Sonia is the founder of “The Great Facilitator”. This is a social enterprise that specializes as a bridge builder for early stage entrepreneurs and startup founders in Namibia through design process and innovation. She has over 10 years extensive experience and skill in community development and creation of long term sustainable programs and projects.
Sonia recently won an award as “Startup Ecosystem Builder of the Year Award” by the Africa Startup Ecosystem Builders Awards in December 2023 for her work in being an integral part of building the startup ecosystem Namibia. She is very passionate about upskilling, training and development of citizens and she has made it her life’s work to be a vessel of knowledge, skill and capability to those in need of her services. She has worked with over 100 founders of startups, SMEs and NGOs in her enterprise. The main training she offers are in the areas of startup and entrepreneurship development, investment readiness, design sprints, workshops, tech hackathons, seminars and conferences.
Sonia has collaborated with local businesses such as Nedbank Namibia, she has also worked as a licenced facilitator and community leader for Techstars USA, as an expert in the field of entrepreneurship design and development, finally she was part of an Estonian funded Future Business Leaders program where she served as program mentor/leader for the winning team who were participating as early stage business leaders in tech.
