Why we chose Teesas as our partner in Africa – Bill McIntyre

The vice president of FranklinCovey Education, Bill McIntyre, has explained reasons for partnerships with Teesas to deliver its suite of education-related products directly to students, schools, and parents across Africa.

He disclosed this to journalists while in Lagos for the ‘7 Habits Leadership Boot Camp’ organised by Teesas for children aged seven to 18 years which was held from 10 – 21 April.

McIntyre explained that “FranklinCovey Education currently has over 7,000 ‘Leader in Me’ schools around the world, and these are the schools that are implementing the ‘Leader in Me’ process which is a whole-school transformation model based on the ‘7 Habits of Highly Effective People’ and on leadership principles in schools.”

“Our focus is to help schools get measurable results in three key areas – helping children develop leadership and life skills, building a culture of safety and leadership in the school and influencing the impact on academic achievements in the school,” he said.

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Giving reasons for the partnership, McIntyre stated that FranklinCovey Education did not have a strong presence in Africa until the company’s partnership with Teesas.

“The Teesas Education App continues to add more of our content for children, youth and parents which we hope will add great value in addition to their language learning and academic content already on the Teesas app,” McIntyre said.

“We do have partners in other countries who are using our training for children in learning centers, but we expect the Teesas model to be extremely successful.

“This week, Justin Permenter, our regional director, and I have been working with children in this learning centre, teaching them, playing games with them, and helping them learn leadership skills. We are excited to work with Teesas as they expand the app and learning centres across Nigeria and beyond.”

He added, “Recent research suggests that the demographic forecast for the African continent is that by 2050, there will be one billion children in Africa. That will represent 40 per cent of all children in the world. If we don’t take action now to build future leaders in Africa, this will not only impact Africa, this will impact the whole world. So, we have a mission. Our mission is to develop leaders in integrity that can lead in their communities, their families, in Nigeria, on the continent and in the world.”