LEAD THE WAY PROGRAMME

Give Your Teenager the Edge That Lasts a Lifetime

About the LEAD The Way Programme

LEAD The Way (LTW) is LEAP Africa’s flagship youth leadership programme, a two-week immersive experience designed to inspire, empower and equip teenagers ages 13-17 with the essential leadership and life skills to thrive in today’s digitally driven fast-paced world. This transformative programme blends real-world leadership training, hands-on business and tech projects and access to mentorship; all in one immersive journey that prepares teens to stand out and succeed.

Over two weeks, participants gain leadership skills, in-demand tech skills, work on real business and technology projects, receive mentorship from experienced professionals, develop life skills that no classroom teaches and build the kind of confidence that gives them a competitive edge over their peers

LEAD the Way

Summer Leadership Camp: Enabling Teenagers to Develop Transformative Leadership Skills

LEAD the Way (LTW) is a one-week physical leadership development programme designed to inspire, empower and equip teenagers between the ages of 13 and 17 to understand and achieve their full leadership potential.

The Teenager would take part in leadership and life skill trainings, career pathway workshops and listen to established facilitators and trainers that will take them through a journey of self-awareness; encourage them to lead ethically, and support them to make purposeful and meaningful career transitions.

LEAD the Way (LTW) is LEAP Africa’s leadership development programme designed to inspire, empower and equip a new generation of young transformative and ethical leaders between the ages of 13-17 to discover and achieve their full leadership potential.

The LEAD The Way curriculum is modelled after international best practices and emerging lessons from reports on youth development across Africa.

Leadership & Life Skills

Build confidence, self-awareness, and the mindset of a change-maker.

Business and Tech Training

Deep dive into Robotics, AI and creative problem-solving

Mentorship & Career Pathways

Teenagers learn directly from industry leaders and discover exciting future careers

Change Project & Tech Capstone Project

Teenagers launch a tech-driven initiative, as well as, solve a community problem that creates real impact in their school or community

Critical Thinking & Problem Solving

he ability to break down complex challenges and find smart, creative solutions independently

Confidence & Communication

The courage to speak up, present ideas and lead conversations in any room

Business & Tech Skills

Hands-on experience building real projects in a fast-paced, collaborative environment

Mentorship & Network

Direct access to professionals and a community of like-minded peers that extends beyond the programme

A Stronger Application Profile

A competitive edge for university, college and scholarship applications that sets them apart from the crowd

Purpose & Self-Awareness

A clearer sense of who they are, what they value and the kind of leader they want to become

Two Weeks. One Transformation

Week One — Foundation & Discovery

Participants are introduced to leadership concepts such as self-leadership, transformative leadership, visioning and goal setting, personal development tools and start discovering their leadership identity.

Week Two — Application & Growth

Participants explore modules on entrepreneurship, creative problem-solving, introduction to robotics & AI, commencing a change project, present to panels, receive one-on-one mentorship with industry leaders and put everything they have learned into action.

Learnings From Our Last Virtual Session

Impact Numbers

Secondary Schools represented across Nigeria, UK, Netherlands, and USA

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Nationalities represented since 2016

Young leaders trained in creative problem-solving and leadership skills since 2016

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LEAD The Way sessions held since inception

Testimonials

Good day everyone, my name is Aisha Shafau and I am participant of the Lead the Way program. I feel like this program’s activities will have the most impact on my life in the coming years; with modules on Self identity, leadership and ethics and moral values, I feel like I have truly learnt something valuable. In the past I have found it hard to find out how to make a path toward my future and even identify who I really am, but now I understand myself completely. I am proud to say that I have even made goals and visions towards what I want to be. The most impactful part was the community change project. As a person who regularly gives to charity I was very happy to be able to talk to children and parents about school and give out school materials. It was very insightful to me and I learnt many lessons that day. I would just like to say that I greatly enjoyed this program and I am so happy that I have actually gained from it, thank you very much for this opportunity

Aisha Shafau Greesnsprings School

The Lead the Way program provided me with a confidence booster and a unique learning experience. The course was extremely funny and informative and gave rise to various pair discussions.

Fareedah Onigbanjo Greensprings School

The LEAP Africa Program has helped me to discover a lot about myself and given me closure about the doubts I had about the Future. I will leave this program a more confident version of myself not letting anything I learned in this program go to waste, casting away the shell of my former self, this program also helped me realize that I need to work towards a leadership position and will not be born into it, working with people wasn’t always my strong suit because I always had problems talking to other people but the program helped me to be aware of my strength and my weaknesses so I can make a foundation on them also the ability to create a team of people that complement our strengths and weaknesses.

Ajibola Ewete Greensprings School

The LEAD THE WAY program helped me to discover who I and have more confidence in myself and take control of my life, during the course, I learned that being a leader is not determined by age or your state in life.

Ajibola Ewete Greensprings School

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