Community

The Leader Upp Collective.

A community of individuals committed to transformational personal leadership and living with purpose — a space designed to awaken the leader within and empower you to pursue purpose, meaning, and your highest aspirations.

What it is

A space for the pursuit of personal leadership, purpose and self-transformation.

The Leader Upp Collective is a vehicle for Leader Upp's mission to elevate and democratize leadership consciousness, mindsets, convictions, and build leadership competencies as an integral part of society. The collective provides a space designed to awaken and empower the leader within.

A lot has been said about safe spaces. But people do not want to just feel "safe." People deeply want to feel competent, capable, courageous, and equipped to take on their dreams and the challenges that come with them. People want to take the necessary risk that life demands of them so that they can go on the adventure to which their soul is calling them.

The Leader Upp Collective brings together seekers and givers into spaces designed for risk-taking in leadership, communication and authentic expression in the pursuit of purpose, meaning and impact.

The collective holds monthly events in chosen hotels around Kigali to provide individuals the opportunity to take the necessary risk to build their leadership capacity while pursuing purpose, influence and building meaningful relationships. Join us today and reinvent yourself.

Our Foundation

Community Pillars

Our impact comes from standing on these pillars.

If I am not serving, I am not leading

Everyone can lead because everyone can serve. The more I serve, the more I lead. He who serves many, leads many and becomes great. Leadership is service.

If I get better, we get better

My growth and leadership is all my responsibility, but it affects everyone around me. I drive positive change in my community by making myself better and leading myself.

The way to the thousand is the one

To help a thousand, I must first help one — and it starts with me. To serve a thousand, I must first serve one. How I serve the one is how I serve the thousand.

Without tending, the fire goes out

Just as a fire needs fuel and attention to continue burning, purpose, passion, and leadership demand continuous commitment and nurturing.

No salvation for he who stops trying

To get results I must keep working, never giving up or settling. I keep searching, seeking, exploring, and climbing. No matter how many times I fall or fail, I rise up.

What You'll Gain

Skills you'll develop.

Through action-based immersive learning, immediate constructive feedback, coaching, risk-taking, and adventure, you'll develop core, high-leverage leadership and life skills that will leave you unrecognizable a year from now.

Public speaking & effective communication

Develop confidence grounded in competence, because you'll learn the fundamentals that unlock your voice.

Building meaningful connections & relationships

Build and nurture real relationships grounded in authenticity. You'll find a tribe that doesn't just accept but celebrates you.

Emotional intelligence, self-awareness & empathy

Learn to be in touch with your emotions and those of others, and how to use this superpower in leadership.

Talk to anyone and have interesting conversations

A highly underrated skill is being able to start and hold interesting, engaging conversations. Be ready to work this muscle.

Adventure, purpose, meaning & fulfillment

Sometimes life feels empty in the grind. But our souls never stop calling us to something higher. Here is the space that says, what if…

Financial freedom & serving others

Dive deep into what it means and what it will take to achieve financial freedom, and how serving the world with your gifts gets you there.

How We Operate

Community values.

01
Name above title

All community members go by their first names. Titles and job roles are only a by-the-way. Names represent people better than passing job titles — and we don't want to reinforce an identity that's been externally attributed and may not be deeply felt.

02
Vision over CV

We don't care as much about what someone has done or where they've been as we do about where they want to go and who they want to become. A CV shows where we've been; a vision shows where we need to be.

03
Questions over answers

We are a community of seekers with curious, searching minds. Good exploration starts with asking relevant questions — and the greatest question, "Who am I?", is our anchor.

04
The climb over the peak

It's more important to be actively making progress than to arrive at the proverbial peak. Great visions have no finish lines, only next steps — we never arrive, and we never settle.

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Join us today and reinvent yourself.