Rev. Dr. Julius Weche
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Rev. Dr. Julius Weche is a mentor; Founder & Team leader of Akad Education Group – Africa (2010). He is a Leadership & Management lecturer with ESAMI – Eastern and Southern Africa Management Institute (Dubai, Kenya, Tanzania) and CPST – Centre for Professional Training – Parliament of Kenya. Offering training in Leadership & Management Excellence; with emphasis on Negotiation, Communication, Strategy, Emotional intelligence and more. He was recently a BLR, Etihad Museum Experience Executive in Dubai, UAE and ordained by the ACK - Anglican Church of Kenya (2014).
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Rev. Dr. Julius Weche is a mentor; Founder & Team leader of Akad Education Group – Africa (2010). He is a Leadership & Management lecturer with ESAMI – Eastern and Southern Africa Management Institute (Dubai, Kenya, Tanzania) and CPST – Centre for Professional Training – Parliament of Kenya. Offering training in Leadership & Management Excellence; with emphasis on Negotiation, Communication, Strategy, Emotional intelligence and more. He was recently a BLR, Etihad Museum Experience Executive in Dubai, UAE and ordained by the ACK - Anglican Church of Kenya (2014).
Dr. Weche’s educational solutions with AKAD Africa led to being twice invited as speaker-panelist at Harvard Business School (HBS); Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in Boston, USA and as Africa’s representative to HEC MBA
Paris, France. He has been GMAC representative for GMAT examinations in East Africa, was CEO of Leruo Services (PTY) Ltd in Gaborone, Botswana (1993-2005). Leadership solutions include serving in Narc Kenya political party for 10 years as Shadow Education Cabinet Secretary, National Executive Committee (NEC), Think Tank Chair & Negotiation Trainer. Dr. Weche has impacted, influenced and inspired over 100,000 youth in schools over the last decade. This has resulted in admissions with scholarships (of up to USD 100,000 per student per year) to top, world class universities; Harvard, Yale, UPenn, Brown, Duke - United States of America and other countries; Germany, Japan, China, Australia, Cyprus, UK and South Africa. He has often featured in Kenyan and international media. He led AKAD Signature success programs locally and internationally. These include mentorship with MOHI (Missions of Hope International); “Mentoring Future Engineers” with Kenya Power and KENGEN; “Mentoring Future Leaders” with Dr. Vimal Shah & BIDCO; “Media Mentorship” with Standard Media Group, School Motivational Talks with Admissions & Scholarships to top world class universities and competition judge for US$ 1 Million Hult Prize (Kenya), Zuri Awards & YouWin Awards. Further details are available on the AKAD website, www.akadeducationafrica.com Academically, Dr. Weche is a PhD candidate in Leadership & Management. He holds a Master in Business Administration (MBA) degree from De Montfort University (UK) and Bachelor of Veterinary Medicine degree (BVM), University of Nairobi (UoN). He has undertaken graduate studies in Dispute Resolution (UMass, Boston), Negotiation (PON - Harvard Law School), Governance (NIST), Financial Management (Strayer University, USA), Mediation certificate (MMS, Boston), Certified Professional Mediator (CPM), Biblical Doctrine (NBTI), Import & Export – Clearing & Forwarding and Shotokan Karate Sensei & Discipler for over 30 years; published author of “ Conflict and Deception in Relationships and Marriage” on Amazon.com
As an entrepreneurial “tent-maker”, Dr. Weche is CEO of Akad Africa Ltd. He was Managing Director of Leruo Services (Pty) Ltd in Botswana, supplying Human and Veterinary medicines to the government of Botswana, with a value chains from procurement, manufacturing and wholesale. He has held Directorship of various businesses in Kenya, Zambia, Botswana, South Africa with interests and regular travel to USA, China, Singapore, Thailand, Malaysia, Zimbabwe and others. His passion is mentoring in Business Development, Consulting, Leadership training and mentoring, and his challenge is on how this can be used for peace in Kenya, Africa and the world.
He is a product of mentorship from renowned religious and industry leaders; Rev. Dr. Timothy Njoya, the late Major Aussie Walker, David Odongo Snr., Kiptanui Chemwor (Factual Films (1974) Ltd.). These graciously chose to identify, invest, challenge and intentionally develop his leadership skills. As a result, he is proudly mentor and father of many exceptional youth, as he aspires to develop and empower thousands more as value-based leaders in Africa & Middle East, specifically next 100 Billionaires leaders & excellent mentors, like Dr. Vimal Shah and Harvard Professor Issa Baluch. He is very grateful to God the Father, for the privilege, honour and experience of value adding work worldwide; from the United States of America, Dubai, China. And with great joy & pride - within several African countries; Zambia, Zimbabwe, South Africa, Botswana, Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania, Rwanda and Southern Sudan with travel to Nigeria, Ghana and Ethiopia.