At ThinkPlace Singapore we work with partners in government, NGOs and the private sector to create a better world, a better community and a better life for people in our region.

It’s Thursday afternoon in the ThinkPlace Kenya studio in Nairobi and school is in session. 

Designers sit, all eyes on the teacher, as he runs through verb conjugation and sentence construction in French. 

In many ways Africa and its people are going through a period of dynamic transformation and rapid growth.

And we are growing alongside them.

The impact, scope and size of ThinkPlace Kenya has tripled in the last 12 months.

From our base in Nairobi we have worked across the continent and beyond with amazing partners and global leaders in areas like public health and international development.

We’re developing new methodologies and implementing innovative ways to drive the adoption of positive services, products and behaviours.

If you set out to achieve something truly ambitious in the world but life and its many challenges kept getting in the way, how long would you keep going? Refusing to quit?

A year? Two years?

How about nine?

That is the remarkable story behind ThinkPlace’s newest recruit to its Canberra Design Studio: Danielle Dal Cortivo.