Our Story – A note from the Founder
We never intended to start something like this. We just followed God’s leading.
It all started with a passion for helping people to succeed. I have always been passionate about ensuring that everyone has opportunity to succeed, especially children and young adults. Unfortunately, my experience (from being born in West Africa, growing up in Africa and the USA, and working in USA, Europe and Africa) was that many people are subjected to poor leadership and therefore, suffer the unfortunate consequences of being under such poor leadership.
As a business turnaround consultant, I conduct leadership and management training sessions for corporate clients and I have seen that in almost all situations (whether business or political or home or otherwise), leadership is the cause, and everything else is the effect. As a sinner saved by God’s grace, I found out that God has given us the ultimate leadership tutorial in His Holy Bible. Even more amazing, for anyone that follows God’s leadership guidelines, God guaranteed success – not only for that individual, but also for his/her followers!
I knew that we needed to develop Leaders of Godly Character around the world, but did not know how or where to start. After praying about it, I was encouraged to do a seminar on Leaders of Godly Character in Sierra Leone, a country that was making a comeback from 10 years of civil war and decades of incompetent leadership at all levels. Armed with nothing but faith that God wanted this to happen, we organized and conducted 2 seminars in 2007 – amazingly, over 500 people attended the seminars and were trained on becoming Leaders of Godly Character!
In 2013 we continued to conduct leadership seminars; we have conducted 15 seminars during the year, in Sierra Leone (Freetown, Port Loko, Jui, Makeni, Magburaka, Blama, and Moyamba), training over 3000 students, teachers, pastors, and youth. We are continually being challenged to do more seminars by the seminar participants. Our plan is to eventually have over 1000 such seminars being conducted around the world, developing every adult in the world into a Leader of Godly Character. Why are the seminars effective? Well, because God has blessed them; and because we have found a way to translate the leadership lessons of God into a medium that everyday people can understand and apply.
My wife, Renee, not only encouraged me in this endeavor, but strengthened it by her own mission work in leadership development. A passionate advocate of childhood education, she has expanded the mission of LGCI to include the support of schools that teach education with Christian values. So, while the seminars look to develop adults into Leaders of Godly Character so that they can in turn secure the blessing of their young ones, our support of childhood education-with-Christian-values programs ensures that the young people have a future anchored by education.
I pray that the Lord will bless you and make you into a Leader of Godly Character!
We never intended to start something like this. We just followed God’s leading.
It all started with a passion for helping people to succeed. I have always been passionate about ensuring that everyone has opportunity to succeed, especially children and young adults. Unfortunately, my experience (from being born in West Africa, growing up in Africa and the USA, and working in USA, Europe and Africa) was that many people are subjected to poor leadership and therefore, suffer the unfortunate consequences of being under such poor leadership.
As a business turnaround consultant, I conduct leadership and management training sessions for corporate clients and I have seen that in almost all situations (whether business or political or home or otherwise), leadership is the cause, and everything else is the effect. As a sinner saved by God’s grace, I found out that God has given us the ultimate leadership tutorial in His Holy Bible. Even more amazing, for anyone that follows God’s leadership guidelines, God guaranteed success – not only for that individual, but also for his/her followers!
I knew that we needed to develop Leaders of Godly Character around the world, but did not know how or where to start. After praying about it, I was encouraged to do a seminar on Leaders of Godly Character in Sierra Leone, a country that was making a comeback from 10 years of civil war and decades of incompetent leadership at all levels. Armed with nothing but faith that God wanted this to happen, we organized and conducted 2 seminars in 2007 – amazingly, over 500 people attended the seminars and were trained on becoming Leaders of Godly Character!
In 2013 we continued to conduct leadership seminars; we have conducted 15 seminars during the year, in Sierra Leone (Freetown, Port Loko, Jui, Makeni, Magburaka, Blama, and Moyamba), training over 3000 students, teachers, pastors, and youth. We are continually being challenged to do more seminars by the seminar participants. Our plan is to eventually have over 1000 such seminars being conducted around the world, developing every adult in the world into a Leader of Godly Character. Why are the seminars effective? Well, because God has blessed them; and because we have found a way to translate the leadership lessons of God into a medium that everyday people can understand and apply.
My wife, Renee, not only encouraged me in this endeavor, but strengthened it by her own mission work in leadership development. A passionate advocate of childhood education, she has expanded the mission of LGCI to include the support of schools that teach education with Christian values. So, while the seminars look to develop adults into Leaders of Godly Character so that they can in turn secure the blessing of their young ones, our support of childhood education-with-Christian-values programs ensures that the young people have a future anchored by education.
I pray that the Lord will bless you and make you into a Leader of Godly Character!