Mireille Ineza Karera  is the Founder and Executive Chairwoman at KORA Coaching Group Ltd, a Coaching & Consulting company based in Rwanda and South Africa. Mireille is the Faculty Lead Coach at KORA Coaching & Business Academy (KCA), which is a subsidiary of the Group. She is a Rwandan Businesswoman who recently returned to Africa after spending 20 years outside of the continent, including over 13 years working as a Top Performer in Sales, Business Development Strategy for Global Financial Services Providers such as Moody’s Investor Services, EBS Dealing Resources (now ICAP) and Thomson Reuters in London, Dubai, Johannesburg, and Nairobi. 

Currently, Mireille serves on 3 Boards of Directors as Chairwoman. She also serves on 2 other Boards as a Director. 

As a leading Coach and Public Speaker, Mireille is a sought-after speaker for conferences on Business issues and Women Economic Empowerment. Under her leadership, KORA Coaching Group Ltd. launched the very first Professional Coaching Academy in Rwanda. The recently created Coaching Academy’s mission is to create a solid Coaching industry in Rwanda by tackling the scarce supply of local Professional Coaches in Rwanda.

Mireille is an Associate Certified Coach (ACC) and member of the International Coaching Federation (ICF). She is also a Certified Professional Coactive Coach (CPCC) from the Coaches Training Institute (CTI).
Her mission is to empower a generation of World-Class Business Leaders who will transform Africa into an economic powerhouse.

In 2017, Mireille was handed an Award “Africa’s Top 25 Distinguished Women in Business Excellence” by Africa Leadership Magazine & Amazons Watch Magazine.
In 2020, Mireille was conferred an Award as ”101 Most Fabulous Global Coaching Leaders” at the World HRD Congress in Mumbai, India.

Ignace Rusenga Bacyaha is a seasoned Rwandan business leader who is currently serving as a Director of the Board for Corporate Investments at Mara Group, Ignace recently retired from his position as the Principal Country Officer for the East Africa Hub of the International Finance Corporation (IFC) part of the World Bank Group.

His long career in business management and investment includes executive positions with the Aga Khan Group in the Democratic Republic of Congo, the Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA) and the World Bank at the Group level. During his long tenure at the IFC, he has been instrumental in leading Investment operations, developing scalable business models and ecosystems, managing investment and advisory teams, and facilitating successful investments into companies in Africa as Senior Operations Officer, Program Manager, Country Resident Representative, and Country Head.

Ignace is passionate about developing the private sector in Africa

Noella Mujawamariya serves as the Faculty Lead at Kora Coaching Group. She is dependable, courageous and devotes her time impacting various people’s lives through trainings and engaging in positive conversations.

She gained her skills and experience from Educational and Professional backgrounds. For over the last seven years , she worked for Marriott International in the Middle East and Rwanda. She has made a great contribution towards customer service in different companies and believes that a transformed leader devotes to driving positive changes and does not get discouraged by circumstances.

Noella has spent many years working on associates’ personal development. Her vision is to see young leaders who are driven by great values influence their teams towards achieving their dreams. She is driven by passion and integrity. As part of her leadership and management roles, she contributed a lot in identifying talents and allocating associates in different positions according to their different capabilities. 

Through Coach Training Certification by Kora Coaching and Business Academy, Noella has been able to support different leaders with issues they are facing in leadership that can hinder them from achieving their business goals together with people they lead enabling them to create positive working environments.

After contributing her leadership and great customer care service knowledge in different Marriott International Brands, Noella has also been invited by different companies to conduct trainings and speak on TV shows in Rwanda to encourage people to:
try brand-new properties in the country, emphasize the importance of providing exceptional services in different companies, build a mentality where every client is served as a king or queen and no one leaves the properties unhappy, which is a very good way to maintain customer relationships.

Christian Mbabazi is the Operations Manager at KORA Coaching Group (KORA) including its subsidiary KORA Coaching & Business Academy (KCA), where He oversees the group’s daily activities and sales follow up.

Prior to joining KORA & KCA, Christian served as the Chief Operations at TABS Logistics Ltd, concentrating on Imports & Exports, Domestic Trade and Transport. Under his tenure, TABS recorded a remarkable growth rate.

He worked as Field Based Research Assistant at World Bank Group in Development Impact Evaluation (DIME) in Rwanda Office, with a focus on maintaining high-quality data across the research process. While at DIME, He contributed in ‘Optimizing Investments in Hillside Irrigation Schemes through Reduced Frictions in Land-Rental Markets’, Muyanza Project.

He has been a Customer Service Supervisor in Customer Experience Management at Bank of Kigali Plc, where He supervised the Accounts Management and Fixed Term Deposits Investments.

He contributed to some projects at Institute of Policy Analysis and Research (IPAR-Rwanda), through data cleaning & analysis. Namely SRAJ (Strengthening Rwandan Administrative Justice Project, Secondary Cities Project, IKIRARO Project and others which were under pipelines such as Education, Employment and Imihigo Evaluation.

Christian holds a Master and Bachelor of Science in Economics from University of Rwanda. He is an EPRN Rwanda member and passionate in research. His Master Thesis has been upgraded into a paper entitled ‘Economic Modeling of Capital Markets and Sustainable Investments in Rwanda’ and has been published in Springer, Singapore.

