International Institute for Global Leadership Inc

IIGL has challenged me to make impact in my environment. As a graduate of the institute, the books I read transformed my consciousness to see the essence of living a life of service. Many thanks to Michael Lightweaver and Deb Rosen, my mentors and teachers.

Ayoade Anthony - IIGL Graduate

 The books I read in IIGL make me realize that the war against poverty, diseases, ignorance, backward ness, violence, and bad leadership in the world is basically mental, and freedom can only come by understanding the power of thoughts. The more I have a better understanding and new interpretation of spiritual issues which hitherto had not been so clear to me, the more I have the strenght to face my challenges and know the right things to do to become the change that I wish to see in the world.
 

What I feel I have learnt since becoming a student of the Leadership Institute cannot be expressed and summarized here. I need to tell my story in a whole book. However, I will try to summarize it in the paragraphs that follow.

IIGL has totally transformed me and I have reshaped myself for success. I have developed self confidence and I feel I am here for success. I have built a new, positive and realistic self and I am a person I want to be. I now focus on desired changes instead of dwelling on past mistakes. I have changed my mental attitude from negative to positive. I have made my life meaningful to both myself and to the society in which I am living. I have achieved positive self-image:- one that empowers me to set and achieve goals of personal happiness and professional success. How could I have been so blind for so many years? Gone are the days that were wasted! I have left behind negative habits and going back is just as impossible as returning to crawling when one knows how to walk. IIGL has provided me with all the tools and ideas that will lead to personal development and success. Now the only requirement on my side for lifelong success is the habit of taking action on my plans, goals, ideas and insights.

I have started to overcome procrastination which was my major handicap. For instance, I used to fail achieving my goals because of not acting immediately. I have disciplined myself to concentrate on a given task without diversion or distraction. When I find myself getting distracted, or I feel tempted to take a break or procrastinate, I motivate myself by continually repeating, “Back to work! Back to work! Back to work!” I then renew my efforts to push the task through to completion. Whenever I find myself slowing down, I repeat these words to myself: “Do it now! Do it now! Do it now!” I have got rid of procrastination by getting rid of “tomorrow” from my vocabulary. My “future” is “now”. I now do things when they need to be done or sooner and this has created harmony in my home and at work.

I am now getting along with others in my family and in social and occupational relations. I have the capacity to communicate ideas, build positive attitudes, increase enthusiasm, reduce tension and anxiety and increase enjoyment of life. I have learnt not to criticize, condemn or complain, but to give honest and sincere appreciation, to arouse in the other person an eager want, to become genuinely interested in other people, to smile always, to be good a listener, to encourage others to talk about themselves, to talk in terms of the other person’s interests and to make the other person feel important-and do it sincerely. I listen empathically and also communicate my authentic feelings and needs. Those who were once ‘enemies’ of mine, we are able to hear each other’s needs, and we are able to connect compassionately and find new solutions to the previously ‘impossible’ impasses. I now ‘talk about my own mistakes before criticizing the other person.’ Instead of condemning people, I try to understand them. I am now dominated by love, respect, understanding, appreciation, compassion, and concern for others rather than being self centered and selfish, greedy, hateful, and having prejudiced suspicious and aggressive attitudes that originally dominated my thinking. I now live in harmony with those who have done harm to me and this gives me a peace of mind as opposed to the past where I thought of applying “a tooth for a tooth, and “eye for an eye” principle.

I have learnt to program my own thoughts and behaviors. I have learnt how I must think, plan, execute, manage and eventually celebrate my way to success. I now take care and direct my thoughts because I have learnt that bad thoughts can ruin my life and character. I have learnt to “think big” rather than remaining in the darkness of confusion. I have engaged myself in constructive thinking and developed a positive mental attitude. I have learnt that to live a life without well defined goals is like moving in darkness and it can lead hitting the wall or falling in a pit and failure in life.

I no longer fear failure because I know that Every Failure or defeat brings with it a seed of success. In order to achieve the success, I need not to be discouraged by temporary defeats. I now take defeat merely as a test which permits me to discover the nature of my thought and their relation to my definite major purpose. I closed the door of fear behind me, and I now see the door of success open before me. I have learnt that there is no bad experience that no matter what I go through in life— whether it’s a challenging experience or a pleasurable one — every experience provides me something of value if I look for it. I now see obstacles as opportunities to move towards my goals. I have gone back in my past experience and found that each experience in life was absolutely necessary in order to have gotten me to the next place, and the next, up until this moment.

