Flavia Nakajjugo
Connecting Influencers
Flavia Nakajjugo
TEACHER TRAINER | ENTREPRENEUR
The first day Flavia stood at the front of a classroom she knew she was where she belonged. She was meant to be an educator.
Growing up in Uganda, a country burdened by corruption, inequality, and poor leadership, Flavia felt a deep need for better leadership at every level in her country – especially in education.
Flavia completed her degree in education (with a specialization in Biology and Chemistry) before she started teaching for Watoto Education, a Christian organization whose primary focus is educating vulnerable children. After being promoted to principal, she wanted to learn more about non-traditional approaches to education.
In 2019, Flavia was awarded the Fulbright Distinguished Award in Teaching Program Scholarship and spent five months abroad observing education. When she returned to Kampala, she desired to transform her school by changing educational pedagogy, student discipline, and teacher motivation. While serving as the head of Post Primary and Tertiary Education with Watoto Education, she was seeing her impact grow. However, her dream was to transform school leadership across the entire region; she just wasn’t sure how. Seeking out more training, she joined the Abundant Leadership Institute.
At ALI, Flavia found a network of like-minded influencers pursuing common objectives across the continent. She met other teachers and school founders who shared her heart for education. Through these new relationships, she was able to learn more about why teacher motivation was so low and how she could make a difference on a larger scale.
After completing the module on Strategic Planning, Flavia was able to apply her new knowledge in a bold new strategy for teacher training. Part of her strategy included working with her ALI colleagues to support educators throughout the region. She was also able to reach out to different partners like Teaching Training Together, a global organization training teachers across Africa.
Today, Flavia has worked with over 500 educators in Uganda, Rwanda, and Burundi training them on pedagogy and school leadership, important components lacking in African schools today. Her work also includes collaborating with other ALI Alumni to train teachers at Kampala’s School for the Physically Handicapped and creating video content to share with educators around the world.
Flavia’s time at ALI rekindled her motivation to transform teaching pedagogy in the classroom. She knows that by equipping teachers to lead more effectively, children’s lives will be changed, and entire countries will be transformed.
When Flavia’s time at ALI ended, she was inspired by 2 Timothy 2:2, “And what you have heard from me in the presence of many witnesses entrust to faithful men, who will be able to teach others also.” This verse captures Flavia’s calling, and after completing ALI, she knows that she is pursuing this calling alongside a network of like-minded influencers spread across the region.
Flavia shared:
“We, [Cohort 4], are these faithful [men and women]; we are not keeping these things we have learned to ourselves, but we are going back home and entrusting them to others. We are hoping that these others will pass them on as well. This practice, in essence, is abundant leadership.
We would like to promise you that East Africa and Africa as a whole will be a better place because of what has been placed inside us through the Abundant Leadership Institute.”
