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THE LEADERSHIP INSTITUTE
The Leadership School has three age-specific personal developmental programs that seek to produce wholesome leaders anchored on the 6 wells of life.
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Well Anchored
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Well Ballanced
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Well Groomed
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Well Exposed
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Well Read
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Well Spoken
This is a leadership training program for young persons between ages 6 to 17 years. It offers life-skills necessary in a VUCA – world. The training includes, but is not limited to the following:
- Visioning and goal setting
- Self-awareness
- Developing a positive self-concept
- Personal integrity and keeping personal boundaries
- Developing healthy relationships
- Critical and creative thinking
- Leadership values and skills
- Decision-making skills
- Communication skills
- Public-speaking
- Public-speaking
- Health and mental well-being
- Etiquette
- Networking and social skills
- Basic financial literacy.
This is a leadership development program, tailor-made for college to career-level individuals.It focuses on personal development and career preparation. It enables the scholar to do the following:
- Identify his/her aim or purpose in life
- Set and/or clarify suitable career and life goals
- Identify bottlenecks to his/her career development or growth
- Develop self-awareness
- Raise personal confidence and lead to a more fulfilling, and higher quality life
- Make relevant, positive and effective life choices
- Develop a plan of action to realize his/her goals
- Enhance his/her marketability and employability or entrepreneurship prospects
- Unlock his/her potential in life by identifying, assessing and maximizing his/her unique skills and qualities
This is a twin program that is tailor-made for politicians and prospective politicians. The training offers cutting-edge practical training on some of the following:
- Module1: Unpacking political leadership
- Module 2: Self-leadership
- Module 3: Leadership strategies and values
- Module 4: Gender dynamics in politics
- Module 5: Political party dynamics
- Module 6: Role of a legislature
- Module 7: A winning strategy
- Module 8: Campaign management dynamics
- Module 9: Building social, political and financial resources capital
- Module 10: Financial management
- Module 11: Legacy-building
- Module 12: Exit strategy
With Great Power comes Great Responsibility
The Coaching and Mentorship Division
The coaching program
The Coaching program covers the following areas:
Career Coach: This is for those who feel uncertain, unhappy or stagnated in their career.
Business Coach: Are you thinking of starting a business? Do you wish to grow or diversify your business? Do you fear investing or taking risks? Do you feel stuck and unsure of how to move past your current stage? Our business coach
can help you overcome these hurdles and maximize your potential.
Financial Coach: Are you living pay check to pay check? Do your ends never meet? Do you always feel like your money is disappearing faster than you can count it? Look for our financial coach who can help you build a better
relationship with money.
Transitional Coach: This coach will help if you are facing any important transitions in your life, such as a new relationship, a divorce, a death of a close one, new career, or a cross-country move.
Relationship Coach: Take a look at the relationships in your life. Do you feel like they bring you joy? Or do relationships with other people seem to drain you? If this is the case, our relationship coach could help you out.
Recovery Coach: Did you go through any trauma? Do you feel like this trauma is holding you back from living as your happiest or most productive self? Do you struggle to overcome addiction of any kind? Our recovery coach can help
you deal with this very important chapter in your life.
Health and Wellness Coach: Do you feel confident about your health and wellness habits? If not, our health and wellness coach can help you create sustainable change and reach your health goals.
Personal Development Coach: If none of the above resonates with you but you still feel like you have the potential to improve, look for our personal development coach.
THE MENTORSHIP PROGRAM
The mentoring program pairs the scholar/individual with a person with experience and focuses on helping him or her with career development and broadening of the horizon. It focuses on goals and realization of goals.
Learning method | coaching | mentoring |
|---|---|---|
| The Question | How?(Navigation) | What(Learning, Planing and Projecting) |
| The Focus | The present | The future |
| Aim or objectives | Improving Inherent Skills | Developing and commiting to learning goals |
| Expected result | Raising competence in the field of knowledge | Opening horizons or new knowledge frontiers |
Lead Consultant – Millie Odhiambo Mabona – MP
Hon. Millie Odhiambo Mabona is a lawyer by profession with a law degree from the University of Nairobi and Masters degree in Public Service Law from New York University. She is currently serving her 4th term in the Kenyan Parliament and has also served as a Member of the Pan African Parliament. She currently serves as the President of the Committee on Human Rights of Parliamentarians of the Inter Parliamentary Union- a Global Parliament of Parliaments.
