SLCBC Leadership Development Training Workshop Series

A power-packed training on Managing People; Personal & Soft Skills Building for Leaders; Board Role; Leading Meetings - Robert’s Rule of Meeting; Uncovering Possibilities & Igniting Transformation. Invest in your personal leadership development.

Presenter: Dr. Yabome Gilpin-Jackson

Dr. Yabome Gilpin-Jackson is an award-winning scholar, Organization/Human Development Consultant, and

writer. She has 15 years’ experience across the private, public, and nonprofit sectors; Dr. Gilpin-Jackson

teaches undergraduate and graduate courses in her areas of expertise. Dr. Gilpin-Jackson was named an Institute for Social Innovation Scholar and currently is a post-doctoral fellow at Fielding Graduate University, CA for her published

research into the growth and development needs of war-affected people in Africa and her work on African

leadership/identity narratives through We Will Lead Africa. She is a contributor/editor to ground-breaking books

such as Dialogic Organization Development and the Palgrave Handbook of learning for Transformation. She has

been awarded International African Woman of the Year by UK-based Women4Africa and was the first ever

recipient of the US-based Organization Development Network’s Emerging Organization Development

Practitioner award. She received the prestigious 2018 Harry Jerome Professional Excellence Award in Canada and

a Recognition Award by the Sierra Leonean Community of British Columbia for her scholarship and community

leadership. In addition to peer-reviewed publications, she is author of Identities, Ancestries and Destinies, short

story collections about global African experiences.

Contacts: www.SLDConsulting.org | Twitter: @supportdevelop | Linkedin:| Facebook: @yabomewriter | IG: @iamyabome