Who We Are

We are a network of principled, change-driven servant leaders pioneering Africa’s development and transformation.

The GracedLife Leadership Centre

Our offer is simple. To the leader who joins us, we offer a program: the training, the experience, the support. To Africa, we offer the leader that program raises. The program is what the individual receives. The leader is what the continent receives.

Our mission is to raise principled, change-driven servant leaders to pioneer Africa's development and transformation, and to raise as many as possible in the most sustainable way. That is what we exist for. That is what we will do, or die trying.

The GracedLife Leadership Centre is a non-profit Christian centre for leadership and entrepreneurship in Africa, established to raise leaders, reorient mindsets, inspire change, and develop a culture of selflessness and integrity among young Africans. TGLC is a place to grow, to dream, and to build.

We are building a network of servant leaders to transform Africa

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

Our vision is to be a network of principled, change-driven servant leaders pioneering Africa's development and transformation. TGLC is a training ground for SDG-focused leaders, a hub for meaningful connections, a space for support and collaboration, and a community for those committed to leading change and shaping the future in Africa.

Six priority focus areas carry the work

PFA 1

People

A new generation of principled, change-driven servant leaders: chosen with care, trained well, mentored closely, and supported to build lasting solutions across Africa.

PFA 2

Programs

World-class, research-backed leadership training designed for Africa's realities, democratizing leadership development for every young African who wants to lead themselves and lead others.

PFA 3

Systems

One organization that runs efficiently, where the right tools, data, and structures bring out the best in every team member, and guard against the worst.

PFA 4

Finances

An organization built for financial independence, with the means to fund its mission today and sustain it for generations to come.

PFA 5

Visibility

An impact seen and experienced across Africa and beyond, drawing the people, partners, and support that help it grow.

PFA 6

Facilities

A permanent home for leadership development in Africa, built to last and fully equipped to support and raise the leaders Africa needs.

Our culture rests on three S's and four G's

The 3 S's

Stewardship
Servant Leadership
Selflessness

The 4 G's

Godliness
Growth Mindset
Generational Thinking
Global Thinking

We raise leaders through four stages over three years

Stage 1

Invite

We invite young Africans ready to change the continent by first changing themselves, through a rigorous recruitment process.

Stage 2

Reorient

We reorient mindsets and re-socialize leaders to transform Africa's leadership culture, over a one-year training.

Stage 3

Equip

We align leaders with mentors and experts in the sector they are passionate about, and set them up to succeed.

Stage 4

Send out

We send leaders out to live what they have learned and build their visions, across the final two years.

The term “Gracedlife” is a mindset and a leadership philosophy built on the belief that life—and all its blessings—are by the grace of God: unmerited, freely given, and meant to be shared through service to make all lives better. We believe this mindset is key to guarding every heart from the evils of supremacy, prejudice, and selfishness—whether it is racism, white supremacy, inequality, xenophobia, misogyny, tribalism, or any other form of injustice.

We believe that it is God who blesses with life, wisdom, riches, and all that life offers. Our responsibility is to share our lives and blessings with others in love and service. The Gracedlife mindset is a servant-leader mindset—one that puts others first. We are empowered by the grace in Christ to lead the world and have dominion over all things.

Our focus is on 7 key sectors of the world which lack the right leadership especially in Ghana and Africa - namely, Business, Faith/Religion, Education, Media, Production, Real Estate and Foundation/Philanthropy.

Aspiring leaders are taking through one-year intensive leadership development training and two years sector mentorship and direct coaching, and a lifetime leadership experience programme where they focus on putting into practice what they have learnt and being accountable to our organization.

Our training programmes are integrated with theories, case studies, real-life evidences, practical hands-on experiences and personal reflection tailored to help individuals aspiring to be in leadership, or interested in leadership, or in leadership to upskill and improve their capacity to identify and address societal issues or needs, to be innovative and think possibility, and to develop the right character and discipline required to serve well and to be the change Africa needs.

The organization provides aspiring leaders with a shared workspace, a leadership library, an executive office for private meetings, a board room, a conference hall, a lounge/waiting area, a reception, a TV production studio, a photo studio, fast internet and printing service in order to support them start/build their vision until they can afford their own working space. Our highly-skilled media and branding team are ready to assist aspiring leaders with all branding and internet/social media advertising and marketing which are necessary tools for global success in today’s world. We have an online shop set up to help start-ups and aspiring leaders to sell their goods and services to the global market. Also, we have an online TV channel to host shows, TV programmes, interviews and broadcast activities of our aspiring leaders to a global audience.

our approach - IRES

INVITE: Our three-year program starts with an invitation to all young Africans who yearn for positive change on the continent and are willing to start that change from within themselves. We invite the youth who are ready to quit pointing fingers at others and are willing to confront their own culturally fixed mindsets to apply into our program. Our annual recruitment program help use to execute the “Invite” component of the IRES framework. Applicants go through a rigorous recruitment process comprising of three interview sessions before they can be selected to be part of our cohort of leaders.
REORIENT:“The incompetence in leadership in most African countries is not only the problem of people who occupy positions in government; it is a reflection of the leadership culture.” Sam Adeyemi. We believe that our socialization, orientation, and shared experiences as a people greatly influence every aspect of our culture, hence our leadership culture. Therefore, a big part of our approach is to first reorient mindsets and re-socialize our leaders to transform our leadership culture. Our Leadership Development Training which goes on for one year from the start of the program, is the vehicle that we use to deliver the “Reorient” portion of our framework.

Our reorientation primarily focuses on:
• Helping our leaders to identify flaws in leadership in Africa and establish the need for intentionality in raising leaders at scale in Africa.
• Encouraging them to imbibe and practice the principles of “Leadership The GracedLife Way”.
• Challenging them to be active thinkers and creators of the future by speaking up, demonstrating curiosity, and challenging the status quo.
• Urging our leaders to have a sense of responsibility and not a sense of entitlement; leading to them building teams, researching, innovating and take actions to solve society’s problems and serve the needs of people
EQUIP: When our leaders are recruited into the program, they are asked to also indicate an industry/sector they’re passionate about and within which they would like to make an impact. Our Sector Mentorship and Skill Sharing programs help us to equip our leaders and set them up for success. To equip them, we first seek to understand their visions and what they’re passionate about and then align them with appropriate mentors and other subject matter experts in their chosen sector.
SEND OUT: The best way to learn to lead, to the extent that leadership can be learned, is experience. The “Send Out” portion of our framework starts after the first year of the program and continues for two years till the end of the third year. Through our Leadership Experience Program, we send the leaders out to live out the traits learned at the “Reorient” level and use the skills acquired from the “Equip” stage to work on their visions.

As part of the “Send Out” portion of our approach, we coach leaders:
• By helping shape their visions and encourage them to finalize the blue print those visions through strategic documentation
• To create a vision road map and communicate the same to potential team members/investors
• To take strategic actions and incorporate monitoring and evaluating techniques in measuring progress toward success.

WHO WE ARE