We exist so that organisations operating in complex environments are not just trained — but truly prepared.
Edify Learning Forum (ELFA) designs and manages organisational learning for corporations, NGOs, executive teams, health researchers, and international students operating in complex and dynamic environments, particularly across Africa and other emerging markets.
Our Values
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Client Collaboration
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Result Oriented
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Uncertainty is Constant.
Context is Your Edge.
Our Mission
To equip global leaders with the Context Intelligence required to bridge the gap between strategy and high-stakes reality.
Our Vision
To define a new standard of leadership where no strategy is deployed without context, and no leader is left unprepared for reality.
The Outcome Gap: Why Good Training Still Fails
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+1 403 390 7836The "Context Gap"
Organisations invest heavily in training, strategy, and briefings. Yet when teams land in-country, decisions stall, partnerships falter, and programmes under-deliver. The gap is not knowledge. It is context.
The "Strategy Gap"
Most leadership development is built in one environment and delivered into another. It assumes that authority, power, and systems behave everywhere the way they behave at headquarters. They do not.
The "Intelligence Gap"
Context intelligence closes this gap. It is the discipline of reading a specific operating environment — its mindsets, its formal and informal authority, the real flows of power, the systems and social trust that hold it together — before acting within it.
That is what the MAPS Framework makes teachable.
Our strategy refined by context, proven globally
We Teach Reading, Not Just Doing
Most providers teach skills. We teach the perception underneath those skills — how to see an environment clearly enough to know which skill applies, and when.
Proprietary, Tested Method
The MAPS Framework has been refined across corporate expansion, NGO deployment, health research, and international education. It is the connective tissue across everything we deliver.
Dual-Continent Perspective
With headquarters in Calgary and operations in Nairobi, we carry both the strategic discipline of North American delivery and the on-the-ground realism of African practice. Neither alone is enough.
People Behind ELFA
Catherine Jura Sentamu
Founder/Strategy Director
Dr Patricia Opondo
Health Programmes
Gert Kriek
Strategic Advisor Markets
Odi Lagi
Strategic Advisor (West Africa)
Alemnesh Zewdie
Strategic Advisor (Data & Measurements)
We operate globally. Our headquarters is in Calgary, Alberta, Canada, with an operational office in Nairobi, Kenya. Delivery runs across North America, East and West Africa, and partner institutions in the UK and Europe.
