I am a leadership practitioner, writer and ministry leader based in Cameroon. My work has grown through seasons of service, formation, failure and increasing clarity about what I am called to steward.
I help leaders, teams, ministries and organisations build healthier ways of carrying responsibility.
My work sits at the meeting point of leadership formation, organisational development, ministry, writing and long-term institution building. I founded Lead from the Heart and serve within Bethel Atlanta Cameroon, where many of these convictions are tested in the realities of community, discipleship and shared leadership.
I am especially interested in how leaders are formed before unhealthy patterns take root, how exhausted leaders can be renewed, and how structures can help transformation continue beyond one person.
I joined the first cohort of the Bethel School of Supernatural Ministry in Cameroon, under Dr. Sherri Lewis. It was my first encounter with a leadership culture built on presence rather than pressure. I did not understand then how long those seeds would take to grow.
I was appointed Managing Director of Omni Capital, a UK-backed software company in Buea. I learned leadership the way many leaders do—through responsibility that exceeded my maturity at the time. It taught me that competence without formation eventually costs someone.
In the same season I married Vivian, the vision that would become Lead from the Heart was born. It began as an idea about training leaders. It has never stopped being that. Twelve years later I still cannot fully separate the calling from the covenant.
Vivian carries a distinct calling in prophetic worship, inner healing, spiritual mothering and family restoration. An important part of our future work lies where her pastoral and healing grace meets my work in leadership formation and structure.
Explore Vivian & our shared calling →I moved fully from corporate leadership into ministry, and encountered leadership at its most damaging. I do not tell that story to accuse anyone. I tell it because everything I now believe about formation before fracture, and restoration after it, was learned in those years rather than read in a book.
I attended ALICT—the African Leadership Institute for Community Transformation—as a participant, six years after a friend first recommended it. A silent retreat there gave me permission to pursue what I had been carrying since 2013. Lead from the Heart was relaunched as a formal practice.
I reconnected with Bethel Atlanta Cameroon—a decade after first meeting Dr. Sherri—and the work found a home where it could be tested rather than merely taught. Corporate retreats, partnerships and hundreds of leaders formed. The methodology stopped being an idea.
Three months on the ALICT Sojourner programme in South Africa. The Leadership Heartbeat finally had language: daily pulse, weekly wave, quarterly pivot, annual sabbath. That same year I designed and directed a retreat for over eighty people from another continent—without being in the room. It showed me the work could travel without depending on my presence.
This season is increasingly about building the architecture that allows the work to continue beyond my presence: a clearer methodology, a growing delivery team, sector-specific expressions, assessments, learning journeys, digital formation tools and institutions capable of carrying the heart of the work faithfully.
I am learning that multiplication is not simply reaching more people. It is building work that can retain its integrity when someone else carries it.
I am husband to Vivian and father to Geula and Charlotte. I do not see family as the private cost of public contribution. Family is part of the life that gives the work meaning and keeps it human.
This is also why sustainable rhythm matters so deeply to me. The aim is not to build something impressive while becoming absent from the people entrusted to us.
The work should never grow in a way that diminishes the people it was meant to serve—including those closest to home.
I want to be remembered less for the number of things I built and more for the people who became more whole because I obeyed.
The long view