Podcasts about moringa school

This week we had the pleasure of chatting with Snehar Shah, the CEO of Moringa school. Snehar is passionate about spearheading the development of Africa's young people through learning tech skills and this is evidenced in his leadership at Moringa school. Snehar has over 25 years of diverse experience in building and running businesses in multiple industries and geographies (UK, Europe and Africa). --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/the-grinders-table/message

In This Episode, We Chat About: The story behind Moringa School and its transformation on education in Africa. The benefits, impacts, and challenges behind education. Self-discovery and exploration. Masculine and feminine energies and how to find balance between them.   Resources + Links: Check out Audrey's blog! | https://audrey-cheng.medium.com/   Follow Audrey on Twitter | @audreypcheng   Grow your brand, income, and impact!Learn more on our website ellyandnoracreative.com   Connect with Sara on Instagram | @sarachamberscreative @ellyandnoracreative   For show notes, resources, and more, visit Chicks Who Give a Hoot   Follow along with the podcast on Instagram | @chickswhogiveahoot   Apply HERE to be featured on Chicks Who Give A Hoot!  Show Notes: Today we're taking you back to school! This episode, our guest is the incredible Audrey Cheng, founder and former CEO of Moringa School in Kenya! She's here to share her story behind Moringa and how it has created a positive impact for local communities. We'll discuss the importance of access to education and empowering students for the future. Then, we dive into Audrey's journey with self-discovery over the past year. What has she learned about herself, and what can we take away from her experiences? Whether it's transforming higher education or finding ourselves through self-discovery, today is all about learning! 01:35 Say hello to the founder and current board member of Moringa School, Audrey Cheng!  02:10 What is your story behind Moringa? 04:35 What are the benefits of investing in the local economy and business? 08:45 Why did you want Moringa to teach technical skills? 12:00 How have you seen the impact of Moringa on your students and graduates? 14:05 The challenges behind education. 16:10 What is the impact of having versus not having access to employment after education? 19:00 What have you been recently working on? 21:35 The four discovery questions. 25:15 What have you learned about yourself this past year? 28:50 How does knowing yourself help to dissolve fears? 31:40 How have you been helping to resource women? 33:05 Exploring your feminine energy. 35:40 How do you balance feminine and masculine energy in your business?

Chidi Afulezi is a product management and media guy with a broad set of experiences in the corporate and entrepreneurial arenas. His product chops were honed at Sony Music, Time Warner, and Turner Broadcasting/CNN (now WarnerMedia) where he led mobile and digital product teams, and prior to that was a key member of the wireless engineering team that designed and built AT&T's digital wireless network in the Washington DC-Baltimore markets. He wears his entrepreneurial hat modestly with three failed ventures and now on his fourth venture, The Massive Company—a media and communications venture studio cofounded with Zain Verjee and focused on the continent of Africa and its diaspora. He and Zain also run the Zain Verjee Group, a communications consulting company. Chidi is also Managing Principal of redKola Digital, a product consulting and advisory outfit based in Atlanta and Kigali. As a teacher and instructor, he is the Head Faculty of PIE (Product, Entrepreneurship, and Innovation) at the African Leadership University School of Business, a role helping lead a product and media shift on the continent. In addition, he is a member of the Product Management Executive Education faculty at the Haas School of Business (University of California at Berkeley), and a product management Enterprise Instructor with General Assembly. Chidi has led product workshops and programs at blue-chip companies such as Walmart, United Technologies, Delta Airlines, Cox Media amongst others, plus product work with startups such as ALU, Moringa School, and more. A recipient of bachelor's degrees from New York University in Mathematics and Electrical Engineering, he also holds an MBA from the Stern School of Business at NYU. For more on Chidi, visit chidiafulezi.com.

As a young continent, Africa has an abundance of passionate and knowledgeable youth interested in tech. However, Meredith Karazin, COO of Moringa School, and her team see a widespread lack of efficient training that enables youth to align to market standards. The result is that many businesses outsource tech skills, rather than hire local graduates.Meredith works with her team to solve this by using a holistic and practical approach to tech education that prepares students for a real working environment. Moringa School trains developers to work anywhere in the world by using real-world problem statements, in a classroom setting that mimics a typical working environment, and using a project-based and qualitative grading system.Read the blog post here! (http://bit.ly/2uiVK7B)

We have another amazing guest for you this week, William Githui is the Director of Finance at Moringa School where he's been at the center of helping the company close a significant round of funding. Previously, William was on the investor side as investment manager at AlphaMundi Group, which is a local venture fund that invest in growth stage companies in Kenya and beyond. So as an investor and now an operator, William is a young professional who has been on both sides of the entrepreneur equation, and despite that he's still one of the nicest, most humble, reliable, high integrity people you will ever meet and others like him represents the hope we can all have in the future of Silicon Savannah. Listen and learn from the man. Enjoy the podcast.

