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Fellow:Olamide Jalaade

2024-10-14T07:46:09Z

Olamide.jalaade: /* Bio */ Made it shorter

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==Bio==

Hello, my name is Olamide (O-la-mih-day), but feel free call me Ola. I'm an undergraduate student and freelance radio host at University of Galway. Like many of us, life for me has been full of ups and downs, trials and tribulations and everything in between. Growing up, I struggled with my mental health and overall sense of direction in life. Don't worry, this isn't a long winded sob story, I'm just providing you, dear reader, with the context from which you're meeting the Ola you see today. The COVID-19 pandemic was a challenging time for us all. However, it was during that period of global stand-still and mandated isolation that I decided that I would use all my pain to fuel a passion to help people who have struggled, people like you and me. But first, I had to help myself.

Helping myself started with further exploring my relationship with God, receiving counselling, going back to college and developing meaningful relationships. All of which were incredibly difficult at first, I must admit. After a few years of wrestling with who I used to be, I won a few rounds and my confidence started to grow. I rediscovered my appetite for growth and worked on maximising my life satisfaction by opening myself up to as many value-adding experiences as possible. These experiences helped me better understand myself, what I want and how I can contribute to society. I started going to church, applying myself at university and volunteering with charities. At university, I connected with the chaplaincy and completed the Seas Suas training to support student wellbeing, I discovered the IdeasLab and completed entrepreneurial development programmes like CreateHER, and I even started a radio-show podcast, LOMAH, which amplified creatives in my community and engaged with difficult topics on the human condition. I started to feel alive again, and believed I was ready to expand and offer support beyond myself. I volunteered with Jigsaw, a mental health charity and became an advocate for youth mental health. I facilitated philosophical inquiry for first year students via a peer-assisted learning programme and I held LIFT roundtable discussions on positive leadership with other students at university. Hey, it wasn't all sunshine and rainbows, I also experienced some hard times and failures but I had learned to no longer let those define me and accepted them as part of the vicissitudes of life. So, where I am at now?

Over the years, I've come to learn that fulfillment is derived from pursuing a life marked by purpose and harmony. So fueled by a desire to help others , I aim to create a career that integrates the different dimensions of the human experience and thereby foster cohesion. I am particularly interested in the intersection between Faith or philosophy, psychology, creativity and innovation. My experience facilitating communities of philosophical inquiry helped me to realise the importance of supporting people to 'become' rather than just 'do'. I believe that what we do should stem from who we are and as we work on becoming, whatever that may look like for each individual, what we do will naturally follow and vice versa. I see the UIF as another step on the journey of the becoming-doing paradigm. I would like to help students to discover their potential and become the best version of themselves. I believe this can be achieved by cultivating a community of curiosity and creativity, where students can work together, learn from each other, solve problems and be equipped with the skills required to excel within themselves, at university, in the market place and beyond.

So, I've been Ola, who are you? Feel free to connect with me on LinkedIn. I'd love to hear your story and support your dreams in any way I can. Thank you for coming to my TED talk :D.

'''Matthew 29:37-39''' "Jesus replied: “‘Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind. This is the first and greatest commandment. And the second is like it: ‘Love your neighbor as yourself'"
==Achievements==
• President's Award for Innovation and Entrepreneurship 2024: Silver medal recipient.

• Winning Team of IdeasLab Enterprise Challenge 2024: Successfully developed a sustainability project to streamline Boston Scientific' s distribution process.

• Start100 Participant 2024: Completed the IdeasLab startup programme to develop communication and storytelling skills, business and commercial acumen to understand markets, funding opportunities and how to leverage the ecosystem to further support the development of ideas.

• CreateHER 2024: Completed the IdeasLab female entrepreneurship programme to enhance self belief, financial literacy, innovation mind-set and leadership skills.

• Seas Suas Certificate 2024: Effectively completed Bystander Intervention Training to support student health and wellbeing through awareness and encouragement. Topics included mental health, alcohol and drugs, sexual violence, suicide prevention, peer-to-peer support and relevant supports services.

• Flirt FM Radio Essentials Badge 2023: Certificate of acknowledgment for learning about community media, structuring a show, operating a sound desk and participating in the station’s output.

• LIFT Leadership Certificate 2021: Completed training to facilitate roundtable discussions while exercising the Positive Leadership values of honesty, competence, accountability, empathy, respect and positive attitude.

==Social media profiles==
https://www.linkedin.com/in/olamide-jalaade/

https://open.spotify.com/show/3gNUgjKVaseMSMV3C79RJA?si=5rpF2FQMSPaDe_TxJLdYGw&nd=1&dlsi=00e94bd8a2294eb0

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School:University of Galway

2024-10-08T14:31:42Z

Olamide.jalaade: Added info on microcreds

[[File:National University of Galway, Ireland.jpg|alt=A stone tower covered in green and red vines.|thumb|The Quadrangle Building in the University of Galway.]]

==Overview==
Located in the heart of Galway City, University of Galway connects a vibrant community of students, teachers, and industry within the city. Our campus is responsible for producing change makers, innovators and problem solvers of the highest degree.