Millie is one of the founding ‘mothers and fathers’ of the Kenyan Constitution, first as a delegate to the National Constitutional Conference and later as a member of the 27-Member Parliamentary Select Committee on the Constitution, where she served with the immediate former and current President and some Governors. She has served in several other committees, including the Constitutional Implementation Oversight Committee (as Vice Chairperson), the Justice and Legal Affairs Committee (as Vice Chairperson), the Committee on Powers and Privileges, the Budget Committee, the Committee on Equal Opportunities, the Agriculture, Livestock & Fisheries Committee, the Select Committee on the Resettlement of Internally Displaced Persons, the Select Committee on the Root Causes of Cattle Rustling, the Parliamentary Select Committee on Unlawful Organizations, and as a Member of the Justice and Human Rights Committee of the Pan African Parliament and President of the Committee on Human Rights of Parliamentarians of the IPU. She has also been involved in Election Observer missions under the African Union to Zambia and Ghana under the tutelage of His Excellency Goodluck Jonathan, former President of Nigeria, and His Excellency Jakaya Kikwete, former President of Tanzania. She has distinguished herself as a vocal and astute Legislator and has sponsored six pieces of legislation, three of which have become law: The Counter-trafficking in Persons Act, The Treaty-making and Ratification Act, and The Victim Protection Act. The other bills include The Child Justice Bill, The Family Reproductive Health Care Bill, and The Assisted Reproduction Bill. She was involved in the drafting, review, analysis, and mainstreaming of rights in several pieces of legislation before she joined Parliament, including the Children Act, the Criminal Law Amendment Act (2004), the Sexual Offences Act, The Refugee Act, the HIV/AIDS Act, the Gender Commission Act, and the Water Act, amongst others.
Millie has experience spanning over 25 years in various aspects of law, governance, elections, gender, human rights, leadership, and management. She has previously worked as a Litigation Counsel with Kamau & Kamau Advocates; State Counsel (Civil Litigation Department and Advocates’ Complaint Commission) of the State Law Office, where she was assigned to the then only National Election Petition Court. She has worked with the International Federation of Women Lawyers (FIDA) as a Litigation Counsel. She was also Program Officer with the ICJ (K) under the Gender and Justice program for the Judiciary. She worked for Le’twal International as a Program Manager for East and Southern Africa on Treaty-based rights of women and children in East and Southern Africa. She founded The CRADLE – The Children Foundation, where she worked as the Founding Director. She has initiated and/or acted as counsel in several impact litigation cases, including cases on domestic violence, children born out of wedlock, access to justice for children, amongst others.
Millie has also served as chairperson of the Coalition on Violence Against Women; Legal Advisor to the Kenya Women Leadership Caucus; Board Member of the Jim Karrafa Business Association for Women, an initiative to build the capacity of women living in Kibera informal settlement, Nairobi; Committee member of the Nairobi Pentecostal Church Centre for Street and Disadvantaged Children; and Case Adoption Committee Member of the Child Welfare Society of Kenya, amongst others.
Millie has offered technical and advisory services for several national and international agencies, including WHO (Africa Strategy on Women’s Health; and Human Rights issues related to FGM); UNICEF (UN Study on Violence against Children; and Individual Complaint Procedure); UNODC (Victim Protection and Counter-trafficking in Persons); Norwegian People’s Aid (Domestic Violence); International IDEA (Coalition-building for political parties; and Gender-budgeting); SIDA (Mainstreaming cross-cutting issues such as human rights, women’s rights, children’s rights, gender, environmental concerns, and HIV/AIDs) in Government of Kenya Ministries; NDI and Westminster Foundation for Democracy and Africa Liberal Network on Women Leadership Training for women parliamentarians, amongst others.
Millie has trained different legislative bodies on various issues including mainstreaming cross- cutting issues in legislation and policy; governance and leadership; amongst others. These have been in the following institutions:
- South Sudan Women Parliamentarians under the auspices of NDI
- Uganda Women Parliamentary Association under the auspices of NDI
- Mauritus Parliament under the auspices of UNDP and NDI
- Somalia Parliamentary Committee of Justice and Legal Affairs on Sexual Offences Law
- Zimbabwe on Coalition-building under the auspices of International IDEA
- Zimbabwe Parliament: The Constitution-Making process under the auspices of KNA
- South Africa, Kenya, Uganda, Malawi, DRC, Senegal women parliamentarians under the Auspices of WFD and ALN
- Bangsamoro, Phillipines Women Leaders including Members of the Transitional Parliament under the auspices of WFD and ALN; Training of Women MPs in Nigeria
- Young Women Leaders under the auspices of Akina Mama Wa Africa
- Government of Kenya Ministries of Health; Education; Justice; Roads; Planning; and Agriculture on Mainstreaming cross-cutting issues under the auspices of The CRADLE, SIDA and CIDA: and Ministry of Internal Security on a strategy on victim management.
- Audit of the AU Protocol on Women’s Right under auspices of NYU.
Millie has written several books on leadership and public interest law. She has acted in several plays and in a Movie, “The Forgotten” on the plight of exiled South African women, post-apartheid.
