Meet mentors helping young people grow with clarity and confidence.

Osaretin Agbonavbare

Osaretin Agbonavbare is an EAF mentor focused on entrepreneurship, leadership, and professional development. He supports aspiring entrepreneurs and emerging professionals who need greater clarity, accountability, and a practical framework for turning ideas into responsible action. His mentoring approach combines encouragement with direct, structured guidance.

• Approved to serve in the EAF mentor network across entrepreneurship, leadership, and professional development.
• Contributes practical guidance that helps early-stage founders clarify ideas, priorities, and next steps.
• Supports mentees in strengthening decision-making, accountability, confidence, and execution discipline.

Gedeon Baleke

Gedeon Baleke is a trained diplomat, political actor, business consultant, and Founder of Congolese Young Leaders. Originally from the Democratic Republic of Congo, he brings experience in diplomacy, public affairs, youth leadership, and community development. Through EAF, he mentors emerging leaders and purpose-driven young people seeking to grow in discipline, responsibility, service, and confidence.

• Founder of Congolese Young Leaders, an initiative supporting leadership and civic engagement among young Congolese.
• Serves as Secretary General and Vice President II of the African Coalition for Development.
• Earned a Master of Global Affairs from the Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy at the University of Toronto.
• Brings professional experience spanning diplomacy, political affairs, business consulting, youth leadership, and community development.

Temitope “Tee” Fakayode

Temitope helps students, graduates, job seekers, and early-career professionals prepare for opportunities with greater confidence, discipline, and self-awareness. Her mentorship connects personal development with workplace readiness, professional communication, and the habits required to build a sustainable career. She emphasizes preparation, professionalism, and follow-through.

• Approved to serve as an EAF mentor in career readiness, professional growth, and youth development.
• Guides young people in strengthening workplace communication, confidence, preparation, and professional habits.
• Supports students, graduates, and early-career professionals as they navigate employment and growth opportunities.

Olivia Tutu

Olivia Tutu is a Zambian sustainable-development advocate, education activist, content creator, youth leader, and Founder of Youth on Sustainable Development. She also serves as Director for Southern Africa at the African Coalition for Development. Her work advances youth participation, education, climate action, gender equality, civic engagement, Agenda 2030, and Africa’s Agenda 2063.

• Founded Youth on Sustainable Development to strengthen youth participation in sustainable-development action.
• Serves as Director for Southern Africa at the African Coalition for Development.
• Has contributed to youth-focused initiatives and collaborations involving organizations such as UNICEF Zambia, the European Union in Zambia, and UNDP.
• Advocates for education, climate action, gender equality, civic engagement, Agenda 2030, and Agenda 2063.

Fernando Vitti

Fernando Vitti is the Founder and CEO of Nexforce, a technology company based in São Paulo, Brazil. He is building an integrated ecosystem that helps companies discover, sell, implement, and support technology more effectively. His work spans software distribution, implementation services, artificial intelligence, entrepreneurship, global technology strategy, and scalable business growth.

• Founded Nexforce with a mission to improve how technology is sold, implemented, and supported globally.
• Leads the development of Nexforce Marketplace, Nexforce Services, and Nexforce Agents.
• Builds technology and AI-enabled systems designed to simplify software distribution, implementation, and customer support.
• Brings entrepreneurial leadership, technology strategy, global-market thinking, and business-building experience to the EAF mentor network.

Esther Chukwujekwu

Esther Chukwujekwu is a business operations and strategy consultant and the Founder of Timely Operations. With a background in operations, supply chain management, business development, and entrepreneurship, supported by an MBA, she helps organizations identify operational gaps, redesign workflows, strengthen accountability, and build systems that improve efficiency and support sustainable growth.

• Founder of Timely Operations, helping organizations improve operational performance and build stronger business systems.
• Brings experience across operations, supply chain management, business development, and entrepreneurship.
• Holds an MBA that supports her strategic and managerial approach to organizational growth and performance.
• Specializes in operational gap analysis, workflow redesign, accountability, and systems that support sustainable growth.
• Applies operational environment design to understand how people, processes, tools, information, and physical or digital work environments interact to enable workplace performance.

Aspiring entrepreneurs, small-business owners, emerging operators, and young professionals who want to structure work, improve processes, strengthen accountability, and build organizations that can grow sustainably.

Esther brings a practical, systems-focused approach to mentorship. She helps mentees look beyond isolated problems to understand how people, processes, tools, information, and the work environment connect, then translate that understanding into clearer workflows, better execution, and stronger organizational performance.