Programmes
ATTP Fellowship.
A leadership formation programme for emerging leaders aged 20 to 35. Not a course about leadership: six disciplines, practised daily, with your venture or initiative as the field of practice. TIA forms builders. Fellowship forms people worth following.
What is Fellowship?
Fellowship starts from one premise: leadership fails at 2am on a Tuesday under pressure, not on a Saturday in a classroom. So the programme is not built on topics. It is built on disciplines, practised habits of self, thought, integrity, people, communication, and endurance, because who you are becoming matters more than what you happen to be building.
Each of the six Saturdays takes one discipline. A practitioner who visibly lives it teaches the morning; the afternoon is practice under observation; and the week between carries daily exercises that are logged and reviewed. A discipline that is not practised between Saturdays is just a lecture, and Fellowship does not do lectures.
You arrive with something real: a venture, a community initiative, a civic project. It stays in the programme, but demoted. It is the field where the disciplines get practised, not the point. Building the thing is TIA's job; Fellowship is about becoming the kind of person who can carry it.
Every Fellow is paired with a mentor from week one, and the mentor's brief is not to help you build. It is to let you watch how they live: how they decide, how they rest, how they keep their books open and their word intact.
Fellowship is deliberately small and graduation is earned, not attended. The certificate requires the practice log kept, the mobilisation evidence, and the public account given. Some Fellows will not graduate, and that is what makes graduating worth something.
Who gets in?
Emerging leaders aged 20 to 35 who are already carrying something real: a venture, a community initiative, a civic project, a team. You do not need a registered company or technical skills. You do need something you lead, the honesty to have it examined, and the capacity to commit to six consecutive Saturdays plus daily practice between them. TIA alumni are given priority. Fellowship is free to attend, no application fee, no programme charge.
Fellowship 2026
Applications for the first Fellowship cohort open alongside TIA 2026. The cohort is capped at 12 Fellows. The programme closes with the public account: each Fellow gives an honest record of six weeks of practice before mentors, partners, and the wider ATTP community. Not a demo day, an account.
The curriculum
Six Saturdays. Six disciplines.
One discipline per week, taught by a practitioner who lives it, practised in the room, then practised daily until the next Saturday. The output of the whole programme is a person with a working rule of life and the evidence trail to prove it held.
Week 1
The discipline of self
Who are you when nobody confers a title on you, and what is your life actually structured around? Each Fellow writes a rule of life: the fixed commitments of their week, when they rise, what they read, when they reflect, what they refuse. Becoming who you were made to be, with a timetable attached.
The practice: The rule of life, kept and logged daily.
Week 2
The discipline of thought
Leaders are readers and writers or they are repeaters. First-principles reasoning, how to read a difficult book properly, and writing one clear page as the test of clear thinking. One assigned book runs across the whole programme.
The practice: A daily page of written thinking; the cohort reads each other's pages.
Week 3
The discipline of integrity
Character under pressure, taught through real Nigerian cases: the official who wants a cut, the donor who wants the numbers rounded up, the friend who wants the job he cannot do. Then stewardship as a practice: every Fellow opens a public ledger for their initiative, because open books are integrity made visible.
The practice: The public ledger, live, plus one hard conversation you have been avoiding, had and reported.
Week 4
The discipline of people
Listening, honest feedback, and followership. The afternoon is the mobilisation exercise: recruit and brief a small team of outsiders, then lead without doing. Whether anyone follows you is a fact, not a feeling, and this is the week it gets measured.
The practice: Weekly one-to-ones with your team, with notes.
Week 5
The discipline of communication
Speaking so people move, writing so people understand, and telling the truth attractively. Every Fellow gives the same three-minute account twice, once before coaching and once after, on camera.
The practice: One public piece of communication shipped that week, in your own name.
Week 6
The discipline of endurance
Rest, resilience, succession, and the long game. Leaders who cannot rest cannot last, and leaders who cannot hand over never built anything real. Each Fellow writes the 90-day version of their rule of life, names who could run their initiative if they vanished for a month, and gives the public account: an honest record of six weeks of practice, kept and broken.
The practice: The 90-day rule of life and the public account.
Comparison
How Fellowship differs from TIA
| TIA | Fellowship | |
|---|---|---|
| The job | Forms builders: ship something real | Forms leaders: become someone worth following |
| Age range | 13 to 22 | 20 to 35 |
| Curriculum | The build loop: evidence, ship, sell, dissect | Six disciplines, practised daily |
| Mentor's brief | Help them build | Let them watch how you live |
| Graduation requires | A shipped project, publicly dissected | The practice log, mobilisation evidence, and a public account |
| The metric a year later | Are they still building? | Is the rule of life standing, and does the thing run without them? |
Questions
Frequently asked
- Who is Fellowship for?
- Emerging leaders aged 20 to 35 who are already carrying something real: a venture, a community initiative, a civic project, a team. You do not need a registered company. You do need something you lead and the capacity to commit to six Saturdays plus daily practice between them.
- How is it different from TIA?
- TIA forms builders: its curriculum is the build loop, and the metric is the shipped thing. Fellowship forms leaders: its curriculum is six practised disciplines, and the metric is whether the rule of life is still standing a year later and whether the thing runs without you in the room.
- Is Fellowship free?
- Yes. There is no fee to apply or attend.
- What is a rule of life?
- The fixed commitments of your week, written down and kept: when you rise, what you read, when you reflect, what you refuse. You write it in week one, log it daily, and the 90-day version is part of graduating. It is the backbone of the whole programme.
- What is the mentor pairing?
- Every Fellow is paired with a practitioner from week one, and the mentor's brief is not to help you build. It is to let you watch how they live: how they decide, how they rest, how they keep their books open and their word intact.
- What does graduating require?
- The practice log kept across six weeks, the mobilisation evidence from the discipline of people, and the public account given at the close. Attendance alone earns nothing, and some Fellows will not graduate. That is what makes the certificate worth something.
- Can TIA alumni apply?
- Yes, TIA alumni are prioritised. The programmes are designed as a sequence: TIA is where you ship something real, Fellowship is where you become the kind of person who can carry it.