Executive Coach, development activist, and entrepreneur Nankhonde Kasonde-Van Den Broek shares her vision of the future of coaching in Africa.

In this episode, Nankhonde explains why the pathway to achieving results with a coaching client looks different on the African continent. Nankhonde also talks about the cultural complexity around how people work and live there, believing it’s necessary to understand this in order to have a richer coaching engagement that’s capable of sustaining transformational change.

COVID-19 caused radical and intense trauma on a global scale, shifting everyone’s experience - and Africa was no exception. In conversation with Coaching.com CEO Alex Pascal, Nankhonde shares her belief that the pandemic proved there is no straightforward developed vs. developing country binary - and there is no monopoly on wisdom.

According to Nankhonde, the seemingly overnight organizational focus on wellbeing has actually been “a tornado in the making.” Since global warming represents an ongoing variable, she talks about what she believes will be required to create workplaces that human beings can continue to thrive in.


This episode is a great opportunity to learn more about what coaching looks like in an African context. Nankhonde is part of the coaching community there, and she’s committed to making information more available so that global colleagues can enter into conversation with Africa’s theories and models. 

Listen in to learn how she implements coaching models that are steeped in heritage, culture, and tradition - and how she plans to make them accessible to audiences all over the world.