 

*'''Promoting student innovation and entrepreneurship:''' The research you conducted for your Landscape Canvas corresponds to the five parameters. Your research will be most robust in this section (Discover, Learn and Experiment), related to "Promoting student innovation and entrepreneurship." 
*'''Encouraging faculty innovation and entrepreneurship:''' While it doesn't seem as though it directly impacts you, the extent to which faculty are encouraged to innovate and pursue entrepreneurial pathways really does help determine the extent to which they will encourage students to explore their innovative and entrepreneurial potential. Encouragement at the faculty level is one of the things that differentiates more developed I&E ecosystems. Under the "Encouraging faculty innovation and entrepreneurship" category, please provide a succinct view of whether faculty are supported to be entrepreneurial or commercialize their research. 
*'''Actively supporting the university technology transfer function:''' Your research about IP policies in "Pursue" in the Landscape Canvas will give you a view into the resources your technology transfer office provides. Include this overview in "Actively supporting the university technology transfer function". If your school doesn't have a technology transfer office, you can skip this section.
*'''Facilitating university-industry collaboration:''' The "Spin Out" section of your Landscape Canvas relates to research centers, industrial parks and industry/mentor networks and will give you a sense of whether the University is "Facilitating University-Industry Collaboration." 
*'''Engaging with regional and local economic development efforts:''' The "Spin Out" section of your Landscape Canvas also reveals the extent to which the University is engaging with regional and local economic development efforts. Many institutions also have an economic development office and staff whose responsibility it is to leverage the University's research and development for positive local economic benefit. 

==Our Innovation & Entrepreneurial Ecosystem==
'''Promoting student innovation and entrepreneurship:'''

University of Galway has a vast range of degrees across multiple disciplines that promote the importance of innovation and entrepreneurship in the context of large subject areas such as Law, Human Rights, Business, Science, Construction Innovation to name a few. The university also hosts an annual workshop called I-Days in collaberation with EIT Health Europe. Within the university there are many marketing sources and communication strategies used such as SIN newspaper, websites, student newsletters, societies days, SU instagram and a whole range of other outlets. As well as this, the university has a range of targeted innovational and entrepreneurship based course such as Msc in International Marketing and Entrepreneurship, AgInnovatate (TechInnovate), BioInnovate (Stanford Biodesign affiliate) and Msc in Strategy, Innovation and People management. Furthermore, the university also offers specialised, profressional, micro-credential courses on innovation and entrepreneurship, broadening the scope of accessibility. Some extracurricular clubs and program offerings include Bachelor of Business with Entrepreneurship and Comm (enterprise stream) which can lead to on-campus competitions which are Enactus and Entresoc. There are a few dedicated on-campus innovation spaces which offer access to innovation and entrepreneurship opportunites outside of the classrooms. These are IdeasLab, Business Innovation Center and MakerSpace. These spaces offer experimental courses to apply enterprise skills, such courses include Enterprise Challegre, SCIFI CreateHer and ECO sprint. These are some of the many opportunities offered at the University of Galway which promote student innovation and entrepreneurship.

'''Encouraging faculty innovation and entrepreneurship'''

University of Galway encourages faculty innovation and entrepreneurship by setting up and sourcing funding for the on-campus innovation spaces. These include IdeasLab, Business Innovation Center and MakerSpace. These facilities encourage innovation and entrepreneurship amongst the student body. In these facilities faculty encourage parntership with industry experts and the faculty mentor the students to build on and improve there innovation and entrepreneurship skills. An example of this is the Enterprise Challenge ran by IdeasLab where faculty brings students and enterprise partners together to solve real world problems.

'''Facilitating university-industry collaboration'''

The University of Galway have a strong collaboration with industry partners around the city because they value the expertise these partners have to offer. This is provided through innovation bootcamps and impact accelerator. The University seeks capital funding from a wide range of regional sources such as Western Development, Kernell Capital, Elkstone, Atlantic Bridge and the Government of Ireland. This funding allows the expansion and development of innovation and entrepreneurship on campus. Aswell as that, there are strong mentoring relations between students and industry partners. This mentoring guides students to solutions and expands their network within industry.

'''Engaging with regional and local economic development efforts'''

The University of Galway engages with regional and local economic development efforts by providing programmes such as BioInnovate and AgInnovate in partnership with Enterprise Ireland. There are many successful start-ups that have come through these programmes. Among them, Aquila Bioscience is at the forefront of developing groundbreaking decontamination technologies, crucial for protecting against harmful pathogens like the coronavirus. AtriAN Medical is dedicated to combating Atrial Fibrillation, a common heart rhythm disorder, with its pioneering treatment. Aurigen Medical is revolutionizing the management of atrial fibrillation by developing the first implant that addresses both stroke and arrhythmia risks. Some more businesses include Bioprobe Diagnostics, Derilinx, Endowave, FeelTect, Kite Medical, Loci Orthopaedics, Neurent Medical, NVP Energy, OneProjects, Onk Therapeutics, Orbsen Therapeutics, Peracton, Qpercom, Sedicii Innovations, Signum Surgical, SymPhysis Medical, Tympany Medical, InVera Medical, Vetex Medical and WestWay Health just to name a few. These spin-out companies from the University of Galway showcase a diverse range of expertise and innovation across various fields. Some of these companies have provided large scale employment within the local eco system. Galway is notorious for its MedTech and Tech sector, much of which would not be possible without the engagement and provision of suitable courses from our university.

The '''purpose''' of our researchand innovation is to benefit humanity, society and the economy. We work to build a foundation of people-centred knowledge so that policy frameworks and economic approaches can be improved for the benefit of society.

Our '''people''' are creative in their thinking and collaborative in their approach. Through engaged research with communities, we focus on inclusive societies, children, families and human rights. Through our work with businesses and government agencies, our people carry out research in fields such as health policy and economics, sustainable economic development, business innovation and entrepreneurship.

Our '''place''' is distinct - a vibrant region on the edge of Europe - connected globally. Our international reputation is supported by research from across our Colleges and by our Institute for Lifecourse and Society.