This week Esther Kithinji, senior people operations at Moringa school shares her experiences working at a startup. Esther talks about the lesson learnt working in a highly dynamic, fast paced environment and how to cope with the ever changing and demanding startup environment. This is a great benchmark for anyone currently working at a startup who wants to validate that their personal experiences are pretty standard for startups and also a way for those who maybe interested in understanding what it's like to work at a startup.

In this episode, I catch up with Audrey Cheng, the founder of Moringa School.We first did an interview in October of 2016, and so it had been over 2.5 years since we last spoke.The initial episode is called "Coding Schools", and so be sure to scroll back through the archives to give it a listen, if you're interested.Moringa School is still going strong, and now has a presence in Rwanda, as well as having taught over 1,500 students.The fundamentals remain the same - providing a relevant skill set to people entering the workforce in emerging markets - and we chat about how the company has evolved recently.This includes expansion into different fields from just coding (such as data science), greater outreach (such as programmes for low-income students), partnerships they've brokered with international agencies, and how they are at the stage of codifying their culture for the next phase of expansion.We did this interview in a hotel lobby and so at times, you might hear some background noise from other tables.I hope, however, that this doesn't detract from what is a very interesting interview from the founder of a company clearly on an upward trajectory.READ MORE AT:https://theeastafricabusinesspodcast.com/2019/10/17/moringa-revisited-catching-up-with-audrey-cheng-on-the-coding-schools-international-expansion/

As the CEO and Co-Founder of Moringa School, a multi-disciplinary learning accelerator to provide young students with digital and professional skills training in Nairobi, Kenya, Audrey Cheng quickly rose to be selected as one of the 2016 Forbes 30 Under 30 Social Entrepreneurs. But Cheng shares that this journey also came with battling unforeseen life hindrances and burnouts. The key to her success? Being rooted in happiness. Tune into Cheng’s story to hear how she led her team to prioritize their well-being, even through difficult situations.

On the first Episode of Tech For Granted, we discuss the ups and down of podcasting. What are the qualities of a good host who should you host a podcast with? We also touch on the tips we've gained along the way with regards to marketing a podcast via social media platforms and how to handle potential backlash from your audience. The Tech For Granted team also discusses the learning curve of podcasting and how to get step outside of your comfort zone. We also leave you with one important piece of advice that we have learnt from our experience... previously producing the Moringa School podcast. Got any questions for us? You are a part of the Tech For Granted team as much as we are, so leave your comments below and we will answer them in the next episode of the podcast. Hosted by: Eugene Nzioki, Cynthia Muriithi, Melissa Malala, Michel Atieno, Victor Ireri and Kevin Ahere. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/techforgranted/support

On the final episode of the Moringa School podcast, we are joined by Stella Ngugi, CEO & Founder of Jobonics, a HR software startup based in Nairobi, Kenya. Stella loves to bring ideas to life with the touch of great design, people & technology. As a Strategy Consultant, Stella helps clients rethink their talent goals, guide them through the ideation process, reimagine their role in the industry as well as show them how to leverage a digital approach to optimize and expand their core mission & workforce. Stella is passionate about boosting performance & competitiveness of individuals & organisations in Africa through talent & technology innovations that will also bring about socioeconomic change in the continent. Stella is also involved in various community driven initiatives. Listen and enjoy!

