It all began during her visit with Nelson Mandela in December of 2000. She promised to build a high profile school for girls. Two years later (2002), Oprah teamed up with Nelson Mandela and (then) Minister of Education, Professor Kader Asmai to “Build a Dream.”
Build a Dream is Oprah’s slogan. She began her stardom through the power of the media, and became the top rated, award-wining host of her own show, “The Oprah Show,” where she made special connections over 25 years with her audience. Her success as a global media leader and philanthropist have established her the most admired and respected pubic figures today.
Oprah Winfrey Leadership Academy for Girls is a boarding school, and was founded in January 2007, located in Johannesburg, South Africa. It was designed to help females that are “disadvantaged girls from deprived background.” Oprah’s main goal for the academy was to mentor academically these disadvantage females, and to help them unlock hidden talents to make a difference in their lives.
The $40 million Leadership Academy is equipped with a state-of-the-art library that was worth about $75,000! Notably the school has a 28 building complex which includes, computers and science labs, classrooms, dorms, wellness center, a hair salon, and a theater, all built on a 52 acre campus. It will enable unprivileged girls, grades 7 through 12. However, only 152 girls can be seated and were selected, but the school received over three thousand applications. According to New York: Amsterdam News, going through 3,000 applications, Oprah soon realized making a choice was not going to be an easy task. 484 students were asked back for academic and leadership skills testing. Oprah organized over 200 interviews, during which the TV...
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...ld give every girl at the Academy financial assistance in her first year of tertiary education. Mainly with this event, Oprah wanted to share the manifestation of her dream: that when you invest in the education of a girl you invest in a nation. In addition, graduating senior, Sadé Pietersen gave an emotional speech about her experience at the Academy and where she see herself in the years to come.
Now in 2013, Oprah Winfrey’s Leadership Academy, has open more opportunities than ever! They visited Michelle Obama in the white house, went to Yale University Spizzwinks, and has been on American tours. Latest rumors is that Oprah wants to co-education school in South Africa too. This is not Oprah only work, definitely not! She has donated millions of dollars to: Peace over Violence, Free the Children, the Clinton Foundation, Worldwide Orphans Foundation, and many more.
Ms. Hall has had many years of public education experience and higher education training in which to hone her leadership style and framework. She started her career as a teacher in the Kirkwood School District. She then served as an assistant elementary principal at both Ritenour and Pattonville School Districts before being selected to serve as the assistant superintendent of the Maplewood Richmond Heights School District in 2008. Throughout her career she continued to pursue her education as a means o...
The school’s “Making dreams happen...one student at a time program of transformation," supported by a grant from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, began in 2001, when the school was divided into two small schools, each led by a team of teachers who also act as advisors to help students take advantage of experiences and internships congruent with their interests and passions.
Oprah’s childhood was not the greatest. Her unmarried parents split up, and she grew up on a farm with her grandmother. She developed rapidly and could read before she was three. Also, she was tested out of kindergarten and second grade, thus only taking first grade and skipping to third grade. When she turned six, she started to live with her mother and was very lonely. However, she began her speaking profession around that time. “She was invited to recite poetry at black social clubs and church teas, where she became known as ‘the little speaker.’ At 12, during a visit to her father in Nashville, she earned $500 for a speech she delivered at a church” (“Winfrey, Oprah”). As you can tell, Oprah started young in her profession and was determined to make a living off of this since her prior experiences.
Oprah is a transformational leader which means she inspires others. Oprah identifies what needs to change, creates a vision and through motivation can achieve results with her surrounding team. Oprah has a vision and mission, and she inspires people through communication. Oprah has had a profound effect on the media, education, and business. Oprah can change the way people act and thinks. Oprah is very charismatic; she has a particular set of beliefs and values that motivate people to follow. When Oprah speaks, people listen because she has such incredible level of integrity, charisma, and emotional intelligence.
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Oprah’s father made sure she was well educated by having her write book reports, learning vocabulary, and had strict rules for her as she grew up. She entered into the Elks Club speaking contest and won a full scholarship to Tennessee State University. The following year Oprah Winfrey was invited to the White House Conference on Youth. Oprah was becoming known for her speaking skills. She was offered a broadcasting job that she turned down twice. However, she eventually accepted it and became the first African American female co anchor of the evening news as a sophomore in college at just nineteen years
Oprah Winfrey is not only the richest woman in the world, but she is also is known to be one of the most influential black women to ever live in the United States. She is a person “who has become successful and spread it around to those who need it the most” (Oprah 76). She has opened many different foundations to help others, For example, the Oprah Winfrey foundation. As if that already wasn’t enough she made a networking site called Oprah angel, what it does is help raise money for charitable causes around the world. In 2000 Oprah Decided to not only help others with Physical and financial problems, she wanted to go one step further. She published her own magazine called “O” that would give woman advice with how she deals with the same situations that woman do in their everyday lives. One of Oprahs greatest works is a leadership Academy that she established. It is a school in Africa that will prepare students for what awaits them on the other side of those doors. “It is a place where young girls will have the opportunity improve the quality of life for their sisters, and for generations to come” (Owla 12-13).
