Grace Ngare is an Associate Professor in the Department of Sociology, Gender and Development Studies, School of Law, Arts, and Social Sciences at Kenyatta University (KU), and currently, a Research Associate at the KU-Women’s Economic Empowerment Hub (KU-WEE) leading the Policy and Advocacy docket. She is currently the Chairperson Governing Council of the Presbyterian University of East Africa (PUEA). A renowned gender scholar, Prof. Ngare has been instrumental in setting the field for inclusive research, thereby offering strategic advice in the intersection of gender and other disciplines.

Having started at the Multi-Media University- Kenya, in January 2016, Grace has enthusiastically walked the Leadership Course as a trainee and subsequently risen to the level of a Course Instructor. Having been expansively trained in Creating Course Leaders (CCL) as a course instructor, she has with others delivered this course five times in the following universities - Kenyatta University [February 2018 & November 2023]; Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture & Technology (JKUAT) [March 2019 & November 2022]; and at Cavendish University- Uganda [July 2024].

Grace is passionate in seeing the Leadership Course available to Africans; Universities in Africa, and more specifically, the Presbyterian University of East Africa.

Margaret Oloko is an Associate Professor in the Department of Business Administration, School of Business & Entrepreneurship, Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture and Technology (JKUAT), Kenya. She holds a PhD in Business Administration (Global Business Management) with a focus on Marketing and Strategic Management. She is a Former Dean, School of Business (now School of Business & Entrepreneurship). A part from being a senior faculty member in her university, she has extensively trained in the Being a Leader (BAL) Course, a journey that started way back in January 2016 at the Multi- Media University of Kenya and in the United States of America. She has had opportunities to be trained in Creating Course Leaders (CCL) as a course instructor and has delivered this course five times together with some of her colleagues in the following universities - Kenyatta University (February 2018), twice in Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture & Technology - March 2019 and November 2022 (all in Kenya), Kwame Nkrumah University of Science &Technology, Ghana in March 2020 AND Addis Abba University, Ethiopia - April 2023. Margaret is a stand for the Being a Leader course and the Director, Africa Initiative (under the Foundation for Ontological Leadership Education - FOLE) whose aim is to make this course available to Faculty members in universities in Africa. Parting Shot: Margaret Oloko is committed to accomplishing something extraordinary in Africa and sees Leadership as a requirement to making it happen.