On this episode of the Moringa School podcast, we are joined by Scott Chacon, an entrepreneur, software developer, startup enthusiast and language learner. Scott is the co-founder and CEO of Chatterbug, and Co-founder and former CIO of Github. Scott and his team of co-founders built a software development platform called Github, which brings together the world's largest community of developers to discover, share and build better software. Github was sold to Microsoft for $7.5B in 2018. Scott joined GitHub in late 2008 when Git was still a rather obscure and difficult to use version control system. From those days of the 4 co-founders working from coffee shops, Scott helped build GitHub into a global company of more than 400 employees. In that time, Scott did a little of everything as GitHub grew - backend Git infrastructure work, Ruby and frontend development, training, sales, financial forecasting, documentation, internal tools development, hiring, fundraising, office planning and buildout, internal communications, evangelization and public speaking. While at GitHub Scott also did everything he could to help Git become the dominant technology it is today. He wrote two of the very first books on Git - Git Internals published by Peepcode and Pro Git published by Apress, both now open sourced and free to read. Pro Git is in it's second edition and has been translated into more than 10 languages. Scott helped start and supported the libgit2 project, which is used by nearly every Git user interface, plugin and hosting solution today. Scott gave more than 75 talks, tutorials and workshops across the globe, from small local meetups to training the Android development team. He also registered, developed and maintained the official Git website for 8 years. Scott went on to his current venture, Chatterbug, a language learning system that helps users to learn a new language to fluency through adaptive courses that respond to the way users learn, as well as one-on-one video sessions with native speakers from around the world. Chatterbug combines the flexibility of digital language apps with the effectiveness of in-person language schools. Listen as Scott shares his entrepreneurial journey, the software development process, the future of work and learning and so much more on the podcast. Enjoy and share. You can find Scott on Twitter at @chacon. Hosted by Eugene Nzioki, Leo Igane, Kevin Ahere, Melissa Malala, Michel Atieno and Victor Ireri.

With almost 500,000 app downloads on the Google Play Store and over 10,000 Twitter followers, it's safe to say that Kenyan game developer and Moringa School alumni Collins Cheruiyot knows a thing or two about marketing and navigating the game development market. Collins joins us on the Moringa School podcast and we discuss marketing and monetisation of apps on the Google Play Store, pros and cons of game development technologies such as Unity and Buildbox, as well as how to keep up with Google Play's frequent algorithm change. You can download Collins' games here: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.lollipopcandy.sweetcandyblast Find Collins' on Twitter: https://twitter.com/cherucole

On this episode we are joined by Victor Ireri, Michelle Atieno and Melissa Malala, recent graduates of Moringa School and they share their experiences as apprentice software developers. Enjoy!

We are joined by Jerry Orina & Whitney Odumbe, Kenyan members of The Bitclub Network (www.bitclubnetwork.com) and they demystify bitcoin mining. Your hosts are Leo, Michelle & Melissa, alumni of Moringa School. Contact Jerry on orinajerry@gmail.com, +254 732 031 181, (bitclub.bz/jbo), or at his office in Kenrail Towers, 3rd Floor, Southern Wing, Nairobi. Whitney’s email is whitneyaki98@gmail.com, +254 770 884 661, (bitclub.bz/bosskikky).

Rachel Sklar takes the guest seat this week to tell us how the Finding Impact Podcast is helping her with her business in Rwanda. Rachel runs Pit Vidura, which offers pit latrine emptying services in dense urban areas where there are no sewers. On this episode you'll learn Apart from helping to improve her business, the podcast has helped Rachel get back into long distance running! When she's back at her desk Rachel listens to bits again and writes down the parts that were the most insightful and sends it to members of her team, inviting them to listen and come back to her to have a conversation about it. The podcast is confirmation to Rachel that they're on the right track. Sometimes they have to make stuff up on the fly and under pressure. So later when they listen, they realise others have taken their course of action as well. The podcast also confirms that not everyone has the answers before they start. Rachel and her team are not from a business background so some of the knowledge, in the form of frameworks or processes, is really useful. They also hear that others are doing the same thing they are, but they speak about it using more formal language and approaches. So it allows Rachel and her team to redevelop their strategy in a more structured way and speak to people externally using the right language. She loved the episode with Lauren from GetIt about how her food distribution business soon became a logistics business, since this is what their pit emptying business has become. Fausto's episode was also instructive in that he shared how the early days were so scrappy, and they survived from winning a few prizes and surviving off of customer revenues, which is how it's been with Pit Vidura. Fausto was also open and honest about the emotional side of a startup, and the thoughts of failure, which Rachel experiences. The interview with Jonathan Lewis also resonated with Rachel, about a sector-wide problem which is the lack of diversity in social enterprise, and which she's now building into the values of her company to intentionally confront this. The episode with Rob Mills helped Rachel talk about social enterprise to more traditional investors, and help them understand what a social enterprise is. Rachel really enjoyed the episode on unit economics with Steve Andrews. As with many social enterprises serving the base of the pyramid, you need to be so clued-up on your unit economics and use it as a management tool for decision making. We talk about imposter syndrome, where you feel you don't have enough of experience, knowledge, skills, (insert next one here!)... to build a business. Rachel has found listening to the podcast has made her realise that everyone's in the same boat - no one really knows everything they're going to do from the beginning and there are times you've just got to do your best. Human capital is a constant struggle and something that doesn't just go away, but needs constant effort behind a clear strategy. Cycling through employees, particularly during the early days, is an approach others take as well, whilst jealously guarding culture. Also, we discuss a very open style of management, where you get to know your team personally, as described by Raghu Krishnasway. Rachel suggests a way to improve the podcast could be to touch on people's personal careers or lives, maybe even an activity, a quote, a joke, or something, so that listeners get a little more sense of their personality. Links to resources: Lauren Russell Nkuranga from GetIt Episode 57 Fausto Margicot from PayGo Episode 44 Audrey Cheng from Moringa School, Episode 43 Pit Vidura's IndieGoGo Campaign A Fireside Chat with John Lewis Episode 21 Rob Mills from Social Finance Episode 8 Steve Andrews from New Light Africa on Unit Economics Episode 46 Anastasia Uglova from MindSky Episode 61 Raghu Krishnaswamy from Off Grid Electric Episode 78 Pitvidura.com Pit Vidura on Twitter Pit Vidura on Facebook Connect with Rachel: Rachel on LinkedIn  

