Private Speaker Invitation
Africa Teacher Development & EdTech Summit 2026
Teachers' Summit 3.0
A Personal Invitation for
Mrs Hansatu Adegbite
Who Are Our Schools Forming to Lead and Build?
Moving from Personal Success to Leadership, Stewardship and Institution-Building
This personal invitation has been prepared for Mrs Hansatu Adegbite.
Mrs Hansatu Adegbite
National Consultant, Private Sector Partnerships, UN Women Nigeria
Immediate Past Executive Director, Women in Management, Business and Public Service (WIMBIZ)
A considered invitation to help Africa examine whether its education systems are merely producing successful individuals or forming people capable of carrying influence, building institutions and widening the path for others.
Invitation to speak.
Dear Mrs Adegbite,
On behalf of TrainDTrainer®, I am delighted to formally invite you to speak at the Africa Teacher Development & EdTech Summit 2026, Teachers’ Summit 3.0, taking place on Saturday, 28 November 2026 at 10:00 AM WAT, live on Zoom and YouTube.
Convened by TrainDTrainer®, the summit will bring together educators, parents, school leaders, education professionals, policymakers and innovators for a defining conversation about the future of education in Africa.
This year’s theme is:
BUILDING AFRICA’S EDUCATIONAL DOMINANCE
Educational dominance, in this context, is not about superiority over other nations. It is about developing the people, capabilities, institutions and homegrown solutions that will enable Africa to shape its future and contribute meaningfully to the world.
It requires us to look beyond access to schooling, academic qualifications and the adoption of new technologies. We must also examine the kind of people our education systems are forming and whether they possess the competence, character and agency required to lead, build and strengthen institutions.
At TrainDTrainer®, we believe education is not only about what people know. It is also about who they become and what they are prepared to do with what they know.
It is in this spirit that we would be honoured to welcome you as one of our distinguished speakers.
A message from the convener
Dr Onyekachi Onwudike-Jumbo
An audio message from the convener will be available here. It will not play automatically.
From personal success to the building of institutions.
Your leadership journey sits at the intersection of institution-building, women’s economic empowerment, governance, mentorship and national development.
As the immediate past Executive Director of Women in Management, Business and Public Service, you spent seven years helping to advance one of Nigeria’s most influential platforms for women in leadership. In your present work as National Consultant on Private Sector Partnerships with UN Women Nigeria, and through your service across presidential committees, boards, advisory bodies and leadership-development institutions, you have worked within the very structures through which influence, opportunity and institutional change are created.
Your experience therefore offers more than a perspective on leadership. It offers a view from inside the difficult work of building coalitions, strengthening institutions, transferring responsibility and creating pathways through which others can rise.
This is precisely why we believe your voice belongs in this summit.
Africa continues to produce intelligent, ambitious and academically qualified people. Yet educated individuals do not automatically produce ethical leadership, enduring institutions or sustainable national development.
This leaves us with a question our schools can no longer avoid:
“Who are our education systems forming to lead, and are they preparing young people merely to succeed within institutions or to build, strengthen and steward them?”
WHO ARE OUR SCHOOLS FORMING TO LEAD AND BUILD?
Moving from Personal Success to Leadership, Stewardship and Institution-Building
We would be honoured for you to lead a conversation about the distance between personal success and the building of institutions, and about what education must do to close it.
Africa has no shortage of capable, accomplished individuals. The harder question is whether the people our schools form are prepared not only to succeed within institutions, but to build, strengthen and steward them.
Your session would examine leadership as responsibility rather than rank: the work of carrying influence carefully, transferring it to others, and leaving the institutions you touch stronger than you found them.
It would invite educators, parents and policymakers to consider what it means to form people capable of that kind of stewardship, and what is lost when education celebrates achievement alone.
The Conversation We Hope to Inspire
Directions, not conclusions.
Drawing from your leadership journey across institution-building, women’s economic empowerment and governance, we would love the session to explore questions such as these.
These questions are intended to guide the conversation while leaving you complete freedom to shape the session through your experiences, convictions and expertise.
From personal success to institution-building.
Personal achievement is not the same as institutional capacity.
An individual may accomplish a great deal and still leave no structure behind them. A leader builds something that endures after they have gone: people trained, systems strengthened, pathways opened for others to follow.
Your own journey traces that movement: from personal accomplishment into the quieter, harder work of building platforms, advancing women’s leadership and strengthening the institutions through which national progress is actually made.
This is the movement the session would examine, from being formed to succeed, to being formed to lead, steward and build.
“A leader builds something that endures after they have gone: people trained, systems strengthened, pathways opened for others to follow.”
Women, girls and the formation of institutions.
Africa’s institutional future is being decided in how it forms its women and girls.
When women are prepared not only to participate in institutions but to build and govern them, the path widens for everyone.
Your work across WIMBIZ and UN Women Nigeria speaks directly to this question: how a continent forms the women who will carry, strengthen and lead its institutions in the decades ahead.
It is a question not of representation alone, but of readiness, of whether education is forming women and girls to build, not only to belong.
“When women are formed to lead, institutions do not merely include them; they are strengthened by them.”
