Academy to host leadership seminar

as they run the first Trans-forming Leadership Seminar in Zimbabwe from April 7 to 9.
The Transforming leadership seminars are three-day events designed for leaders who want to be part of transforming Africa one department, one organisation and one community at a time. Africa needs leaders of integrity in all spheres of society.
The following statements summarise the ILF leadership paradigm:
As goes the leader, so goes the corporation, community or nation he or she leads.
No community can rise above the leadership capacity of its leaders. No culture can rise above the character of its leaders.
The values driving these seminars are:
Personal and public Integrity – integrity as the primary qualification for leadership.
Contextual Relevance – Ensuring relevance of initiatives to cultural context.
Total transformation – personal life transformation as the foundation for societal transformation.
This first TLS in Zimbabwe will focus on the following four topics: Character formation (pursue personal and public integrity), calling (clarifying life calling), commitment (building commitment to life calling) and community building (building a healthy community with common values and mission).
Three facilitators will run this seminar. A short biography for each of them follows:
Dr Delanyo Adadevoh has a strong passion for helping transform Africa into a responsible and respected member of the global community that has the unique distinction of a moral vision based on Biblical and ethical values.
To realise this dream, he founded the International Leadership Foun-dation and currently serves as its president.
ILF has the objective of developing leaders of integrity who are able to lead holistic transformation in Africa and beyond.
In addition, Dr Adadevoh serves as vice president of an international NGO and is responsible for overseeing the organisation’s work in Africa as well as other regions of the world.
In this capacity, he helped establish the Africa Leadership and Management Academy in Harare, Zimbabwe. ALMA offers graduate degrees in Leadership and Mana-gement through the University of Zimbabwe and is now a partner of the International Leadership University.
When ALMA one day applies to be a stand alone university it hopes to be called the International Leadership University (ILU Zimbabwe).
He also serves as the Chairman of ILU.
Dr Adadevoh earned a BSc in Chemistry at the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Techno-logy in Kumasi, Ghana, an MA in Leadership at Azusa Pacific Univer-sity in California, and a PhD in theology at Leeds University, England.
A citizen of Ghana, West Africa, he has also lived in Nigeria, Kenya and Zimbabwe. He and his wife, Elizabeth, have a son and two daughters and currently live in Orlando, Florida.
Dr Victor Koh is presently serving as the senior vice president of the International Leadership University.
A Singaporean by birth, he has a Bachelor of Science in Chemistry and Biology from the University of Singapore; a Master of Arts in Marketing Management and PhD in Business Administration from Ohio State University.
Dr Koh has visited, taught, lectured, consulted or worked cross culturally on all five continents in more than 125 countries around the world during the past 35 years.
He serves as an advisor to the Kenyan government (President’s Office) on their Vision 2030 Development Plan and has useful experiences to share.
He has expertise in business management and leadership development, as well as international disaster relief and humanitarian aid.
Dr Emmanuel Bellon, an expert in value based leadership training, is an international leadership training consultant and coach.
He currently serves as the Director of Training for the Inter-national Leadership Foundation.
In March 2010, Dr Bellon was appointed president, of the Interna-tional Leadership University Africa.
Dr Bellon is also Vice Chancellor of the International Leadership University Kenya (ILU), which consists of the Nairobi International School of Theology (NIST), and the Bright School of Leadership in Nairobi, Kenya.
Dr Bellon has, during the last three years, provided training, advice and guidance to numerous organisations in Africa and the US.
He has trained leaders in Buru-ndi, DRC, Ghana, Kenya, Nigeria and the United States of America.
Dr Bellon is from Ghana and currently lives in Kenya.
This seminar is designed for high level government and business leaders.
Dr Shingi Munyeza, Group CEO of African Sun and Mr Patterson Timba, Group CEO of Renaissance Financial Holdings and executive chairman of Afre Corporation will officially open this event at a dinner on the evening of April 7 at Rainbow Towers hotel.
All who want to be involved in transforming Africa are invited.
The seminar will cost US$200 for the three days.
Over the next couple of weeks we will continue to give readers an update and insight into the Trans-forming Leadership Seminar in this column.
l Dr Dwight Mutonono is the executive director of the Africa Leadership and Management Academy