In 2024 AGM going forward, leaders must embrace the hybrid AGM, where people attend both virtually and physically The 2024 Annual General Meeting (AGM) season is in high gear. I had the Chevening Kenya Alumni Association last weekend, heading to Kitale Club AGM with the Association of Media Women in Kenya (AMWIK) soon after. A few others like the Public […]
Peter Mutie: leading through networks
Peter Munywoki Mutie is the Executive Director and CEO of Peterson Integrated Communications Ltd (PICL), a private limited company in Nairobi that focuses on strategic communications. His name is easily recognizable in the world of public relations right across the globe. While serving at the helm of the Public Relations Society of Kenya (PRSK), he was able to solidify networks that had previously […]
Leadership: a call to pass the baton persuasively
Armed with great ideas, energy and excitement, fresh entrants into a professional field come ready to conquer the world. They find jargon, red tape and sometimes cynical older professionals who now tick time in and out without much creativity. Left on their own, these youngsters will soon join the rat race and wither away seeking greener pastures and new excitement. Mentors, when sought for and available, help keep the young professionals energised and excited ready to tap into their creative juices and mange the rat race.
Today, I washed my hands: it is Global Handwashing Day
October 15 is a day set aside to remind all people that constant soap and water is important for good health Ernest Hemingway, the acclaimed American journalist, novelist, short-story writer, and sportsman said: “When people talk, listen completely. Most people never listen.” When I was growing up, I learned to listen because I quickly learned that if failed to, I […]
Is Africas “silent epidemic” an emergency in Kenya?
In the months since COVID-19 began and measures including lockdown effected, there have been increased cases of domestic violence reported. Jobs have been lost and livelihoods wiped away. This is a pointer to increased stress and depression. Prior to that, on Jan 5, 2020, a church service in Mombasa turned bloody after the pastor stabbed his wife to death and […]
Lessons from COVID-19: Secure the future through technology
I had dreams and tears in equal measure, imagining what our own Konza City could be as a properly established hub for digital. A five tray trolley moves unassisted down the corridor to a door. “Room 311 your dishes are on the third shelf. Please take and press finish”. The door opens, a person covered in the now famous surgical […]
In defence of a misunderstood profession
Maintaining mutually beneficial relationships is a key outcome of Public Relations
It’s Just PR: how to slay the corruption dragon
Reforms. Credibility. Efficiency. Three words that might as well be the legacy of Cabinet Secretary Fred Matiang’is tour of duty at the helm of Kenya’s education sector. Shock, anger and pain are the emotions his actions elicit. In one short year, he has changed the school calendar, paid impromptu visits to schools and overhauled the entire management of examinations. He […]
Strike turns Indian farmer to an overnight dairy feed businessman
The seemingly sleepy village at the end of the road is not so sleepy after all. Guagadia village produced an overnight entrepreneur, one who had never imagined he would ever do anything beyond feeding his dairy cattle, milking them and selling the milk to the local dairy Orissa State Cooperative Milk Producers’ Federation (OMFED). When the workers of the feed […]
Barbara Wieland joins ILRI’s Animal Science for Sustainable Productivity team
Barbara Wieland joined the International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI) on 5 January 2015 as team leader herd health in the Animal Science for Sustainable Productivity (ASSP) program. Wieland is a Swiss national who graduated as a veterinarian at the University of Bern. She did her post-doctoral fellowship in the UK in a joint position with the Royal Veterinary College (RVC) […]