Aggie Kalungu-Banda

Aggie Kalungu-Banda is a Zambian-born leadership facilitator, speaker, and systems change practitioner working at the intersection of inner transformation and societal renewal. She is a senior practitioner with the Presencing Institute and co-founder of Ubuntu Lab, and Managing Partner of Beyond Business School Consulting. where she supports leaders, communities, and organisations to navigate complexity with courage, compassion and clarity.

Her earlier work includes senior roles with YWCA England and Wales, Oxfam GB, and women’s rights organisations in Zambia, reflecting a long-standing commitment to social justice, gender equity, and community-led change. Aggie also co-facilitated one of the UK’s first Theory U programmes, helping introduce emerging social technologies for systems transformation.With a background spanning public service, governance, and international development, Aggie has worked across Africa, Europe, and globally … guiding processes of deep listening, collective sense-making and regenerative leadership.

Aggie’s approach draws on the principles of Ubuntu philosophy - “I am because you are” -  but also on our interdependency with nature’s elements (both living and inanimate), and the intertwining between past, present and future. Ubuntu is a life force that has shaped African culture for centuries past. How can it be brought back, revived and used as an inspiring force to reshape Africa’s future? What does that look like on a societal level? How can it impact health, education, governance, leadership? Along with the transformation tools developed by The Presencing Institute, Aggie brings deep knowledge of how to spark change in individuals and systems.

Aggie says:

“When I was growing up in Zambia, you wouldn’t know who was related to whom, because everyone looked after each other.” This is the sort of “eco-system awareness” that Ubuntu.Lab seeks to raise up and foster. “We need to offer examples to our leaders, to show that we can live to serve others and the earth”

Alongside her professional work, Aggie brings lived experience as a family supporter, accompanying a loved one through significant challenges. This perspective informs her deep commitment to more compassionate, relational, and context-sensitive approaches to care and healing.

Aggie is widely recognised for her warmth and grounded presence, and her ability to create spaces of trust where authentic dialogue and transformation can emerge. Her work is particularly relevant in these times of crisis and transition – supporting individuals and systems to reconnect with the emergent future, and their own deeper sources of healing and change. She is passionate about the importance of people first working on themselves, before embarking on trying to change others and systems.

Aggie lives in Oxford with her husband Martin Kalungu-Banda, who is also part of Compassionate Mental Health’s core faculty.