Nankhonde Kasonde-van den Broek

Nankhonde Kasonde-van den Broek is an international award-winning Executive Coach, development activist, and serial entrepreneur.

She is the Founder and CEO at ZANGA African Metrics. Africa’s first Leadership Assessment & Analytics Company that is designed for high-context cultures. A pioneer in the use of technology to develop affordable, accessible coaching and human capital development solutions for Africa. Solutions that understand and take into account the mosaic of cultural dimensions and the reality of an emerging market context.  Solutions built from African norm groups and generating valuable data for decision-making. The Zanga leadership assessment has been recognized by the Association for Business Psychology, London, U.K. as “A tool for authentic leadership conversations and growth in diverse cultures.”

Following a decade working in international development and international finance globally with the United Nations and the Global Fund to fight AIDS, TB & Malaria, she returned to Zambia to pursue her purpose and desire to contribute to her country’s economy and the wider African development agenda.

Nankhonde is a Professional Certified Coach (ICF) & Organizational change architect. She has over 20 years of experience in multinationals, international organizations, and Governments. She is an accomplished professional with a wealth of African, international, and multicultural experience in designing and leading large-scale change across multiple sectors.   She has lived and worked in New York, Geneva, Dakar, and Lilongwe. She has traveled extensively and supported programmes across Africa and South East Asia.

In 2021 she won the coveted Thinkers50 Marshall Goldsmith Coaching & Mentoring Award. She is also recognized as a Global Guru, World’s Top 30 Coach for 2021, 2022 & 2023. Nankhonde is a member of the Africa List; a group of future African Leaders in emerging markets. Nankhonde is a Marshall Goldsmith 50 Global Leading Coach and a member of the MG100. She is a Board Member at the Lusaka Apex Medical University in Lusaka, Zambia, and a Board Member at Sanlam Life Insurance Zambia Ltd (Part of the Sanlam Group, South Africa).

Nankhonde is a graduate of the renowned HEC Paris Business School (France) & Oxford University (U.K) joint Executive Specialized Master’s Degree in Consulting & Coaching for Change. In addition, she holds an MBA specializing in Project Management from the African Institute of Management (Dakar, Senegal), an MSc in Management from the University of Quebec at Chicoutimi (Quebec, Canada), and a BA in Management from Webster University (Geneva, Switzerland).  She is fluent in French and is married with 2 children.