==Institute of Life Course==
The Institute for Lifecourse and Society (ILAS) is a newly designated research institute for the applied social sciences at University of Galway. The Institute supports applied research that informs policy development and practice to make a positive difference to people’s lives. ILAS brings together existing work in relation to targeted populations, such as older persons, children and families, and persons with disabilities into one domain of research, teaching and policy. The core function of the Institute is the pursuit of interdisciplinary research in the social sciences by creatively integrating the rich and diverse intellectual resources from within the University and beyond.

==IdeasLab==
IdeasLab is University of Galway's student innovation hub. IdeasLab is an open collaborative environment for our campus community to explore and accelerate ideas. At the heart of innovation, we enhance our entrepreneurial ecosystem in partnership with our community. If you want to meet new people, develop skills and behaviours, work to solve global challenges or set up a new business, IdeasLab is the place to start.

IdeasLab uses a design lens to explore and accelerate ideas. We see design as a way to:

*Define problems
*Solve problems
*Enhance creativity
*Develop Innovative capacity
*Learn and grow
*Shape the future

==Innovation Office==
The Innovation Office at our university catalyses and accelerates the impact of research and innovation. This is done by engaging with external stakeholders, working closely with our research community, and supporting new ventures. Working closely with our research community to help identify, develop and protect research breakthroughs - and collaborate externally with industry and other partners to find the best pathway to impact.
We provide information on the following;
- Funding and mechanisms and other opportunities.
- Tracking, identifying, developing and protecting new inventions and research breakthroughs.
- Collaborative research and industry engagements.

==Business Innovation Center==
University of Galway's Business Innovation Centre - developing, scaling and growing the start-up community on campus and in our region.

Our Business Innovation Centre is at the heart of our university's innovation ecosystem. We are home to numerous companies which have spun-out of our research activity and many more start-ups which have spun-in to collaborate and engage with our research community.

With three locations across campus, we provide extensive facilities including laboratories, wet-labs, dedicated offices, co-working spaces and research infrastructure. Through a programme of supports designed for ambitious start-ups, our team members offer mentoring, business development guidance, commercial and IP guidance - as well as access to research expertise.
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Topic:Ybcirej04f8tx199

2024-08-29T03:27:46Z

Olamide.jalaade (talk | contribs) commented on "Extreme By Design" (I found it valuable to see how the design thinking process was applied to solve real-life problems. Something that stood out to me was ho...)

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2024-08-26T01:17:11Z

Olamide.jalaade (talk | contribs) commented on "My Why" (I’ve always been interested in the factors that underpin human thought and behaviour, as well as the processes required to actively culti...)

Fellow:Olamide Jalaade

2024-08-22T16:03:29Z

Olamide.jalaade:

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==Bio==

Hello, my name is Olamide (O-la-mih-day), but feel free call me Ola. I'm an undergraduate student and freelance radio host at University of Galway. Like many of us, life for me has been full of ups and downs, trials and tribulations and everything in between. Growing up, I struggled with my mental health and overall sense of direction in life. Pardon the cliché but, I'd always felt like I was a bird with large, beautiful wings and an incredible potential to fly but unable to use them because I was trapped in a cage. I found myself perpetually caged by my own mind and unable to do anything substantial that would provide me with the life satisfaction I desired deep down. Don't worry, this isn't a long winded sob story, I'm just providing you, dear reader, with the context from which you're meeting the Ola you see today. I vividly remember the classic "where do you see yourself in five years?" question posed by my parents, teachers and potential employers alike. I remember how difficult I had found it to dream big, plan for the future and ultimately offer a suitable answer. Because, quite frankly, I couldn't envision one. Anytime time I tried, my mind came up blank. Like the static on those old TV screens during a storm.

The COVID-19 pandemic was a challenging time for us all. However, it was during that period of global stand-still and mandated isolation that I had the opportunity to really sit down with myself and have the difficult conversations that I'd been avoiding for so long. I'll spare you the details but I essentially came to realise that I'd spent most of my life running. Running away from the fact that my life is my responsibility. I mean, who decided that? do they know who I am? do they know what I've been through? I can barely get out of bed most days, how do they expect me to build the life I want? how do they expect me to even know the life I want? I'd like to speak to the manager, I don't want this job, I'm completely incapable! Thoughts like these would flood my mind and I would end up feeling frustrated and hopeless. It was also during this time that I did indeed hunt down the manager and rediscovered my Faith in God and gave Him quite the earful. After months of wrestling with confusion and the pain that comes with healing, things began to look up. Rather, I did. I began to look outside myself more and out into the world around me. I discovered that I wasn't the only one who struggled, I wasn't the only one with pain and maybe, just maybe, I could use my extensive experience in those fields to make the world a better place. I had found my why and I chose to believe in it. I decided that I didn't want to live a debilitated life anymore. I decided that I would use all my pain to fuel my newly ignited passion to help people who have struggled, people like you and me, to live the life they've been afraid to even dream of. But first, I had to help myself.

Helping myself started with further exploring my relationship with God, receiving counselling, going back to college and developing meaningful relationships. All of which were incredibly difficult at first, I must admit. After a few years of wrestling with who I used to be, I won a few rounds and my confidence started to grow. I rediscovered my appetite for growth and worked on maximising my life satisfaction by opening myself up to as many value-adding experiences as possible. These experiences helped me better understand myself, what I want and how I can contribute to society. I started going to church, applying myself at university and volunteering with charities. At university, I connected with the chaplaincy and completed the Seas Suas training to support student wellbeing, I discovered the IdeasLab and completed entrepreneurial development programmes like CreateHER, and I even started a radio-show podcast, LOMAH, which amplified creatives in my community and engaged with difficult topics on the human condition. I started to feel alive again, and believed I was ready to expand and offer support beyond myself. I volunteered with Jigsaw, a mental health charity and became an advocate for youth mental health. I facilitated philosophical inquiry for first year students via a peer-assisted learning programme and I held LIFT roundtable discussions on positive leadership with other students at university. Hey, it wasn't all sunshine and rainbows, I also experienced some hard times and failures but I had learned to no longer let those define me and accepted them as part of the vicissitudes of life. So, where I am at now?

