Leadership Development
Leadership talent acquisition, leadership assessment, mentoring and executive coaching for the people who set your culture's tone.
- Leadership talent acquisition
- Leadership assessment
- Mentoring & executive coaching
We help institutions across Africa fuse traditional value systems with modern people management — so leadership, performance and belonging grow from the same root.
Who we are
It started with a question none of our founders could let go of: why do so many African organizations import every management theory from elsewhere, while quietly sitting on value systems — community, consensus, accountability to the collective — that the rest of the world is only now starting to call "good culture"?
The Culture Clan was built by consultants from across the continent who had each spent years inside boardrooms watching the same pattern: brilliant strategy, beautiful org charts, and a culture quietly working against both. We weren't short of frameworks. We were short of frameworks that actually fit where we come from.
So we built our own. One that treats shared values, open communication and empowered people not as imported best practice, but as inheritance — principles many African communities have practiced for generations, long before they had a name in a management textbook. Our work now is to translate that inheritance into systems, structures and strategy your organization can run on today, anywhere on the continent and beyond.
"We focus on people and culture first — because that is what unlocks everything else: engagement, performance, and long-term sustainable success."
— The Culture Clan, Opening MessageWhat we do
Leadership talent acquisition, leadership assessment, mentoring and executive coaching for the people who set your culture's tone.
Culture assessment, transformation strategy, change management and employee engagement that moves at the speed of trust.
Start-up and business continuity design, organization design & development, and team dynamics built for how you actually work.
Talent acquisition, performance management, learning & growth, succession planning, diversity & inclusion, employee relations and wellbeing.
Learning Hub
A digital learning space built to help leaders, HR teams and culture stewards translate insight into lasting practice.
Self-paced modules on culture diagnostics, communication, and behaviour design that reflect African context and institutional realities.
A diagnostic toolkit for leaders with conversation guides, templates and practical next-step activities for the first 90 days.
Short cohort sessions designed to prototype new decision-making habits, meeting rhythms and team accountability systems.
Explore the LMS preview here, then follow the portal link for a full student dashboard experience, progress tracking, certificates and course access.
How we work
Every engagement moves through the same five waypoints — adapted, never templated, to your organization.
We start as partners, not auditors — understanding your context before proposing a single solution.
An honest read of where your culture stands today, measured against where you intend to go.
Not every problem needs solving at once. We locate the lever that moves the most weight.
Small, reversible experiments before large, irreversible rollouts. We test before we scale.
Momentum is a resource. We help leadership build and protect it through the programme's life.
A free diagnostic
Answer five quick questions about how your organization actually runs today. We'll reflect back a culture archetype and where the leverage point for change likely sits — the same lens we open every engagement with.
Who's behind the work
Joseph V. Onyango is also the National Chairman of the Institute of Human Resource Management (IHRM) Kenya — here he speaks on national television about the state of HR practice and people-centred leadership across the region.
In the press
Our Managing Partner's voice on HR practice and workplace wellbeing regularly reaches a national audience.
National Chairman's message on IHRM's Green HR Initiative and the institute's 4.7-million-tree pledge.
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Joseph Onyango pictured with Kenya's Presidential Advisor on Mental Health at the IHRM annual convention in Mombasa.
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A few moments where the leverage point we found actually moved something.
"We had the org chart of a modern government department and the decision-making habits of forty years ago. Culture Clan didn't hand us a manual — they sat with our directors until the habits themselves started to shift."
"Membership trusted us with their savings but not with change. The Pulse work helped us see exactly where that trust gap was opening up — and where to close it first."
"Academic institutions resist change by nature. What worked was that they never asked us to become like everyone else — only to become more deliberately ourselves."
Why Culture Clan
Over five decades of combined experience in people and organizational culture change.
Customized solutions that align with your organization's unique culture, values and goals.
We address both the human and organizational sides of change, for transformation that sustains.
We work as trusted partners throughout the journey — not as outside auditors passing through.
Tangible outcomes and long-term success, in a rapidly changing business landscape.
In the field
Workshops, leadership sessions and client moments from across the continent.
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Talk to us today
Tell us where it's stuck. We'll tell you, honestly, whether we're the right partner to move it.
Nairobi, Kenya
P.O. Box 37527 – 00100
