The journey of a calling
Not an autobiography, and not a list of achievements. What follows is the story of how one assignment slowly clarified itself — told in seasons, the way it was actually lived.
The journey began in two rooms at once: the pioneer batch of the Bethel Atlanta School of Supernatural Ministry in Cameroon, and — at twenty-five — the Managing Director’s office of a UK-backed software company establishing operations in Buea. Qualified by every external measure, and unprepared for what leadership actually asked. Within six months the cracks showed: turnover, disconnection, a team led as employees rather than people. Success felt like failure — and that awakening became the foundation everything else stands on.
The vision for Lead from the Heart was born — a name, a Facebook page, and three foundational laws: Love, Hope, Faith. A conviction, formed in corporate leadership, that African leaders deserved a different model. Pastor Boris was already presenting the ideas at campus leadership forums; a friend, Ps Willy, heard the vision, believed in it — and recommended a programme called ALICT. That recommendation would wait six years.
Years of carrying heart-centred leadership concepts alongside a corporate role, while a deepening pull toward ministry grew. Stepping fully into pastoral ministry brought a second awakening: the church operated like the corporation — performance-driven, results over relationships. What had started as a whisper was being refined, even through the pain.
ALICT, finally attended as a student — uncertain, searching. The silent retreat at inHarmonie settled the noise, and gave permission to pursue with full conviction what had been growing since 2013. Lead from the Heart relaunched as a leadership development practice. And ALICT did more than relaunch a consultancy — it led to Bethel Atlanta Cameroon in 2020, a leadership environment that finally matched the message.
Three months as a Sojourner at ALICT in South Africa — serving leaders from over twenty-six nations while stepping away from everything familiar. At the same inHarmonie retreat that once gave permission to start, a quieter conviction emerged: depth, not breadth. On the 3rd of October, at a desk in Paarl, the four rhythms of the Leadership Heartbeat took their mature form. Back home, the roles had grown — co-supervisory leadership at BAC, the online school, a team at LFTH — and the framework arrived just in time to carry them.
Books moving from manuscript to shelf. Programmes maturing under shared leadership. Initiatives will come and go — the calling will not. This site is built for that horizon: a home that will still make sense in ten years.
“I do not offer the Leadership Heartbeat as a finished trophy. I offer it as a path I am walking, practising, and learning to build with others.”