Over the years, I've come to learn that fulfillment is derived from pursuing a life marked by purpose and harmony. So fueled by a desire to help others , I aim to create a career that integrates the different dimensions of the human experience and thereby foster cohesion. I am particularly interested in the intersection between Faith or philosophy, psychology, creativity and innovation. My experience facilitating communities of philosophical inquiry helped me to realise the importance of supporting people to 'become' rather than just 'do'. I believe that what we do should stem from who we are and as we work on becoming, whatever that may look like for each individual, what we do will naturally follow and vice versa. I see the UIF as another step on the journey of the becoming-doing paradigm. I would like to help students to discover their potential and become the best version of themselves. I believe this can be achieved by cultivating a community of curiosity and creativity, where students can work together, learn from each other, solve problems and be equipped with the skills required to excel within themselves, at university, in the market place and beyond.

So, I've been Ola, who are you? Feel free to connect with me on LinkedIn. I'd love to hear your story and support your dreams in any way I can. Thank you for coming to my TED talk :D.

'''Matthew 29:37-39''' "Jesus replied: “‘Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind. This is the first and greatest commandment. And the second is like it: ‘Love your neighbor as yourself'"
==Achievements==
• President's Award for Innovation and Entrepreneurship 2024: Silver medal recipient.

• Winning Team of IdeasLab Enterprise Challenge 2024: Successfully developed a sustainability project to streamline Boston Scientific' s distribution process.

• Start100 Participant 2024: Completed the IdeasLab startup programme to develop communication and storytelling skills, business and commercial acumen to understand markets, funding opportunities and how to leverage the ecosystem to further support the development of ideas.

• CreateHER 2024: Completed the IdeasLab female entrepreneurship programme to enhance self belief, financial literacy, innovation mind-set and leadership skills.

• Seas Suas Certificate 2024: Effectively completed Bystander Intervention Training to support student health and wellbeing through awareness and encouragement. Topics included mental health, alcohol and drugs, sexual violence, suicide prevention, peer-to-peer support and relevant supports services.

• Flirt FM Radio Essentials Badge 2023: Certificate of acknowledgment for learning about community media, structuring a show, operating a sound desk and participating in the station’s output.

• LIFT Leadership Certificate 2021: Completed training to facilitate roundtable discussions while exercising the Positive Leadership values of honesty, competence, accountability, empathy, respect and positive attitude.

==Social media profiles==
https://www.linkedin.com/in/olamide-jalaade/

https://open.spotify.com/show/3gNUgjKVaseMSMV3C79RJA?si=5rpF2FQMSPaDe_TxJLdYGw&nd=1&dlsi=00e94bd8a2294eb0

[[Category:NUI Galway (2024 cohort)]]
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Fellow:Olamide Jalaade

2024-08-22T16:00:23Z

Olamide.jalaade: /* Achievements */

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==Bio==

Hello, my name is Olamide (O-la-mih-day), but feel free call me Ola. I'm an undergraduate student and freelance radio host at University of Galway. Like many of us, life for me has been full of ups and downs, trials and tribulations and everything in between. Growing up, I struggled with my mental health and overall sense of direction in life. Pardon the cliché but, I'd always felt like I was a bird with large, beautiful wings and an incredible potential to fly but unable to use them because I was trapped in a cage. I found myself perpetually caged by my own mind and unable to do anything substantial that would provide me with the life satisfaction I desired deep down. Don't worry, this isn't a long winded sob story, I'm just providing you, dear reader, with the context from which you're meeting the Ola you see today. I vividly remember the classic "where do you see yourself in five years?" question posed by my parents, teachers and potential employers alike. I remember how difficult I had found it to dream big, plan for the future and ultimately offer a suitable answer. Because, quite frankly, I couldn't envision one. Anytime time I tried, my mind came up blank. Like the static on those old TV screens during a storm.

The COVID-19 pandemic was a challenging time for us all. However, it was during that period of global stand-still and mandated isolation that I had the opportunity to really sit down with myself and have the difficult conversations that I'd been avoiding for so long. I'll spare you the details but I essentially came to realise that I'd spent most of my life running. Running away from the fact that my life is my responsibility. I mean, who decided that? do they know who I am? do they know what I've been through? I can barely get out of bed most days, how do they expect me to build the life I want? how do they expect me to even know the life I want? I'd like to speak to the manager, I don't want this job, I'm completely incapable! Thoughts like these would flood my mind and I would end up feeling frustrated and hopeless. It was also during this time that I did indeed hunt down the manager and rediscovered my Faith in God and gave Him quite the earful. After months of wrestling with confusion and the pain that comes with healing, things began to look up. Rather, I did. I began to look outside myself more and out into the world around me. I discovered that I wasn't the only one who struggled, I wasn't the only one with pain and maybe, just maybe, I could use my extensive experience in those fields to make the world a better place. I had found my why and I chose to believe in it. I decided that I didn't want to live a debilitated life anymore. I decided that I would use all my pain to fuel my newly ignited passion to help people who have struggled, people like you and me, to live the life they've been afraid to even dream of. But first, I had to help myself.

