Gina din kariuki biography of michael jackson

Gina Din Kariuki was not what you would call a bright student.

Teachers mocked her from Nanyuki, a tiny red-soil township in central Kenya where she went to primary school, to the London School of Journalism.

“I wasn’t very clever.

I had negative reports, and I was at times told I was wasting my time in school,” she says.

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Gina Din—as she is known in Kenya—hauled this baggage, heavy with low self-esteem, into her first job as a communications manager at Barclays Bank Kenya in 1985.

Yet, that job turned out to be Gina Din’s epiphany, catapulting a below-average student to the top of Kenya’s public relations and corporate communications class.

As her role at the bank expanded over a 14-year period, so did her obsession with the job.

Like a meticulous chess player, Gina Din planned her exit years before.

“It wasn’t really challenging as it was the same old thing.

I even set up the bank’s CSR agenda through a community relati