Millie has received several accolades and awards for the work she has done including: 2024: 50 Most influential Women by Africapitol; 2023: Women in Business Award for effective representation and advocacy; 2019: Presidential Shujaa Awards for outstanding legislative work: 2019: Africa Political Woman Leader of the Year Award; London, for consistency in protecting women’s rights; 2018: Women Appreciating Women (WAW) Awards, for exemplary work in promoting women’s rights in Kenya; 2008: International Young Women Christian Association, for exemplary work on Gender and Human Rights; 2007: “Woman of the Year Award” Winner under the “Gender and Human Rights Category” by Eve Magazine; 2006: Named by True Love Magazine, a leading women’s magazine in Eastern Africa as one of the 50 most inspiring women in Eastern Africa: 2006 Named by President (then Sen.) Barrack Obama, as one of the most outstanding Kenyans in governance and justice issues; 2005: Nominee, “She Woman of the Year” by Family TV, Kenya for exemplary work on women and children’s rights: 2002: Nominee, “Eve Woman of the Year Award” for exemplary work on Gender and Human Rights, by Eve Magazine, a leading women’s magazine in Kenya.
Coaching and Mentorship Lead – Akinyi Walkowa Odinga
I am text block. Click edit button to change this text. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing Walkowa has a Masters in Executive Leadership Coaching from the University of Stellenbosch in South Africa; she is a qualified psychotherapist with a PGD in Person-centered/Existential Psychotherapy from Thames Valley University in the UK (British Association of Counselling and Psychotherapy (BACP) accredited); and she is currently undertaking a PHD in Public Administration specializing in Peace studies (Conflict
Transformation).
Walkowa is a psychotherapist; a professional executive coach; a changemanager; and an international development consultant, (Afrocentric & Gender-aware Approach), with vast experience in her areas of expertise.She has run a private practice, Walkowa Coaching and Psychotherapy services since 2008, offering coaching and psychotherapy services to individual clients and organisations of all age
categories. She works with women in middle and top-level leadership within the private and public sector. Services offered include one to one therapy; group therapy sessions; relationship coaching; leadership coaching; financial coaching; business coaching; personal development coaching; health and wellness coaching; recovery coaching; career coaching and transitional coaching. Her coaching skills include working with individuals in: setting and clarifying suitable goals; identifying what’s holding them back from achieving those goals; creating a plan of action to get through those obstacles; making the most of one’s unique skills; and unlocking one’s potential. She is accustomed to working internationally across the African continent, including work in conflict areas.
Walkowa has provided professional input in the development of various coaching and mentorship materials for the MILLIE Institute including the books “Unleashing your Potential”, a personal guide for young people; “A to Z for Young Adults”; and “Rig or be Rigged”, a leadership guide for women seeking political offices.
Her coaching work is deeply enriched by her work in the development field where she boasts of experience spanning over twenty years on human rights, (with a bias on women and children’s rights) and gender issues. She also has varied skills including psychosocial support; community empowerment strategies; research; policy development; M&E; organisational assessment/development; and strategic planning. Her track record in the development sector includes work for various UN agencies and major non-profit international organizations such as UNICEF, UNWOMEN, Action AID International and DFID
Walkowa has also held senior management positions in different agencies including as a Managing Director, for Alternaires Consult Ltd./ Maiden Africa Ltd., (Jan 2011 – 2018). The agency undertook development consultancies in Kenya, Uganda and Tanzania.
Walkowa also served as the Executive Director of the non-profit agency, Jaramogi Oginga Odinga Foundation (Kenya) from April 2004 to Jul 2010. The mandate of the organization was to offer leadership trainings for emerging leaders; offer mentorship and incubation for upcoming leaders; drive various other development programs for the benefit of the community. She also served as the Executive Director of Mama Na Dada International (London), from May 1998 to April 2004 which was an organization set up to work with women and children refugees/asylum seekers in the UK and Kenya
Walkowa has undertaken several consultancies in different areas. Some of the consultancies include: “The assessment of the state of regional and continental women’s rights movements, its relationship with the feminist movement and the broader civic movement across the African Continent,” for the UN Women in (2018-2019); She undertook, in liaison with other consultants, “A baseline study on the status of Sexual and Gender Based Violence (SGBV) in 2 refugee camps in Dadaab, Kenya for the Kenya Red Cross Society (2012); She held a series of training sessions for the Women’s Regional Assemblies for the CWL, Kenya on human rights, governance, gender and development (2011 – 2012); She developed the M&E Strategy for the Education Sector in South Sudan for UNICEF Juba, to ensure evidence-based periodic reporting of progress against the seven strategic goals detailed in the General Education Strategic Plan by the National Ministry of Education (2015); She facilitated the strategic planning and developed strategic plans on behalf of League of Kenya Women Voters (LKWV) and African Network for the Prevention and Protection Against Child Abuse and Neglect (ANPPCAN) (2012). She provided psychosocial support for IDPS in camps across the nation, (2008 – 2009) under the Jaramogi Foundation.
- Coaches and Mentors of South Africa (COMENSA);
- Kenya Psychological Association (KPsyA)(Practitioner Certification);
- Positive Psychology Association of Kenya (PPAK);
- University of Stellenbosch Business School (USB);
- London School of Economics (LSE);
- British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy (BCAP);
- Durban University of Technology, (DUT)
Walkowa is an Associate/Member/Alumni of: