Nairobi, Feb. 2 -- Mike Eldon, an IT enthusiast turned management consultant, coach and a newspaper columnist, whose trainings touched many in university lecture halls and corporate boardrooms, has died at 80.

Eldon died on January 29, in Nairobi after battling an illness for some time, sparking off widespread tributes for a gentleman widely known for his humour, integrity and zeal for leadership transformation as well as youth mentorship.

"Mike was sharp as a razor until the very end. The kind of man who walked into a room and made everyone in it feel like they mattered; a true role model of a humanised leader," Martin Oduor-Otieno, a former bank executive and chairman and CEO of Leadership Group Limited, a Nairobi-based consulting fir...