EMERGING FUTURE

LEADERS CONFERENCE
TRANSFORMING TOMORROWS LEADERS
TODAY

LEADERSHIP PROPOSAL
KING JESUS LUTHER KING
FOUNDER AND CHAIRMAN
INTERNATIONAL YOUTH EXECUTIVE FORUM
TEL: 0232062617
EMAIL: bkagyeman17@yahoo.com ,
ministersofchristfoundation@yahoo.com

2016/2017

TABLE OF CONTENTS
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
LEADERSHIP DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION
CONFERENCE SUMMARY
THE BUDGET
ORGANIZATIONAL PROFILE
APPENDIX
APPENDIX I: POTENTIAL PARTNERS
APPENDIX II: ACTION PLAN
APPENDIX III: PROJECT SUSTAINABILITY
APPENDIX IV: PROGRAMME OUTLINE
APPENDIX V: ORGANIZATIONAL ACTIVITIES

THE EXECUTIVE SUMMARY

Leadership at IYEF is a self-reflective and collaborative process of identifying opportunities
and challenges within a community, boldly imagining alternatives, assessing possible
avenues of improvement, and inspiring and challenging oneself and others to courageous
action that enhances the common good. It is an expression of ones vocation. Leadership
includes four major capacitiesactive community engagement, relational self-understanding,
moral courage, and hope.
The vision of the Emerging Future Leaders Conference (EFLC) is for leadership to become
an intentional and integrated aspect of the Network, from communications and interactions
with prospective youths to the hiring, training and ongoing professional development of all
employees, and, of course, in the professional and personal lives of our students. A common
language among employees, youths, alumni, and parents around a persons natural abilities
and the leadership capacities being held up at Makers House and Pentecost University
College will inform and support the broad-based program proposed in this report. Leadership
development is not an add-on for any person or program but rather a shift in process and
philosophy that will result in the substantial enrichment of the environment and more
effective coaching and training for everyone participating. Leadership at IYEF will not be
built on the model of having a leadership recognition week or once-a-year conference;
leadership will be intentionally integrated and infused across the regions throughout the year.
To accomplish this we propose the creation of an ambitious and comprehensive flagship
Leadership Development Initiative for Citizens of Ghana and members of the Network that
draws upon our strong heritage, furthers our mission, and casts our vision toward the future.
The first part of this proposal sets forth the conceptual foundations upon which the leadership
initiative rests.

LEADERSHIP DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION

Need
We live at a threshold time in history, a hinge time, a cusp time, a time of great turning ~
Sharon Daloz Parks, 2007
One not need to look very far to recognize that we live in a time of great peril and promise in
which the hungers for leadership are strong and deep (Parks, 2005). To courageously face the
leadership crisis and call of our time, individuals who provide acts of leadership must live
and act firmly in the hope that beckons from beyond the conventional. The IYEF Leadership
Development Initiative proposed here seeks to empower and equip our youths to respond
well to that calling, for the sake of a more promising future for all.
The challenges of such an endeavour are great. While our world shrinks and the pace of daily
life quickens, our relationships, communities, and countries are growing further apart. Many
in our society feel powerless. Even though privileged with freedom and education,
opportunity, and wealth (relative to many others in the world), they feel ill-equipped,

overwhelmed, and unable to influence the direction of their communities. Many describe the
experience of feeling over-extended and overworked. As a consequence, many people refrain
from taking action or voicing ideas that could benefit their communities and foster the
common good. For multiple reasons, as Robert Putnam has documented (2000), the last halfcentury of American life has seen a significant decline in civic engagement. Such a decline in
social capital is worrisome because it leaves us ill-prepared to handle the pressing challenges
of our time. Moreover, our society sends confusing signals about the character of leadership,
and many prevailing models and myths of leadership are showing themselves to be
increasingly inadequate (Parks, 2005). In these fractured, tumultuous, yet tremendously
energized times, IYEF embraces the critical task of defining an approach to leadership
development that calls young adults to lead and serve with courage, vision, compassion, and
integrity. This approach is guided in large measure by our communitys consideration of two
fundamental questions that this initiative is helping us begin to answer: How now must we
live? And Leadership for the sake of what? This approach is also deeply rooted in our
heritage and mission as a residential, church-related, liberal arts network.
Central to the mission of the Network is a view of training and education that orients it
toward leadership and service. Since the experience of King Jesus Luther King, who founded
both the nations largest talent support organization and International Youth Executive
Forum, the Network has pursued a mission grounded in leadership and service. This mission
is not accidental but is deeply rooted in its Christian and Ghanaian heritage (without being
exclusive to that tradition). This tradition emphasizes that the energy of religious faith is most
appropriately directed at service to the neighbour and the community. Every person has a
calling, a vocation that can be discovered and lived through attending to the needs of others.
Every person is empowered to act. In the eyes of this tradition, ones occupation, family life,
citizenship, and leisure activities all are vehicles of vocation and potential opportunities to
offer acts of leadership. Because wisdom, information, and reason (rather than prescribed
rules or the mandates of authority figures) guide the exercise of ones vocation, education is
crucial. Because humans are not perfect, the healing message of grace (whatever its source)
and the creative involvement of a supportive community are also crucial. The ultimate goal is
the kind of wholeness for oneself and others that comes through healthy communities and
healthy relationshipswith others, with nature, and with the divine.
Informed by this tradition, leadership at IYEF is based on an understanding that who one is
directly impacts, how one leads. Accordingly, acts of leadership cannot be separated from the
identity and integrity of the person, and a mature understanding of self is vital for enhancing
ones effectiveness with the communities where one lives and works. This vocational
approach to leadershipactively working toward an understanding of oneself for the purpose
of contributing to the common goodis one of IYEFs great strengths. By rooting leadership
development in substantive exploration of vocation a central feature of the IYEF experience,
we will contribute to the crucial mission for higher education in global and complex times
to foster active, informed citizenship, to develop passions and skills for civic engagement, to
create shared solutions to significant public problems, and to contribute to the common good.
Definition

