Oli Raison

I think in the West, we are obsessed with time, right?

And we're obsessed with who's first and who's the youngest.

We can all name entrepreneurs like Mark Zuckerberg, who became billionaires at 19 or 20.

There are many successful entrepreneurs who build multimillion dollar businesses, but they don't achieve it until they're

50 or 55, and that's just not interesting to us.

It's not sexy.

It's almost like we're overly fetishized this idea that speed is the most important thing.

And I think it speaks to the fact that in the West, we are destination driven.

Whereas the Samburu, it's much more about the journey.

It's the life's path and how you get there is more important than where you end up.

sure thank you i was always cautious of us talking over each other yeah great safarini leadership was really born out of two passions that boris and i both share boris and i have been both expatriates living and working in kenya leading cross-cultural teams for about the last 10 or 12 years respectively

And we got to thinking, what would our perfect business, if we were going to start a business, what would it look like?

And we knew that we were interested in leadership.

And we also knew that we had this shared passion for the north of Kenya in particular, where over the past sort of eight or nine years, we've gone on many adventures together.

We've done a lot of trekking and climbing mountains and really building relationships with people.

warriors and elders from the nomadic samburu tribe up in northern kenya and during those adventures we really got to get a really interesting insight into how these people think their values how their values show up in leadership and how their definition of leadership is so starkly different to what you might consider to be more typical in a kind of conventional western business setting

And then we got up to asking ourselves, what if we were to bring Western executives over to Kenya and expose them to some of this way of life and immerse them in this culture?

And so that's what we've been doing for the past two years or so.

And the clients that we've brought over have given us really positive feedback.

And so that's where we are.