Kahina · London

Strategic counsel for leaders who cannot afford to be misunderstood.

Kahina advises executives, boards, and institutions on the communication, negotiation, and organizational trust that high-stakes decisions depend on. The practice of Hen Mazzig. Engagements are selective and conducted with discretion.

Bylines & broadcast
  • The New York Times
  • Los Angeles Times
  • Rolling Stone
  • NBC News
  • Haaretz
  • BBC
  • Sky News
  • CNN
BasedLondon, United Kingdom
PracticeCommunication & Institutional Strategy
EngagementsBy referral and direct inquiry
“Almost anyone can command attention. Very few can be believed. Kahina was built for the second problem.”

Most advisory work optimizes for the message. Kahina works one level deeper, on whether an audience, a counterpart, or a public actually trusts what they are hearing, and why that trust holds under pressure.

The firm was founded on a simple premise: genuine trust across real disagreement can be built deliberately. It can be taught, tested, and applied to problems well beyond any single conversation. That is the discipline behind every engagement the firm accepts.

Practice areas

Engagements are scoped individually. These are the forms they typically take.

Counsel

Executive counsel & keynotes

Direct advisory for principals and leadership teams, and keynote or masterclass sessions on trust-based communication for offsites and closed-door gatherings.

Governance

Board & advisory engagements

Standing advisory or board roles focused on communications strategy, reputational risk, and cross-cultural organizational dynamics.

Culture

Organizational trust & culture

Structured engagements for organizations navigating a merger, a leadership transition, or a period of internal fracture, rebuilding functioning trust between people who now have to work together.

Curriculum

Certified training programs

A licensed curriculum and practitioner certification for institutions that want to build this capability internally, rather than retain it engagement by engagement.

Institutions

Institutional & strategic advisory

Discreet advisory for institutions and public bodies on communication strategy in periods of scrutiny, transition, or public trust repair.

Hen Mazzig, principal of Kahina
Photograph · Blake Ezra

Principal

Hen Mazzig

Hen Mazzig is a writer, strategist, and advisor whose work on communication and trust across deep divides has appeared in The New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, Rolling Stone, NBC News, and Haaretz, with regular broadcast commentary on the BBC, Sky News, CNN, and LBC. He is the author of The Wrong Kind of Jew (2022), has debated at the Oxford Union, and has a second book in development on how institutions rebuild trust after fracture.

He has advised and addressed boards, executive teams, universities, and public institutions internationally, and is represented for speaking by United Talent Agency. Kahina is the practice through which that work is applied directly to organizations. It is engaged separately from his public writing and his philanthropic commitments, and governed independently of them.

How the firm works

Three commitments that shape every engagement.

01 · Selective

Kahina takes on a small number of engagements at a time, by design, so that each one receives the depth the work requires.

02 · Discreet

Client relationships, government or otherwise, are never disclosed without explicit permission. Confidentiality governs every engagement from the first conversation.

03 · Independent

Kahina's advisory work is commercial and independently contracted, separate in scope, funding, and governance from any nonprofit or philanthropic work its principal is involved with.

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Kahina takes on a limited number of engagements each year. Initial conversations are confidential and without obligation.

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Office London, United Kingdom
Correspondence info@henmazzig.com
Speaking Represented by United Talent Agency
Entity Kahina Ltd, registered in England & Wales