Meeting the Ugandan High Commissioner

by Kateeba | May 12, 2015 | Blog

Meeting the Ugandan High Commissioner

Mark Neild, Chairman and Claire Jenkins CEO met with Her Excellency Joyce Chikafunda, the High Commissioner of Uganda to the UK. As a woman, Prof. Joyce Kikafunda has been a pioneer in many things. She was the first women to receive a first class degree in agriculture at Makere University and was the only female professor in agriculture, food science and nutrition in all of Uganda. She was also the first woman in her district to be award a PhD.

Being a professor she showed much interest in the academic paper Grow Movement is conducting with London Business School, Booth School of Business Chicago and the Stanford Graduate School of Business. With a wealth of knowledge in scientific research Her Excellency was impressed to see such academic rigour involved in a study on entrepreneurship. Grow Movement is looking forwards to Her Excellency joining a London networking meeting during #Uganda600.

Tuesday, 12 May 2015

#Uganda600 in Dubai

by Kateeba | May 12, 2015 | Blog

#Uganda600 in Dubai

Grow Movement London travelled to Dubai this month to meet with Dr Benish Chaudhry the Middle East Community Manager and Assistant Professor at the University of Modern Sciences.

Over the last year Dubai has become increasingly important as a source of talented multicultural business professionals for Grow Movement. Driven by Dr Benish with the support of London Business School Professor, Naufel Vilcassim, the team has expanded from 5 to over 35 volunteers coming from Spain, Australia, Pakistan and Lebanon.

Majid Hassan & Hadi Hazim with Grow CEO

For #Uganda600 Dr Benish is being supported with interviewing help from the existing VC network of Maham Aziz (Malawi VC), Glenn Harwood (Uganda VC), and Jorge Castellote (Uganda VC). Together they are working to expand the network of business professionals supporting others across Africa with Majid Hassan, President of the Gulf States LBS Alumni Association and other LBS Alumni.

Tuesday, 12 May 2015

#Ugandan diaspora in #Uganda

by Kateeba | May 12, 2015 | Blog

#Ugandan diaspora in #Uganda

Jana Nyanzi, a new #Uganda600 VC and Business consultant for Atos Consulting in London visited Kampala and the #Uganda600 training for the new Grow client managers.

“…I had the great opportunity of meeting some of the Grow team, clients, and managers whilst in Uganda earlier this month. The enthusiasm and passion behind the #Uganda600 project was absolutely phenomenal. I spent a day with Mohammed (one of the country managers) during my client visits to George (Ground nut and fish maker) and Marion (Mobile phone kiosk owner). One of the key challenges Marion was facing was buying her products in Uganda at a very expensive cost. Her current VC is working with her to find a suitable solution on how she can procure some of her goods such as mobile phones, laptops directly from the suppliers where she will have greater bargaining power. Both George and Marion were intrigued at how helpful their consultants were which had been a very different experience to when they had tried to seek business help locally. They were both amazed at how quickly they could implement new ideas and have an impact”

“If you see Sean, please thank him for me, he has completely changed my life, my business and my way of understanding how to do things.” George

“…Being Ugandan and going back to my mother country to assist some of the business owners really is fulfilling and allows me to face new challenges as a consultant that I don’t necessarily come across in the United Kingdom. I also had the opportunity to attend day one of the training with Chrissy and Janine (London Business School research managers) with some of the Grow Movement team who seemed really keen to work with Consultants all around the world. I look forward to working with such an amazing team!”

Thank you Jana from the Grow Movement team for taking time from your holiday to visit #Uganda600 preparations.

Tuesday, 12 May 2015