Educators form more than achievers.
Educators do not only teach subjects. They help form the kind of people their students will become.
A teacher who expects stewardship, not only performance, shapes a different kind of graduate. The classrooms that produce leaders are the ones that ask students what they will build, govern and carry forward, not only what they will achieve.
If Africa is to build educational dominance, its schools must form people who see leadership as service, success as a beginning rather than an end, and institutions as something they are responsible for strengthening.
“Education forms not only what people know, but who they become and what they are prepared to build with it.”
Practical details for your participation.
TrainDTrainer® is an African education transformation organisation working to strengthen the people, professional capabilities, institutions and homegrown solutions responsible for the continent’s educational future.
We believe education systems cannot rise beyond the capacity of the people entrusted with delivering them. For this reason, our work goes beyond providing courses or organising occasional teacher training. We are building an interconnected educator-development ecosystem through which teachers, school leaders, institutions and education systems can grow, adapt and respond meaningfully to the realities of a changing world.
- Event
- Africa Teacher Development & EdTech Summit 2026
- Edition
- Teachers’ Summit 3.0
- Theme
- Building Africa’s Educational Dominance
- Date
- Saturday, 28 November 2026
- Time
- 10:00 AM WAT
- Venue
- Virtual, live on Zoom and YouTube
- Audience
- Educators, parents, school leaders, education professionals, policymakers and innovators
- Registration
- https://summit.traindtrainer.com
About the summit experience
This is TrainDTrainer’s third annual summit. The event is designed to create serious conversations and practical experiences around Africa’s educational future.
- Keynote conversations
- Practitioner and policy discussions
- Live experience rooms
- Education technology demonstrations
- School-transformation simulations
- Opportunities for educators and institutions to explore practical solutions
About TrainDTrainer
Building Africa’s Educational Capacity Through People, Practice and Systems
Our work spans teacher professional development, school leadership, inclusive education, responsible artificial intelligence, educational technology, professional identity, teacher wellbeing, digital transformation and institutional capacity building. We design learning pathways, practical tools, knowledge products, technology-enabled systems and professional communities that help educators move from acquiring information to changing practice.
What began in 2022 as a WhatsApp learning community for Nigerian teachers has grown into a movement of more than 28,000 educators trained and an indirect reach of over 1.4 million learners.
But our ambition is not simply to accumulate registration or attendance figures.
We are working towards an Africa where educators are respected as architects of human potential, where schools are equipped to recognise and develop every learner, where technology strengthens rather than replaces professional judgement, and where African institutions build solutions grounded in their own realities.
Our long-term ambition is to educate one million African teachers by 2030, while strengthening the schools, leaders and systems that support their work.
We are not simply training teachers. We are strengthening the people, institutions and systems through which Africa’s future will be taught, recognised and built.
TrainDTrainer is recognised by the Teachers Registration Council of Nigeria as a Mandatory Continuing Professional Development provider and is a recognised CPD provider in the United Kingdom. TrainDTrainer was also selected for the Mastercard Foundation EdTech Fellowship in Nigeria.
TRCN-recognised MCPD provider
Recognised by the Teachers Registration Council of Nigeria as a Mandatory Continuing Professional Development provider.
Recognised CPD provider, United Kingdom
TrainDTrainer is a recognised CPD provider in the United Kingdom, supporting our commitment to structured, credible and continually improving professional learning.
Mastercard Foundation EdTech Fellowship
Selected for the Mastercard Foundation EdTech Fellowship in Nigeria through CcHUB, joining a cohort of African education technology organisations building scalable solutions to some of the continent’s most consequential educational challenges.
These recognitions affirm aspects of our work. They do not define its boundaries.
TrainDTrainer is building towards something larger: an African education workforce, institutional infrastructure and body of professional knowledge capable of shaping the continent’s future from within.
The Africa Teacher Development & EdTech Summit is one of the platforms through which we bring together educators, families, leaders, innovators and institutions to strengthen the people and systems responsible for Africa’s educational future.
Your Response
Please let us know how you would like to proceed. You may accept, open a conversation with the convener, or decline with our gratitude.
How we will use your information
This page is intended for the invited speaker. Information submitted through the speaker-response form will be used to coordinate your summit participation, publicity preferences and event arrangements.
Final Word
Some of the most consequential conversations about education are those that ask us to look again at what we have been forming all along.
Your story creates an opportunity to do exactly that, to ask whether our schools are forming people merely to succeed, or to lead, steward and build.
We want educators to leave the summit asking not only what their students will achieve, but what they will build and carry forward.
We want leaders and policymakers to confront the gap between capable individuals and enduring institutions.
Most importantly, we want this conversation to remind Africa that the people its schools form will shape the institutions that shape the continent.
It would be a privilege to welcome you as a distinguished speaker at the Africa Teacher Development & EdTech Summit 2026. Thank you for considering our invitation. We look forward to the possibility of building this important conversation with you.
Dr Onyekachi Onwudike-Jumbo
Convener, Africa Teacher Development & EdTech Summit 2026
Founder, TrainDTrainer®