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My friend and colleague, Anthony Kasozi, who has died of cancer aged 65, was a coach and consultant with the rare gift of making his clients feel more confident.

Specialising in leadership development, Anthony worked over many years with a wide range of organisations such as the International Committee for the Red Cross, the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, the African Academy of Science and the Mental Health Foundation. Often dealing with directors and multinational teams, he was no stranger to difficult conversations held in stressful situations and always found ways to create calm, a sense of possibility and a way ahead that elicited the best from people.

He was born in Kampala, Uganda, to Erifereti Kasozi, an industrial chemist, and Yunia (nee Njuki), a home economist and daughter of the Baganda chief Simione Njuki, an adviser during the London constitutional conferences negotiating Uganda’s independence.

Anthony attended Budo college until at 16, fleeing Idi Amin’s rule, he and his family left for Kenya, where he completed his A-levels at Starehe boy’s school in Nairobi.

He came to the UK in 1979 to study for a degree in international studies at Birmingham University, where he met fellow student Tanya; they married after graduating in 1982.

Initially Anthony worked for PwC, then as part of the consulting arm of Ashridge Business School in Hertfordshire, before setting up on his own as Quilibra Consulting in 2008. We became friends when Anthony delivered a leadership development programme for Ashridge at Hewlett-Packard, for whom I worked as a senior manager.

Anthony possessed an extraordinary intellectual, emotional and social intelligence. He had a lightness of touch with groups, the courage to say difficult things when needed and a wonderful sense of humour.

Aside from his consultancy work, Anthony co-authored The Leadership Shadow (2014) with Erik de Haan, and most recently published a book of his own poems, Starting Points (2025).

He and Tanya, who worked for the British Red Cross before becoming a bereavement counsellor, spent their life together in Surrey, except for a two-year period in 1990-92 when they lived in Uganda working for the charity ACET (Aids, Care, Education and Training).

She survives him, as do their daughters, Alex and Robyn, and two grandsons.