About Us

Motivational Convergency


Description

Motivational Convergency is an invented space that seeks to empower individuals to excel to their full potential. It's regrettable to look at the proportion of people who pass on without realizing their dreams. A common saying asserts that 'the wealthiest place is the cemetery', why, one may ask, because a lot of dreams are locked in there - they were never explored. Thus, Motivational Convergency is a platform created to help and enable people realize their dreams, goals, aspirations and purpose in life through sharing of ideas, interaction and networking - thus, the convergency of great minds.

Our motto: Building dreams, transforming lives, leaving a legacy


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About the Founder

Motivational Convergency is a brainchild of Shakespear Mudombi (PhD), the founder and director of New Paradigm Consulting, a leading consulting firm in the development sector with interests in Africa and globally. He is also the founder of a leading global development blog, the Sustainable Global Development e-Thinktank blog (@SGDeThinktank). 

Shakespear Mudombi has a strong passion and interest on motivational and inspiritional empowerment. He holds a PhD in Environmental Management from the University of South Africa, MSc in Agricultural & Applied Economics and BSc in Agricultural Economics from the University of Zimbabwe. He has experience in research and consultancy in environmental, agricultural and economic sectors. 

He is an expert researcher and writer. Some of the notable research training he attended include the Bergen Summer Research School on Governance to meet global challenges held in 2014 at the University of Bergen in Norway. In 2012-2013, he attended the Southern Africa Young Scientists Summer Program (SA-YSSP) - a collaborative programme between the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (Austria), Department of Science & Technology, National Research Foundation, and the University of Free State (South Africa). In 2012, he also attended the GLOBELICS Academy on Innovation and Economic Development held in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. He is also an active member of the Young Professionals for Agricultural Development (YPARD) and was the first YPARD Country representative for South Africa. He is an Associate Editor of the African Journal of Science,Technology, Innovation and Development (AJSTID).

From 2010-2014, Shakespear worked as a researcher under the DST-NRF SARChI Research Professor (Mammo Muchie) at the Institute for Economic Research on Innovation (IERI) of Tshwane University of TechnologyShakespear was a co-investigating researcher in the 2011-2012 START grants for Global Environmental Change Research in Africa researching on climate change adaptation for rural communities’ dependant on agriculture and tourism in marginal farming areas in Hwange district of Zimbabwe. He was also awarded the Climate Change Innovation Research grant by the African Technology Policy Studies Network (ATPS). He has worked as a consultant for the International Centre for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT-TSBF, Zimbabwe) in baseline and endline survey on Sub-Saharan Africa Challenge Program on Conservation Agriculture and Climate Change. He worked for the Agricultural and Rural Development Authority (ARDA) in Zimbabwe in various capacities as a Field officer; Agricultural economist and Section manager.