Elizabeth Kintu

Strategic Change Consultant | HR, Culture & People Systems Specialist
Elizabeth Kintu is a highly sought-after Strategic Change Consultant with over 15 years of experience guiding organizations through complex transitions, culture renewal, and human systems alignment. Her consulting work spans NGOs, public institutions, and international development agencies, where she is known for restoring coherence in fractured environments, recalibrating leadership, and designing solutions that hold both structure and soul

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Elizabeth has partnered with major institutions to lead high stakes assignments across Uganda and the region. At ENABEL (Belgian Development Agency), she spent three years supporting a large-scale capacity building program for non-HR professionals, including government leaders, institutional heads, and technical staff. When the COVID-19 pandemic disrupted in-person learning, Elizabeth designed and migrated the entire program onto Moodle, developing custom modules and supporting over 200 learners weekly until graduation. Her ability to adapt and lead through uncertainty was instrumental in ensuring continuity of learning across dozens of beneficiary organizations, many of which were engaging in virtual training for the first time.

She has served as a Strategic HR and Transformation Consultant for the Afro-Arab Youth Council (AAYC), leading an audit of governance structures, eliminating inflated director-level roles, and guiding a complete overhaul of the organizational chart, recruitment framework, and HR systems. Elizabeth designed and implemented a merit-based leadership onboarding process, rebuilding the team from the ground up and restoring operational legitimacy. With AKOLA Project Uganda, she led the organization’s sensitive transition from a charitybased model to a lean social enterprise. This involved strategic downsizing (from 200 to 70 staff), dignified exits with coaching and entrepreneurship planning for displaced staff, and a reinterview process for the restructured team, ensuring alignment with a new mission and business model.

As a long-term HR Partner to the Uganda National NGO Forum (UNNGOF), Elizabeth supported the organization through a period of cultural reflection and team renewal. Her work involved facilitating staff engagement sessions, providing leadership coaching, and leading several rounds of recruitment for key roles. For years, she was the Forum’s trusted consultant on HR matters, offering guidance on talent strategy, team alignment, and organizational cohesion.

Elizabeth was engaged by Never Again Rwanda (NAR), a regional peacebuilding NGO, to lead a full HR review aligned to their 2021–2025 Strategic Plan. She conducted Physical sessions with all staff and worked closely with leadership to assess the HR structure, policies, job grades, and compensation. Her work helped align people systems with NAR’s evolving mandate, delivered seamlessly across both in-person and virtual formats. Elizabeth is also widely recognized for her transformational team building work across sectors.

With over 15 years of experience designing and facilitating dynamic, results-driven sessions, she has supported teams through conflict, transitions, restructuring, and realignment. Her approach goes beyond typical activities, focusing instead on restoring trust, enhancing emotional intelligence, and reawakening connection and purpose in fractured or evolving teams. She has led team building and culture reset engagements for organizations such as Uganda Road Fund, Uganda National NGO Forum, Never Again Rwanda, JCRC, Vision Fund Uganda, International Aid Services, UMA, and numerous private sector clients including Stanbic Bank, Jubilee Insurance, and Barclays, often through partnerships with Extreme Adventure Park. Whether guiding a Rotary board, onboarding new leadership, or healing post-conflict work environments, Elizabeth creates spaces where teams reconnect, clarify their collective mission, and emerge stronger, more resilient, and ready for what’s next.

Her areas of expertise include strategic change management, organizational restructuring, job and workload analysis, job evaluation and grading, emotional and cultural reset, AIenhanced people strategy, HR system design, and executive facilitation. She is known for holding space for difficult conversations while anchoring clarity, process, and long-term alignment. Elizabeth is currently pursuing a PhD in Strategic Leadership, AI & Change. Her deep curiosity about how artificial intelligence intersects with human systems particularly in the realm of Human Resources, has shaped her current academic and professional journey.

This pursuit reflects her commitment to exploring future-forward strategies that preserve human dignity while embracing technological evolution. She holds an MBA in Marketing, a Postgraduate Diploma in Human Resource Management, and multiple certifications in life coaching, facilitation, and organizational leadership. Her approach integrates logic and intuition, diagnostics and empathy, always with the goal of aligning people and purpose.