — Frank A. Clark We all say we want to improve. But when feedback arrives—especially the uncomfortable kind—we flinch. We resist. We shut down. The truth is: feedback is a mirror. It shows us what we can’t…

Last week, I posed a simple question to a group of seasoned executives at the Executive Table live Recording by Mary Wangari Wamae as well as Live Podcast by FinanceProfessionalsKE and thought leaders: “Work hard or work smart?” It’s one of those questions that seems to demand a binary answer—inviting people to pick…

By CPA Hillary Oonge “Leadership Is Not Taught, It Is Learned.” We live in an age of leadership seminars, LinkedIn webinars, and bestselling books promising to unlock the secret sauce of leadership. We sign up, take notes, applaud keynote speakers, and share powerful one-liners on social media. Yet after all this, how many…

“Between stimulus and response, there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and our freedom.” – Viktor Frankl  The Space Between – A Crucial Gap  At every moment, life presents us with stimuli—unexpected challenges, opportunities, interactions, and emotions. What separates those…

   “Whether you think you can, or you think you can’t—you’re right.”  By CPA Hillary Oonge: Management Consultant, Personal effectiveness and Leadership Coach.  In the chaotic THE tapestry of human experience, perhaps no single factor determines our trajectory more than the mindset we cultivate. It’s not merely what we think, but how we interpret…