As understood here, leadership is a self-reflective and collaborative process of identifying

opportunities and challenges within a community, boldly imagining alternatives, assessing
possible avenues of improvement, and inspiring and challenging oneself and others to
courageous action that enhances the common good. It is an expression of ones vocation.
Leadership includes four major capacitiesactive community engagement, relational selfunderstanding, moral courage, and hope.
Capacities
Leadership entails core recognition of oneself as a responsible, related self, nested in a larger
community. Tied to this basic recognition are the following interlocking capacities that
enable wise and compassionate leadership for the common good. The word capacity is used
as opposed to competency to denote these qualities and skills are developed over a lifetime
rather than being achieved at some fixed point in time.
Capacity to Engage Actively for the Sake of the Community, including the ability to:

Focus on the whole of a community or society rather than only its individual parts.
Identify, investigate and comprehend a need, generate and assess possible steps
toward eventual solutions, communicate these findings effectively, and help others to
do the same.
Combine dedication to the good of the community with flexibility regarding the
potential tactics to pursue that good.
Understand how the parts of society influence each other and recognize what relevant
social forces are at work.
Understand through study and experience how people and communities function and
discern what is possible in ones own distinctive social setting.

Development of a Relational Sense of Self, including the ability to:

Discover ones gifts and passions and discern where they intersect the worlds needs.
Develop an experienced sense of agency and efficacy.
Develop ones inner self through reflection so that one can relate with authenticity,
empathy, and compassion to others in ones community.
Listen carefully and deeply to be able to articulate and understand accurately what
one hears, and to offer a constructive response.
Respect, appreciate, and work with the distinctive gifts and perspectives of others,
including across social, economic, political, racial, and religious boundaries.
Celebrate the wonder of an intricately connected world.

Capacity for Moral Courage, including the ability to:

Follow a well-grounded moral compass, even when doing so puts one at risk.

Uphold human dignity and pursue justice with courage, even in the face of societal
pressures and obstacles

Capacity to Hope, including the ability to:

See more deeplythat is, move beyond conventional and polarizing thinking to
imagine and promote alternatives that are beneficial for all.
Pursue worthwhile changes even when success is not assured.

CONFERENCE SUMMARY
The Emerging Future Leaders Conference (EFLC) is an intensive certificate-based
leadership seminar developed and delivered by International Youth Executive Forum with the
support of Ministers Of Christ Foundation.
This immersion into global youth-led development resonates in marked ways and helps shape
tomorrows leaders today. Special guest speakers, many of whom are renowned pastors and
youth leaders themselves, are the central to the hands-on intensive workshops. The EFLC
includes group discussions and workshops, cultural expeditions and executive presentations.
Upon completion of the seminar, participants will be able to
Understand the calling of leadership of God
Analyse strengths, weaknesses, challenges and opportunities of effective planning,
emotional application of leaders to making positive changes.
Identify the role of youth in church growth
Manage their organizations effectively.
Propose and develop solutions and business plan.
Present proposed solutions employing visual aids.
Venue Of The Event
The conference shall be held at Makers House Chapel International and Pentecost
Universities. Both places prepared for the seminar will be used for two days. The conference
will begin from 11th 14th January 2017. 11th -12th January 2017 will be hosted at the Makers
House and 13th -14th January 2017 will be hosted at Pentecost University College.

