Alban Mwendar, HR Director - Great Lions Limited

Alban is a Partner at Great Lions Ltd, a Kenya registered People and Change Consultancy. He has 30 years of practical HR experience in senior leadership roles with leading global multinationals, including Unilever Plc where he joined as a Management Trainee and rose through the ranks over an 8 year period, and British American Tobacco Plc for 5 years as Head of Human Resources in Kenya. He has also worked as Group HR Director for Kenya Commercial Bank, East African Breweries Ltd. (a subsidiary of Diageo Plc) and Kenya Airways Ltd. for a combined period of 15 years. Alban has hands-on industry experience having been an HR practitioner over 30 years in different sectors and covering the entire scope of HR activities.

He has a B. Ed. Degree and an MBA both from University of Nairobi, and a Practitioners Diploma in Executive Coaching from the Academy of Executive Coaching (UK) and a Certificate in Systemic Team Coaching from the same organisation.