My most revered exemplary leadership model is the former South African president Nelson Mandela aside sharing birth date with me, his selfless exemplary leadership and commitment to fight apartheid rule at the cost of spending 27years in prison modeled true leadership to me. Notably was his decline to run a second term but rather chose to focus on charitable work and combating poverty and HIV/AIDS through the Nelson Mandela Foundation. This goes to buttress the point that leadership is about influence.
My first shot at leadership was serving in the position of the General Secretary of the Christian Lawyers' Fellowship of Nigeria (CLASFON) in the University of Nigeria. Here I was opportune to inspire and mentor some law students in my faculty in extra curriculum activities for their academic, social and spiritual well-being. I co-championed moot activities depicting legal scenarios, organized tutorial classes, seminars and led my team to intercity conferences. This tremendously increased the number of students that signed up to CLASFON membership, consequently awakening a sense of individual social responsibility to students in the faculty. These hands on experience exposed me to people management and the skill of multi-tasking.
My associate role at Banji Alabi & Co partly demands I manage clients and junior colleagues while doing my job. My penchant for strategy thinking and execution is always brought to book in case development and management (constant interface between procedural and substantive law) inuring from my leadership skills.
I believe leadership skills extend beyond our professional capacity or areas to the society, that is why I am actively involved in a foundation (E-Circle foundation) which trains and mentors young ladies in line with their talents and skills and consequently deploying them it. Through E-Circle foundation I was able to mentor female students of the University of Lagos in the right values in life, personal branding, professional life and sometimes providing internship opportunities fro them.
With all these leadership skills and the desire to develop into a gear leader, Chevening Scholarship will assist me to learn from the best and use those skills to influence my society.
My first shot at leadership was serving in the position of the General Secretary of the Christian Lawyers' Fellowship of Nigeria (CLASFON) in the University of Nigeria. Here I was opportune to inspire and mentor some law students in my faculty in extra curriculum activities for their academic, social and spiritual well-being. I co-championed moot activities depicting legal scenarios, organized tutorial classes, seminars and led my team to intercity conferences. This tremendously increased the number of students that signed up to CLASFON membership, consequently awakening a sense of individual social responsibility to students in the faculty. These hands on experience exposed me to people management and the skill of multi-tasking.
My associate role at Banji Alabi & Co partly demands I manage clients and junior colleagues while doing my job. My penchant for strategy thinking and execution is always brought to book in case development and management (constant interface between procedural and substantive law) inuring from my leadership skills.
I believe leadership skills extend beyond our professional capacity or areas to the society, that is why I am actively involved in a foundation (E-Circle foundation) which trains and mentors young ladies in line with their talents and skills and consequently deploying them it. Through E-Circle foundation I was able to mentor female students of the University of Lagos in the right values in life, personal branding, professional life and sometimes providing internship opportunities fro them.
With all these leadership skills and the desire to develop into a gear leader, Chevening Scholarship will assist me to learn from the best and use those skills to influence my society.
