Neharika Dembla
Neharika Dembla is a facilitator, strategist, and social impact professional with international experience across the UK, Thailand, India, Guatemala, and other global contexts. Her work spans organisational culture, DEI, sustainability, innovation, entrepreneurship, customer experience, and community building. With a background in law and an MSc in Innovation, Entrepreneurship and Management from Imperial College London, Neharika brings a strong human centred and entrepreneurial approach to her work. She has designed and delivered programmes focused on gender equity, employee engagement, behaviour change, wellbeing, and inclusion, working with organisations ranging from global companies to startups, NGOs, and community organisations. As a multiple time co-founder, Neharika has hands-on experience turning ideas into experiences, products, and communities. This includes co-founding Friends of Friends in Thailand, where she designed curated offline experiences for groups of up to 80 people, as well as developing ventures in education, wellbeing, and sustainable food. Her approach is grounded in curiosity, creativity, and understanding people before designing solutions. She draws on design thinking, customer journey mapping, stakeholder engagement, and her experience across different cultures to create inclusive and engaging experiences that help people connect, contribute, and move ideas forward.
Omar Corona
Omar Corona has over 10 years of experience working with teams and organizations at both small startups and multi-national corporations ranging in sectors and industries such as fintech, consumer goods, entertainment, and management consulting, to name a few. Working with leadership in various stages of re-orgs and culture transformation initiatives, Omar has helped both train teams on the OKR framework for first time implementations and analyze and execute complete org-wide goal setting process improvements to better align teams toward strategic intents and, ultimately, create high performing teams and individuals through a well-balanced distribution of ownership and leadership. Coming from a product management background, Omar has the sensibility to always be aware of and balance the crucial factors of emotion, relationships, and business needs in order to get to effective decision making while never sacrificing the human experience.
Paul Kuhne
Paul Kuhne is the Roundtables Program Manager at the Center for Open Data Enterprise (CODE). In this role, Paul oversees CODE’s high-level Roundtables which convene stakeholders and industry experts to identify opportunities for better open data use for federal agencies, nonprofits, and community organizations. He has planned and facilitated over 10 Roundtables on topics related to data in healthcare, climate, and criminal justice. He also co-leads CODE’s Open Data for Racial Equity program, which has convened Roundtables on Open Data for Racial Equity in Healthcare and Improving Data for Racial Equity in Policing. Paul has over ten years of professional experience in community and stakeholder engagement, programs development, and partnership building. He has a Master’s degree in Global Policy Studies at the LBJ School of Public Affairs where he studied open data, transparency, and migration. Paul also received his Project Management Professional (PMP) certification in 2023 through the Project Management Institute.
Ciku Kimeria
Ciku Kimeria is an author, journalist, communication and strategy specialist, adventurer and travel writer. She writes both fiction and non-fiction focusing on African stories that need telling. She is the current Quartz Africa Editor and a longtime contributor to Quartz, having authored almost 60 articles for the site, on topics as wide-ranging as the perils of traveling with an African passport to the optimism inspired by Africa’s first non-fungible token (NFT) art collections. She is the author of two mystery novels (Dance of the Monkeys and Of goats and poisoned oranges), and has written for a variety of outlets, including African Arguments, OkayAfrica, and The Africa Report. Ciku has a wealth of communication and project management experience, having worked for and served as a communication advisor to Dalberg Advisors, Open Society Initiative of West Africa, and The Africa Agriculture and Trade Investment Fund. She has traveled to 56 countries, 23 of them in Africa. She has a bachelor of science degree in management from MIT and speaks English, Swahili, and French.
Natalie Moore
Natalie Moore has 10+ years of facilitating experience through; helping larger organizations manage change, team building support, start-up planning, stakeholder collaboration, design thinking, contract management and the related. Having her Post Graduate Diploma in Non-Profit Management makes Natalie particularly skilled at consulting and facilitating within this community, and translates well to traditional business environments also. Being dynamic and resourceful, Natalie lends her background of psychology to the business environment and the human potential within it. Focusing on how to ensure the two often competing factors can exist in symmetry and flourish. In general outside the box thinking and “play” are used in her work to allow participants in these sessions to gain new perspectives. These insights can often lead to innovation and increased connection for both business strategies and the human ecosystem within their organization.
Sabrina Prioli
Sabrina Prioli began her career in academia as a sociologist researcher, which led her to diverse locations beyond Italy, including the Latin American barriadas, the hidden malocas of the Amazon rainforest, the yellowed rancherìas of the La Guajira desert in Colombia, and the low enkang of East Africa. Throughout her career, she has played a pivotal role in developing PM&E plans for various self-implementing and partner projects while working for NGOs and governments across Latin America, Africa, and Europe. In Colombia, Sabrina founded “Hilo Sagrado,” an organization dedicated to preserving the culture and traditions of the indigenous people of Guajira, with a focus on strengthening the identity and social role of women. She possesses extensive experience and knowledge in areas such as protection, education, economic empowerment, and gender equality, which enable her to create appropriate indicators and PM&E tools. Sabrina takes great pleasure in training field staff on utilizing PM&E tools to gather evidence that supports social change and promotes greater transparency and accountability. In 2016, during a mission in Juba, South Sudan, she was among the victims of the “Terrain incident,” where she suffered multiple rapes and torture by government soldiers during a sudden outbreak of civil conflict. Following this traumatic experience, Sabrina faced significant challenges, including a lack of medical and psychosocial support, financial resources for healing, and legal assistance for justice. Struggling with the effects of PTSD, she found healing through EMDR therapy and coaching, which inspired her to become a professional coach herself. Sabrina’s approach, grounded in Co-Active and Positive Intelligence methodologies, empowers her clients—especially victims and survivors of sexual violence—to build strengths, foster healthy beliefs, and develop positive coping strategies, rather than merely addressing “negative” behaviors and beliefs. Her personal and professional experiences, along with her deep empathy for issues related to sexual violence and abuse, fuel her commitment to enhancing prevention measures, policies, procedures, and responses within NGOs and organizations dealing with incidents of sexual violence. In 2020, Sabrina published her first book, “Il viaggio della fenice,” with the English version titled “Rise up phoenix.” In 2024, she released her second book, “Non finisce mai,” which addresses the theme of permanent victimization after rape. For her dedicated advocacy on behalf of women victims of violence and abuse, she has received several accolades in Italy, including the “Woman Award 2021,” the “Solidarity Award National Award 2022,” and the “Country of Women Award 2022.
