Level: Leadership
Our strength lies in the calibre of our dynamic leadership and breadth of expertise.
Our leadership team comprises seasoned professionals whose insights and experience span the realms of communications, media, law, policy analysis, advocacy, research, marketing, public relations, crisis mitigation, and reputation management.
Together, we guide our clients with a steady hand, delivering results that not only meet expectations but set new benchmarks for excellence.
Chaka Sichangi
Director – Policy, Law, & ResearchChaka Sichangi is an Advocate of the High Court of Kenya, holding postgraduate qualifications in law, financial law, and professional legal practice from leading universities in the United Kingdom.
His practice spans regulatory policy, policy research, litigation, as well as corporate, commercial, and media law.
Chaka previously served in a State House unit responsible for providing the Presidency with data-driven communications intelligence - an experience that directly informs FELT Africa’s capabilities in public sentiment intelligence and polling design.
As a practising Advocate, he brings rigorous legal compliance oversight to every client engagement, ensuring that all communications adhere to the law while safeguarding clients from the legal and reputational risks associated with missteps.
Diana Ngao
Managing DirectorDiana Ngao is an ACIM (UK) professional and Mandela Washington Fellow, with experience directing communications at the highest levels of Kenya's political landscape - including serving as Director of Communications for a frontrunner presidential running mate in the country's 2022 General Election.
She has also served as Director of the Governor's Press Service at the County Government of Mombasa, where she led executive communications, directed county-wide public awareness campaigns, and produced strategic media monitoring and sentiment analysis reports at the highest levels of county leadership.
Our MD brings both local and international experience in shaping institutional narratives for governments, NGOs, development organisations, private corporations, and senior executives across the continent.
Her expertise also spans crisis communications, reputation management, executive positioning, and strategic media placement - supporting organisations and principals operating under intense public scrutiny.
Dennis Onsarigo
ChairmanDennis Onsarigo has spent two decades in the rooms where Kenya's biggest stories are made, and often, before that, in the rooms where they are broken.
As a renowned investigative journalist, he led the Investigations Desk at Standard Media Group, where he pioneered Kenya's first-ever television crime series, "Case Files," and spearheaded the investigative series "The Lead," setting new benchmarks for long-form investigative journalism in the country.
Before that, he cut his teeth at Nation Media Group, rising from cameraman to television journalist and playing a key role in the re-launch of NTV Kenya.
From the newsroom, Dennis moved into strategy.
As Director of Strategy at Chatter Media, he led strategic planning and client advisory for a full-service communications agency, guiding data-driven brand and communications strategy for corporate clients across East Africa and translating strategic thinking into high-performing campaigns.
That grounding in strategy carried him into the highest-stakes communications role in Kenyan politics. As Press Secretary for the Azimio La Umoja presidential campaign in 2022, Dennis served as chief spokesperson and media strategist during Kenya's most hotly contested presidential election to date. He led national messaging, advertising, and press relations, coordinated daily media briefings across spokespersons, coalition partners, and regional teams, and directed rapid response operations that countered misinformation in real time. His work kept the campaign's public narrative disciplined and coherent across traditional and digital platforms, in one of the most charged and closely scrutinized environments the country has seen.
Dennis carried that same discipline into the machinery of government itself. As Director of Communications for the County Government of Taita Taveta and Chief of Staff to the Governor of Nyamira County, he advised governors and executive committees on communications strategy, reputation, and stakeholder positioning, while overseeing executive coordination, policy implementation, and interdepartmental performance.
Today, Dennis advises the County Government of Nairobi on strategic communications, leading messaging and media engagement across all ten county departments and serving as the primary communications link between the County Government, the National Government, and the Council of Governors.
Dennis is currently pursuing a Master's degree in Governance, Peace, and Security Studies from Africa Nazarene University, a Bachelor of Arts in Political Science and Communication from the University of Nairobi, and a Diploma in Broadcast Journalism, Mass Communication, and Media Studies from the Kenya Institute of Mass Communication.
It is this rare arc - journalist, strategist and government insider - that Dennis now brings to bear as Group Chairman of FELT Africa Group. He provides strategic leadership and governance oversight across the Group's full portfolio: strategic communications and media relations, crisis and reputation management, government and public sector advisory, public affairs and government relations, political strategy and electoral communications, and professional comms training.
Under his chairmanship, FELT Africa translates a combined two decades of hard-won experience, on both sides of the microphone and both sides of government, into the strategic counsel it delivers to governments, NGOs, and private institutions across the region.