Why We Exist
We envision a world where leadership knows no age, job title, or hierarchies. We aspire to be a global powerhouse in leadership development, making and shaping transformational leaders who thrive in their personal lives and in their area of service.
Our mission: Transform followers into bold leaders. Forge good leaders into great ones. Awaken, elevate and democratize leadership consciousness, competencies, mindsets and convictions.

Leader Upp is a people-centered premier leadership school immersed in society in the context in which people work and are challenged. We are dedicated to helping individuals and businesses unlock, develop, and elevate their leadership capacity in the real-world so that they can power the goals that demand those skills.
We empower those who aspire to operate at higher levels—driven professionals and organizations committed to genuine transformation and to living out their full potential.
At Leader Upp, we equip individuals and businesses to discover, cultivate, deploy and continuously refine / evolve leadership abilities with purpose and vision. Through continuous experience-lead learning and practice, doing in the real-world, we help leaders harness the skills that unlocks an arsenal of abilities.
- Transform followers into leaders
- Elevate good leaders into great ones
- Create a leadership ripple that spreads
- Empower individuals and organizations

How we work
Mission Strategy
In-context approach
At Leader Upp, we don’t believe in one-size-fits-all leadership training. Our in-context approach immerses leaders in real-world challenges, live problem-solving, and tailored coaching that aligns directly with their business goals. We bridge the gap between theory and execution, ensuring leaders develop skills they can apply immediately to drive performance, innovation, and growth. Leader Upp equips organizations with future-ready leaders who make an impact from day one.
Strategic meaningful partnerships
We partner with businesses and organizations that are people-centered and forward-looking to bring customized solutions that help nurture and unleash future-ready leaders inhouse. By aligning with businesses, industry leaders, and learning institutions, we co-create tailored leadership development programs that solve real challenges. Whether through executive coaching, or high-impact workshops, our partnerships ensure organizations develop future-ready leaders who drive success from within.
FAQ
Frequently Asked Questions
We organize biweekly leadership skills events called The Leader Upp Collective on Thursdays in different prior communicated locations across Kigali. The collective provides members with the opportunity to learn to lead by leading, speak in public by speaking, talk by talking, build relationships by building relationships, negotiate by negotiating, resolve conflicts by resolving conflicts, etc
The Leader Upp Collective functions like a club with membership. We provide a quarterly renewable membership subscription plan for individuals and businesses. It is tier-based plan that takes into consideration one’s capacity to pay. The maximum subscription is only $100 per quarter for individuals and $599/4 people for businesses per quarter.
- Effective communication: Public speaking and interpersonal conversations
- Relationships: Continuously refine the art of finding, initiating, nurturing and maintaining the fulfilling relationships/friendships
- Financial Freedom: How to grow financially, build businesses, sell your talents, products, services. We want to get out of the rat race ultimately
- Authenticity: How to integrate the art of being authentic (yourself) unapologetically (freedom to be) into your personality.
- Meaning and fulfilment: How to live more meaningful and fulfilling lives
- Self-actualization: How to chart your path to do what you were meant to do in the long term. How to deploy your most powerful endowments to serve the world around you.
- Understanding the Opposite sex. What do women need/want? What do men need/want? How to relate with each other, find love, live happily in relationships.
- Serving others: Serve others and grow by giving of your gift which is the most satisfying form of giving there is.
Blog
Leadership Articles

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