Sheila has an instinctual knack for developing long-term customer relationships through effective personal service. She has natural gifts in examining both intrinsic and extrinsic sociocultural cues with a keen eye for gaining a deeper understanding of challenges users go through. With her background in Business Innovation coupled with excellent interpersonal and active listening skills, she uses cultural and design-led analysis to examine social evaluations, framings and change in contexts of users’ way of life to better engage them from an empathetic stance. Sheila has conducted immersive research in remote areas of Africa championing sexual reproductive health behavior change for social development organizations programs to promote positive public value and social impact. Her personal aim is to harness her knowledge and experience in these areas to create value, promote positive communities and encourage economic growth in society.
• Worked with local and international organisations across Africa to design new products, services and consumer experiences that address a variety of socioeconomic & poverty related challenges.
• Uncovered and articulated deep insights; gathering requirements from clients and their customers & helped clients to identify and develop new growth options.
• Supported team (and client) through the analysis and synthesis process and distill down to the most important insights
• Designed new products, services, and consumer experiences that differentiated my clients from their competition & ensuring the new offerings and ventures are created with an eye towards concrete plans for scale.
• Guided clients through the implementation process and steward solutions to market by developing strategies, timelines, business and financial models that appropriately reflect our partners’ organisational constraints and aspirations, while balancing the needs of the end-user.
• Designed and monitored project delivery; Tracking milestones and deliverables against project plan, assuring the quality of project deliverables.
• Drove operational improvements which resulted in savings and improved profit margins.
Jackline Lavoga Kibisu
Sub-Saharan Africa Receivables Product Head, Citi
Tel No: (+254) 717 370 038
Email: jackielavoga@yahoo.com
Akinyi Odera
Strategic Designer, Thinkplace
Tel No: (+254) 748 374 659
Email: akinyi.odera@thinkplace. co.ke
Patrick Atambo
CEO, Sasalog LTD
Tel No: (+254) 727 124 426
Email: patrick.atambo@sasalog. com