LeadForward Roadshow (Africa)
Join The Mentoring Club for a three-session experience for Africans in the workforce, the diaspora, mentors, mentees, and leaders who want to create meaningful impact.
Together, we will explore:
Session 1 — Creating the Next Generation of African Leaders
How can we help others rise and strengthen Africa’s leadership future?
Session 2 — Africa Without Borders: Making an Impact Wherever You Are
What can we contribute whether we stay, migrate, or return?
Session 3 — Envision Your Future. Inspire Action. Create Impact.
What future do you want to create — and what can you begin doing now?
Expect authentic stories, practical reflection, meaningful conversations, and an opportunity to define your own next steps.
Wherever you are, your leadership can make an impact.
Key Takeaways
Participants will:
Discover how leaders can develop others and help shape the next generation.
Explore how to create impact across borders, whether staying, migrating, or returning home.
Reflect on purpose, meaningful work, and the kind of impact they want to make.
Learn how mentorship, networks, opportunity, and shared experience can help others move forward.
Define a clearer personal “North Star” for the future.
Identify practical next steps and use experimentation, learning, and adjustment to keep progressing.
Connect with mentors, peers, and other “Thinking Partners” who can support their journey.
Target Audience
For Africans in the workforce across Africa and the diaspora, as well as those considering returning home and supporters of African leadership and talent.
Ideal for professionals, entrepreneurs, emerging and experienced leaders, mentors, mentees, students, and community builders who want to grow, support others, and create meaningful impact wherever they are.
Dates
October 9 at 2:00 PM - 5:00 PM WAT / October 9 at 6:00 AM - 9:00 AM PDT
Speakers and Moderators
Carol Wakoli, Sam Onigbanjo, Gbolahan Adebayo, Mwita Nyansoho, Munachiso Muoneke, Maxime Yao, Oghenovo Dafiadje, Kimberly Wiefling, Hong Nguyen-Phuong
SESSION 1
Gbolahan Adebayo is a BI (Business Intelligence) Analyst and Developer at Sanlam FinTech, specializing in data visualization and storytelling. A Tableau Visionary and 3x Tableau Public Ambassador, he is also co-lead of the Lagos Tableau User Group, helping others use data to inspire insight, action, and meaningful change.
Caren Wakoli is a leadership practitioner and Founder of Emerging Leaders Foundation–Africa, dedicated to developing values-driven African leaders. For over two decades, she has mentored emerging leaders through leadership development, storytelling, and coaching, championing courage, integrity, purpose, service, human dignity, and societal transformation across Africa.
Sam Onigbanjo is an AI transformation practitioner, entrepreneur, and enterprise adviser with 20+ years of experience. Founder of AI Academy for Beginners, a 50,000+ member global community, he helps leaders and organizations adopt AI responsibly, improve business performance, and prepare their workforce to lead effectively in a rapidly changing world.
SESSION 2
Oghenovo Dafiadje is a Principal Project Engineer at Shell Nigeria with more than 17 years of experience across FMCG and Oil & Gas. He combines technical expertise with strategic project leadership, delivering complex initiatives while helping shape disciplined, results-oriented leadership within Africa’s evolving business and energy landscape.
Mwita Nyansoho is a young community advocate from rural Kenya, organic farmer, Coordinator Representative for Africa at Oasis Movement Organization, India, and Founder of Nyansoho’s Children Care Family. Through education, mentorship, sustainable agriculture, and community service, he supports children and families while growing as a leader committed to creating opportunity and positive change across Africa.
Munachiso “Muna” Muoneke is a Nigerian healthcare quality and informatics professional, mentor, and digital health advocate based in the United States. Founder of Decoded Health Data, she combines healthcare, technology, data, and mentorship to improve understanding, support emerging professionals, and create meaningful impact across borders.
Maxime “Max” Yao is a London-based chief executive, board advisor, and EOS Implementer with 25+ years of global leadership experience. Originally from Côte d’Ivoire, he has led complex transformations, built high-performing teams, and helped organizations turn vision into measurable results while developing leaders across Europe and West Africa.
SESSION 3
Hong Nguyen-Phuong helps people navigate change, exercise good judgment, and take responsibility for the impact they make. His work combines decades of Silicon Valley experience with mentoring, leadership development, and emerging AI technologies.
Kimberly Wiefling is a global leadership facilitator, author, and cofounder of Silicon Valley Alliances. For 20+ years, she has helped leaders and teams across 50+ countries strengthen leadership, collaboration, innovation, and impact. Her work blends human leadership, AI, and sustainability to help people achieve what once seemed impossible.