Angela Gachui

The AfriCAN Do! Podcast | Episode 67

Featuring Angela Gachui, Founder, 3BL Associates & Co-founder, Showrunners

People Purpose and Flawless Execution: Building Businesses That Make Others Shine

Some entrepreneurs build brands that carry their name in lights. Others build businesses whose greatest success is making everyone else look good. On Episode 67 of The AfriCAN Do! Podcast, host Leonard Mudachi sits down with Angela Gachui, Founder of 3BL Associates and Co-founder of Showrunners, an entrepreneur who has built her journey on unlocking the best in people and delivering excellence behind the scenes. 🎙️🇰🇪

Through 3BL Associates (Triple Bottom Line Associates), Angela runs a boutique advisory firm providing coaching, consulting and training services to organizations, leaders and individuals across the African continent. A Certified Professional Coach and seasoned talent strategist, she works with leaders and entrepreneurs on organizational culture, employee engagement, diversity, equity and inclusion, and personal and leadership development, challenging her clients to build environments where people and performance thrive together. ✨

Her corporate journey prepared the ground: Africa Talent Manager at Dalberg Advisors, Chief Talent Officer at Seven Seas Technologies, People & Change Consultant at PricewaterhouseCoopers. An Oprah Winfrey Scholar with an MPA from New York University, Angela chose to bring world-class talent thinking home, in service of African organizations and leaders. 🌍

Then there is Showrunners, the venture that lives up to its name. Showrunners coordinates event production and execution to ensure excellence and seamlessness. They make event managers and event owners look good by anticipating the ignored and the unexpected. They are the behind-the-scenes operators of excellence, the calm in the chaos, proof that in the events business, what the guest never notices is exactly what someone worked hardest on. 🎪

In this conversation we explore: 🎙️ Angela's journey from global corporate talent roles to founding her own advisory firm 🎙️ Building 3BL Associates and the business of coaching, culture and leadership in Africa 🎙️ Why talent, wellness and inclusion are competitive advantages, not HR checkboxes 🎙️ The birth of Showrunners and the art of flawless behind-the-scenes event execution 🎙️ Anticipating the ignored and the unexpected, and turning invisibility into a brand 🎙️ Running a portfolio of ventures, and the lessons, setbacks and wins along the way