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LEAD The Way Programme

Empowering Teenagers, Shaping Global Leaders: Teens Leadership, Business and Tech Bootcamp

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About the LEAD The Way Programme

LEAD The Way (LTW) is a dynamic summer leadership programme for secondary school students. It equips teens with the skills to lead, inspire and make a positive impact in their communities while building essential qualities like empathy, confidence, creativity, and strong communication.

The 2026 edition brings together young people aged 13–17 from around the world for an engaging mix of leadership development, tech and entrepreneurship, creativity and adventure. Through hands-on activities, teamwork, and guidance from global changemakers, participants gain deeper self-awareness while exploring the rich culture and diversity of Nigeria in a fun and inspiring environment.

LEAD the Way

Summer Leadership Camp: Enabling Teenagers to Develop Transformative Leadership Skills

LEAD the Way (LTW) is a one-week physical leadership development programme designed to inspire, empower and equip teenagers between the ages of 13 and 17 to understand and achieve their full leadership potential.

The Teenager would take part in leadership and life skill trainings, career pathway workshops and listen to established facilitators and trainers that will take them through a journey of self-awareness; encourage them to lead ethically, and support them to make purposeful and meaningful career transitions.
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LEAD the Way (LTW) is LEAP Africa’s leadership development programme designed to inspire, empower and equip a new generation of young transformative and ethical leaders between the ages of 13-17 to discover and achieve their full leadership potential.

The LEAD The Way curriculum is modelled after international best practices and emerging lessons from reports on youth development across Africa.
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Our Believe

  • Youthful Energy, Leadership, Business & Tech Skills
  • An enabling Environment: Mentorship, Access and opportunities
  • Build ethical leaders who will transform Africa.
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Leadership & Life Skills

Training on gaining confidence, self-awareness and a changemaker mindset

Creative Arts

Self-expression, storytelling, creative intelligence

STEAM

Robotics & AI, Science, technology, engineering, arts and mathematics

Mentorship & Career Pathways

Learning directly from industry leaders and young innovators

Entrepreneurship Training

Gaining problem-solving, building and founder mindset

Change Project & Tech Capstone

A real-world community or tech-driven initiative that every participant leaves with

Leadership & Life Skills

More than training, your child will build genuine confidence, self-awareness, and the mindset of a changemaker. They go through the programme knowing who they are and what they are capable of.

Creative Arts

This is one of the biggest shifts for LTW 2026. Through creative arts, participants explore self-expression, storytelling, and innovation in ways that unlock a different kind of intelligence. Because the future belongs to young people who can think AND create.

STEAM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts & Mathematics)

Hands-on. Real-world. Future-focused. Participants dive into Robotics and AI, guided by industry leaders and young innovators, and discover career pathways they never knew existed. Your child won't just learn about the future; they will be ready to build it.

Mentorship & Career Pathways

Early exposure to entrepreneurial thinking, with direct access to learn from founders and innovators on what it really takes to solve problems and build something meaningful.

Entrepreneurship Training

Early exposure to entrepreneurial thinking, with direct access to learn from founders and innovators on what it really takes to solve problems and build something meaningful.

Change Project & Tech Capstone

Beyond just a certificate, every participant leaves with something real, a tech-driven initiative or a community project that solves an actual problem in their school or neighbourhood. Each item follows a structured project management approach, incorporating empathy-driven research, goal setting, and agile development techniques to bring their ideas to life.

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Impact Numbers

Secondary Schools represented across Nigeria, UK, Netherlands, and USA
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Nationalities represented since 2016
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Young leaders trained in creative problem-solving and leadership skills since 2016
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LEAD The Way sessions held since inception
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Testimonials

Good day everyone, my name is Aisha Shafau and I am participant of the Lead the Way program. I feel like this program’s activities will have the most impact on my life in the coming years; with modules on Self identity, leadership and ethics and moral values, I feel like I have truly learnt something valuable. In the past I have found it hard to find out how to make a path toward my future and even identify who I really am, but now I understand myself completely. I am proud to say that I have even made goals and visions towards what I want to be. The most impactful part was the community change project. As a person who regularly gives to charity I was very happy to be able to talk to children and parents about school and give out school materials. It was very insightful to me and I learnt many lessons that day. I would just like to say that I greatly enjoyed this program and I am so happy that I have actually gained from it, thank you very much for this opportunity

Aisha Shafau Greesnsprings School

The Lead the Way program provided me with a confidence booster and a unique learning experience. The course was extremely funny and informative and gave rise to various pair discussions.

Fareedah Onigbanjo Greensprings School

The LEAP Africa Program has helped me to discover a lot about myself and given me closure about the doubts I had about the Future. I will leave this program a more confident version of myself not letting anything I learned in this program go to waste, casting away the shell of my former self, this program also helped me realize that I need to work towards a leadership position and will not be born into it, working with people wasn’t always my strong suit because I always had problems talking to other people but the program helped me to be aware of my strength and my weaknesses so I can make a foundation on them also the ability to create a team of people that complement our strengths and weaknesses.

Ajibola Ewete Greensprings School

The LEAD THE WAY program helped me to discover who I and have more confidence in myself and take control of my life, during the course, I learned that being a leader is not determined by age or your state in life.

Ajibola Ewete Greensprings School

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