Michael Kamukulu leads LearnImpact, a Tanzanian organisation that partners with governments across Sub-Saharan Africa to improve learning outcomes using evidence, data, and technology. He also founded the LENZI Impact Network, a platform helping professionals and leaders build the visibility and influence they need to grow their impact.

Both are expressions of the same belief: that better systems, whether national education systems or individual career trajectories, change lives at scale.

Michael did not start at the top of the system. He started at the bottom of it. In 2012, he joined EDI Global as a research assistant, working on education data programs across Tanzania. Over six years, he grew from that entry role into one of the country's most capable education data and program design professionals.

In July 2018, he joined Twaweza East Africa to help lead KiuFunza, a program linking teacher incentives directly to measurable learning outcomes. Not attendance. Learning. During seven years there, he redesigned how the program operated at scale, building live data dashboards, rapid assessment applications, and automated systems contributing to $7 per child per year efficiency. The research was published in the Quarterly Journal of Economics, placing it among the highest-evidence education programs ever tested in Africa. KiuFunza reached over 330,000 children across Tanzania's public primary schools.

In August 2025, Michael helped establish LearnImpact as an independent institution. He became Executive Director in February 2026. Today LearnImpact operates across 11 regions of Tanzania, working with over 265 public schools and more than 1,300 teachers annually.

Alongside this work, he founded the LENZI Impact Network, a coaching and content platform reaching professionals across Tanzania and beyond. The challenge in schools and the challenge facing professionals are the same in structure: when people have the right systems around them, they perform at a level they could not reach alone.

Throughout his time at Twaweza, Michael also maintained a parallel consulting practice, working with various organisations across Tanzania on data systems, program design, and project management. That work deepened his understanding of how institutions of different sizes and mandates approach the same fundamental problem: how to generate evidence, make sense of it, and act on it in time to matter.

What connects every chapter of his career is a single question that refuses to go away: why do systems that are designed to serve people so often fail to deliver? Not because of bad intentions, insufficient resources, or absent commitment — but because the architecture itself produces the wrong outcomes. The answer to that question, pursued across more than a decade of fieldwork, program design, and institutional leadership, is the work he does today.