Helping myself started with further exploring my relationship with God, receiving counselling, going back to college and developing meaningful relationships. All of which were incredibly difficult at first, I must admit. After a few years of wrestling with who I used to be, I won a few rounds and my confidence started to grow. I rediscovered my appetite for growth and worked on maximising my life satisfaction by opening myself up to as many value-adding experiences as possible. These experiences helped me better understand myself, what I want and how I can contribute to society. I started going to church, applying myself at university and volunteering with charities. At university, I connected with the chaplaincy and completed the Seas Suas training to support student wellbeing, I discovered the IdeasLab and completed entrepreneurial development programmes like CreateHER, and I even started a radio-show podcast, LOMAH, which amplified creatives in my community and engaged with difficult topics on the human condition. I started to feel alive again, and believed I was ready to expand and offer support beyond myself. I volunteered with Jigsaw, a mental health charity and became an advocate for youth mental health. I facilitated philosophical inquiry for first year students via a peer-assisted learning programme and I held LIFT roundtable discussions on positive leadership with other students at university. Hey, it wasn't all sunshine and rainbows, I also experienced some hard times and failures but I had learned to no longer let those define me and accepted them as part of the vicissitudes of life. So, where I am at now?

Over the years, I've come to learn that fulfillment is derived from pursuing a life marked by purpose and harmony. So fueled by a desire to help others , I aim to create a career that integrates the different dimensions of the human experience and thereby foster cohesion. I am particularly interested in the intersection between Faith or philosophy, psychology, creativity and innovation. My experience facilitating communities of philosophical inquiry helped me to realise the importance of supporting people to 'become' rather than just 'do'. I believe that what we do should stem from who we are and as we work on becoming, whatever that may look like for each individual, what we do will naturally follow and vice versa. I see the UIF as another step on the journey of the becoming-doing paradigm. I would like to help students to discover their potential and become the best version of themselves. I believe this can be achieved by cultivating a community of curiosity and creativity, where students can work together, learn from each other, solve problems and be equipped with the skills required to excel within themselves, at university, in the market place and beyond.

So, I've been Ola, who are you? Feel free to connect with me on LinkedIn. I'd love to hear your story and support your dreams in any way I can. Thank you for coming to my TED talk :D.

'''Matthew 29:37-39''' "Jesus replied: “‘Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind. This is the first and greatest commandment. And the second is like it: ‘Love your neighbor as yourself'"
==Achievements==
• President's Award for Innovation and Entrepreneurship 2024: Silver medal recipient.

• Winning Team of IdeasLab Enterprise Challenge 2024: Successfully developed a sustainability project to streamline Boston Scientific' s distribution process.

• Start100 Participant 2024: Completed the IdeasLab startup programme to develop communication and storytelling skills, business and commercial acumen to understand markets, funding opportunities and how to leverage the ecosystem to further support the development of ideas.

• CreateHER 2024: Completed the IdeasLab female entrepreneurship programme to enhance self belief, financial literacy, innovation mind-set and leadership skills.

• Seas Suas Certificate 2024: Effectively completed Bystander Intervention Training to support student health and wellbeing through awareness and encouragement. Topics included mental health, alcohol and drugs, sexual violence, suicide prevention, peer-to-peer support and relevant supports services.

• Flirt FM Radio Essentials Badge 2023: Certificate of acknowledgment for learning about community media, structuring a show, operating a sound desk and participating in the station’s output.

• LIFT Leadership Certificate 2021: Completed training to facilitate roundtable discussions while exercising the Positive Leadership values of honesty, competence, accountability, empathy, respect and positive attitude.

==Social media profiles==
https://www.linkedin.com/in/olamide-jalaade/

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[[Category:Student Contributors]]

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Fellow:Olamide Jalaade

2024-08-22T15:50:29Z

Olamide.jalaade:

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==Bio==

Hello, my name is Olamide (O-la-mih-day), but feel free call me Ola. I'm an undergraduate student and freelance radio host at University of Galway. Like many of us, life for me has been full of ups and downs, trials and tribulations and everything in between. Growing up, I struggled with my mental health and overall sense of direction in life. Pardon the cliché but, I'd always felt like I was a bird with large, beautiful wings and an incredible potential to fly but unable to use them because I was trapped in a cage. I found myself perpetually caged by my own mind and unable to do anything substantial that would provide me with the life satisfaction I desired deep down. Don't worry, this isn't a long winded sob story, I'm just providing you, dear reader, with the context from which you're meeting the Ola you see today. I vividly remember the classic "where do you see yourself in five years?" question posed by my parents, teachers and potential employers alike. I remember how difficult I had found it to dream big, plan for the future and ultimately offer a suitable answer. Because, quite frankly, I couldn't envision one. Anytime time I tried, my mind came up blank. Like the static on those old TV screens during a storm.

The COVID-19 pandemic was a challenging time for us all. However, it was during that period of global stand-still and mandated isolation that I had the opportunity to really sit down with myself and have the difficult conversations that I'd been avoiding for so long. I'll spare you the details but I essentially came to realise that I'd spent most of my life running. Running away from the fact that my life is my responsibility. I mean, who decided that? do they know who I am? do they know what I've been through? I can barely get out of bed most days, how do they expect me to build the life I want? how do they expect me to even know the life I want? I'd like to speak to the manager, I don't want this job, I'm completely incapable! Thoughts like these would flood my mind and I would end up feeling frustrated and hopeless. It was also during this time that I did indeed hunt down the manager and rediscovered my Faith in God and gave Him quite the earful. After months of wrestling with confusion and the pain that comes with healing, things began to look up. Rather, I did. I began to look outside myself more and out into the world around me. I discovered that I wasn't the only one who struggled, I wasn't the only one with pain and maybe, just maybe, I could use my extensive experience in those fields to make the world a better place. I had found my why and I chose to believe in it. I decided that I didn't want to live a debilitated life anymore. I decided that I would use all my pain to fuel my newly ignited passion to help people who have struggled, people like you and me, to live the life they've been afraid to even dream of. But first, I had to help myself.

