The Tindugol Consortium is a group of expert trainers and coaches from across the African continent, with global experience. We have seen over and over again how expert leaders, and the organizations and movements they are part of, exponentially scale-up their influence and impact when they gain cutting-edge skills in storytelling and strategic communication. Our mission is to equip as many leaders and organizations as possible with those skills – and to connect them to the networks and support they need to implement them.
Together, the members of the Consortium bring decades of practical experience in campaign strategy, storytelling, media writing, editing and production, strategic communications and narrative change, and a record of delivering results in our respective fields.
We have worked, and continue to work with movements and grassroots groups, as well as governments and multilateral organizations, philanthropic foundations and nonprofits. We come from Ghana, Kenya, South Africa, and Sierra Leone, and we have worked in a wide range of global contexts, from Africa and Latin America, to Europe, the UK and the United States.
Participants in our programs and workshops – world-leading experts in fields ranging from climate change to food security, criminal justice, and health equity – learn how to set their professional jargon aside, and move people to action through the power of their storytelling. They learn the theory of persuasive communication and messaging, and gain practical skills in writing, interviewing, and public speaking. Over and over again, we have seen how a focus on communication as a leadership skill helps aspiring change-makers translate their expertise into measurable outcomes.
Meet our team
Meet our team
Paula Fray is the Cape Town-based CEO of the fraymedia Foundation, with over 30 years’ experience in media as an editor, journalist, media manager and media strategist.
Rachel Akrofie is based in Accra and is a social media specialist with extensive experience in strategic communications and advocacy at national government level, as well as with major international organisations.
Karim Bah, founder of the JendaGbeni Centre for Social Change Communications, is based between Accra and Munich. He has over 25 years’ experience in strategic communications, movement strategy and civil society capacity building.
Brett Davidson, a South African based in New York, brings insight from years of working within a major private philanthropic foundation, as well as on-the-ground work across the globe, advising movements and nonprofits on narrative change, storytelling and media advocacy.
