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

She is the Founder and Lead Consultant at Nankhonde Kasonde Consultancy, Founder and Creative Director at KHONDE, Founder and CEO at ZANGA African Metrics.

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 multi-nationals, 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 recognised as a Global Guru, World’s Top 30 Coach for 2021 & 2022. 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 Masters 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.