What We Believe
People's time matters. If you're asking people to come together and learn, there should be a clear reason for it.
People need to use what they learn. Giving people information is not enough. They need useful ways to think, discuss, practise, decide, and apply it.
Accessibility belongs at the beginning. Think about how different people will take part while you're making the plan, not after everything has been built.
Build after the important decisions are made. Give the people creating the materials a clear plan to work from.
Good learning starts with good decisions.
Tukoda helps you figure out your training before they spend time and money building it. Sometimes that means taking a hard look at something that already exists. Sometimes it means starting with an idea and working out what the training needs to become. Either way, we start with the same question: What needs to happen here?
What Does Tukoda Mean?
Tukoda (pronounced /too-ko-dah/) is a Gbagyi word, gifted by our founder’s father. Her family has been the King Makers for generations, trusted not to hold power, but to shape it with wisdom and care.
In the tradition, Tukoda means leader. Not as a title, but as a way of being. It reflects the kind of leadership rooted in good judgment, lived experience, and responsibility to others. Leadership that listens. That holds. That moves with purpose.
It’s more than a name. It’s the standard we bring into every room we enter.
About
Yemilo Audu founded Tukoda after seeing how often good training was let down by weak structure.
Facilitators were left filling gaps in real time. Some participants had to work harder than others to follow along and take part. Organizations could spend time and money fixing pieces without addressing the problem underneath.
Her background in sociology and psychology, along with experience in facilitation, program evaluation, accessibility, learning design, and virtual delivery, taught her to pay attention to both the people in the room and the systems around them.
Today, she helps organizations review what they have, decide what needs to change, and design a clear structure before they build.
That thinking is behind Gather with Purpose: know why you are bringing people together, then build around that purpose.
Yemilo Audu, Founder
(pronounced /yay-me-low ow-doo/)
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