Relatable role model: After delivering our WDGM? workshop, some students eagerly waited for a photograph with our founder
To show this, he turned to a host of friends who are successful in a variety of different industries ranging from academia to sports to film to finance. They came in and spoke with the students about their different journeys to success.
Given the student feedback that we received from the discussion series, it was clear that they internalised the message as they began to renew their thinking towards their aims.
The power of friendship: The first-ever upthegreatness discussion panel line-up consisted of Oluwani's classmates. (L-R: Joseph Golding, George Hammond, Eugene Martin[teacher], Reece Brown)
Oluwani, in his role as Old Whitgiftian Mentoring Lead, with his mentees (December 2022)
Listening to Oluwani's friends' experiences had the desired effect as the students could relate to them and were even stunned to hear that they had to overcome the same hurdles that the students faced now. Amongst the pupils there was a realisation that these great musicians and great soldiers and great entrepreneurs that sat before them were once walking in similar corridors wearing similar shoes. They had made a choice to pursue their greatness; a choice which these students now had the courage to replicate.