Conversations that move beyond inspiration to action.
Jessica contributes practical, lived-experience-informed insight on youth participation, wellbeing, identity, employability, leadership and building programmes with—not merely for—young people.
Bringing the ground-level reality of African youth development into the rooms that shape it.
I speak from eight years of lived and professional experience not from research conducted at a distance, but from inside the work. I have been in the programme room and the boardroom. I have run the programme and attended the meetings that were supposed to design it. I bring that dual perspective into every room I speak in.
My talks are honest, specific, and built to move people from awareness to action. I do not just talk about impact. I build it.
01
The Gap Nobody Is Closing
Why youth development interventions in Africa keep missing the people they are designed for, and what a better model looks like.
02
Transforming Learning Into Earning
What the real transition from education to economic opportunity requires, and who is responsible for building it.
03
SDG 8 in Practice
What decent work actually requires of organisations, not just governments.
04
Mental Health & Employability: One Conversation, Not Two
Why separating them produces weaker outcomes and what integrated programming looks like.
05
Building With, Not For
A new model for youth development that puts young people inside the design, not just at the receiving end.
06
Adaptive Programming in Africa
Why milestone-heavy donor frameworks are accidentally designing programmes to fail, and what real accountability looks like.
- UN agencies and international development organisations
- Government ministries and policy bodies working on youth
- Foundations and donor organisations funding work in Africa
- Universities and student leadership conferences
- NGO and nonprofit leadership forums
- Corporate social impact and CSR teams
- Pan-African summits and fellowship convenings
- Youth advisory boards and policy panels
Previous Engagements
Name:
From Passion to Purpose
Organizer:
Ink & Armour x Student Growth Hub
- July, 2026
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Growth Beyond Grades
Organizer:
R-WEF x Student Growth Hub
- 2026
Name:
Mind Yourself Experience
Organizer:
Dream Sports Africa
- 2024
Audiences Can Expect
Storytelling rooted in real experience, specific evidence from programmes I have actually run, honesty about what does not work and why, and a clear argument for what needs to change. I do not perform conviction. I have lived it”
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