Kalena Global LLC is an advisory and consulting firm dedicated to optimizing the design of interventions and solutions in the development space. We partner with development partitioners, changemakers, and visionaries to ideate, design, and refine initiatives to ensure that they empower individuals, uplift communities, strengthen businesses, and enable governments to move from surviving to thriving.
We work with clients to design transformative knowledge products, projects, programs, and strategies that ignite insight, cultivate critical mindset shifts, and build the capabilities needed to create empowerment-centered and impactful interventions in the development space.
We believe that individuals with lived experiences hold the key to unlocking lasting solutions to development challenges. By honoring their resilience, understanding their needs, and co-designing interventions with them, our clients foster local ownership and self-agency. This approach taps into the highest potential for transforming lives and communities, creating sustainable impact for generations to come.
The Audacity Process (T.A.P), developed by Kalena Global, is a unique four-step approach centered on empowerment that taps into human potential to uncover opportunities and craft enduring, impactful solutions to development challenges. This process enables intervention designers to tap into the innate potential of individuals, communities, and governments, empowering them to achieve self-actualization and drive meaningful change.
Our Story
Empowering Self-actualization
Our guiding belief is simple: every lasting solution begins with the audacity to empower those closest to the challenge. We recognize that those who have faced challenges hold the deepest insights needed to unlock real, sustainable change. This belief is anchored in the foundation of all that we do.
Kalena Global’s roots lie in a small village on the West African coast, where resilience was abundant, but resources were scarce. In that village, a young girl watched her father earn a life-changing scholarship made possible by development aid. She also watched her mother tap into her entrepreneurial spirit to make ends meet. Together, her parents seized every opportunity and built on it, opening doors that once seemed impossibly distant for their family.
That girl is Edna Massay Kallon, now the founder and CEO of Kalena Global. Inspired by her own experiences and over a decade of work in global development, Edna founded Kalena Global to help development practitioners enhance the design, impact, and sustainability of interventions by empowering individuals, strengthening communities, and unlocking the full potential of governments and the private sector. This is the heart of Kalena Global.
What We Do
The Kalena Global Experience
Through thought leadership, practical tools, and strategic guidance, we empower development practitioners, changemakers, and visionaries to transcend the status quo and accelerate transformative, lasting change in the social impact space.
Advisory and consultancy
We offer four specialized design services to equip clients with actionable insights, strategic guidance, and practical tools. These services ignite meaningful discussions, inform decision-making, and inspire the creation of innovative interventions that turn challenges into opportunities for lasting impact.
Capacity Building
Developed by Kalena Global, The Audacity Process (T.A.P) provides a framework for development practitioners to design empowering and impactful interventions. Our workshops provide actionable insights and tools to apply this transformative approach to real-world development challenges.
Knowledge Sharing
Audacity & Action is a podcast featuring bold conversations and transformative ideas in global development. Hosted by our CEO, it brings together visionary individuals who challenge the status quo and drive real change. This podcast inspires, empowers, and equips listeners to make a lasting impact.
Speaking engagements
We offer dynamic speaking engagements, including panel moderation, guest lectures, and keynote presentations on designing impactful interventions. Our goal is to inspire and inform audiences by leading meaningful discussions and sharing actionable strategies that drive transformative change.
“At Kalena Global, we thrive on navigating complexity to clarity, turning bottlenecks into breakthroughs, and challenges into opportunities. We’re committed to collaboratively designing innovative interventions and solutions that lead to lasting impact.”
CEO and Founder
Inspirations & Insights
Explore the Dynamics of Designing Innovative Solutions
Explore our blog, where we look at why intervention design matters in global development, share the principles behind innovative solutions, and offer practical insights on designing for lasting, empowering change.
An Interview with Edna Massay Kallon, CEO and Founder of Kalena Global LLC
In an insightful conversation with Edna Massay Kallon, the visionary behind Kalena Global, we delve into the mission, innovative approach, and unique experiences that shape Kalena Global's work in the design of innovative solutions within the global development space.
5 Essential Design Principles for Effective Global Development Initiatives
Discover the five key design principles essential for innovative global development initiatives. Learn how human-centered design, scalability, interdisciplinary collaboration, technology, and impact measurement can transform your projects.
Transforming Global Development: The Power of Design Thinking
Explore why design thinking is crucial for global development. Learn how this human-centered approach fosters innovative, sustainable solutions by emphasizing empathy, collaboration, and iterative problem-solving.
