Dr. Dancan Irungu holds a Doctorate in Business Management and Administration. He is an expert with a lot of experience and knowledge as a practitioner and a scholar in the fields of strategy development, project management, strategic planning, management of change, organization restructuring and monitoring & evaluation. He is the managing partner at Vision Strategy Africa Ltd a Regional management consulting and training firm. Dancan is a senior lecturer at Daystar University in commerce department where he lectures in postgraduate program – MBA and undergraduate programs. He has published widely in internationally peer refereed journals and has coauthored books that are used as reference materials at University level. His research interest is in the area of strategic planning, SME development & internationalization, organizational restructuring and project management.
Dr. Irungu has consulted widely for public and private sector organizations both locally and internationally. Some of his recent
consultancy engagements include; Lead consultant for The Republic of Liberia National Malaria Control Program (NMCP) LMG project, a five year project financed by Global Fund and USAID. He was the lead consultant for The Republic of Sierra Leone National Malaria Program (NMCP) charged with the responsibility of reviewing the strategic implementation of the program. He was contracted by USAID for DEMA (Decentralized Education Management Activity – 18 months ministry of education project sponsored by GoK and USAID) where he was the national advisor on strategic plan and service charter deliverables.
Dancan was a strategy advisor for FANIKISHA institutional strengthening project (national 5 year USAID funded health institutional strengthening project implemented by Management Sciences for Health (MSH), Pact Inc., Danya International, and Africa Capacity Alliance (ACA). He was contracted by The Nairobi Hospital as the lead consultant for culture change and performance management training program which targeted senior management. He was the managing consultant on the development of five year strategic plan for Takaful Insurance Ltd; also advising the board on the strategic role out plan in Sub Saharan African market. He was engaged by Centre for British teachers (CFBT) as a member of think tank for a project funded by IFC World Bank where his role was to develop strategic tools and instruments on planning.
Dr. Irungu is a co-founder of Mentor Africa Network; a mentoring organization that support the youth of Africa to navigate, respond and connect to their purpose in life through life coaching and mentoring. He also sits in several organization boards in public and private sector as a strategy advisor.
