#WeLeadComms: Annie M.K

Nairobi-based Annie M.K is today’s #WeLeadComms honoree.

Annie is a strategist, advisor, and communication specialist who helps organizations grow with clarity and purpose.

Over the past 13 years, she has supported leaders, public institutions, and businesses across Africa in refining their positioning, strengthening their operations, and communicating in ways that earn trust and move people to action.  Much of her work involves helping organizations navigate the point where strategy, culture, and communication need to align in practical, commercially useful ways.

Her background spans strategy development, media relations, public affairs, crisis communications, reputation management, stakeholder engagement, and internal communications. She has consulted across sectors: consumer brands, healthcare, technology, agriculture, development, and intergovernmental institutions. She has delivered projects for Novo Nordisk, the Rockefeller Foundation, Seven Seas, Monsanto, Diageo, Microsoft, the World Trade Organization, and the Open Society Foundation among others,with each role reflecting a different aspect of her work — strengthening leaders, supporting founders, and building pathways between organizations and people.

Annie has also been supporting early-stage and scaling founders across strategy, communications, media relations, and policy communications. She has been featured on leading business dailies in Africa discussing policy.

Her approach  to communications is practical and relationship-led: simplify what’s complicated, make decisions easier, and ensure the strategy supports the people who need to deliver it.

Before pivoting to full-time communications, she transitioned from journalism,working as a radio journalist at Radio Africa Group and News24 Channel in South Africa.

She is currently pursuing a Public Policy and Leadership Credential at Harvard’s Kennedy School and a certification in Economics. She aspires to deepen her work in public affairs and policy advocacy, to help organizations navigate complex government policies while leveraging international relationships and business opportunities.

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