How do you go from studying journalism in the midwestern United States to revolutionizing the education system of another continent? I don’t know. So I asked Audrey Cheng about her company.   The Moringa School is enabling a whole generation of high-potential, proactive people passionate about technology to become top mobile and web developers by equipping them with skills to do so. Through top quality teachers and a curated curriculum, the school aims to world-class developers in Africa.   Founder Audrey Cheng has partnered with Hack Reactor, a top Silicon Valley coding school, to develop a world-class intro-to-programming course and an immersive, intensive 19-week program to train top mobile, web and front-end developers.   The World Bank has chosen Moringa School to be their Middle East and Africa location in their study on the effectiveness of coding bootcamps in emerging markets.   Attend my one-day conference January 27th in Pittsburgh. Learn more here.   Audrey’s Challenge; Be aware of your emotions. Pause. And tell yourself, “It’s going to be ok.”     If you liked this interview, check out previous episodes with sous vide entrepreneur Lisa Fetterman and angel investor Li Jiang.   Subscribe on iTunes | Stitcher | Overcast | PodBay

Most business is about matching demand with supply. From her work as a Venture Capitalist talking to businesses about what would help them grow, Audrey found that resoundingly the answer was “tech talent”. Investigating the options available to students wanting to learn these skills, she found they were sub par. Moringa School is addressing the need by providing world class education in how to build apps at an affordable cost. We discuss the innovative teaching methodologies that they adopt, ways of breaching the skills gap in Kenya, and prospects for taking these vocational based higher education alternatives across the continent and into different skills. Our interview was on the balcony outside of their office and so it gets a little windy at times, but either way, I hope you enjoy. READ MORE AT:https://theeastafricabusinesspodcast.com/2017/04/26/coding-schools-a-world-class-higher-education-alternative-in-kenya-with-audrey-cheng-from-moringa-school/

When Audrey Cheng was working with Savannah Fund, Africa’s leading technology seed fund and accelerator, she ran into a problem. She could not find software developers. She noticed that she was not the only one who was experiencing this problem. In fact, a 2011 survey found that, in Kenya, 45% of employers with developer positions were not able to find qualified coders. And the developers they were able to find were very expensive. Many Kenyan companies outsourced work to India, Eastern Europe and other regions. Audrey began to ask questions. With unemployment rates around 40%, and universities teaching computer science, why were there so few qualified developers in Kenya? Audrey realized that Kenyan universities and training schools were not teaching the needed skills. With her cofounder Frank Tamre, Audrey set out to solve her problem. She and Frank created Moringa School. Moringa has three programs. Junior Moringa School teaches basic coding skills. Moringa School is an intensive 16 week bootcamp where aspiring programmers are taught to become world-class developers. And Moringa DevShop provides services to companies around the world. Nearly 100% of Moringa graduates find employment. Many increase their income by 350% as a result of having experienced the program. Social Entrepreneurship Resources: Moringa School: http://www.moringaschool.com Culture Shift Learning Academy waiting list: http://tonyloyd.com/assessment Culture Shift Learning Academy We’re moving closer to the launch of Culture Shift Learning Academy, a comprehensive system to help you flesh out your social impact idea and start achieving it. Enrollment isn’t open yet, but you can join the waiting list with other changemakers. Just go to http://TonyLoyd.com/Assessment and enter your email address. As a thank you, I’ll send you the Social Entrepreneur Startup Readiness Assessment. This useful tool is designed to help you to determine where you are on your startup journey and to successfully focus your development efforts.