Hanna Kebbede

Ms. Kebbede is the lead generator for HanmarK Associates as well as its business process manager.

    In Africa, Asia and Europe Ms. Kebbede has been a research pioneer doing field work in rural communities. As a management consultant, she did troubleshooting and evaluating programs in the range from refugee settlement to entrepreneur training and from women's participation to electoral assistance in the birth of a new nation.
    An expert at streamlining best practices, she addresses caveats in communication, coordinates among various entities and interprets complex technical data to create iterative modules for incremental learning. Her modules are easy to follow with friendly learning guides that factor layered issues and are presented with graphic designs and animated images.

    Ms. Kebbede has created programs, coached decision makers, and authored materials for the transfer of knowledge in more than a dozen countries worldwide. She has been a conduit for knowledge transfer since the beginning of her career as a facilitator and researcher in the planning division of a rural development and agriculture extension project in Ethiopia that was funded by the Swedish Agricultural Development Authority.

    Ms. Kebbede developed logistics training modules on surface transport contracting and port operations for the World Food Programme. Previously, Ms. Kebbede planned, produced and trained East Timor’s electoral officers for the United Nations, transforming the civil service workforce within the newly independent nation. In UNICEF’s program funding office, she created a relational database system to track bilateral donations from G8 and private pledges and generated on-demandreports identifiable by country on global program allocations.

    In Bulgaria, she resuscitated a national labor force qualification program and designed a regional training program to transition high-level pedagogy experts into emerging market entrepreneurs.