About Shedrack Light
Hello friends,
My dream is to see countless African youths emerge in the global scene as trailblazing investors, innovators and reformers.
About me
I am Shedrack Light - I can support you in achieving the results you’re looking for. Together we will discover your best version.
My Mission is to stir an untamed entrepreneurial consciousness among Africans, especially the youths and to aid them to unleash their potentials and thus become self-reliant. I do this by helping them beat the problem of “identification of opportunities” and bring them to speed about the “Why” of being an entrepreneur. My dream is to see countless youths emerge in the global scene as trailblazing investors, innovators and reformers.
I leverage SME mentoring, edutainment, story-telling, book-writing and other pro-investment resources to promote the virtues of creativity and inventiveness, especially among African youths. I desire to see an Africa that optimizes her huge human capital and natural resources.
I trained in Nigeria, Turkey, India and the USA
I can help you with:
- Life-Skill Coaching
- Skills and Literacy Advocacy
- Investment Advisory Services
- Workshop Facilitation
- SME Business Ideation/Mentoring
- Creative Writing and Reading Promotion
- Yoga and Wellness Advocacy
- Emotional Self-reliance and Resilience
Shedrack Light Iheoma
My ability to break the shells that cover the creative pearls, using the principle of “why” in business and life-skill mentoring. I am conscious in demystifying the perennial fear associated with the first leap of budding entrepreneur.
Certifications, Degrees, and Experience
I trained in Nigeria, Turkey, India and the USA
I share the belief that all education, skills, vocation, and knowledge end at service – Service to God and humanity.
Professional Certified Coach, PCC
Lifeskills And Entreprenuership at BYU-Pathway Worldwide
Career Specialty Services Provider, CSS
SME Policy And Institutional Framework For Developing Countries at National Institute for Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises, India
Advanced Social Media Marketing
Brigham Young University-Rexburg, Idaho. USA and Doviana Institute of Entrepreneurship and Technology, Nigeria
AG-Tech Accredited Coach
Agri-Tech and Rural Development at Indian Institute of Technology, New Delhi
Board Membership:
I sit in the board of the following organizations and companies:
- Books Across Borders Initiative
- ProJustice and Development Observers Initiative
- Youth Renewness Foundation
- Clanfeld Communications Limited
- Atpeak Integrated Services Limited
- Peakpath General Services Limited
- SoLight Agro-Allied Limited
- Premium Yoga and Wellness Limited
- McLight Logistics and Integrated Services Ltd
My Early Life Story
Between what dad wanted and my towering dreams
I am the 10th child of a family of 11. I was raised by pious parents. My father was a trader on agro-allied produce while my mother was seamstress and farmer. My father’s desire, I guess was to have me serve in the Lord’s Vineyard. He did not specifically tell me that, but he was molding me to become a gospel preacher. So he resisted all the signs of inventiveness I was manifesting at a very tender age. His grandfather was a blacksmith who spent most of his old age in reclusive inventiveness. That lifestyle did not excite my father.
I created things that astonished adults as a growing child. I carved an aluminium sword that was adjudged ‘too big’ for a child of my age to carve. That particular sword irked my father that he openly told me that he would not allow me to toe the path of his grandfather. Father monitored me closely and had me spend more time reading the scriptures and other religious literature.
But as I child, I had a dream of creating ‘a wonder’. I understood the power of quietude. I had a piece of book where I wrote down ideas as they surge through my small head. My plan was to invent something so early and retire early. My dream was to own a huge palatial orchestra pit, with huge balustrade column, Corinthian marbles and enchanting chandelier light , where classical music would rend all day long.
In my quest to be free from my father’s extreme but pious control that seemed to be hindering my creative dreams, I opted to leave home to live with elder sister who at that point was the Personal Secretary to Nigeria pioneer Minister of Foreign Affairs – Jaja Wachuku.
Through her encouragement, I began early to learn the ways of the elites. She gave me newspapers to read and she encouraged me to read as much book as were available in the library in her office. I guess that stirred my love for books.
I had my early education in a community school. I was too young to be enrolled into a primary school. I remember waking up early one morning crying. My sister asked what it was that troubled me. I told her I wanted to be enrolled in a school. She knew I was too young to be admitted by any school. All the same, my brother in-law took me to a local community school that morning in his Nissan Urban Van.
The principal rejected me on the account of my age. But one of the teachers decided to engage me on a discussion. She asked me series of questions, My answer was more of a demonstrative one. I heard her whispering into the Principal’s ear “There is something about this boy. Leave him to me to nurture”. I was admitted into the community school on account of my intelligence. At an early age, I could conceive ideas, create things that baffled adults, a trait dad so protested and alluded to the spirit of his grandfather. What happened to that dream? You may ask. It is a dream that would not go to the grave with me.
My Pro Skills and
Literacy Activism:
The need to stir skills acquisition and literacy activism in Nigeria in particular and Africa at large stemmed from two events.
To the astonishment of my partner, Mohammed asserted that if the gateman had gone to school or acquired a skill, he would not be treated the way his “Oga” (boss) treats him. Surprised at his statement, my partner asked Mohammed why he was not in school himself, a question that got Mohammed emotive and he started crying almost uncontrollably. He had no sponsor. He, at that tender age understood the importance of education and skills acquisition, but unfortunately, the parents were too poor to send him to school or to acquire a skill. Happily today, Mohammed is in the school doing quite great with his studies.
No. 2 Was a visit a man I would wish to save his identity. He survived the onslaught of terrorists activities in the Northern part of Nigeria. When the story came to me that a family has managed to escaped a raid in their hitherto quiet neighborhood that saw many people’s lives wasted in the most heinous manners, I decided to pay him a visit to know first hand what that night of horror was like. I wanted to write a documentary on the activities of the terrorists group, especially the Boko Haram (Western Education is Forbidden) group.
When I got the spot they took refuge in Abuja, I saw the man I was going to interview teaching his daughter under a tree. I was perplexed at his dedication and diligence. He was a father who wanted the best for his daughter, against all odds. I stood a little close, pretended to be doing something else. I was listening to their conversion. I saw a man who was willing to go the miles to bequethe the daughter with sound enlightenment that would help her become self-reliant.
At this point, my mission changed from an investigative reporter to a literacy advocate. I asked if he could allow me and few of my friends to get involved in his daughter’s education, a request he willfully granted.
These two incidents stirred “Books Across Borders Initiative”. Here, we work to lift children from slums, rural and isolated areas with the power of books, skills, knowledge and enlightenment that would aid them to become self-reliant – We desire to see inventors, investors, innovators and drivers of growth in rise from the lowest slums into limelight in business.
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What Can I Do for You?
My Philosophy:
I share the belief that all education, skills, vocation, and knowledge end at service – Service to God and humanity. Being a beneficiary of sound mentoring, I believe that when African children and youths are rightly mentored, they become assets to their societies. Such mentoring borders on sound ethics and morals, expert management of personal finances, time management, resources optimization and early knowledge about investment.
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