Some of the organizations he has delivered cross-cultural training are; Fortune 500 companies, educational institutions, churches, relief and development agencies, and mission organizations. Elmer has steered numerous peace and reconciliation efforts in various countries to include a faculty development workshop which spanned over 25 European and Middle Eastern Schools themed Teaching for Transformation. He has also had the privilege to teach at Durban Bible College located in Durban, South Africa, and Wheaton College and Graduate School.
In her later teenage years, Winfrey became an out of control adolescent, and had to go live with her father Vernon Winfrey, where she learned more about debate in school. Once she made the move to live with her father, she started to find herself in a new way, and could see herself in a new light. At the age of 16, Winfrey won an Elks Club discussion contest, and was bestowed a scholarship to Tennessee State University. While being a freshmen at TSU, Winfrey was given the chance to start a job at WJZ T.V. However, being a freshmen in college, she had to focus on her studies and took the job once she graduated. In 1976, Winfrey took her job at WJZ T.V and became a co-anchor of the evening news. In 1977, she was promoted to local news and performed on the ABC national morning ...
Oprah was born on a farm in 1954 to a poor family. Winfrey enjoyed reciting African American poetry, and became known as the "little speaker" in her town. When she was 12, Winfrey won $500 for a speech she gave at her father 's church. From then on she wanted to "be paid to talk." When Winfrey was a teenager, her dream was put on hold. Some of the trusted men of her family began to sexually abuse her. She lashed out in anger at the world by lying to her mother, running away from home, and stealing. Unaware of what Winfrey was going through, her mother sent her away to live with her father. If her mother never sent her away, Oprah 's life would have been much different. At age 17, Oprah Winfrey won the Miss Black Tennessee beauty pageant and was offered an on-air job at WVOL, a radio station for the African American community in Nashville. Oprah continued to work at WVOL in her first years of college, but her broadcasting career was already taking off. She left school and signed on with a local television station as a reporter and anchor. In 1976, she moved to Baltimore to join WJZ-TV News as a co-anchor. There, she co-hosted her first talk show, People Are Talking, while continuing to serve as anchor and news reporter. In January 1984, she was invited to Chicago to host a half-hour morning program on WLS-TV. In less than a year, she turned AM Chicago into the hottest show in
After living with her mother for just over a year, Oprah was sent to live with her father and step-mother, Zelma, in Nashville. Vernon and Zelma were not able to have children and were happy for Oprah to live with them. At 7, Oprah experienced having her own bedroom and bed for the first time. Oprah began Wharton Elementary School and was skipped a grade for the second time and was place in the third grade class. She was thrilled that her parents took her to the library ...
“Surround yourself with only people who are going to lift you higher.” In this quote, Oprah Winfrey means have friends who are positive and doesn't have a problem with motivating you. Oprah Winfrey’s accomplishments and success came from hard work and positive people who continued to push her forward. Winfrey was an important figure in American history because she was the first African-American woman to host an international tv show and made a way for others to be successful.
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Women’s education has been seen as a way for all the focus on all the attention and opportunity on the students that attend the college. It is seen as a way to eliminate the need to compete with their male peers, with no one to compete with these colleges argue that women have the ability to hold all of the leadership positions on campus which provide them with a valuable experience to apply their future cultures and post-graduate lives. The environment provides women with stronger role models they aren't typically p...
Since August of 2015 I have had the privilege of working with an incredible leader in Andrea Williams, principal of Theresa Bunker Elementary School. She is the epitome of a well-rounded leader who exemplifies all of the qualities of a leader as described by House’s path-goal theory of leadership. Mrs. Williams works diligently each day to create a productive work environment. She is direct when she needs to be and is extremely respected by her faculty as a fair leader. As I have observed her over the past two years I have seen her leadership skills in action. I have been extremely impressed with her drive, passion, fairness, supportiveness and ability to create a positive climate and culture that makes work a positive