Towards Thriving Graduates Programme

We equip aspirational undergraduate students to apply strategic techniques, personal growth & self leadership to steer themselves to the future they desire.

[Towards Thriving Graduates Programme @Alumniconnectke]

OUR VALUE PREPOSITION
✍️Across the world, the primary goal of education is to nurture intellectual, social and moral development in order to prepare students to become productive and responsible citizens.

✍️Nurturing intellectual, social and moral development is achieved through the following;
✅Academic development
✅Professional development
✅ Phase appropriate personal growth

✍️Academic development is the mandate of formal educational institutions and planned for and allocated resources through national planning processes. Professional development and personal growth are a shared responsibility involving formal educational institutions; education stakeholders; social actors; parents and even the students themselves.

🎯Often, the execution falls through the cracks and young people complete education without adequate preparation to understand the realities they will face and the responsibilities they will have to assume after their graduation.

✍️We are a social enterprise that contributes to the personal growth and professional development of undergraduate students. Our aim is to facilitate undergraduate students to cultivate soft skills (critical skills, employability skills); personal growth and professional development so that they succeed in the universities and are better prepared to transition to the labour market.

✍️We catalyze and equip undergraduate students to apply strategic planning and execution techniques; personal growth and self-leadership as tools to envision whom they want to become and steer themselves to the future they want.

🎯We target soft skills that address the supply-side drivers of unemployment so that students are empowered to prepare for their next phase.

✍️🎯We designed a programme that is customized specifically for undergraduate students called Towards Thriving Graduate Programme (TTGP). TTG included guidebook(s); professional group coaching and knowledge sharing.

✍️We deliver our programme virtually for flexibility and cost control. Tech-enablement enables us to reach students at the comfort of their locations; be flexible so students priorities their academic calendars and be cost-effective for the sake of the underprivileged students.

▶️https://t.co/9rJngtetZH

✍️We value partnerships because partnerships build synergies to increase reach and scale impact to thousands of students. We would love to partner especially with universities’ Offices of Career Services (or their equivalents); organizations that sponsor undergraduate students and government entities that invest heavily in the academic development such as @HELBpage; @UFKenya; @EduMinKenya. We would e happy to partner with development partners too who have a mandate on human development and focus on young people such as @UNICEFKenya.

🎯Supporting the professional and personal development of the students you sponsor will yield higher returns on your investment because it will fast track the socio-economic mobility of the students you have invested in. Kindly, contact us for partnerships at [email protected]. We would love to present our programme for your consideration.

🔊🔊We are fully registered in Kenya but we are currently working virtually for cost control during our nascent stages.

[Towards Thriving Graduates Programme @Alumniconnectke]

@a16z Aren't companies planning nonetheless? Aren't countries planning? So why not people? A plan does not hinder one from being agile. Plan but be self and socially aware and agile enough to navigate whatever turns the world creates. You can't just sit around bcz the world is changing

[Towards Thriving Graduates Programme @Alumniconnectke]

Underneath successful adaptation to change are foundations that have withstood the test of time & proven to be insulators against losing value. These are:
✅Learning to learn
✅Critical thinking skills
✅Capacity to understand and navigate
✅Social capital (trust, cohesion etc)

[Towards Thriving Graduates Programme @Alumniconnectke]

@realAtlasPress Going by the same logic, aren’t the superior also seeking to associate with their superiors only?

[Towards Thriving Graduates Programme @Alumniconnectke]

"People try to do all sorts of clever and difficult things to improve life instead of doing the simplest, easiest thing - refusing to participate in activities that make life bad." - Leo Tolstoy

[Towards Thriving Graduates Programme @Alumniconnectke]

Interesting perspective: AI is not a learning tool, it is a productivity tool. It is useful for experts but harmful to kids because kids merely offload work to AI, blocking learning. I add it also blocks self discovery and curiosity.

[Anna Stokke @rastokke]

2/3 Why AI help experts but harms learning https://t.co/4nWCQX4dSq

[Towards Thriving Graduates Programme @Alumniconnectke]

Message 👇 is clear as is. No need for captions!

