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Martin Kalungu-Banda

Martin Kalungu-Banda is a consultant in Leadership & Organisation Development, a designer and facilitator of innovation and organisation change processes, a trainer, coach, author, and an entrepreneur. Living between Lusaka, Zambia, and Oxfordshire, UK, Martin serves as Core-Faculty Member of the Presencing Institute, Visiting Fellow of the Skoll Centre for Social Entrepreneurship at Oxford University’s Said Business School, and Co-founder of the Ubuntu.Lab Institute. He is also a member of faculty for the Global Alliance for Banking on Values’ Leadership Academy and the Mastercard Executive Leadership Program.

Previously, Martin served on the executive programs of the University of Cambridge Institute for Sustainability Leadership, London Business School, and the Copenhagen Business School. He co-founded Impact Hub Lusaka and has served as a consultant for Mercedes Benz, the COFRA Group, Airbus, 3M, The Tony Blair Institute for Global Governance, HSBC, the World Bank, McKinsey & Company, and the United Nations.

Previous roles include Head of the Private Sector Policy Unit and Global Leadership and Capacity-Building Adviser for Oxfam GB, Special Consultant to the third President of Zambia, Regional Social Performance Manager and Corporate Affairs Manager for BP-Africa, and teaching Business Ethics at the University of Zambia. Martin’s three books include: Leading Like Madiba: Leadership Lessons from Nelson Mandela, It’s How We End That Matters: Leadership Lessons from an African President, and Driftology: How to Access Life ‘s Greatest Opportunities by Flying on the Wings of Others. All the three books run as training programs.