The AWESOME WOMAN Transforming FEMALE FOUNDERS in AFRICA – Founder, CEO, Zanga African Metrics, Nankhonde Kasonde-van den Broek

Nankhonde is a successful entrepreneur, an Organizational Change Architect & Professional Certified Coach with over 20 years of experience in working with multi-nationals, international organizations, and Governments. Raised in Zambia, Switzerland and France Nankhonde professional career had her traveling and working in international development and finance with the United Nations and the Global Fund to fight Aids, TB and Malaria, where she honed her expertise at designing and leading large-scale change across multiple business and cultural sectors. Her entrepreneurial journey began with her handbag company, Konde, that expresses the beauty and culture of her home country, Zambia. But the road to entrepreneurship wasn’t easy and she sold her last bag in 2015, just 5 years after her launch. Undeterred, she returned to school and a new vision manifested that inspired her to create a new luxury brand of high-end clutch designs created in Zambia, and made in Italy. With a passion for human capital development and change management in Africa, Nankonde became the founder and CEO of Zanga, a company specializing in the design and development of human capital solutions for success in Africa, fostering solutions to transform, sustain and impact advancement efforts in Africa. Zanga uses cultural and behavioral insights to reflect how people make decisions and act on them in an African context. To develop the company’s solutions, her and her staff draw inspiration from many African and international thought leaders. Her national and international team embodies a powerful partnership that represents over 50 years of combined experience in leadership development, entrepreneurship and industrial psychology in both the private and public sectors. www.linkedin.com/in/nankhondevandenbroek Mobile:+26(0)-97-8277361 Email: [email protected] www.zangametrics.com