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Our Vision
Creating a levelled competitive ground for African youths through technology, education and access
Our Mission
Our Mission is to train and empower 300,000 African youth with technical skills and job opportunities that can reshape the future of Africa's development.
Who We Are
Started as the individual dream of our founder – Scott C Eneje as a way to give back to his community. This is as a result of his core belief, that you don’t have to have it all, you just have to have what to share and that passion has attracted like-minded individuals who also care about giving back and helping those around them with whatever insight, knowledge or experience they’ve gathered. As a project born from a dream, the academy was named “THE MORPHEUS ACADEMY”, with Morpheus being the Greek name for the god of dreams, and today, has evolved to be TM Academy. Expanded as a CSR project of Digital Evolutions LTD (Digivo). A company, also founded by Scott, to support and build the vision of the academy.
How We Operate
In the last two years since, we've conducted fully virtual programs for our student and community members with resources and class schedules that allows them to engage with coaches and their fellow student. Our actual training programs run quarterly with one extra month dedicated to projects and certifications. New cohorts are then started after a break period to allow the community focus on a development/next-phase program for the graduates of the previous programs. We run two cohorts annually and at the end of each program, split our students into teams of a complete product team with the goal to allow them bring their learning to life by developing a new product of their choosing from start to finish, allowing them utilise the skills they've learned while working with a team of randomly selected members to give them insight into working with teams and organisations.
At the end of each cohort, we run a graduation process and induct the student of the academy into the community of alumni. We also provide a reward system to keep the teams inspired as we select our best graduating students and rewarding them with laptops and the best graduating teams with cash reward for utilising the skills they've learned practically.
Why We Operate
It is not new to say that there is a high pay gap between peers within the tech space and those outside it. One of our goals is to help young Africans acquire skills that can help them improve their knowledge and earnings, which we believe would play a huge role in reducing the poverty scale within Africa. In our world today, even with access to a lot of resources, many struggle with motivation, accountability and a place to truly learn and ask questions. We created the academy to help people come together and have access to these things and learn from scratc without feeling out of place or lost to the world. It is also important that this is FREELY available which is why our programs are completely FREE and completely REMOTE, to reduce friction or difficulty in truly reaching those we truly seek to provide these programs for. We are driven by the belief that one can raise a thousand and two can raise tens of thousand, and this belief drives our every action.
We want to empower as many as we can so they also can give back value to those within their own community, expanding our own impact and spreading our belief. We know that a lot of these information are freely available on the internet, what we want to add is direction and experience for as many young people we interact with.
MEET THE TEAM
Scott C Eneje
Founder
Meet Scott C Eneje - Founder
Scott C Eneje is a tech expert with over a decade of experience in the technology space. He has worked with several teams across the globe building products that shape Data, CX and innovative technology. He has helped several businesses bring their ideas to life, with website development, structural set up, product management, team training and advisor supports.
"It is rather painful that a lot of young adult across several African countries earn between $50 to $100 a month amid inflation and high cost of living and are still treated like they are being done a favour in jobs like that. We realised that if they knew better, they would want better and of course, desire to be better themselves. This is something that the technology industry is changing. TM Academy to set up to not only inform them of opportunities in tech as an industry, but to help them acquire the skills they need to move to the industry as well as access to jobs within the industry on the global market" - Scott C Eneje
KAREEM M. LEAH
HEAD OF PROGRAM
Kareem Motunrayo Leah - Head of Programs
Motunrayo is a Tech Career Advocate dedicated to supporting individuals in navigating and advancing their careers within the tech industry by providing resources and mentorship to help them explore opportunities, develop skills, and make informed decisions about their tech career paths. Through a combination of advocacy, leadership, and strategic thinking, she continues to make significant impacts that shapes the next generation of tech leaders.
NANCY IGWE
COMMUNITY MANAGER
Nancy Igwe - Community Manager
Nancy Igwe is a leadership enthusiast with extensive experience in building and managing communities. She is an effective communicator who is also skilled at fostering meaningful connections, building cohesive teams, and implementing process and structure. Nancy is committed to creating an inclusive environment for everyone and is passionate about making an impact and initiating positive changes around the world.
Our Coaches
Nate Ogunleye
UI/UX Coach
Senior UI/UX Designer with Hark
GRACE FRANK
ENGINEERING COACH
Senior Software Engineer at Hark
JUSTICE ENEJE
WEB 3.0 COACH
Co Founder, Tribe Temple LTD. Owners of The Alkebulan Tribe NFTs
BOLU POPOOLA
QA ANALYST/COACH
QA Automation Engineer at Zeedas
MICHAEL AKACHI ENEJE
STORYTELLER & ANIMATOR
Creative Director Tribe Temple
Our Guest Coaches
EMMANUEL PASTOR
SOFTWARE ENGINEER, MOMOX, GERMANY
Guest coach and lectured on Software Engineering Best Practise
MATT RING
CO FOUNDER, HOP. HARK
Guest Coach and introduced the group to Product Management and requirement to Start a career in Product
ZURUM OKEREKE
PRODUCT MANAGER, MICROSOFT WORD
Guest coach and facilitated the course of developing a product with an Agile team
ASHIMA DUA
DIRECTOR OF PRODUCT, OUTCOMES4GOOD
Guest coach who helped with sharing on the emotional intelligence required in working within a tech team
Sam Jacobson
Writer & Former VP of Product Centricity
Guest coach and facilitated the product process trajectory for new product managers
Akansha Sukhija
Product Agility Lead, JP Morgan
Guest Coach and facilitated building a technical team around people inspired products
Jason Nichols
Founder, StartUp OS
Guest coach and facilitated, what to know as an engineer. Kick start into the tech industry
Andrew Tweedy
CX at Murmur
Guest Coach and facilitated the importance of copy in marketing, development and business success
Here's what we really do
300+
Young Africans Trained
500+
Community Members
30+
Internships/Job Placements
20+
Project Completion by Trainees