Coaching that transforms knowledge into follow-through

Define your own success

Sit with the tension

Leave with change ignited

Solve issues independently

Both coaches work in the same way.

Introducing, GET-UPP.

Six field-tested steps — Goal, Evaluate, Tension, Upscale, Practice, Purpose — that turn conversation into action. It's the foundation of Swalisano's coaching technique, refined over years and perfected to strengthen business and programmes.

Feeling stuck, with a brilliant impact idea?

Subilo Amanda Mukupo

Is the funding, scaling, strategy and financial details giving you a headache? Are you tired of carrying it alone? Unpack the confusion, work your way to clarity and figure out a patch forward with your idea.

“After a long period of frustration and inconsistent effort in managing my startup, I had an incredible conversation with my coach/mentor Chembo. That discussion made me realize something powerful in that the greatest asset you have is yourself, and success is how you define it….”

F O R F O U N D E R S

Your completion rates look great. Check again at six months.

What you're actually making, what things actually cost, and how to price so the business grows instead of survives.

Training and coaching delivered together, or coaching built into a programme you already run. One-on-one, in groups, or both — send us your Terms of Reference and we'll refine with you.

Financial Clarity

Operational Structure

The daily systems that hold when suppliers fail, plans change, or the power goes out

Knowledge transfer is the easy part. What breaks is everything after — entrepreneurs who can't read their own numbers, operations that collapse when conditions shift. We don't train and leave. Coaching is built into the engagement from the start, structured around milestones your team defines

F O R P R O G R A M M E S

THE PROOF

TrueNorth Consulting — leadership coaching that ignited the confidence to launch.

17 women-led climate-smart agriculture businesses, trained and coached. 29% went on to secure Constituency Development Fund financing.

29%

Mopani

80%

Mukuba Girls Jewellery Group

ZGF

20 youth-led businesses coached one-on-one to pitch the ZGF board. 80% recommended for funding.

Securing an international market linkage for their copper jewellery, following a targeted GET-UPP programme.

EcoTribe — clarity of vision and a growth strategy.

Malawi Scotland Partnership — development experts building enterprise to sustain their impact work

SNV Zambia

Your Coaches

Chembo Litana

When I was young I watched a close friend suffer the effects of poverty. I made a silent resolve to build a career that would create positive impact for vulnerable people and communities.

Fourteen years in the development space, training and mentoring social entrepreneurs and leaders of rural and peri-urban organisations. Certified business coach, with an Advanced Programme in Coaching and Coaching Psychology.

If you'd like a professional conversation about your social impact project — to widen it, deepen it, reduce it, stop it or start it — invite me in.

Jane Thiong'o

Jane doesn't coach from the sidelines. She runs a consultancy delivering project management services to international organisations in Zambia — so when she talks about pricing, cash flow or scaling, it's from a playbook she uses herself.

She started in oil and gas sales, learning to negotiate where nobody handed her anything, then ran operations at a football manufacturing social enterprise, where she saw how process design separates the businesses that survive from the ones that scale.

A certified Performance Coach. Direct, unambiguous, sometimes blunt — because clarity is what makes change possible.