The Main Speakers

Pastor Michael Boadi Nyamekye Founder of Makers House Chapel Int.
Rev. Yaw Owusu Ansah Founder of Resurrection Power and Living Bread Ministries
Pastor Andy Yawson Founder of KICC Church
Pastor Joyce Aryee Founder of Salt and Light Ministries
Other Speakers
Mr. Robert Porter Jackson The US Ambassador to Ghana
Mrs. Penny Pritzker The US Secretary of Commerce
Mrs. Liliana Biglou The British Council Country Director

THE BUDGET
PUC JAMES MCKEOWN
AUD.
CERTIFICATES
FOOD AND DRINKS
BANNERS
POSTERS
MAKERS HOUSE
MEDIA COVERAGE
TOTAL

QUANTITY
2 DAYS
SESSION
3000
4 DAYSx3000
5
500
2 DAYS
4 DAYS

GH
3000

US$
756.62

30,000
60,000
2000
1200
2000
4500
102,700

7566.21
15132.42
504.41
302.65
504.41
1134.93
25901.65

MAIN SPEAKERS
REV. YAW OWUSU ANSAH
PASTOR MICHAEL BOADI
PASTOR ANDY YAWSON
PASTOR JOYCE ARYEE
TOTAL

GH
1000
1000
1000
1000
4000

US$
252.21
252.21
252.21
252.21
1008.84

GRAND TOTAL

106,700

26910.49

ORGANIZATIONAL PROFILE
INTERNATIONAL YOUTH EXECUTIVE FORUM IS THE PLACE TO BE if you are a
young leader interested in Youth Development and wanting to make a change in the world.
Welcomed by the US Embassy Secretary General and the British Council Country
Director, International Youth Executive Forum (IYEF) is a unique platform created
by Ministers Of Christ Foundation to foster dialogue and generate partnerships between
exceptional youth executives, US high officials and staffs, British Council high officials and
staffs, private sector and civil society. We are committed to empowering youth to become
active participants in the success of Ghana Millennium Development Goals and the transition
of Youth Development agenda.
The outcome of the IYEF is a powerful cross-sector and cross-national network among the
next generation of leaders, translated into action-based projects through our alumni network
The National Youth Council and Salt and Light Ministriesand through our partnership
with International Young Leaders Assembly, which awards fellowships to promising
socially-responsible ventures created and managed by young leaders around the world.
In January 2017, IYEF wish to gather 3000 youth leaders at the Makers House and Pentecost
University in Ghana and reached more than 3 million people through its live webcast and
media coverage. We believe it will be one of the most successful youth assembly events, and
also the longest running, annual youth leadership event on the countrys calendar. We are
expecting a successful and more influential youth assembly in this January 2017 because of
your participation

AIM: To raise a generation of believers, who will not be ashamed of the gospel, an army of
believers that will call on Gods name and will stand on the word of God above all else.

MISSION: To provide educational resources, leadership and job opportunities and a global
network to support youth in developing entrepreneurial qualities.

VISION: To build a global forum and platform on which all youth executives can develop a
unified voice and take collective action towards the progress of a church and the whole
world.

MOTTO: Transforming lives, impacting generations.

OBJECTIVES:
To facilitate an exchange of ideas across ethnically diverse and socially responsible
group of young international leaders
To make executive decisions, draft resolutions, deliver speeches and test our
leadership skills.

 To organize leadership seminars, and entrepreneurship workshops to increase job

creation and creativity worldwide.
To address cultural differences and building on youth mentorship activities.
To create job opportunities for the unemployed members of this network.

APPENDIX
APPENDIX I: POTENTIAL PARTNERS
IYEF will partner with the following:
Foundations Like

International Young Leaders Assembly

International Youth council
International Youth Foundation
National Youth Council Singapore
European Youth movement
European Youth Forum
International Youth Leadership Network

Local entrepreneurs and Youth developers to freely facilitate some of the discussions and
workshops

APPENDIX II: ACTION PLAN

MONTH
OCTOBER 2016

NOVEMBER 2016

DECEMBER 2016

ACTIVITIES
Send Letters To Churches And Schools
Public Education On The Conference
Seek Funds From Investors
Global Open Challenge Fundraising
Submit Registration Forms To Schools And Churches
Partner With Organizations

Deadlines For Registration

Send Letter Of Invitation To Participants
Interview Participants

JANUARY 2017

Conference Preparation
Training Begins

APPENDIX III: PROJECT SUSTAINABILITY

Participants will register with some amount for the training.