Marianne Montalvo
Marianne Montalvo is an international education and youth expert with 18 years of experience in designing and managing programs and facilitating learning for staff and participants globally. Ms. Montalvo has facilitated in-person and virtual meetings, design sessions, workshops, and training for individuals across the world for strategy, program design, training of trainers, staff engagement, and staff upskilling. She has facilitated the design of projects in workforce development, entrepreneurship, education, gender, social inclusion, and monitoring, evaluation, research, and learning. Ms. Montalvo has extensive experience facilitating virtual meetings and regularly uses tools such as Miro, Mural, and Mentimeter. She is dedicated in her facilitation practice to creating spaces where people can think clearly and creatively about the big problems facing their organizations, lives, and our world. Ms. Montalvo’s background in education has led to the development of curricula and tools for youth development, literacy, entrepreneurship, financial literacy, and work readiness programs, as well as professional development within organizations. She has managed USAID-funded, youth-focused programs in Eastern Europe, the Middle East, and in Washington DC. Ms. Montalvo has worked across Africa, Asia, Eastern Europe, Latin America, and the Middle East. She holds an Ed.M. in International Education Policy from Harvard Graduate School of Education and a B.A. in History from Yale University.
Julian Johnson
Julian Johnson is a highly experienced management consultant with over 17 years of expertise in driving strategic alignment and improving organizational execution through large-scale transformations. He is an expert integrator of leadership communication frameworks right sized to meet his clients’ needs and adjusting to stage of growth. He discovered coaching to help enhance the value of bridging gaps between visionaries and operators, supporting leaders at every level to achieve revenue generation, cost savings, while leading both internal and customer-facing initiatives. He has come to appreciate the value of coaching that creates the conditions where leaders can thrive, and businesses can flourish. As a holistic corporate life, executive, and leadership coach, Julian cares that his clients do not feel boxed in or limited in any way to express what may drive their personal and organizational growth. He co-creates space for clients to speak openly, challenging them only in light of their goals. Julian layers in laser-focused coaching, imagery exercises, and can offer clients a wide array of science-based tools with debrief and can switch hats to offer business/team heuristics.
Angela Umoru-David
Angela Umoru-David is a creative and multifaceted communicator who maximizes diverse strategies for capturing plurality of views and contributing to the development sector. She also has experience in project design, panel moderation, training and facilitation, project management, stakeholder engagement and non-profit operations. Her work in the development space has cut across soft skills education, mental health advocacy, providing access to WASH facilities, voluntary blood donation advocacy and creating opportunities for youth volunteering. Most recently, she has been working in the racial equity space, utilizing human-centered design to implement effective communication strategies and support the development of solutions. With experience in communication strategy development, digital communication, content development and branding for nonprofits, she is passionate about positively influencing the African narrative and promoting cross-cultural collaboration for more equitable societies. Also an essayist and solutions journalist, 5 of her stories are available on the global Solutions Journalism Tracker. Angela possesses a B.A in Mass Communication and an M.A (in view) in the same discipline from Liverpool John Moores University, United Kingdom. She is a World Literacy Ambassador (2020 Class), Atlas Corps Scholar (2021) and current Atlas Corps Fellow, serving with a racial equity-focused nonprofit in Washington DC, USA.
Nabou Fall
Nabou Fall is the CEO of Vizeo since 2007. Vizeo is a communication agency with expertise in transformational communication, as well as classic PR/communications. Among her clients are governments, Development Agencies & Private multinationals from across the continent as well as individuals. Before that, she has worked as a Director in several Telco Companies in Africa & participated actively in the development of the industry throughout the continent. Nabou Fall is a sought after public speaker as well as a renowned certified personal development coach regularly invited to speak & coach on issues such as youth & women entrepreneurship, leadership, Marketing. She is a TEDx speaker (TEDx Grand-Bassam &TEDx Bamako), a published author & collaborates with many magazines due to her engagement in empowering her African sisters. She is a mentor in various youth & women empowerment programs as well as a Mentor & member of honor of Actives in Côte-d’Ivoire. As the President of Wimnet a foundation involved in Women & Youth empowerment she trained over 1000 people in 2018-19 in Gabon, Côte-d’Ivoire, Niger, Mali, Benin Republic, Burkina… Women Investment Club Cote-d’Ivoire appointed her as President. She is the cofounder of IHub Abidjan a co-working space & incubator in Côte-d’Ivoire aiming at facilitating youth & women Impact entrepreneurship in Côte-d’Ivoire. Nabou Fall graduated in Computer Science Eng. Major Systems & Network from Paris « Ecole Supérieur de Génie Informatique ». She also holds a Master in finance & management from ISG Paris as well as a woman leadership certificate from Harvard Business School & a certificate from the Boardroom Africa Open Doors Training powered by Institute of Directors of London.