Written from engagements, not from theory.
Every piece below comes out of work we have actually done. No frameworks for their own sake, and nothing we would not say in a board meeting.
The Six Signals That Precede Almost Every Operational Collapse
Business disasters rarely arrive without warning. Across 300 engagements the same six precursors show up again and again — and each is visible months before the failure it predicts.
Amelia Wangui · 10 Mar 2026 · 5 min read
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What Actually Happens in the First 30 Days of a Turnaround
When a project is declared unrecoverable, the recovery rarely starts where people expect. A week-by-week account of the diagnostic phase, and why the first answer is usually the wrong one.
Steve Nyagah · 12 Mar 2026 · 7 min read
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The 72-Hour Window: Crisis Communications Under Real Pressure
A reputation takes years to build and one news cycle to lose. The tactical sequence we run in the three days after a story breaks — and the two mistakes that make everything worse.
Michael Wainaina · 13 Mar 2026 · 6 min read
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Detecting Internal Fraud Before It Reaches the Audit Committee
Internal fraud costs East African businesses billions each year. The behavioural and financial indicators every CFO should be monitoring, and the controls that actually catch them.
Grace Elizabeth · 15 Mar 2026 · 8 min read
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Resilience by Design in an Uncertain East African Market
The companies that absorb shocks best are not the luckiest — they are the ones that designed for absorption. How to build resilience into structure, cash and governance.
Amelia Wangui · 18 Mar 2026 · 6 min read
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Why Seven in Ten Transformation Programmes Stall
After auditing dozens of failed implementations, the causes are consistently organisational rather than technical. The four patterns we see, and where to intervene in each.
Diana Ochieng · 20 Mar 2026 · 5 min read
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