I  am a security Consultant, expert (hosted numerously as an Expert security analyst by national and International media outlets), trainer, Columnist and most recently, a blogger on security and safety, Mental Health, Fitness and Community matters, among others.

My professional career started after I graduated from Army Cadet officer training and commissioned into the Kenya Parachute Regiment as a platoon commander.

Therein the parachute regiment, I successfully made it into the band of accomplished troopers as as a first among equals in my course. I am honored to have pioneered the Kenya Special Forces where, as among the originals, I rose to become the most elite force’s operations officer. While in the country’s most elite unit, I participated in several successful operational duties both within and across the borders. I left in early 2012 to pursue my dreams in the corporate world.

This exit marked the onset of my corporate security life starting with steering XFOR, a UK based security company, since it’s inception in Kenya as the Operations Director. The company was awarded the coveted Security Excellence Award for quality and excellence by the end of 2012 having grown to above 1050 staff within that year.

I left the company in 2014 to pursue my dreams in consultancy and specialist security services provision. I am also the country spokesman of the Association of Corporate and Industrial Security Management Professionals (ACISMP), Kenya.

Today, I dive back in time and it is well over 15 years since my professional life started off by getting forged in a hothouse of super-soldiering – an elite military life terminating into the pioneering of KSF, the nation’s finest warrior – which formed the foundations for my professional careers that followed. That was a life “donated” to selfless service by choice, a commitment to live one day at a time as a lion, rather than spend a humdrum lifetime as a lamb.

Indeed, an increasingly conformist world needs people who do not allow others to do their thinking for them and live by the belief that, “what God abandons (freedoms) , they defend ..”

To have pioneered and lived in the most fast-paced and high reliability fighting outfit in the nation, is humbling. And then to have gotten abruptly thrashed into the rigors of leading a reputable international organization to a coveted SEA (Security Excellence Award) is well, simply an achievement worth relishing. I sit back and count these (my) blessings and numerous other vital life’s experiences with awe and thanks to God.

Its no coincidence that I adopted and live by James Elroy Flecker’s lines from “The Golden Journey to Samarkand” as my mantra:

We are the Pilgrims’ master; we shall go Always a little further: it may be Beyond that last blue mountain barred with snow , Across that angry or that glimmering sea.

Here’s to you: As I challenged myself and thrived, I grew the base of those who approved of my works and leadership. I also had a few of my sworn enemies from a pool of those who felt challenged and the envious ones alike. My advise, PRESS ON! DO NOT CONFORM to the pressures of mediocrity. EMBRACE DISTRACTIONS as opposed to settling in and/or IGNORING them.

Always do the right thing . And in order to do that, stir up the right and best habits (not all habits are created equal) and back them up with BOLDNESS . Boldness is a great enabler. It is the bridge between your visions and the victories!

Surround yourself with the right people! You cannot hold lion talk with sheep. Just as diseases like measles and most recently COVID-19 are socially transmitted, so is greatness and mediocrity alike.

Not all habits are created equal. That’s why there are bad, good, better, best habits and practices. The difference between a Special Forces operator and the rest isn’t as much in the weapon systems they use/available to them, BUT in the man behind those weapon systems. And the making of a man is all about the habits that define him. Find, then hone and live by the best practices that will inspire and sustain high performance. Fist class achievements do not spring from third-rate aspirations.