{"id":2083,"date":"2025-06-01T10:15:04","date_gmt":"2025-06-01T10:15:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/puea\/?page_id=2083"},"modified":"2025-08-25T12:47:50","modified_gmt":"2025-08-25T12:47:50","slug":"home","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/baltraining.puea.ac.ke\/","title":{"rendered":"Home"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-page\" data-elementor-id=\"2083\" class=\"elementor elementor-2083\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-71156fe e-flex e-con-boxed e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"71156fe\" data-element_type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-71235ee e-con-full e-flex e-con e-child\" data-id=\"71235ee\" data-element_type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-ad595c6 elementor-widget elementor-widget-image\" data-id=\"ad595c6\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"image.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"170\" src=\"https:\/\/baltraining.puea.ac.ke\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/WhatsApp-Image-2025-08-25-at-15.05.31-1-300x170.jpeg\" class=\"attachment-large size-large wp-image-2529\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/baltraining.puea.ac.ke\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/WhatsApp-Image-2025-08-25-at-15.05.31-1-300x170.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/baltraining.puea.ac.ke\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/WhatsApp-Image-2025-08-25-at-15.05.31-1-200x112.jpeg 200w, https:\/\/baltraining.puea.ac.ke\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/WhatsApp-Image-2025-08-25-at-15.05.31-1-800x450.jpeg 800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-46cd72d elementor-widget elementor-widget-html\" data-id=\"46cd72d\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"html.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<!-- Two-Column Photo Grid -->\n<section class=\"photo-grid\">\n  <div class=\"photo-item\">\n    <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/baltraining.puea.ac.ke\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Prof.-Grace-Wamue-Ngare-removebg-preview.png\" alt=\"Campus Image 1\">\n    <h4>BAL Instructor -- Prof. Grace Ngare<\/h4>\n    <p><\/p>\n    <details style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif; margin-top: 20px;\">\n  <summary style=\"cursor: pointer; font-size: 18px; background-color: #0073aa; color: white; padding: 10px 20px; border-radius: 5px;\">\n    + Read More\n  <\/summary>\n  <div style=\"margin-top: 15px; color: #000000; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.6;\">\n    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\u2019s 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.<br><br>\n    \n    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].<br><br>\n    \n    Grace is passionate in seeing the Leadership Course available to Africans; Universities in Africa, and more specifically, the Presbyterian University of East Africa.\n  <\/div>\n<\/details>\n  <\/div>\n  \n  <div class=\"photo-item\">\n    <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/baltraining.puea.ac.ke\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/margaret-oloko-1.png\" alt=\"Campus Image 2\">\n    <h4>BAL Instructor-- Prof. Margaret Oloko<\/h4>\n    <p><\/p>\n    <details style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif; margin-top: 20px;\">\n  <summary style=\"cursor: pointer; font-size: 18px; background-color: #0073aa; color: white; padding: 10px 20px; border-radius: 5px;\">\n    + Read More\n  <\/summary>\n  <div style=\"margin-top: 15px; color: #000000; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.6;\">\n    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).\nA 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. \nMargaret 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.\nParting Shot: Margaret Oloko is committed to accomplishing something extraordinary in Africa and sees Leadership as a requirement to making it happen.\n\n  <\/div>\n    \n<\/details>\n<\/section>\n\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-d41408f e-grid e-con-full e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"d41408f\" data-element_type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-2ac0828 elementor-widget elementor-widget-image\" data-id=\"2ac0828\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"image.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/baltraining.puea.ac.ke\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/BAL-POSTER.jpeg\" title=\"BAL POSTER\" alt=\"BAL POSTER\" loading=\"lazy\" \/>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-79046f0 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"79046f0\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-dfec25a elementor-widget elementor-widget-heading\" style=\"flex: 0 1 auto; 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order: 0; align-self: auto; flex-flow: row; place-content: normal; align-items: normal; gap: normal; --swiper-theme-color: #000; --swiper-navigation-size: 44px; --swiper-pagination-bullet-size: 6px; --swiper-pagination-bullet-horizontal-gap: 6px; --widgets-spacing: 20px; width: 470px; color: #494b51; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-weight: 400;\" data-id=\"b9d0bf1\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\" style=\"transition: background 0.3s, border 0.3s, border-radius 0.3s, box-shadow 0.3s, transform 0.4s;\">\n<iframe width=\"315\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/XVO1VaDC4mc?si=_CeExyaE1AYw_VXB\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<p style=\"border: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-style: inherit; margin-bottom: 0em; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\">Leadership is not just a position; it\u2019s a set<\/p>\n<p style=\"border: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-style: inherit; margin-bottom: 0em; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\">of qualities, actions, and strategies that empower<\/p>\n<p style=\"border: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-style: inherit; margin-bottom: 0em; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\">individuals to guide, inspire, and create positive<\/p>\n<p style=\"border: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-style: inherit; margin-bottom: 0em; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\">change.<\/p>\n<p style=\"border: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-style: inherit; margin-bottom: 0em; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\">The effective exercise of leadership involves<\/p>\n<p style=\"border: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-style: inherit; margin-bottom: 0em; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\">understanding and implementing principles that<\/p>\n<p style=\"border: 0px; font-size: 16px; 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