Helping myself started with further exploring my relationship with God, receiving counselling, going back to college and developing meaningful relationships. All of which were incredibly difficult at first, I must admit. After a few years of wrestling with who I used to be, I won a few rounds and my confidence started to grow. I rediscovered my appetite for growth and worked on maximising my life satisfaction by opening myself up to as many value-adding experiences as possible. These experiences helped me better understand myself, what I want and how I can contribute to society. I started going to church, applying myself at university and volunteering with charities. At university, I connected with the chaplaincy and completed the Seas Suas training to support student wellbeing, I discovered the IdeasLab and completed entrepreneurial development programmes like CreateHER, and I even started a radio-show podcast, LOMAH, which amplified creatives in my community and engaged with difficult topics on the human condition. I started to feel alive again, and believed I was ready to expand and offer support beyond myself. I volunteered with Jigsaw, a mental health charity and became an advocate for youth mental health. I facilitated philosophical inquiry for first year students via a peer-assisted learning programme and I held LIFT roundtable discussions on positive leadership with other students at university. Hey, it wasn't all sunshine and rainbows, I also experienced some hard times and failures but I had learned to no longer let those define me and accepted them as part of the vicissitudes of life. So, where I am at now?

Over the years, I've come to learn that fulfillment is derived from pursuing a life marked by purpose and harmony. So fueled by a desire to help others , I aim to create a career that integrates the different dimensions of the human experience and thereby foster cohesion. I am particularly interested in the intersection between Faith or philosophy, psychology, creativity and innovation. My experience facilitating communities of philosophical inquiry helped me to realise the importance of supporting people to 'become' rather than just 'do'. I believe that what we do should stem from who we are and as we work on becoming, whatever that may look like for each individual, what we do will naturally follow and vice versa. I see the UIF as another step on the journey of the becoming-doing paradigm. I would like to help students to discover their potential and become the best version of themselves. I believe this can be achieved by cultivating a community of curiosity and creativity, where students can work together, learn from each other, solve problems and be equipped with the skills required to excel within themselves, at university, in the market place and beyond.

So, I've been Ola, who are you? Feel free to connect with me on LinkedIn. I'd love to hear your story and support your dreams in any way I can. Thank you for coming to my TED talk :D.

'''Matthew 29:37-39''' "Jesus replied: “‘Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind. This is the first and greatest commandment. And the second is like it: ‘Love your neighbor as yourself'"
==Achievements==
• President's Award for Innovation and Entrepreneurship 2024: Silver medal recipient.

• Winning Team of IdeasLab Enterprise Challenge 2024: Successfully developed a sustainability project to streamline Boston Scientific' s distribution process.

• Start100 Participant 2024: Completed the IdeasLab startup programme to develop communication and storytelling skills, business and commercial acumen to understand markets, funding opportunities and how to leverage the ecosystem to further support the development of ideas.

• CreateHER 2024: Completed the IdeasLab female entrepreneurship programme to enhance self belief, financial literacy, innovation mind-set and leadership skills.

• Seas Suas Certificate 2024: Effectively trained to support student health and wellbeing through awareness and encouragement. Topics included mental health, alcohol and drugs, sexual violence, suicide prevention, peer-to-peer support and relevant supports services.

• Flirt FM Radio Essentials Badge 2023: Certificate of acknowledgment for learning about community media, structuring a show, operating a sound desk and participating in the station’s output.

• LIFT Leadership Certificate 2021: Completed training to facilitate roundtable discussions while exercising the Positive Leadership values of honesty, competence, accountability, empathy, respect and positive attitude.

==Social media profiles==
https://www.linkedin.com/in/olamide-jalaade/

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==Bio==

Hello, my name is Olamide (O-la-mih-day), but feel free call me Ola. I'm an undergraduate student and freelance radio host at University of Galway. Like many of us, life for me has been full of ups and downs, trials and tribulations and everything in between. Growing up, I struggled with my mental health and overall sense of direction in life. Pardon the cliché but, I'd always felt like I was a bird with large, beautiful wings and an incredible potential to fly but unable to use them because I was trapped in a cage. I found myself perpetually caged by my own mind and unable to do anything substantial that would provide me with the life satisfaction I desired deep down. Don't worry, this isn't a long winded sob story, I'm just providing you, dear reader, with the context from which you're meeting the Ola you see today. I vividly remember the classic "where do you see yourself in five years?" question posed by my parents, teachers and potential employers alike. I remember how difficult I had found it to dream big, plan for the future and ultimately offer a suitable answer. Because, quite frankly, I couldn't envision one. Anytime time I tried, my mind came up blank. Like the static on those old TV screens during a storm.

The COVID-19 pandemic was a challenging time for us all. However, it was during that period of global stand-still and mandated isolation that I had the opportunity to really sit down with myself and have the difficult conversations that I'd been avoiding for so long. I'll spare you the details but I essentially came to realise that I'd spent most of my life running. Running away from the fact that my life is my responsibility. I mean, who decided that? do they know who I am? do they know what I've been through? I can barely get out of bed most days, how do they expect me to build the life I want? how do they expect me to even know the life I want? I'd like to speak to the manager, I don't want this job, I'm completely incapable! Thoughts like these would flood my mind and I would end up feeling frustrated and hopeless. It was also during this time that I did indeed hunt down the manager and rediscovered my Faith in God and gave Him quite the earful. After months of wrestling with confusion and the pain that comes with healing, things began to look up. Rather, I did. I began to look outside myself more and out into the world around me. I discovered that I wasn't the only one who struggled, I wasn't the only one with pain and maybe, just maybe, I could use my extensive experience in those fields to make the world a better place. I had found my why and I chose to believe in it. I decided that I didn't want to live a debilitated life anymore. I decided that I would use all my pain to fuel my newly ignited passion to help people who have struggled, people like you and me, to live the life they've been afraid to even dream of. But first, I had to help myself.

