Gareth Armstrong
Leadership Platform
Born
in Cape Town
South Africa
As per the Leadership Platform website:
Gareth Armstrong is the man entrusted with the awesome responsibility that is Leadership Platform Youth.
He has been involved and associated with Leadership Platform for a number of years now, and with youth and their development for much longer.
Gareth has a passion for youth and a powerful vision of what can be should they be empowered with the correct tools and skills. Both these, his passion and vision, are potent motivators making him an asset to LPY, and an extremely effective mentor and coach to youth he associates with.
His personal leadership journey started, as all of ours did, in his home and school environments, watching and listening carefully to parents and personal mentors - most of whom were, and still are, involved in corporate training and development - ...everything he learned, then and since, assisting to bring him to where he is today after pursuing an education in Finance, and, most recently, returning from an intensive two year volunteer service mission where he was also called upon and used to not only serve his fellow South Africans, but also lead (motivate, strategise, communicate, execute) and train others from various countries across the globe - "...an intensive period of personal growth and leadership maturation."
Dynamic and innovative, Gareth is the perfect middle man between Leadership Platform's senior level, leadership development offerings and the Y-Generation, and their hunger for this kind of guidance and direction.
Educational history
Secondary
Sutherland High School, Centurion, South Africa (2004)
Tertiary
Sandton, South Africa | 2012 - present
Postgraduate Diploma in Management - Management
Achievements
media exposure
SA FM's Talk Shop with Masechaba Moshoeshoe | 2012
Invited to participate in a discussion around developing young leaders
The Star | 2011
Launched "You(th) the Leader Series" - a monthly full page article dedicated to exposing youth to leadership and assiting youth to engage the process to become leaders - details can be found at www.leadershipplatform.com
Other Achievements
Classic FM LP Top Leader Mentoring Experience Winner | 2008
Was named as one of three young leaders who were given the opportunity to be mentored by a current top leader. Gareth chose Pete Da Silva, former CEO Siemens, and then CEO A1 GP.
Activities
Memberships
The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints
Active Member and Participant, 1993 - present
community
Sutherland High School, Centurion
Rugby Coach, 2005 - 2008
As a rugby coach, Gareth's legacy includes multiple representives playing on a provincial level, as well as as a junior Springbok.
He attributes this simply to his being able to assist these young men in understanding and realising their potential - on and off the field.
The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints
Missionary, 2009 - 2011
Served a two year, full time volunteer service mission in Durban area of South Africa's Kwa-Zulu Natal Province.
Was actively involved on a day to day basis in the various communities he was called to serve, which include: Pietermaritzburg; Madadeni, Newcastle; Kwa-Mashu, Durban; and Esikhaweni, Port Durnford, and Kozi Bay, Richards Bay Area.
