The Story Behind KD Chronicles
Success is more than just wealth, it’s about the habits, mindsets, and strategies that create lasting impact.
KD Chronicles operates on a straightforward thesis: leaders who sustain performance are those who remain whole while delivering it. The platform consolidates experience, applied knowledge, and judgment into practical resources for professionals pursuing growth, balance, and prosperity.
The result is a structured body of work, designed to develop capacity for self-reflection, self-correction, and self-reliance. We deliver this through written, audio, and visual content, developed with partners and subject-matter experts across disciplines, and refined continuously rather than published once.
We do not position ourselves as authorities on every subject. The orientation is practitioner to practitioner: addressing the imbalance and short-termism that undermine performance, particularly at midlife and through major transitions. The work is applied to ourselves first, then shared.
The objective is consistent: become present, emotionally grounded, purpose-aware, and prosperous and lead, build, and decide from that position.
Khulekani Dlamini
Khulekani Dlamini has over 20 years of experience in financial services, with the majority of his career in listed investments and asset management. He holds an MPhil in Development Finance (cum laude) and a Master’s in Aeronautical Engineering from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in New York. On returning to South Africa he joined the CSIR’s Aerotek Division as a researcher, and subsequently spent three years with Comverse Network Systems, a telecommunications company in Israel. He spent five years at Investec Asset Management (now Ninety One) in Cape Town, after which he co-founded Afena Capital, exiting in 2016.
He is the founder and Executive Chair of Lwembu Group, an advisory and consulting firm operating across sectors. He also founded the executive coaching practice Elevance and Lwembu Equity Ventures (LEV), a venture builder and nascent VC fund management firm.
He serves on multiple boards, including Medipost, a pharmaceutical company, as Non-Executive Director and Chairman; Lodestar Fund Managers as Non-Executive Director; and Stellenbosch Business School as an Advisory Board Member. He is Board Member and Chairman of Breadline Africa, a Cape Town-based NPO focused on early-childhood development in Southern Africa, and mentors founders of university technology spinouts at Innovus-owned LaunchLab, an incubator and accelerator at Stellenbosch University. He previously chaired the Board of Home of Hope, a refuge for orphans with Foetal Alcohol Syndrome
Perspective
“Track record and title do not make a leader durable. Presence, composure, and clarity about what matters do. That is the work, and the work we deliver to others is the work we apply to ourselves.”
To create a world where individuals and leaders achieve sustainable success by mastering the habits and principles that drive inner and outer excellence. Through powerful insights and structured guidance, KD Chronicles aspires to be the go-to platform for personal mastery, leadership, and wealth creation.
KD Chronicles exists to empower individuals with transformative knowledge and practical tools to cultivate success across their personal and professional lives.
We achieve this by:
- Sharing actionable wisdom through podcasts, blogs, and newsletters that blend psychology, finance, and leadership insights.
- Providing frameworks and models that help individuals develop intentional habits for personal and professional excellence.
- Amplifying emerging Black financial services firms, fostering a more inclusive investment ecosystem.
- Building a strong community of thinkers, doers, and leaders committed to lifelong growth.
- Encouraging balance and mindfulness, ensuring success is holistic and sustainable.