#41: Maurice Otieno on Community building, Impact investment and finding his feet through Sports, Diligence and Networking

In this episode Kamande and Kigondu have an engaging chat with the sociable and impressive Maurice Otieno, picking gems from his illustrious career and journey discovering the self. Their hearty chat covers lessons from building impactful communities and grand opportunities, to memories around childhood escapades, hustling days and the come up.

From MYSA football days to his daughter’s ballet classes, from his Highrise to Strathmore walks to professional correspondence with HongKong, from rugby opening opportunities and saving his life to broken metatarsals and drowning in accounts; the episode covers much in both breadth and depth. Double clicking topics and themes around entrepreneurship, leadership, corporate innovation, fatherhood, parenthood, financial management, venture capitalism, startup enabling and sustainable creativity, the lessons keep piling. The chat highlights the benefits of sponsorship to sports, journaling, knowing when to quit, networking, co-curricular engagements while in school, full immersion into parenting, marriage of cultures and even mama’s mayai! All this and more with Maurice’s journey as the through line navigating shifts and seasons - iteration to iteration.

 

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Maurice Otieno (Twitter) is an avid community and ecosystem builder, helping entrepreneurs, corporates and investors achieve their goals. He is the current Executive Director of the Baraza Media Lab team, before which he was part of the founding team of Metta Nairobi and worked at Strathmore Business School as a program manager for the MBA Program. He worked as an accountant in various firms in Kenya including General Motor East Africa, Farmchem Limited and Sameer Africa and Sanofi. He is also part of the founding team of ASSEK (Association of Startup and SME Enablers of Kenya). An entrepreneur himself, with a deep passion for building things people love, especially around travel and community, he founded Kampnoo Camping, a camping and hiking outfit in Kenya.

 

Show notes

• Netflix Documentary on Corruption at Fifa
• The crisis of Football management in Kenya
• Crazy Kennar Sketch on the same story for every composition
• Charles Cardovillis
• BBB Joshua ‘The Beast’ Chisanga Episode
• Ikigai
• The making of TTNT Njugush
• Shahara video platform

Books;

• 1984 by George Orwell
• Britain’s Gulag
• Uncovering the brutal truth about the British empire

 

Socials / Contacts:

https://barazalab.com/

Twitter: BarazaLab, MauriceOtieonoO