About IRC
Organizations think they know what they need.
Often, they don't.
IRC designs advancement pipelines that close the gaps. We don't just deliver what you ask for, we deliver what you actually need.
Our Story
From founding PAYA in 2007 to building AI-ready organizations today, 19 years of evolving alongside African institutions.
2007
Founded with an African Vision
IRC was founded, and in the same year launched PAYA (Personal Assistant of the Year Award), celebrating excellence from day one.
2010
Strengthening Public Sector Leadership
IRC expanded into public sector training, partnering with county governments and institutions to build leadership capability from within.
2018
Preparing Leaders for the Future of Work
Years before it became a global conversation, IRC was already equipping executives to lead through changing ways of working.
2022
Recognizing Leadership Excellence
Our flagship recognition platforms came into their own, 50 Transformational Leaders and 100 Women in Leadership, amplified through interviews with honorees.
2023
Amplifying Voices & Building Digital Resilience
Compiled honorees' stories into a published book and built future-focused capability through cybersecurity and digital resilience programmes for the AI era.
2024
Leading AI Transformation
IRC moved from building AI capacity to convening the movement, hosting webinars and building a community of leaders navigating what AI transformation actually requires.
Today
Building AI-Ready Organizations
IRC now partners with organizations to strengthen leadership and workforce capability across the organization for the AI era.
Our Vision
Building leadership and workforce capability across the organization for the AI era.
Our Mission
We design and deliver advancement pipelines that equip leaders, managers and workforces with the capabilities to lead, influence decision-making, and thrive in an AI-enabled world.
Our Core Values
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Meet Our Founder
Winnie Kamuya, CEO & Founder, IRC
Winnie Kamuya has spent 25 years in leadership development and has spent the last 19 building IRC into a capability partner for organizations across Africa.
She created the Promotion Roadmap: the 3Es Framework-based path from Promotion Readiness Assessment, through coaching, to an organizational diagnostic the employer can act on. Her book Shatter Your Glass Ceiling, an Amazon bestseller on its launch, was written for the professional whose work speaks but whose career has stalled, an audience she knows well, because her largest and most loyal following is exactly that reader: mid-level managers quietly carrying organizations forward.
She founded the Personal Assistant of the Year Award, Africa (PAYA), recognizing the continent's top assistants since 2007; the 2025 edition drew over 5,000 votes from across Africa. She also founded the Women in Leadership platform, now in its third season.
Her conviction, carried from the corporate world into the AI era: real capability, not paperwork, moves people and organizations forward. That is what IRC builds for its clients.
Why Organizations Choose IRC
Diagnose Before You Prescribe
We identify the leadership, workforce and organizational capability gaps before recommending the intervention.
One Capability Partner. Multiple Organizational Needs.
We connect leadership, AI, workforce capability and organizational readiness rather than treating them as isolated challenges.
Build Advancement Pipelines
We identify, develop and advance high-potential people into promotion-ready leaders and future organizational leadership.
Built for Complex Organizations
19+ years of evolving with public and private institutions, translating changing workforce and leadership needs into practical capability.
Capability That Creates Organizational Impact
We connect leadership development, workforce adoption and organizational capability to organizational performance.
Ready to Build the Leadership and Workforce Capability This Era Demands?
Partner with IRC, 19 years of building confident leaders and advancing organizations across Africa.