Leadership forum at The GracedLife Place
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Students smiling during a TGLC session at Accra Girls SHS

Welcome to The GracedLife Leadership Centre

TGLC is more than a training ground. It is a growing network of principled, change-driven servant leaders pioneering Africa’s development and transformation.

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  • Stewardship
  • Servant Leadership
  • Selflessness
  • Godliness
  • Growth Mindset
  • Generational Thinking
  • Global Thinking
Who we are

We exist to ensure there is leadership development for all Africans.

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The GracedLife Leadership Centre is a nonprofit that holds leadership and entrepreneurship together. We exist so that both are within reach of every young African.

In March 2018 we held our first meeting at the University of Ghana, Legon. Since 2022 we have also trained entrepreneurs through LIFT Ghana with UBC’s Sauder School of Business.

Our visionA network of principled, change-driven servant leaders pioneering Africa’s development and transformation.
Our missionTo raise leaders, reorient mindsets, inspire change, and develop a culture of selflessness and integrity among young Africans.

Our approach

Leaders planning at a whiteboard
Step 1 of 4 · IRES

Invite

Each year we recruit a new cohort through applications and interviews. Every place is a fully funded scholarship.

Step 2 of 4 · IRES

Reorient

A year of Leadership Development Training, online and in person, where leaders rethink who they are and what service asks of them.

Step 3 of 4 · IRES

Equip

Mentors and subject experts, practical skill development, and a place in one of our five Impact Labs, where leaders build alongside others.

Step 4 of 4 · IRES

Send Out

Through the Leadership Experience Programme, leaders turn a vision into a plan, a team and real work, then join our network as Affiliates.

What we do

Our Programs

LDT

Leadership Development Training (LDT)

Focuses on unlocking leadership potential by providing aspiring leaders with an understanding of what leadership traits to possess, who to be, and how to think and act.

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LEP

Leadership Experience Program (LEP)

Focuses on practical leadership and implementation of strategic initiatives. Ideas alone won’t win. LEP helps leaders develop the skills that turn visions into reality.

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Impact Labs

Impact Labs

140+ leaders building real solutions in five Impact Labs.

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SEP

Special Entrepreneurship Program (SEP)

Focuses on developing entrepreneurs in Africa through our partnership with the University of British Columbia, Canada, Sauder School of Business. Since 2022, 180+ entrepreneurs trained through LIFT Ghana.

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Our work in numbers

Impact as at 2026

400+

leaders and entrepreneurs trained since 2018

180+

entrepreneurs trained with UBC Sauder through LIFT Ghana

140+

leaders building real solutions in five Impact Labs

40+

projects across 15 of the 17 UN SDGs

Africa’s fast-growing youth. A resource or a risk?

Young people become a resource when they are formed as leaders who build, and a risk when they are left to wait. Leadership makes the difference. That is the gap we exist to close.

19

the median age in Africa1

28%

of the world’s people under 25 live in Africa1

10–12m

young Africans enter the workforce each year2

1. Pew Research Center, from UN World Population Prospects 2024 (May 2026). 2. African Development Bank, Jobs for Youth in Africa strategy (2016).

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