Acumen Academy West Africa brings leadership development program for youths

We are equipping extraordinary leaders with the capacity to positively transform society.
The Acumen Fellowship is an intensive leadership development program for individuals who are building the solutions to tackle the toughest problems of our time.

The Acumen West Africa Fellows Program brings together exceptional leaders from across West Africa (Ghana, Liberia, Nigeria, Sierra Leone, and The Gambia) who are daring to embrace the difficult journey of social change. Over the course of the year, the Fellows will come together to learn with–and from–each other. As a deeply bonded cohort, they will engage with a curriculum that is based on practical skills and character, geared towards action and grounded in the value of moral leadership. After they finish the first year of the Fellowship, the Fellows join our global community of 698 Fellows.

To learn more, visit www.acumenacademy.org/fellowship/wa
About Acumen Academy
Acumen Academy is a university reimagined, offering anyone, anywhere access to the training they need to be effective agents of change. As the world’s first and largest global school for social change, we are unleashing entrepreneurial moral leadership by making the knowledge, expertise, and resources of Acumen and its trusted community widely available and accessible.

Acumen Academy blends the best of online and offline learning to build the practical skills needed to achieve social change. Our communities are locally rooted in the change they are driving, yet globally connected in learning, collaborating, challenging, and supporting each other. The Acumen Academy team, its 698 Fellows, and 450,000 course takers represent a global ecosystem of learners and doers, ready to think differently, learn collaboratively, and build a more just and inclusive world.

Who are we looking for?
West Africa is home to some of the world’s fastest growing economies– yet it will require a different type of leadership to ensure this growth is felt by all. Our Fellows are emerging leaders who come from diverse cultural, geographic, and socioeconomic backgrounds and can be found tackling problems of poverty or injustice in early-stage social ventures, non-governmental organizations, government, community-based organizations or the private sector.

Our Fellows program
Is for individuals who are currently leading, or are an integral part of building an organization or initiative that exists to eradicate poverty and are actively changing the systems they operate in. They work full-time on this initiative and typically fall in one of the following trajectories:
Social entrepreneurs who have launched or lead their own social change initiatives (non-profit or for-profit).
Social intrapreneurs who are running a social change initiative within an existing organization (private or public sector).
Organizational builders who are an integral part of building a social change organization, but do not play a founding role.