Publishing a Leadership and entrepreneurship magazine: Starting from June 2017,

IYEF will start to publish a quarterly leadership & entrepreneurship magazine that
will be sold nationally. Income will also be generated from advertisements placed in
it.
Quarterly Newsletter and biannual project reports will be sent to funders and partners
to keep them informed of the project development.
Yearly review of the project by consultants to understand the effectiveness of its
impact, curriculum and approaches.
Creating a strong alumni network. This will empower leadership cooperation and
solidarity.

APPENDIX IV: THE CONFERENCE PROGRAMME OUTLINE

The Programme outline
WEDNESDAY

11TH JAN. 2017: WELCOME AND

PRESENTATION

ARRIVAL AND WELCOME ADDRESS

YOUTH INTERACTIONS AND ICE BREAKER SOCIAL
INTRODUCTIONS/SEMINAR GOALS
ADDRESS BY US SECRETARY OF COMMERCE: Entrepreneurship, The Way
Forward
SLIDE PRESENTATION/ THE IYEF CAMPAIGN

THURSDAY

12TH JAN. 2017: IYEF GLOBAL

SUMMIT PHASE 1

ARRIVAL AND OPENING PRAYER (9:00AM 10:00AM)

NATIONAL ANTHEM (10:05 M10:10AM)
KEYNOTES BY FOUNDER AND CEO: Recognizing Your Impact As A Leader
(10:15AM 11:00AM)
YOUTH DISCUSSION ON CREATIVITY AND PLAY: How Can We Use Play To
Be More Creative And Productive? ( 11:05AM 12:05PM)
LUNCH BREAK (12:10PM 1:00PM)
LEADERSHIP SUMMIT: UNDERSTANDING GODS CALL TO LEADERSHIP
(1: 10PM 2: 10PM) BY PASTOR MICHEAL BOADI NYAMEKYE
LEADERSHIP WORKSHOP: EFFECTIVE PRESENTATIONS (2:15PM 3:15PM)
NETWORKING AND DEPARTURE
FRIDAY

13TH JAN. 2017: IYEF GLOBAL

SUMMIT PHASE 2

ARRIVAL AND OPENING PRAYER

KEYNOTES BY BRITISH COUNCIL COUNTRY DIRECTOR: Succession
Planning For Effective Change
YOUTH DISCUSSION ON EMOTIONAL INTELLIGENCE: Why Is Emotional
Intelligence Important, And How Can Leaders Apply It?
LUNCH BREAK
LEADERSHIP SUMMIT: THE ROLE OF THE YOUTH IN BUILDING A
CHURCH BY REV. YAW OWUSU ANSAH
LEADERSHIP WORKSHOP: EFFECTIVE PLANNING
NETWORKING AND DEPARTURE
SATURDAY

14TH JAN. 2017: IYEF FINAL GLOBAL

SUMMIT
ARRIVAL AND OPENING PRAYER
IYEF CULTURAL EXPEDITION
YOUTH DISCUSSION ON INCLUSIVITY: How Can We Embrace Diversity When
Working Together?
IDEAS EXPO: SHARING OF EXECUTIVE EXPERIENCES
LUNCH BREAK
KEY SUMMIT BY DR. JOYCE ARYEE: Using Emotional Intelligence To Create
Positive Change
KEYNOTES BY US EMBASSY AMBASSADOR: Global Entrepreneurship Summit
Info.
LEADERSHIP SUMMIT: RUNNING ENGAGING AND EFFECTIVE YOUTH
MEETINGS BY PASTOR ANDY YAWSON
WORKSHOP: BUILDING THE THREE RS: RESILIENCE, RELATIONSHIPS
AND RESPECT
APPENDIX V: ORGANIZATIONAL ACTIVITIES
AVANT-GARDE TRAILS EXPO: This is an entrepreneurship and innovative
workshop programme designed for young entrepreneurs who wish to start a business
or for entrepreneurs who have already started but still needs assistance to grow their
business. It is done twice in a year to make lots of people to benefit from the
workshop and impact many peoples life. Increasing creativity and employment rate.
THE YOUTH FOR CHANGE INITIATIVE: This is a research programme
designed for JHS and SHS to learn the competitive issues of the country and the
world at large, giving them career guidance, and using their research to solve national
problems. It encourages the youth to participate in democracy and governance. The
platform is also used to have an organized voice to engage elected officials to deliver
campaign promises and identify the need of the people and addressing it diligently.
Participant will be selected based on quizzes and other competitions like writing
contests and presentations.
MY HERITAGE FOR UNITY REVOLUTION: This is both research and cultural
competition designed for all ages and people in all educational levels. The students
will be challenged to research and learn about other countrys cultural activities and
our own countrys culture. The participant will compete for a month and the winners
will be awarded, and they will also get other opportunities.