Partnerships--Impact--Excellence

We Help
ORGANIZATIONS
Develop
GLOBAL PARTNERSHIPS
For The FUTURE

We bring industries together to think, develop, and grow.

Partnership Building

We open up the space for dialogue and engagement, to ensure the highest level of partnership effectiveness and efficiency in dynamic situations and crisis environments.

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Transformative Innovation

We help to transform how organizations work together to develop impactful, future forward innovations.

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Independent Strategic
Consulting

Ideation
Pilot Development
Research
Scaling Strategies
Fundraising Plans

We help organizations create partnerships for good.

Short-term assistance to help your organization find the right partners.

Once we help you identify partnerships, we broker and forge your relationship for the future.

PILOTING

We bring field and technology experts to the table and help create your plan and approach to pilot implementation.

Now that you have a proof of concept and MVP, we get you to scale and growth.

Our advisors are globally recognized experts in their fields and we customize our consulting and research teams to provide you with excellence and impact you require

SCALE

BRIDGING

CULTIVATION

Bespoke

Consulting

and

Research

With partnerships built on global diversity.

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Humanity Link Advisors are here because they believe.

Chris Hoffman

Managing Director

Christopher Hoffman began in the humanitarian industry in 1999. He is currently the Managing Director of Humanity Link (www.humanitylink.org), a corporate to humanitarian brokerage firm that links innovative companies with humanitarian agencies to meaningfully engage and partner in complex environments. By fostering and developing innovative partnerships between the corporate sector, academia, and humanitarian actors he advises a number of organizations and companies on how to develop effective technology towards creating impactful humanitarian programming. He has a solid track record for fundraising and partnership building that has been proven over time, and across five continents.

Wakanyi Hoffman

Wakanyi Hoffman

Co-Founder

Wakanyi Hoffman leads our communications and editing efforts at Humanity Link as well as being a founding partner.
She is also the Founder of African Folktales Project, an on-going open-sourced resource of indigenous wisdom and knowledge, curated and presented as folktales to school children. She sits on the board of the Kenya Education Fund, an NGO that provides gifted children from low-income backgrounds in Kenya with access to a fully-funded high school education and life skills. She has training in development education and global learning from University College London, and is a former journalist and writer whose articles have appeared in Dutch News, The Northern Times, Medium, and on the International Organization of Migration's (IOM) web blog of global migration stories. She is also a children's book author, a reviewer of books that promote indigenous heritage and multiculturalism, and a speaker on the African philosophy of ubuntu.

Jonty Van Zeller

Jonty Van Zeller

Partnerships & Risk

Jonty van Zeller is the founder and Director of Alamaya. He has been working in East and Central Africa for over eight years in the security, defence, logistics and humanitarian sectors. His management roles have included working for World Food Programme (WFP), Kellogg Brown and Root (KBR) and Salama Fikira. He is the representative for the International Stability Operations Association (ISOA) in Africa.

Jenny Wilde

Innovation Practice & Systems

Jennifer has over 15 years of experience as a senior aid manager, where she developed and fostered strategies for innovating in humanitarian contexts. This led to engagements with organisations such as the European Commission, NRC and World Vision to grow innovation theory and practice with real results. She currently sits on the Funding Committee of the Humanitarian Innovation Fund, and is the Founding Director of Innovation Ecosystem.

Thomas Baar

Advisory Board: Innovation Policy & Practice

Thomas is currently the Senior Policy Advisor at the United Nations University--MERIT in Maastricht, Netherlands. Previoulsy in his role as policy advisor, Thomas supported the department of Multi-Actor Systems (Faculty of Technology, Policy and Management at TU Delft) in developing its strategy and policy agenda. Together with the department, he worked amongst others on developing its positioning in The Hague and coordinated its various labs.

Previously, he worked as the lead of HumanityX (Leiden University’s Centre for Innovation). HumanityX supports organisations in the peace, justice and humanitarian sectors to adopt digital innovations in order to increase their impact on society.

Kirsten Gelsdorf

Kirsten Gelsdorf

Humanitarian Policy & Practice

Kirsten is the Professor of Practice of Public Policy, and Director of Global Humanitarian Policy at the University of Virginia in the United States. As Director of Global Humanitarian Policy, Kirsten brings almost 20 years of experience working in the humanitarian sector; most recently serving as the Chief of the Policy Analysis and Innovation section at the United Nations Office of Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs.