I have decided that it’s high time to use the tool of transformational vocabulary to replace my habitually disempowering words with more inspiring ones. I have eliminated negative beliefs like ‘I’m not good enough’, ‘I am not creative’ ‘it is too difficult’, ‘I can never get a well paid job because I don’t have a Masters Degree, Opportunity nocks only once,….I now know that the reality is that opportunity is a steady hammer on my windows and doors, a constant noise that I spend most of my time attempting to block out by stuffing cotton in my ears. This course has helped me to monitor my inner dialogue and match my thoughts to what I want and intend and want to create. For example, instead of thinking that ‘I’ve been always poor; I was raised on shortage and scarcity; I will remain poor’- I have rather directed my thoughts and think that ‘I intend to attract wealth and prosperity in unlimited abundance’. I have learnt that disempoering words are our traitors, and make us lose the good we oft might win by fearing to attempt’. I now select the words I use on a daily basis because I have learnt that words have the capacity to attract either positive or negative vibrations that can have either positive or negative impact on my life depending on my choice. I now avoid the use of the words and expressions that attract what I do not want. I have eliminated words like don’t, not and no in my vocabulary (e.g. don’t panic, don’t forget etc) Now, instead of saying don’t panic, I use ‘stay calm.’

I have improved the way I communicate to myself whenever I encounter problems in my life. Whenever I meet any challenging problem, I consistently communicate to myself that this experience has occurred for a purpose and that this experience will someday provide me with even greater advantages in my goal to make a difference in the world. I now believe that every adversity contains the seed of an equivalent or greater benefit. I now take deliberate, conscious action to steer myself in a direction I have predetermined. I am no longer just a leaf in the wind. I have developed the capacity to consciously direct my life. I now create circumstances rather than merely responding to them. I am now being proactive as opposed to being reactive as I used to be. I now take a failure as an opportunity to learn from and keep trying until I achieve my success instead of lamenting on the past failures. I now know that failure in life is sometimes bound to happen along the road to success but I don’t take it as complete defeat. I take failure as an inspiration to try again with renewed confidence and determination and learn from the mistakes that had led me to that failure. I have turned my stumbling blocks into stepping stones. I have discovered that temporary failure is just with some seeds of success. I can now benefit from everything that happens to me, positive or negative, I move upward and onward toward achieving my major definite purpose. Now, whenever I meet any obstacles that happen to make me seem ‘failing’ to achieve my goals, instead of worrying about these obstacles, I take them to be there for a purpose. I take them as an opportunity to serve as a lesson on how I can adjust and move forward to achieve my goal in a better way. I no longer treat defeat as complete failure. I instead treat it as a lesson to correct a mistake that has been made in pursuit of my purpose.

Overcoming self-limiting beliefs and self-imposed limitations was the biggest obstacle standing between me and the realization of my full potential. I have cast off all the self-limiting beliefs and accepted that I am an extraordinarily capable and talented person. I have developed a perfect system of self analysis and this assisted me to know what has been standing between me and the success during my past years. I now spend more time analyzing my weaknesses and less time building alibis to cover them. I have realized that all the riches and all the material goods that I acquire through my efforts begin with me having a clear, concise picture of what I seek. I have stopped blaming others as the causes of my failure but analyze my weaknesses to eradicate them. I now feel happier and at peace with myself when I'm actually doing something or have some sort of goal that I need to achieve at the end of a certain period, this is the time that I feel that my life is actually good for something. I have started creating a better world by first analyzing my weaknesses. I no longer blame others for my failure. I am now able to define my direction in life. I no longer believe that success in life is mere luck.

I now live in an attitude of positive expectancy, knowing that everything that happens in my life benefits me in some way. I know really what winning means. I take the talent and the potential that I was born with, develop it and use it fully towards success and winning. I now view happiness as the natural experience of winning my own self-respect, as well as the respect of others. I now understand that winning begins with feeling good about myself, referring to myself in positive terms, and seeing myself as a winner.

I now see my life as a miracle unfolding everyday and I am living on purpose. I now trust in my own unique ability to create in my mind anything that I choose. I have now aligned my life with love, harmony, giving, sharing, peace and forgiveness. I have a strong will that won’t permit anything to interfere with achieving my inner desire. I have developed a never-give-up attitude combined with an internal picture that will propel me toward fulfilling my dreams. I have become someone with intention. I am now proud of my ability to recognize and take the advantage of opportunities that arise, which opportunities have been passing unnoticed. I can now examine any and all self-imposed obstacles that need to be challenged and eradicated as I work a new at living and breathing this power of intention that was placed in my heart before my heart was even formed. I have eradicated all self imposed roadblocks that have been hindering me to achieve my goals. I have improved my communication techniques. I have also transformed the thinking, language and moralistic judgments that have been keeping me from enriching relationships that I dream of

I am now capable of accomplishing any goals I set for myself. The regular and systematic practicing of goal setting will take me from poverty to prosperity, from frustration to fulfillment, from underachievement to success and satisfaction. I have discovered that living without clear goals is like driving in a thick fog. No matter how powerful or well engineered my car, I drive slowly, hesitantly, making little progress on even the smoothest road. When I was living without goals before taking this course, I was like a person moving in darkness and my life was at risk of failure but now I am risk free because I know where I am heading. I have decided to act upon my goals and to clear the fog immediately.

In conclusion, I am now an appreciator rather than a depreciator of everything that shows up in my life. I now know why I am here, I know that I am more than an encapsulated collection of bones, blood and organs in a black skin and hair covered body. I now live with a purpose and choose to avoid being detracted by demands of the ego, I now have great reverence for the world of Spirit, and commune with the Source, and I stay inspired.

