According to the National Baseline Youth Survey (2012), the population of youths (1535 years) in Nigeria was estimated to be 64 million where female were 51.6 percent and male were 48.4 percent. This invariably means that Nigeria has a great potential of becoming an undoubtedly great nation. However, great nations are built by great leaders and Leadership is simply a mentality of an assumed responsibility.
Unfortunately, the future of Nigeria isn’t yet ready to take Nigeria to the next level. Whenever God wants to transform a nation, he uses leaders. We may not get to the next level as a nation when we have not created and built leaders that will undertake that transitioning process. We also don’t just need leaders but we need leaders of excellence across every sector. Transformation of any kind starts with Mind Reformation and Renewal as clearly seen in Rom. 12:2 . This largely means that only a renewed mind can bring about transformation at any level. At the Young Leaders Connect Conference, we shall speak words that will renew minds and reposition lives.
The Young Leaders Connect Conference is an annual Nation building event which is set to premier this year in Delta State. YLCC seeks to gather young and highly motivated individuals annually to critically talk about matters of leadership going back to its basics and root as it relates to national development and transformation. It also serves as a platform to connect leaders across diverse industries with other leaders for collaboration and co-creation and to link up emerging leaders with established leaders for mentoring, coaching and training.
The Young Leaders Connect Conference is out to build
strategic ,
principled and
excellent leaders across diverse industries.
The Theme of The Conference: "Repositioned to Lead"
The above Theme is highly instructive as we set to premier the Young Leaders Connect Conference. It’s apparent that one’s position to a large extent will determine his/her operational strength. Nobody can rightly execute things from a wrong position. Once individuals are rightly positioned, they can begin to execute from their space.
At this year’s Young Leaders Connect Conference, we are going to be speaking creative words that will reposition young individuals to begin leading from their diverse environments. This year’s conference will serve as a mind development catalyst to appropriately position young individuals to actually begin to lead. This year’s conference will provide participants with great clarity in order to identify what they were designed to do and then begin their journey in becoming all they were created to be.
The Young Leaders Connect Conference will kick off with the YLCC MEDIA WEEK where we have strategically selected Nigerian Foremost Thought Leaders and Nation Builders for the 5-day event starting on Monday 13th March, 2017 – Friday 17th March, 2017. The Live Conference will hold on the 18th of March, 2017 in Delta State, Nigeria
Meet The Speakers
JIMI TEWE
A seasoned Career Success Catalyst, motivational speaker, and CEO, Inspiro Consulting (a Career Services and Human Resource Consulting firm based in Lagos State, Nigeria). An experienced Human Resource Professional in HR Consulting and Generalist with competencies developed in HR Strategy Interpretation & Implementation, Emotional Intelligence, Talent Management, Organization Design, Manpower Planning, Job Competency profiling, Job Analysis & Evaluation, Manning Analysis & Leadership Training.
FUNTO IBUOYE
A young and dynamic Nigerian Author and Chartered Accountant. She is passionate about nation building and helping women live up to their full potential. She strongly believes that the empowered woman is one of the greatest assets of a thriving society/nation. She is the founder of The Beautified Network, a for-purpose initiative that is focused on enabling women discover and live in the fullness of their God given purposes.
ADEPEJU JAIYEOBA
A graduate of Obafemi Awolowo University Ile-Ife, Adepeju is a White House Emerging Global Entrepreneur, PATH International Innovation Champion, 2014 Mandela Washington Fellow, Fellow of the international Center for women Canada, Fellow of the Unreasonable Institute, member of Women in Successful Careers (WISCAR) 2015 Young Innovator of the World Innovation Summit for Health (WISH), She Leads Africa’s top 10 female entrepreneur for Diaspora Demo day, 2015 YNaija top 10 most influential Nigerians under 40 (Advocacy), 2015 Cordes Fellow and an acknowledged Global Change Leader by the Coady International Institute, Canada.
ADEDAYO ADENIYI
A Mandela Washington Fellow and a member of Barack Obama’s Young African Leadership Initiative (YALI) network. He is a foremost Leadership Coach, and Brand Story Telling Enthusiast.
ALEXIS PARRIS
Alexis Parris is a US-Based Dancer, Personal Development Speaker, Entrepreneur and Choreographer. She has been trained in dance for 15 years and officially launched her first business at 19 years old. Alexis is sharing with the world her passion and value of personal development because of the significant transformation she experienced in her own life. She recognizes the necessity for personal development to create success, so she is relentless in her pursuit of helping youth maximize their potential and create massive success in their world.
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Some of the Featured Speakers for the Live Conference are:
ANITA DEXTER
A passionate advert executive with years of experience with Vanguard Newspapers and Dubai based advert classic “Ad Waseet”, Anita Dexter has traversed both the corporate and entrepreneurial sectors, making her a repository of the business experience. With a degree in Business Administration, she has a vocational school running in Lagos since 2008 before moving to Asaba in 2012 where she currently engages in the business of making gorgeous jewelleries and fashion accessories and training students on same. Thanks to her years of corporate marketing, she has client drawn from the elite and political class; who she offers premium bespoke services.
SOLOMON BUCHI
Privileged to be credible as a life coach, motivational speaker, and thought leader. One of Africa’s fast rising transformational voices, passionate about inspiring people and helping them gain clarity in their lives and relationships. He doubles as a prolific writer, content creator, and social media influencer, consistently churning out personal development strategies to his tribe of followers.
SIMON NNAZIM
A young leader who has a passion to help others see farther they look. He has inspired many young leaders across Nigeria. He is currently the president of The Herald’s Watchtower, a fast growing non – denominational network of young leaders poised to create positive change and influence their world. He also heads Village Square Media Group, a media company focused on excellence and customer satisfaction. He is a writer, poet, blogger, logo creator, graphics designer, web developer, social media manager and a sold-out lover of God.
TEMI ENEMIGIN
A passionate singer, song writer and a Transformational catalyst who is interested reshaping the lives of young African individuals via speaking the right words. She is an articulate poet who uses strong and captivating words to send resounding messages to her core audience. She is the page editor at Chrisolite Writerz Nigeria.