OUR HISTORY

In 2016, four Kenyan women attended the Being a Leader and the Effective Exercise of Leadership course in Dubai. They returned home promising to make a contribution to 'The Kenya We Want Now and Beyond'.

These women contributed to leadership transformation in Kenya and many other African countries. They are now playing important leadership roles and were the clearing for an estimated 300 leaders from nearly a dozen African countries who have gone on to participate in the Being a Leader and the Effective Exercise of Leadership course. Each of them left the course expressing effective leadership as their natural self-expression and a with commitment to create a future bigger than themselves.

The Africa Leadership Transformation Foundation was created to support these graduates and to create wider access to the leadership transformation. We are committed to a thriving African community of leadership transformation both on the continent and in the diaspora.

The Foundation existed informally for four years before its launch in March 2019.

In 2020 the Foundation was operational in three of the ten targeted African countries. A key accomplishment was hosting the Being a Leader and the Effective Exercise of Leadership course at Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST), a public university in Ghana. Course instructors from Kenya and Ghana co-led this course in February 2020.

Then the Covid pandemic hit, forcing the Foundation to rethink its strategy. An online strategy was successfully tested in Zambia with 50 leaders participating in a three-day summit on leadership in climate change, designed and delivered in partnership with the University of Zambia in October 2020.

The Zambia Climate Leadership Transformation Summit led to the launch of a report by the then Minister of Land and Natural Resources in May 2021.

The Foundation strengthened its governance by expanding its Board of Directors, ensuring more than 50% female Board representation and the appointment of a female Board Chairperson. Programs were refined and repositioned to reflect the changing dynamics on the continent.

The Foundation has put in place organizational structures to facilitate expected expansion. We have entered into new partnerships and are crafting new ones in anticipation of expected growth.