Right Place, Right Time (continued)

We continue to receive daily confirmation that we are in the right place at the right time….so you’ll forgive me if I issue a second installment on the same topic as last week.

Additional indicators that Karisimbi Partners is ideally situated:

• A couple months ago, I received a letter from a program director at Harvard Business School. He described to me an MBA ‘immersion’ program that sends some of their top students to Rwanda to work with organizations. He found out about what Karisimbi Partners was up to and contacted me through our website. I’m not sure what I could have done to warrant such interest had I remained an academic in California, yet before we even moved to Rwanda we were known and contacted!

• You can imagine what a pleasant surprise it was to be told we may be able to guide ten Harvard MBA students with an interest in Rwanda. They will be broken into two teams in order to serve our clients in a short-term consulting capacity. The program leader had no idea he had reached scholar that had led business students on an immersion program himself.
  

• There is a popular hotel here in Kigali called the Novatel (or Laico, its new name) where many Westerners and well-placed Rwandans mingle by poolside. Today we shared a drink with an Israeli agronomist that introduced us to an English businessman who owns the largest mineral export company in the country. He has lived in Rwanda 12 years, and upon hearing us explain our plan, he said no less than four times “you guys are absolutely in the right place at the right time”…

• There are now 16 Americans moving to Rwanda as part of our little venture. All have arrived except those attached to the Jukanovich family. We recently learned that the family across the street needed to move suddenly to Nairobi, Kenya. We contacted the owner (who happens to live in Canada!) and reached an agreement last night that will ensure the Crockett’s and Jukanovich families will be very close neighbors!
  

Although our move is looking more ‘reasonable’ by the day, I can’t help but remember many of these emerging points of confirmation only became visible once we took what seemed unreasonable first steps.

For anyone else pondering a vision, I hope this is encouragement to make the initial leap… you may find yourself on firmer ground than you thought! Hindsight is a validating factor.

Onward & Upward,

-Carter