Young people around the world are encouraged to get involved in making the decisions that supports them, take action and proposed solutions that will contribute to achieving the SDG’s. Meet a group of young people in Sierra Leone who are moblising themselves to take the lead;we are happy to introduce our readers and followers to Youth Leadership and Advocacy (YLA) . YLA is a youth-led organization registered with the government of Sierra Leone through the National Youth Commission to complement the efforts of the government in youth development and gender empowerment and to mitigate the high rate of youth unemployment and gender-based violence in Sierra Leone. YLA comprises Twelve University students…

According to the UN SDG13 (social developmental goals), The climate is changing, with severe consequences for our daily lives and the resilience of our countries. It is disrupting national economies. People are experiencing changing weather patterns, rising sea levels, and extreme weather events. Greenhouse gas emissions from human activities driving this change continue to advance. They are now at their highest levels in history. Globally, average temperatures in 2017 were 0.90 degrees Celsius warmer than the 1951 to 1980 mean, according to NASA. 2016 was the third consecutive year in which temperatures were more than 1 degree Celsius above late nineteenth-century levels. Global emissions of carbon dioxide (CO2) have increased by…

Rewind to the day you started on your career, imagine that you are starting all over at ground zero. Would you have been richer if Warren Buffet were to be your personal investment advisor? Would you do business better if you had Bill Gates mentoring you directly on entrepreneurship? What would happen to your body if you had Arnold Schwarzenegger at your gym for 30 minutes every day as your personal trainer? Mentors have the power to do precisely this in your life today and every day. Mentors are incredibly powerful in their ability to transform your life from what it is today into what you imagine it to be.…

“The beautiful thing about learning is that nobody can take it away from you.” – B.B. King. A few weeks ago, I was privileged to share on the Psychology of winning through education at a conference held in Freetown. It was organised by She Arose Transformational Coaching in partnership with The anti- glossophobia academy. As an edupreneur, I never pass on a great opportunity to share knowledge, the audience mainly young people were positively affected by my talk and so I thought, let me share the highlights with my online community.  Most of us were raised to believe that education is acquired in school or in formal settings, this then…

The concept of leadership in itself is not unique in our society today. Everyone you meet that has a general understanding of adulthood, has their perception of who a leader is. Most times, these different perspectives especially in our society today are flawed by the concept of hierarchy; simply put the concept of a boss or political power. I cannot, in any case, understate how flawed that idea/perspective is in general, as a matter of fact, one of the world’s foremost leadership coach and mentor John C Maxwell defines leadership as an influence; Yes…Just influence. So if leadership is influence, then what is influence or how can you attain influence?…