OUR MISSION IS TO TRAIN AT LEAST 1 MILLION
LEADERS IN 10 AFRICAN COUNTRIES IN THE NEXT
10 YEARS
Our Vision
Transforming leadership as the key driver of an Africa that works for everyone
Our Mission
To train at least 1 million leaders in 10 African countries in the next 10 years
OUR AREAS OF FOCUS
Women
Unleash African women’s leadership as part of the vision to create 1 million leaders in 10 African countries by 2050.
YOUTH
Securing Africa’s future by distinguishing the meaning of life as service and contribution to others.
CHANGEMAKERS
Transforming African faith leadership with a view to transforming communities, shifting them to a whole new level.
SCIENTISTS
Transforming Africa’s leadership in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics as the key to achieving extraordinary, unprecedented results
WHY ALT?
Most of Africa’s challenges can be traced to ineffective, defective or all-together absent leadership. The inability to see leadership as a development imperative – the key to an Africa that works for everyone – has obscured the real solution to Africa’s numerous challenges.
In the post-Covid era, leadership must be about the bottomline.
The pandemic has unveiled leadership as what stands in the way of an Africa that works for everyone. The ALT Foundation is committed to a results-focused leadership. We can’t continue on the current trajectory and expect different results.
Africa urgently needs a new model of leadership in Africa.
Most leadership programs are expensive and out of reach to most people. They are primarily targeted at corporates, especially top and middle-level management. In the pre-Covid era, leadership programs took place in exclusive resorts. This exclusiveness of leadership education is compounded by the fact that executive education – especially by international and African ivy league universities – is out of reach for most people.
The ALT Foundation is democratizing leadership education.
Technology is not our only ally in this; in an era where knowledge is available to all, our focus is on the being of leaders.
ALT is Ready for the future of Leadership Education
Before the Covid pandemic, the ALT Foundation delivered in-person, large-scale leadership courses in partnership with African universities.
The last such course was in February 2020 and was attended by nearly 80 people at the Kwame Nkuruma University of Science and Technology (KNUST) in Kumasi, Ghana.
To continue delivering programs during the pandemic, the Foundation had to master how to deliver large-scale online offerings that engage people in a different way. In October 2020 – in partnership with the University of Zambia (UNZA) – the Foundation successfully delivered the Zambia Climate Leadership Transformation (ZCLT) Summit, at which nearly 50 “climate leaders” were trained.
In August and September 2021 – again, in partnership with UNZA and Whitehall, a South African learning and skills development company – the Foundation hosted over 200 women from 20 African countries — and a wide range of stakeholder groups – for a Women Leadership and Mental Wellbeing course.
How The Course Came About
Women comprise a little over half of Africa’s growing population and their contribution to the continent’s economy is extensive. Women make up 70% of the informal sector, where work is unstable and poorly paid. Many educated women are not able to join the formal sector of the economy.
This course is designed to call forth the leadership that already exists among African women. It is produced in partnership with the University of Zambia (UNZA) and Whitehall, a South African training and skills development company. Participants who fulfil the eligibility criteria are issued with a Certificate of Attendance.
The course was designed by a multi-disciplinary faculty of five women who are leaders in their fields.
OUR PARTNERS
Founding Course Leaders
Prof. Margaret Oloko
Dr. Margaret Oloko is a Kenyan and Director of the ALT Foundation. She is an Associate Professor of Business Administration at the Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture and Technology (JKUAT) in Kenya. She has a passion for leadership transformation and has taught the subject in Kenya (at JKUAT and Kenyatta University, KU) and in Ghana (at the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, KNUST). Dr Oloko is a Certified Being a Leader Course Leader.
Rev. Dr. Eileen L Epperson
Rev. Dr. Eileen L Epperson is from the USA and has been an ordained Presbyterian minister for over 30 years. She has been active in interfaith dialogue and cooperative interfaith projects for 35 years. She has a private practice in spiritual coaching, focusing on forgiveness, a hidden driver of mental wellness.
Mrs Millie Rasekoala
Mrs Millie Rasekoala is Ghanian-born, UK-educated and South African by marriage. She has a degree in History and Sociology. She is the Managing Member of Whitehall Trading and CEO of Authentic Life Foundation.
Millie is an internationally accredited Life and Entrepreneur Coach, a Facilitator, Speaker, Skills Development Specialist, a Market Place Minister and Business Development Consultant.
Mrs Tolu Afonja
Mrs Tolu Afonja is Nigerian and is a certified Professional in Human Resources, a certified Life Coach, a Master Practitioner of Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP), a certified Emotional Intelligence Certified Practitioner (EICP) and an accredited Management Trainer from the Centre for Management Development (CMD). As a Life Coach, she is passionate about mental wellbeing and focuses on helping individuals and organisations to transition from their current state to their desired state, to evolve to thrive as they become the best versions of themselves in achieving peak performance.
Ms. Angela Philp
Ms. Angela Philp is a French national and worked for UNESCO, where she cemented her passion for the advancement of women’s leadership. She continues to work with humanitarian organisations while developing her skill in leadership coaching and training, ontology, meditation and physical strength, all with the goal of helping women own and embody their full leadership power.
Course Leaders
Sue Zulu
Sue Zulu is Zambian and is a globally Certified Leadership & Personal Transformation Coach in good standing with the Certified Coaches Alliance, halfway through her Bachelor’s degree in Leadership and Ministry. She is also currently studying towards a Master’s degree in Education with a focus on Leadership and Management. She has a keen interest in the concept of ubuntu and community building and has been working in the professional training and development industry for around two decades. She is also an inspirational speaker on national television serving the African continent.
Sharon Natugga
Sharon Natugga is Ugandan and she has a bachelor's degree in development studies from Makerere University, Uganda. She is a mentor, social worker and businesswoman and works with women, single mothers and teen mothers on skills empowerment and financial independence. She also empowers girls in school under the “Give Girls a Voice” program, dealing with issues of the girl child, especially on self-esteem, and providing free reusable sanitary pads to girls in rural areas. Sharon is the first child from a polygamous family from where she learnt to be resilient and to bring hope even in hopeless situations.
Africa Leadership Transformation (ALT) Foundation