Who we are

The Institute for Transformational Leadership (ITL) trains innovative leaders from all over the world and equips them to facilitate transformation as leaders serving different sectors and communities. Through the African Leadership Institute for Community Transformation (ALICT), emerging leaders interact with other leaders active in spheres of influence other than their own, and exchange insights on how best they might transform their current and future contexts.

Our vision and mission aim at seeing communities in Africa and beyond transformed through a new generation of leaders seeking to serve and live called lives, by empowering them to facilitate sustainable transformation towards healthy reconciled communities based on holistic and Biblical principles*. Emerging leaders from 111 countries have participated in ALICT, sharing cultures and perspectives. These include doctors, lawyers, psychologists to chefs, teachers, professors; from pastors, business owners, those working in corporates to farmers, journalists, artists, and non-profit leaders. Skills have been taught, new insights gained, and relationships fostered. Our foundation brings the depth of character; our approach is as much about being as doing. Our alumni are leaders with genuine character and the ability to facilitate transformation and not just transactional activities.

History

In obedience to God’s call a unique learning experience for young, innovative and entrepreneurial leaders based on experiential learning started. Beginning in 2004, the first 3-month school was hosted near Cape Town in 2004 and as it developed the 3 month learning experience grew into something wider ITL was born.