Economic Opportunity for Everyone
I build education systems that work for the people they're supposed to serve—from founding African tech bootcamps that placed 1,000+ graduates in jobs, to coordinating UNICEF's $3.8B Africa Strategy, to building AI tools that make personalized learning accessible at scale.
Impact Stories
AI Practice for Life's Hardest Conversations
Challenge: Online learning has scaled knowledge transfer to millions—but practice still requires high-cost facilitation. One-on-one coaching, role-plays with trained facilitators, small-group workshops—these are high-impact but remain a luxury for elite programmes. Most learners never get to practice the conversations that matter most.
Solution: I built Tacit—a platform for creating realistic AI conversation partners that stay in character, push back, and coach learners on how they did. Organizations design their own scenarios; learners get personalized practice in any language, on any device.
Impact: Scalable, high-touch practice—what online learning has been missing.
Founded Tech Bootcamp Achieving 80% Employment
Challenge: 50% of young South Africans are unemployed and excluded from high-quality education and careers.
Solution: I co-founded Umuzi, an organisation that blended government incentives, corporate L&D budgets, and philanthropic funding to create intensive training for unemployed young people to become developers, data scientists, and designers.
Impact: 90% completion rate and 80% job placement rate for 1,000+ graduates from low-income communities.
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Scaled Digital Skills to 10,000+ Learners Across Africa
Challenge: Physical bootcamps couldn't scale to meet continental demand. Content alone wasn't enough — learners needed local support in low-connectivity, low-resource environments.
Solution: Built a distributed learning model through multi-party partnerships with Google.org, Meta, Coursera, SAP, and UNICEF, with grassroots NGOs providing on-the-ground support, device access, and mentorship — including for refugees and vulnerable populations.
Impact: 10,000+ learners across Sub-Saharan Africa within two years, focused on Nigeria, Kenya, and South Africa.
Opened SAP Careers to Non-Degree Talent
Challenge: High-value consultant roles required degrees, excluding capable candidates.
Solution: I led a multilateral partnership to design an alternative pathway, blending Coursera foundations, peer learning, and hands-on work experience for skills validation.
Impact: 40% of successful participants did not have a degree, 168 out of 300 pilot participants received SAP certification, completing more than 400 hours of learning. The programme is now being scaled world-wide in partnership with SAP and UNICEF.
Designing Rwanda's AI-Ready Workforce
Challenge: How can African countries prepare for AI disruption in employment?
Solution: I analyzed global trends, automation risks, and Rwanda's competitive advantages to design targeted pathways.
Impact: Created framework for 20,000 high-value digital jobs by 2030 across 9 priority pathways.
Current Work
- Founder, Tacit – AI conversation training for practicing difficult workplace conversations
- UNICEF Africa Strategy Secretariat – Coordinating 10 continental initiatives across UNICEF's $3.8B Africa portfolio in partnership with the African Union
- Board Chair, Umuzi – Overseeing the tech bootcamp I co-founded, now scaling through global partnerships
About Me
At Umuzi, the bootcamp I co-founded in South Africa, human support drove 80% employment rates for 1,000+ graduates from low-income communities—but required $6,000 per learner and years to reach a thousand graduates. Through the African Coding Network, we scaled to 10,000+ learners with Google and Coursera partnerships, but learned that content without support isn't education.
Working with UNICEF and the governments of Rwanda and Uganda deepened the conviction: the world needs scalable ways to deliver high-touch practice, not just content. That's why I built Tacit—AI conversation partners that stay in character, push back realistically, and coach you on how you did. The economics of personalized practice finally scale.
Previously: BCG (London & Johannesburg), Clinton Health Access Initiative, Aspen Global Leadership Network Fellow. Based in Cape Town and the San Francisco Bay Area.
