Leadership

To guide our work, we use a decentralized leadership structure that keeps our decision-making as close to our clients as possible. Our global Leadership Council aligns on organization-wide strategic goals and vision. Our country directors and steering committees lead our country-level strategy and growth. And our senior field leaders oversee our service delivery to more than 1 million farm families.

Leadership Council

Our 18-person Leadership Council aligns on broad strategic goals and high-level vision for the organization. The Council guides major organizational drives, such as defining our 2030 vision, and then advises our country operations as needed. In 2021, we redesigned this leadership group to better represent our multicultural team and critical organizational functions. Half of the seats are held by nationals of African countries, and half by women.

Country Directors & Steering Committees

Our country directors and deputy country directors guide the strategy for our country-level operations. Each confers with key deputies and a steering committee, generally made up of department leaders, to make programmatic decisions. Together this group sets long-term operational and expansion goals for their teams, guides our financial strategies, and weighs in on our country staffing plans and trial pipelines.

Field Leadership

Our Field Staff Management teams and our 23 senior field directors lead our field operations, ensuring that 1 million farmers have a great experience with our program. On a daily basis, our field leaders manage large teams and ensure that farmers receive on-time farm products and high-quality trainings. They plan strategies to expand our program, and hold us accountable for providing valuable services that put food on farmers’ tables and incomes in their pockets.

Global Directors

Our roughly 25 global directors lead support teams that provide consistent services across the organization. Global departments such as Finance, Human Resources, Legal, Procurement, and Technology develop efficient processes for a growing organization, and provide specialized support to in-country teams. 

Our Commitment to Diverse Leadership

As we describe our leadership today, it’s important to also share where our leadership is headed. We are deeply committed to senior leadership that better represents the staff, farmers, and countries we serve.

To that end, we have established clear goals for diversifying both our global Leadership Council and country Steering Committees. All leadership bodies will have at least 50 percent representation of nationals of African countries in 2021, and we expect this to grow over time.