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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Our brochureWho we are, our programmes and our impact, in one read.Read the brochure 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.
Each year we recruit a new cohort through applications and interviews. Every place is a fully funded scholarship.
A year of Leadership Development Training, online and in person, where leaders rethink who they are and what service asks of them.
Mentors and subject experts, practical skill development, and a place in one of our five Impact Labs, where leaders build alongside others.
Through the Leadership Experience Programme, leaders turn a vision into a plan, a team and real work, then join our network as Affiliates.
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.
Learn more about LDTFocuses on practical leadership and implementation of strategic initiatives. Ideas alone won’t win. LEP helps leaders develop the skills that turn visions into reality.
Learn more about LEP140+ leaders building real solutions in five Impact Labs.
Learn more about Impact LabsFocuses 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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Get updatesleaders and entrepreneurs trained since 2018
entrepreneurs trained with UBC Sauder through LIFT Ghana
leaders building real solutions in five Impact Labs
projects across 15 of the 17 UN SDGs
the median age in Africa
of the world’s people under 25 live in Africa1
young Africans enter the workforce each year, against about 3 million new formal jobs2
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.
1. Pew Research Center, from UN World Population Prospects 2024 (May 2026). 2. African Development Bank, Jobs for Youth in Africa strategy (2016).
In the previous episode, we looked at the constrained environment every leader works inside. Limited time. Limited resources.
Over the past four weeks, we have been laying a foundation. We started with scarcity.
So far, we have established that life has limits: limited resources, limited time, limited energy.
Watch on the TGLC YouTube channel.
YouTube channelMost programmes end at training. Ours begins there. We hold leadership and entrepreneurship together. Every leader joins an Impact Lab, builds a project with a team and is measured by what they build, with free space, mentors and the chance to win seed awards behind them.
Young Africans aged 30 or under who want to lead and to solve a problem in their community. Our core leadership programmes are for adults. Youth Think Next takes a shorter programme into junior and senior high schools.
Nothing. Every place in our Leadership Development Training is a fully funded scholarship, so selection depends on commitment, not money.
Through an application, a personal essay and interviews. We look for leadership, initiative, commitment, problem-solving and a clear vision of the change the applicant wants to build.
We measure what leaders do, not only what they attend. In the Labs we track projects started and milestones reached, leaders’ growth through our LeaderMeter assessments, and where past leaders are now through our Tracer Study.
We are a nonprofit company limited by guarantee, registered in Ghana under the Companies Act, 2019 (Act 992). An Executive Council governs our work under a written constitution, and our accounts are audited.
No one raises a leader alone. We work with the UBC Sauder School of Business on LIFT Ghana, universities, colleges and schools across Ghana, and mentors, coaches and corporate volunteers. In 2024 we worked with CDKN and SouthSouthNorth on youth climate action.
Leaders who finish join our network as Affiliates. They can stay in the Impact Labs, mentor newer leaders and keep building their projects with the network behind them.
Give your staff’s time: employees can mentor a leader or coach an Impact Lab. Partner on a programme: co-run a training, a bootcamp or a Youth Think Next day in a school. Open doors: host leaders for site visits and internships, or bring your expertise to a Lab. Kindly start the conversation at gracedlifepartners.org.
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