Helping myself started with further exploring my relationship with God, receiving counselling, going back to college and developing meaningful relationships. All of which were incredibly difficult at first, I must admit. After a few years of wrestling with who I used to be, I won a few rounds and my confidence started to grow. I rediscovered my appetite for growth and worked on maximising my life satisfaction by opening myself up to as many value-adding experiences as possible. These experiences helped me better understand myself, what I want and how I can contribute to society. I started going to church, applying myself at university and volunteering with charities. At university, I connected with the chaplaincy and completed the Seas Suas training to support student wellbeing, I discovered the IdeasLab and completed entrepreneurial development programmes like CreateHER, and I even started a radio-show podcast, LOMAH, which amplified creatives in my community and engaged with difficult topics on the human condition. I started to feel alive again, and believed I was ready to expand and offer support beyond myself. I volunteered with Jigsaw, a mental health charity and became an advocate for youth mental health. I facilitated philosophical inquiry for first year students via a peer-assisted learning programme and I held LIFT roundtable discussions on positive leadership with other students at university. Hey, it wasn't all sunshine and rainbows, I also experienced some hard times and failures but I had learned to no longer let those define me and accepted them as part of the vicissitudes of life. So, where I am at now?

Over the years, I've come to learn that fulfillment is derived from pursuing a life marked by purpose and harmony. So fueled by a desire to help others , I aim to create a career that integrates the different dimensions of the human experience and thereby foster cohesion. I am particularly interested in the intersection between Faith or philosophy, psychology, creativity and innovation. My experience facilitating communities of philosophical inquiry helped me to realise the importance of supporting people to 'become' rather than just 'do'. I believe that what we do should stem from who we are and as we work on becoming, whatever that may look like for each individual, what we do will naturally follow and vice versa. I see the UIF as another step on the journey of the becoming-doing paradigm. I would like to help students to discover their potential and become the best version of themselves. I believe this can be achieved by cultivating a community of curiosity and creativity, where students can work together, learn from each other, solve problems and be equipped with the skills required to excel within themselves, at university, in the market place and beyond.

So, I've been Ola, who are you? Feel free to connect with me on LinkedIn. I'd love to hear your story and support your dreams in any way I can. Thank you for coming to my TED talk :D.

'''Matthew 29:37-39''' "Jesus replied: “‘Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind. This is the first and greatest commandment. And the second is like it: ‘Love your neighbor as yourself'"
==Achievements==
• Winning Team of IdeasLab Enterprise Challenge 2024: Successfully developed a sustainability project to streamline Boston Scientific' s distribution process.

• Start100 Participant 2024: Completed the IdeasLab startup programme to develop communication and storytelling skills, business and commercial acumen to understand markets, funding opportunities and how to leverage the ecosystem to further support the development of ideas.

• CreateHER 2024: Completed the IdeasLab female entrepreneurship programme to enhance self belief, financial literacy, innovation mind-set and leadership skills.

• Seas Suas Certificate 2024: Effectively trained to support student health and wellbeing through awareness and encouragement. Topics included mental health, alcohol and drugs, sexual violence, suicide prevention, peer-to-peer support and relevant supports services.

• Flirt FM Radio Essentials Badge 2023: Certificate of acknowledgment for learning about community media, structuring a show, operating a sound desk and participating in the station’s output.

• LIFT Leadership Certificate 2021: Completed training to facilitate roundtable discussions while exercising the Positive Leadership values of honesty, competence, accountability, empathy, respect and positive attitude.

==Social media profiles==
https://www.linkedin.com/in/olamide-jalaade/

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==Bio==

Hello, my name is Olamide (O-la-mih-day), but feel free call me Ola. I'm an undergraduate student and freelance radio host at University of Galway. Like many of us, life for me has been full of ups and downs, trials and tribulations and everything in between. Growing up, I struggled with my mental health and overall sense of direction in life. Pardon the cliché but, I'd always felt like I was a bird with large, beautiful wings and an incredible potential to fly but unable to use them because I was trapped in a cage. I found myself perpetually caged by my own mind and unable to do anything substantial that would provide me with the life satisfaction I desired deep down. Don't worry, this isn't a long winded sob story, I'm just providing you, dear reader, with the context from which you're meeting the Ola you see today. I vividly remember the classic "where do you see yourself in five years?" question posed by my parents, teachers and potential employers alike. I remember how difficult I had found it to dream big, plan for the future and ultimately offer a suitable answer. Because, quite frankly, I couldn't envision one. Anytime time I tried, my mind came up blank. Like the static on those old TV screens during a storm.

The COVID-19 pandemic was a challenging time for us all. However, it was during that period of global stand-still and mandated isolation that I had the opportunity to really sit down with myself and have the difficult conversations that I'd been avoiding for so long. I'll spare you the details but I essentially came to realise that I'd spent most of my life running. Running away from the fact that my life is my responsibility. I mean, who decided that? do they know who I am? do they know what I've been through? I can barely get out of bed most days, how do they expect me to build the life I want? how do they expect me to even know the life I want? I'd like to speak to the manager, I don't want this job, I'm completely incapable! Thoughts like these would flood my mind and I would end up feeling frustrated and hopeless. It was also during this time that I did indeed hunt down the manager and rediscovered my Faith in God and gave Him quite the earful. After months of wrestling with confusion and the pain that comes with healing, things began to look up. Rather, I did. I began to look outside myself more and out into the world around me. I discovered that I wasn't the only one who struggled, I wasn't the only one with pain and maybe, just maybe, I could use my extensive experience in those fields to make the world a better place. I had found my why and I chose to believe in it. I decided that I didn't want to live a debilitated life anymore. I decided that I would use all my pain to fuel my newly ignited passion to help people who have struggled, people like you and me, to live the life they've been afraid to even dream of. But first, I had to help myself.

