Don't be threatened by others' success

Ndanu Kilonzo Kimani, Chief Executive Officer of Okuhle Spielworks Limited

I always aim to wake up at 5am. I have two children, both very young — one is soon turning three and the other is almost ten-months-old. l always want to spend time with them before I leave for work. When I wake up early, I have some quiet time in which I pray, mediate and think about and visualise the day ahead as I like to be prepared mentally. Most days I leave home for work at 9 am.

Okuhle Spielworks Limited is a content production company. Okuhle Media, based in South Africa, and Spielworks Media joined ventures and the aim of our partnership is to tell the African story to the global platform. We are deliberately putting out content for global consumption. What I do as CEO on a day to day basis is different every day, but some things — like business development and marketing — remain constant in relation to running a company. We have a very small team and because of that a lot falls on everyone’s desk. We meet on Monday, Wednesday and Friday to assess how work is going and to come up with new ideas for projects. My role is to drive that agenda every single day and keep it on track. I try to be done with meetings by noon so that I can focus on other aspects of work. In the rare event that I have meetings the whole day, I have to work after my children go to bed at 7.30pm. I do this because I don’t like today’s tasks spilling over to the next day. I try not to go past 9 pm with work.