Dr. Andrej Zwitter

Dr. Andrej Zwitter

Advisory Board: Research Practice & Design

Andrej Zwitter is Professor of Governance and Innovation and Dean of the University College Fryslân providing the BSc in Global Responsibility and Leadership at the University of Groningen, the Netherlands. He is also the director of the Data Research Centre and a senior fellow at Canterbury Christ Church University. His research foci include Big Data ethics, state of emergency politics, as well as law and politics of humanitarian action. Dr. Zwitter has a PhD in International Law and Legal Philosophy. He is passionate about understanding how modern technology affects society and how it can contribute to solving global challenges.

Dan McClure

Systems Policy & Innovation

Dan has spent 30 years designing and applying innovation practices in both private and public organisations. As a pragmatic hands-on practitioner, he has worked with challenges at all stages of the innovation lifecycle from initial scrappy entrepreneurship to the art of driving cross cutting change in global enterprises. He has worked with a range of Humanitarian and public good organizations on advancing their use of innovation.

George Fenton

Humanitarian Supply Chain

George was one of the original co-founders of the Humanitarian Logistics Association in 2005 and has acted as a Trustee and volunteer CEO ever since. Outside this role, he is an independent consultant, providing services to support local and international aid organisations, United Nations, private sector and national Governments to improve the delivery of humanitarian assistance. Formerly he led the global humanitarian innovations and partnering group for World Vision International, which includes the Last Mile Mobile Solutions (LMMS) platform and iCash (innovations for cash programming) programme.
He is an ardent collaborator and connector and, during more than 30 years working within the humanitarian and development sectors, has founded several inter-agency groups and forums that have been aimed at improving operational collaboration and capacity building. For example, he founded the Inter-Agency Working Group on disaster preparedness for East Africa, which promotes knowledge and information sharing on humanitarian issues.

Ekatarina Buzkich

Ekatarina Buzkich

Data Protection & Ethics

Sander Tideman

Leadership & Strategy

Sander Tideman is specialized in leadership development for strategic change and sustainability transitions. He works with companies and institutions across the globe. He has special expertise in banking and finance, law and professional services, public agencies and the not-for-profit sector.

Sander’s work centers on the interplay between business and society, engaging with issues such as leadership development, sustainability strategy and innovation, and creating sustainable high performance. He takes a special interest in Asia, where he has taken on high-level assignments on complex issues and where he lived for ten years. His mission is to help organizational leaders to develop the capacity to effectively respond to the new challenges of this time, utilizing the full creative potential of the mind. He integrates principles of yoga and mind-training into his leadership development work.

Sander (co-) authored many articles and books, including Mind over Matter – Towards a New Paradigm in Leadership of Business and Economics, and Business as Instrument for Societal Change, co-authored with H.H. the Dalai Lama.

In addition to his work with Mobius, Sander serves on the faculty of Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University (RSM). He started his career practicing law at Baker & McKenzie (Amsterdam and Taipei office) with a focus on the Asian emerging markets. Sander then turned to international finance, in leadership roles at ABN AMRO Bank, where he was Country Director in China (leading offices in Beijing and Shanghai), VP in Structured Trade Finance and VP Risk Management. He also worked with Triodos Bank as Director International Fund Management and as consultant to the The World Bank and the Government of Bhutan. He went on to complement his expertise with leadership, strategy and organizational change, as he believed that these are indispensible knowledge domains for tackling the world’s increasing economic, social and ecological challenges. He serves on several boards of social enterprises and NGO’s.

Steven Wanyee Macharia

Steven Wanyee Macharia

Infomatics & Mhealth/Ehealth

Steven Wanyee Macharia, is a digital health specialist with over 20 years experience designing, developing, implementing, supporting, maintaining and using digital health interventions in research for health and health service delivery in low and medium income countries. His work has seen him directly work in and support more than 10 countries across Africa.

David Derthick

Migration Management & Field Services

Trevor Rees

Green Tech & Leadership

Trevor Rees is the Founder and Director of EnSo Impact, a project development company with a focus on clean energy projects in Sub-Saharan Africa. EnSo works to develop and implement projects that respond to complex problems in ways that are sustainable over the long term. EnSo aim to make a positive social impact through initiatives that bring together technology and capital to create opportunities for employment and enterprise.

Trevor has worked with issues of leadership and sustainability for more than 20 years, including in senior positions in international organisations in the role of strategic partnerships and business development. Trevor established his consultancy after 8 years as the Head of Development for the Rockefeller Foundation Leadership for Environment and Development (LEAD) Programme. Trevor is an associate of Adaptive Change Advisors – delivering leadership programmes for clients including Microsoft – using the Adaptive Leadership framework developed by Ron Heifetz at Harvard University.

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