👋🏾 Hi. I’m Muki.

I design systems and strategies that help people and institutions work with technology, think clearly, coordinate effectively, and act with intention.

The throughline across my work is the same: expanding agency and designing for empowerment in service of human flourishing.

I'm currently working on Prosperithm, and founded IZORA for advising and applied research — spanning strategy, innovation, product, technology, data, capital, community, and AI with a clear commitment to social impact.

I work with investors, mission-driven organizations, and founders to design leverage: clearer strategy, sharper products, stronger capital allocation, and systems that actually move work forward. I thrive at the intersection of technology, system design, and on-the-ground results.

Previously, I spent 20+ years in corporate technology and consulting — driving investment and innovation, leading product research and development, and launching and scaling new ventures across industries transformed by technology ranging from emerging markets, global health & aging to autonomous vehicles, robotics and AI.

My work has been featured in conferences, books, and interviews and I've long been fascinated by two ends of a spectrum - emerging technology, systems, complexity & data, and human agency, experience, culture & context. I've continued to explore both deeply personally and professionally and at some point should (will!) write it all down.

Early in my career I led 2 nonprofits: Plugged In - focused on community technology and youth entrepreneurship, and Living Cultural Storybases - technologies to help sustain indigenous stories and languages. I was also part of the nascent Stanford d.school as a graduate student in Learning, Design & Technology.

Outside of client work, I spend quality time with family and friends, play music, ride motorcycles, volunteer, garden, meditate, build things, design frameworks, and think about systems, collective action, and long-term stewardship.

You can see more details on what I'm up to on LinkedIn.

Lastly, I stand on the shoulders of a proud lineage of cultural and community engagement and celebration hailing from Nairobi, CA (aka East Palo Alto).

You can see my mother Lakiba's website here

And my daughter Annika's here