Nana Akosua Akyaa Aforo-Banuah

Nana Akosua Akyaa Aforo-Banuah is the Digital Learning and Development Manager at Tearfund UK, directing global digital learning strategy for over 1,300+ staff and partners across Africa, Asia, Europe, and Oceania managed from her base in Accra, Ghana. With 17 years of cross-sector experience spanning the humanitarian, financial, and development landscapes, she specialises in transforming L&D into a high-impact, revenue-generating engine. Her commercial approach to capability design has generated over £30,000 in LMS partnership income and driven a 30% revenue increase through KPI-aligned learning systems. A pioneer in equitable learning ecosystems, Nana focuses on what it takes to build digital learning that truly travels, designing for low-resource, variable-bandwidth, and cross-cultural environments rather than relying on high-tech defaults. Her strategic frameworks treat L&D, talent development, and organisational wellbeing as a single interconnected system, alongside respon