About Joseph

Hello friend,

I’m Joseph Chinenyeze Ibekwe. Some like to call me The Creative Coach. Some simply call me ‘Joe’ as sign of familiarity.

I was born (November 1964) in a small rural village called Ezeabgogu, Ezinihitte Mbaise, Imo State, Nigeria. I grew up with five other siblings. My parents had no formal education. My dad loved education but couldn’t access any because of poor parental heritage, but he managed to attend adult education classes and actually learned how to read and write. My Mum and dad were incredibly hard working people. I learned the virtue of hard work from them.

I have a multi-disciplinary training and experience as a Para-medic; social entrepreneur; development consultant; leadership facilitator; Gender practitioner; journalist; Publishing Author and a Minister of the Gospel.

I’m passionate about what I do, which is to help people maximize their personal intangible assets.

I offer coaching services to leaders, career professionals and authors.

If you are interested in making impact as a public space leader, I will be delighted to work with you. If you are an aspiring author, I will like to work you through the road of book writing, publishing, and marketing, until you become an authorpreneur – when you are able to earn a decent living from your intellectual products.

I am a journalist of more than 30 years experience. I am also a self-publishing author. Through my author coaching classes, I have helped many people to become self-published authors.

As an author, I have some of my books published on Amazon. These include The Quest for Political Leadership & Citizens Democracy; Politics is a Kingdom Business; How to Do More by Being More; How to Enjoy the Good life, Effective Writing for Career Excellence; and Promoting Sustainable Human Development through Mentoring.

I am also thePresident of FLED International Leadership Institute, a professional leadership think tank that I founded in 1999. If you are interested in building up your leadership competence, I’ll like to invite you to get inducted into Public Leadership at FLED Institute . This will enable you to come closer to me as you join our ecosystem of transformational leaders in Africa.

I have a Ph.D in Leadership Development and Conflict Mediation.

I am a values-driven individual. I leverage on my social capital to generate support for the NGO work I do, through which I build the capacity of women and youths to participate in public life .

The name of NGO which I founded in 1995 NGO is Foundation for Leadership & Education Development.

At my spare time, I play golf. I love the game.