My IIGL Story

In July 2013, in one of my regular discussions with my dependable friend and brother, Celestine chidozie, an astute scholar, pan-African philosopher, news analyst, lecturer, and mentor to young minds, recommended me to check out International Institute for Global Leadership, Inc

He described it as one of the nonprofit organizations that trains young leaders around the world, and he was so sure I could hone my skills, if I could spare some time to attend their e-learning program. He was passionately optimistic about this recommendation.

Furthermore, Celestine told me that one of his friends, Seye Joseph is currently a student of IIGL and has earned a certificate from this institute, and the knowledge he has acquired in making impact in his career. He even told me that he will join them soon, I was at this point left in totally awe, no longer lonely and poor, lacking in accurate, and reliable direction.

After the discussion, I quickly checked out the institution, read some student testimonials and projects, and became really inspired to join this wonderful global family.
I quickly filled the enrolment form, and was accepted as a student in same July 2013, and earned my level 1 certificate in November same year. That spurred me on.

I got so inspired with the program, met great people who motivated me to continue, conquered my fears, raised the bar of excellence, defeated and danced on the grave of procrastination all through the e-learning program, and on September 14, 2016 successfully became the 18th graduate of this great institution, and was honored as the fastest graduate ever in the history of this institution.

Shortly before my graduation in 2016, I was nominated and approved as a board member during our annual teleconferencing board meeting. Elected Vice President in 2017 and Elected Board President in 2018, and re-elected in 2019 for another term. At my election, I became the 3rd African and 3rd Graduate of the Institution to be elected Board President.

Today, IIGL has produced 27 graduates in 11 countries, recently published our testimonial book ‘Creating Your Path through Leadership’ available in Amazon, and has over 200 active students and members from 24 countries which spans 5 continents.

Our members are engaged in various community projects, addressing various global challenges of unemployment, girl child, poverty, agriculture, lack of leadership deficiency and lots more.

Personally and professionally, joining IIGL has been the biggest thing that has happened to my life and career in recent years, especially with regards to my work as a leadership coach, speaker, consultant, ghostwriter and blogger.
IIGL is truly the best!

Ethelbert Umeh

Board President, IIGL

International Institute for Global Leadership (IIGL) is a world to discover; a world to experience. Your life will never remain the same after encountering this transformational institute. The leadership traits I learnt during my studies transformed my business mindset, creativity and volunteering initiative; today I am happy serving organizations such as Rotary International, Next Leaders Initiative for Sustainability, International Centre for Leadership Development Nigeria as a volunteer.
I enrolled in IIGL in 2013 and graduated in 2016, becoming the fastest graduate since the history of this great institute. In 2017, I was elected to serve as a Vice President. In May 2018, I was elected to serve as Board President.
I feel greatly honored recommending International Institute for Global Leadership; this is a tuition-free institute where people of vision are mentored with the pre-requisite skills that will enable them achieve their personal and professional goals faster than they can ever imagined.
Today, IIGL has produced 26 graduates from 10 countries, and we have active students, many of whom are happily making impacts in their professions and communities in 35 countries which cut across 6 continents.
IIGL programme is available to anyone anywhere in the world that wants to boost their leadership capacity, grow professionally, emotionally, socially, intellectually, psychologically and financially.
I have benefitted immensely from this institute and that is why I have no doubt recommending it to those that wants to become transformational change agents in the hearts and sands of human historicity. IIGL resources are offered free of charge- there is no tuition, and IIGL is able to do good in the world through donations received from Good-spirited individuals.
Long Live IIGL.
By Ethelbert Obinna Umeh

International Institute for Global Leadership ( IIGL) equipped me with leadership skills that are bettering my life, and my brand new organization, Blueprint Consulting. I am exceedingly happy that i am now a graduate, and currently serves as Vice President of the Board. I recommend IIGL to all and sundry especially those from any part of the world that wants to grow their leadership capacity.

By Ethelbert Obinna Umeh

International Institute for Global Leadership (IIGL), is a reliable place to be. I have never ceased any opportunity to introduce this leadership platform to my friends, mentes, and well-wishers. It is a fully-equipped online studies that is really helpful in leadership development, self-actualization and sufficiency. The leadership curriculum is designed to meet the needs of students in various cultures and civilizations.

This great non-profit leadership training organization has given my life meaning; i now know the direction of my life pendulum due to my encounter with IIGL. I am still wondering what my life would have been if i had not encountered this institution at the time i did. I have been able to make towering selfless community developmental impacts with the skills i have received from IIGL.

IIGL taught me about setting realistic goals for myself, goal mapping, civic leadership, servant leadership, sales and business coaching just to mention but a few. These have helped me to be who i am now. Becoming part of IIGL since 2013 had been a journey worth taking. So amazed at this indescribable experience!

I have graduated from their leadership program, and became the 18th graduate. I am also happy that i am working as a Board member with IIGL at the moment. I have been sharing some of my experience from IIGL in my blog: http://www.emotionalzone.com/. IIGL is truly great and highly recommended to all and sundry.