[Towards Thriving Graduates Programme @Alumniconnectke]

👇 Advice worth spreading. Principles are applicable to basically any career especially STEM careers.

[Kekius Maximus @Kekius_Sage]

I’m 54, a physicist who’s spent decades unraveling the universe’s secrets—from quantum quirks to cosmic scales.

If you’re in your 20s and passionate about physics or science, please read this:

[Towards Thriving Graduates Programme @Alumniconnectke]

Assumptions are a cause of many family and intergenerational conflicts. On the 👇, some youth assume that all elders want them to bleed for money. Elders assume all rich youth use unethical or immoral means to acquire wealth. Break assumptions through informative conversations.

[Orange Book 🍊📖 @orangebook]

Old people who didn’t have the intelligence to work smart, who made a lot of sacrifices and suffered a lot to get where they are, love to be preachy and resentful towards the smart young people who achieved ten times more in ten times less time, as if being inefficient and struggling made them a more virtuous person.

[Towards Thriving Graduates Programme @Alumniconnectke]

@orangebook Most elders are genuinely concerned about the morality and ethics of the sources of income. They may not understand or distinguish legit and illegitimate means of acquiring wealth. The youth too have a duty to sensitise the elders instead of assuming all elders want them to bleed

[Towards Thriving Graduates Programme @Alumniconnectke]

@SABCNews There is a better way of helping learners and parents. Govt can leverage technology and development an application where learners, parents and stakeholders can authenticate higher education institutions. Hard to judge legitimacy from display of certificates.

[Towards Thriving Graduates Programme @Alumniconnectke]

You cannot accomplish anything meaningful without commitment. Commit to what you plan to achieve, be disciplined and consistent for your efforts to compound.

[Towards Thriving Graduates Programme @Alumniconnectke]

💯 👇
"We recognise that inequality, unemployment, under-employment and informal employment, pose significant threats to global economic growth, development, social and economic stability." - G20 Declaration, 2025. #G20Summit2025

[Towards Thriving Graduates Programme @Alumniconnectke]

@_AfricanUnion Let countries go to the grassroots and educate pple - civic education should cover health, finances and many other life skills. The highest percentage of those who abuse medicinal drugs are not online.

[Towards Thriving Graduates Programme @Alumniconnectke]

Interesting!
It is time duty bearers take charge and establish facts at scale. Once informed by hard evidence at scale, they should implement necessary changes in education sector in time to protect generations from unintended consequences of technology.

[Adam Grant @AdamMGrant]

It's time to remove laptops from classrooms.

24 experiments: Students learn more and get better grades after taking notes by hand than typing. It's not just because they're less distracted—writing enables deeper processing and more images.

The pen is mightier than the keyboard.

[Towards Thriving Graduates Programme @Alumniconnectke]

“Everyone wants healing until medicine shows up in the form of discipline.” - Hippocrates.

[Towards Thriving Graduates Programme @Alumniconnectke]

🙌 Yes, shoutout AND do not exploit their acts of kindness. If you exploit the kind, they might push you out of their lives when they set/review their boundaries. Then you lose out on that kindness totally.

[Towards Thriving Graduates Programme @Alumniconnectke]

We pay very little attention to how we are socialised and/or how we socialise our dependents. Yet socialisation plays a huge role in what we become. Eg ability to discern & sieze opportunities is closely tied to socialisation. You could live in a sea of opportunities & see none.

[Lonzen Rugira @LonzenRugira]

There is no university in the world where graduates have job skills. Universities are not job training centers.

Universities teach students to think in order to have mental agility and adaptability to think around a plethora of challenges.

These are, therefore, trainable people - hence “on the job training” which is ideally continuous throughout their career as they move up the ladder of (corporate or public) responsibility.

[Towards Thriving Graduates Programme @Alumniconnectke]

I don’t want to spend my day lamenting over who is NOT supporting me. I want to spend my day understanding the opportunities accessible to me; how I can leverage those opportunities and who and/or what can enable me to maximize those opportunities to become what I desire. #agency

[Towards Thriving Graduates Programme @Alumniconnectke]

Start by leading self...