Tendai is the Chair of the KAYA Advisory Board and has been involved in public private collaborations for the last 20 years. He sits on a number of Boards as an Adaptive Leadership and Public Policy Advisor. He is currently County Resilience Advisor to HE Hassan Joho, Governor of Mombasa County; an initiative targeted at urban renewal and regeneration to make Mombasa County productive, inclusive, well-governed and sustainable port City.
Tendai is the former Economic and Governance Advisor to HE Anne Waiguru, the Governor of Kirinyaga County, and he is the Architect of ‘The Mountain Cities 2032 Blueprint’ – an integrated public policy framework that models devolution in Africa and which is anchored on the foundation of public-sector reform, economic empowerment and social transformation.
He was part of a team that initiated ‘Wezesha’, an approach to development that was showcased at the 6th Annual Devolution Conference and endorsed by HE President Uhuru Kenyatta. With its goal to ‘Transform & Dignify Lives’, Wezesha is the socio-economic empowerment channel of the Mountain Cities 2032 Blueprint which seeks to promote social and economic empowerment of women and youth – through the establishment and implementation of strategic community focused capacity building framework that offers women and young people access to the local, national and global economy.
From May 2013 to September 2017, Tendai was the Executive Secretary, Department of Children in the County Government of Mombasa.
He is the Co-Founding Trustee of The Foundation for Law and Governance (FLAG), a trust he and Terri Nderitu set up in 2012 to raise leaders across Africa.
Tendai holds a Bachelors Degree in Politics and International Relations from the University of Reading, UK, where in July 1999, he was the first international student to be elected as the President & Chair of the Board of Trustees of the University Students Union. He is part of an ongoing mid-career program at the Harvard Kennedy School.