Emelyne Kaneza is an ‘African Queen’, a Leader, Coach and Mentor. Emelyne has over 15 years experience in international and national development work. She gained valuable skills and experience both from her educational and professional backgrounds. She is assertive, innovative and results-oriented. She has been able to provide vision and strategic thinking through her different interactions with people seeking her for coaching, mentoring and training.

Emelyne is passionate about God, women and Africa’s development. She has developed and empowered many women in the Great Lakes region and in South Africa. She is a strong, passionate and determined woman, who has a calling to unlock women’s potential. Her vision is to see the continent of Africa rise by equipping women in their respective callings. She has more than 12 years’ experience as a Coach, Mentor and Motivational Speaker. Her work expands from empowering women in the Church to the secular world of the United Nations and International Organizations. I CAN International, an NGO she started in 2004, has made a positive impact in the lives of more than 500 women who were discouraged, unsteady in their business activities and with low self-esteem, both in the Great Lakes region and in South Africa.

Emelyne holds a Masters Degree in Business Information Systems (MTech) and a BA Honours Degree in International Relations from Wits University in South Africa. Since 2011, She is a Certified Life Coach from Let’s-Live Coaching Training Institute in South Africa. She also graduated as a Certified Professional KORA Coach from KORA Coaching & Business Academy in Rwanda .

After 15 years working with the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and the United Nations Joint Programme on HIV and AIDS (UNAIDS), Emelyne joined KORA Coaching Group in Johannesburg, South Africa. In August 2017, Emelyne relocated to Kigali, Rwanda where she was the Country Director for Rwanda until January 2020. She continued serving as Faculty for several online and face-to-face cohorts, Facilitator for numerous Trainings and Coach during transformational
One-On One Coaching sessions for both KORA and its subsidiary KORA Coaching & Business Academy (KCA). She now runs her own companies KUREMA Kreative Studio Ltd and FamilyCEO Ltd where she provides Kreative ideas and creations, direction, strategy and supernatural insight for transformation. She also consults with KORA as the Sales & Business DevelopmentManager.

Jeannette Mukabalisa is the founder and Managing Director of Great Green Gardens Ltd, a farming business focusing on horticulture. From a family farming background, with a long serving experience with International Non-Government Government Organizations, Jeannette has developed a strong interest in Agriculture and Women’s Empowerment Sectors, while working with rural communities to initiate activities enabling the improvement of their life conditions. She, held high level positions at FAIM AFRICA Ltd, at the International Rescue Committee Rwanda, at Concern Worldwide Rwanda, and Coordinated the engagement of citizens and local government in the implementation of the Millennium Development Goals in her country.

Jeannette is a first-class honor Bachelor’s graduate in Rural Development Economics from the University of Rwanda – INES campus. Some of the companies involved in agriculture she has collaborated with are UNILEVER for IT Lifebuoy Brand and FAIM AFRICA Ltd. Jeannette’s passion for Women Empowerment as well as their family’s welfare has in sighted her to attend to a professional Coaching program with KORA Coaching & Business Academy in order for her to be equipped with all necessarily skills and tools to help women and young generations to optimize their potentials to overcome challenges and make progress toward their desired life.

Jeannette has so far contributed to several important coaching sessions organized by companies, development agencies to coach women’s and professional groups involved in business in Rwanda, those sessions include the 1. Mutual learning, exchange of knowledge and experience for agribusiness in the rural area, among 150 women beneficiaries of the Joint Program on Accelerating Progress towards the Economic empowerment of Rural Women (JPRWEE) as implemented by the UN
Women in Collaboration with Imbuto Foundation, 2. She also facilitated the First Line Managers Development Program for BRALIRWA Staff in 2019, the program was designed to support First Line Managers to Cope with their roles and responsibilities as well as enabling them to step and lead team members. 3. The other important session happened in 2020 during Covid-19 pandemic to help Women Entrepreneurs under PSF/RCWE to conduct their business clinic and alleviate the psycho-social setbacks engendered by the pandemic.

Mireille Bivegete graduated as a Certified Professional KORA Coach from the first online Cohort at KORA Coaching & Business Academy in Rwanda which started in November 2019. Afterwards, she joined KORA Coaching Group and currently serves as a faculty member at KORA Coaching and Business Academy.

Before joining KORA Coaching Group, Mireille Bivegete worked at the Ministry of Finance and Economic Planning (MINECOFIN), Rwanda as a Resource Mobilization and Private Sector Financing officer . She was responsible for the coordination of Development Partners (DPs) through various forums and the mobilization of External Resources to meet Rwanda Economic Development Poverty Reduction Strategy and Vision 2020. She followed-up on projects financed by the African Development Bank at different Government Ministries to ensure fulfilment of effective conditions and disbursements are in line with Aid Policy and procedure manual overviews. Furthermore, she was part of the team that created a Private Sector Financing Map for mobilizing financing for the private sector from International financial institutions.

Upon completing her Master’s degree in 2012, she joined the African Development Bank in Tunis in 2013, where she was an intern in the Governance, Economic and Financial Management Department (OSGE). She also served as a junior consultant in the same department. Mireille Bivegete holds a Master of Science degree in Business Economics (MSc) from the University of Portsmouth, UK and a Bachelor of Science degree in Economics (BSc) from the University of Hull, UK. She speaks French, English, Swahili and Kinyarwanda.