Obama Foundation African Leaders Program for Africans 2025

The Obama Foundation Leaders Africa program seeks to build a growing network of innovative and values-based changemakers who will drive positive change in their communities, the continent, and the world. The Obama Foundation’s Leaders program aims to inspire, empower, and connect regional cohorts of changemakers to accelerate positive and lasting change in their communities and throughout their region and across our world. The Leaders program launched in Africa in 2018, expanded to Asia Pacific in 2019, inaugurated Europe in 2020, and kicked off in the United States in 2023.

Inspired by President Obama’s leadership approach, the Leaders program engages participants in the challenges, opportunities, and skills of making positive change. Supported by full group sessions, small group discussions, and individualized leadership coaching, participants define a values-based foundation for sustained leadership, cultivate relationships with others to catalyze more inclusive, lasting change, and prepare to engage with issues at the systems level.

Upon completion of the program, Leaders will have gained a deeper understanding of how values-based leadership advances their work. They will be inspired to take further action, propelled by new ideas and skills. Most importantly, Leaders will continue to gain a broader global perspective by joining the Obama Leadership Network, a growing global alumni community of over 1,200 active changemakers.

Leaders Africa is a six-month, non-residential, virtual leadership journey for 34 emerging leaders from across the continent focused on exploring values-based leadership skills and building deep relationships with fellow cohort members.

 

• Table of Content
• About Obama Foundation
• Obama Foundation African Leaders Program
• Aim and Benefits of Obama Foundation African Leaders Program
• Requirements for Obama Foundation African Leaders Program Qualification
• Application Deadline
• How to Apply

About Obama Foundation

The Barack Obama Foundation is a Chicago-based nonprofit organization founded in 2014. It oversees the creation of the Barack Obama Presidential Center, runs the My Brother's Keeper Alliance (a program Barack Obama began while he was president), and operates a scholarship program through the University of Chicago's Harris School of Public Policy. The foundation held its inaugural summit on October 31, 2017, in Chicago. According to Barack Obama, he intends for his foundation to be central to many of his post-presidential ac... continue reading

Obama Foundation African Leaders Program

Application Deadline	18 Dec 2024
Type	Training
Sponsor	Obama Foundation
Gender	Men and Women

Aim and Benefits of Obama Foundation African Leaders Program

The Obama Foundation will cover costs related to economy class travel, lodging, and meals throughout the portion of the program.

Requirements for Obama Foundation African Leaders Program Qualification

• Location: The program currently invites individuals residing in all countries and territories in the continent of Africa.
• Citizenship and Residency: You must meet one of the following criteria:
  • Citizen of an African country or territory OR 
  • Permanent resident of an African country or territory OR 
  • Have lived in an African country or territory for at least the last 5 years, regardless of citizenship or permanent residence status 
• Geographic Focus: Your work is geographically focused on creating positive change for local communities, an African nation or territory, and/or the broader Africa region. You demonstrate a strong commitment to continue to focus your work in the Africa region.
• Language Proficiency & Age: You are professionally proficient in spoken and written English and you will be between 24 and 45 years of age on August 26, 2024.

Leaders participate in the following core elements as part of the program:

• Weekly Virtual Video Calls: These live virtual sessions are the primary form of collective engagement. These connections, an average of four times monthly, offer a mix of new content (conversations with experts, introductions to leadership frameworks, skill-building, etc.) and interactive, small-group work in breakout rooms.
• Monthly Community Groups: Leaders work in peer learning groups that encourage deeper relationship-building and peer-learning, and offer opportunities to reflect on case studies of prominent African leaders, or discuss open questions from the group sessions.
• Individualized Leadership Coaching: Each Leader is paired with a coach to help them gain self-awareness, clarify goals, brainstorm ideas, achieve their development objectives, and unlock their potential.

Application Deadline

December 18, 2024

How to Apply

Interested and qualified? Go to Obama Foundation on obama.embark.com to apply

For more details,visit Obama Foundation webpage