I invite you to read through the entire work to help you know more about me, my skills, achievements, and future goals..

As this essay is highly important in the selection processing, I wanted it to reflect my real life and experience. Please build on details provided and add on it if necessary. Hope this could help produce an outstanding final work.

* Leadership and influence

1) How I meet the requirement of Future leader and influencer in my home country

2) Clear examples of my own leadership and influencing skills

My leadership skills and thirst for bringing change came up naturally from primary and and high school.

Over my school curriculum, I have always served as class leader and appointed student spokesperson for teachers and school administrations.

Academic curriculum: At university, I naturally joined the demands by the student union within the Training and Research Unit of Languages, Literatures and Civilizations (UFR-LLC) at Felix Houphouet Boigny University. In 2004, my very first academic year, We were faced with a screaming lack of classrooms for the smooth running of our classes due to the overcrowding of students in our faculty. Within the English Department Student Reflection Committee, which I joined in the first year, I made the ingenious proposal at a meeting that professors schedule classes in lecture rooms of other faculties over the weekends. This proposal was submitted to head of English department and was successfully tested. This helped avoid a lost year.

Volunteering: Subsequently, in my quest for change in Ivoirian society, I started volunteering since 2005. I served as a volunteer instructor for US-funded programs run by Abidjan US Embassy in with a view to showcasing US culture and building strong citizenship skills among Ivoirian students and youth leaders.

US-funded English Access Microsholarship Program : My involvement in various series of programs allowed me to be granted the US-funded English Access Microsholarship Program awarded by Abidjan US Embassy, in early 2014. The program managers and students I was training highly recommended my application for this program.

Training in Arkansas: The experience of Spring International Language Center at the University of Arkansas in February 2014 boosted my leadership and influence. This fellowship allowed me to receive English language training and cross-cultural education. At the end of the program, each recipient was to present a project in the field of education upon returning home. I remember I made my presentation of the NGO creation project I was working on to help address education challenges in Cote d’Ivoire – with many children still studying with flashlights in rural off-grid areas. The presentation was highly appreciated by my fellow students and trainers, who encouraged me and promised to support the NGO’s activities once formalized. At the graduation ceremony, I was promoted Arkansas Ambassador of Good Will in recognition of my distinguished accomplishments during the courses.

Creation of my NGO: Upon return to Cote d’Ivoire, I managed – together with my parents and some old friends from the community where I grew up – to formalize my NGO called AEVie – Association Eveil à la Vie whose main mission is to support the most vulnerable communities for better participation in individual and collective development. We started our activities from scratch with means at our disposal, including individual contributions.

US-funded Self Help Program: In 2015, my NGO was selected as one of six recipients – among a hundred associations competing – to receive the funds Ambassador’s Special Self-Help Program for interested community-based organizations and villages. This is a grass-roots assistance program that allows U.S. embassies to respond to local requests for small projects that can have a big impact on communities, especially in rural areas. The funded project involved the construction of a community day-care center for children from poor communities of Grand Lahou Region. The center is currently operating with over hundreds of children aged 2-6 year.

Professional career: My last two roles as Media Analyst and Regional Energy Project Manager respectively at Greenfield International et Shuangdeng Group Co., Ltd [ChinaShoto] involved a lot of trips throughout African regions. Those trips allowed me to come across communities and witness their daily realities. I succeeded in recruiting, training and managing a highly motivated team of hundreds of Independent Contractors and commission based sales agents in Cote d’Ivoire and throughout West and Central Africa mainly, thanks to my leadership and influencer qualities.

I have demonstrated great interest in providing life-changing solar systems to off-grid African communities since I joined ChinaShoto in 2015, as part of the company’s vision to provide innovative green energy solutions to its customers worldwide. For example, during my presentation at our 2017 annual Conference in China, I advocated the creation of a new line of solar products for a new customer segment to provide solar home systems to low-income and rural households. As a result, the company is designing high-quality and affordable solar products for this specific market.

The same year, Before that conference, I was selected by Shoto Group to lead the company’s booth at Mobile World Congress (MWC) in Barcelona, together with high-rank staff.

1) How I build and maintain relationships in a professional capacity, with Strong professional relationship building skills to influence and lead others in Chevening community

2) Clear examples of how I currently do this

3) How you hope to use these skills in the future

In this part, I really expect you to build on the ideas I provided, add on it if necessary to make it reflect the expectation stated in the question. You may want ask me a few questions to get more details…

In my role as Cote d’Ivoire-based Regional Energy Project Manager at ChinaShoto, I provided exceptional networking experience to the existing sales and marketing teams, including sales managers, analysts, and hundreds of freelance sales agents. The key is virtual platforms I created to reach out with all my team spread in various areas and that helped each one share their personal experience and demands.

For example, I created a WhatsApp group to allow everyone to express themselves freely while sharing their tips, ideas, questions and concerns. I make networking a regular activity in a professional way. In other words, I use social media to build my professional and social network.

– LinkedIn allows me to reach out with professionals in my chosen field, launch recruitments, target profiles sought, and keep an eye on reforms or innovations in my field of activity.

– I am very active on Facebook. I write and post on various topics in facebook groups and my personal page. I mainly focus on Personal and Participative Development. Some posts on various topics such as Financial Discipline or Renewable Energies Benefits have reached more than 4-5k likes on groups like ODCI – Observatoire Democratique de Cote d’Ivoire (Democratic Observatory of Ivory Coast). The relevance of my positions has allowed me to build a large network of Internet users eager to take advantage of my advice and tips in personal and participatory development. On the advice of some, I am writing an e-book entitled “Osez créer le changement” (Dare to create change) to impact a larger part of the Ivorian population.

I intend to focus my team development strategy on networking, which will help make regular reviews and trainings. It also help detect high performing team members so as to find creative ways to boost low performing team members.

Other ideas are welcome ….

1) Reason why I selected the university courses

2) How they all relates to My current experience and plans for the future

Dear Prof Kennedy, in this part, I will let you draft in a consistent way the reasons : As you can see, all the courses I selected are all related to renewable energy. Below the Universities, the courses and each course summary for your reference. Hope it can help making the relation to my current experience and plans for the future, if you read through my work…

Coventry University:

Global Energy and Sustainability Management

(MBA)

Summary

The Coventry University London MBA is aimed at professionals and graduates, who would like to develop their business and management skills to boost their current career, make a career change, start their own business or lead their existing business into its next growth phase.

Newcastle University:

Renewable Energy Enterprise and Management

(MSc) Summary

Renewable Energy Enterprise and Management (REEM) is a unique multi-disciplinary course blending appropriate project evaluation techniques and business enterprise with awareness of the potential of renewable energy technologies.

Cardiff University:

Sustainable Energy and Environment

(MSc) Summary

Climate change, the global consumption of energy and the use of fossil fuels to provide us with heat, power and transportation are all engineering challenges which need addressing now and in the future. It is clear that solutions to these long-term problems – ensuring the best use of resources, and developing new more sustainable ways to produce and use energy – will require graduates who can work in an increasingly multidisciplinary environment.

This course will offer you the knowledge and expertise you will need in relation to sustainable energy and the environmental impact of energy systems.

City, University of London:

Renewable Energy and Power Systems Management

(MSc)

Summary

This programme has been designed to meet the industrial demand for the training and education of both existing and future engineers in the advanced concepts of sustainable electrical power and energy generation. The aims are to produce graduates of a high calibre with the right skills and knowledge who will be capable of leading teams involved in the operation, control, design, regulation and management of power systems and networks of the future.