Helping myself started with further exploring my relationship with God, receiving counselling, going back to college and developing meaningful relationships. All of which were incredibly difficult at first, I must admit. After a few years of wrestling with who I used to be, I won a few rounds and my confidence started to grow. I rediscovered my appetite for growth and worked on maximising my life satisfaction by opening myself up to as many value-adding experiences as possible. These experiences helped me better understand myself, what I want and how I can contribute to society. I started going to church, applying myself at university and volunteering with charities. At university, I connected with the chaplaincy and completed the Seas Suas training to support student wellbeing, I discovered the IdeasLab and completed entrepreneurial development programmes like CreateHER, and I even started a radio-show podcast, LOMAH, which amplified creatives in my community and engaged with difficult topics on the human condition. I started to feel alive again, and believed I was ready to expand and offer support beyond myself. I volunteered with Jigsaw, a mental health charity and became an advocate for youth mental health. I facilitated philosophical inquiry for first year students via a peer-assisted learning programme and I held LIFT roundtable discussions on positive leadership with other students at university. Hey, it wasn't all sunshine and rainbows, I also experienced some hard times and failures but I had learned to no longer let those define me and accepted them as part of the vicissitudes of life. So, where I am at now?

Over the years, I've come to learn that fulfillment is derived from pursuing a life marked by purpose and harmony. So fueled by a desire to help others , I aim to create a career that integrates the different dimensions of the human experience and thereby foster cohesion. I am particularly interested in the intersection between Faith or philosophy, psychology, creativity and innovation. My experience facilitating communities of philosophical inquiry helped me to realise the importance of supporting people to 'become' rather than just 'do'. I believe that what we do should stem from who we are and as we work on becoming, whatever that may look like for each individual, what we do will naturally follow and vice versa. I see the UIF as another step on the journey of the becoming-doing paradigm. I would like to help students to discover their potential and become the best version of themselves. I believe this can be achieved by cultivating a community of curiosity and creativity, where students can work together, learn from each other, solve problems and be equipped with the skills required to excel within themselves, at university, in the market place and beyond.

So, I've been Ola, who are you? Feel free to connect with me on LinkedIn. I'd love to hear your story and support your dreams in any way I can. Thank you for coming to my TED talk :D.

'''Matthew 29:37-39''' "Jesus replied: “‘Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind. This is the first and greatest commandment. And the second is like it: ‘Love your neighbor as yourself'"
==Achievements==
• Winning Team of IdeasLab Enterprise Challenge 2024: Successfully developed a sustainability project to streamline Boston Scientific' s distribution process.

• Seas Suas Certificate 2024: Effectively trained to support student health and wellbeing through awareness and encouragement. Topics included mental health, alcohol and drugs, sexual violence, suicide prevention, peer-to-peer support and relevant supports services.

• Start100 Participant 2024: Completed the IdeasLab startup programme to develop communication and storytelling skills, business and commercial acumen to understand markets, funding opportunities and how to leverage the ecosystem to further support the development of ideas.

• Flirt FM Radio Essentials Badge 2023: Certificate of acknowledgment for learning about community media, structuring a show, operating a sound desk and participating in the station’s output.

• LIFT Leadership Certificate 2021: Completed training to facilitate roundtable discussions while exercising the Positive Leadership values of honesty, competence, accountability, empathy, respect and positive attitude.

==Social media profiles==
https://www.linkedin.com/in/olamide-jalaade/

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==Bio==

Hello, my name is Olamide (O-la-mih-day), but feel free call me Ola. I'm an undergraduate student and freelance radio host at University of Galway. Like many of us, life for me has been full of ups and downs, trials and tribulations and everything in between. Growing up, I struggled with my mental health and overall sense of direction in life. Pardon the cliché but, I'd always felt like I was a bird with large, beautiful wings and an incredible potential to fly but unable to use them because I was trapped in a cage. I found myself perpetually caged by my own mind and unable to do anything substantial that would provide me with the life satisfaction I desired deep down. Don't worry, this isn't a long winded sob story, I'm just providing you, dear reader, with the context from which you're meeting the Ola you see today. I vividly remember the classic "where do you see yourself in five years?" question posed by my parents, teachers and potential employers alike. I remember how difficult I had found it to dream big, plan for the future and ultimately offer a suitable answer. Because, quite frankly, I couldn't envision one. Anytime time I tried, my mind came up blank. Like the static on those old TV screens during a storm.

The COVID-19 pandemic was a challenging time for us all. However, it was during that period of global stand-still and mandated isolation that I had the opportunity to really sit down with myself and have the difficult conversations that I'd been avoiding for so long. I'll spare you the details but I essentially came to realise that I'd spent most of my life running. Running away from the fact that my life is my responsibility. I mean, who decided that? do they know who I am? do they know what I've been through? I can barely get out of bed most days, how do they expect me to build the life I want? how do they expect me to even know the life I want? I'd like to speak to the manager, I don't want this job, I'm completely incapable! Thoughts like these would flood my mind and I would end up feeling frustrated and hopeless. It was also during this time that I did indeed hunt down the manager and rediscovered my Faith in God and gave Him quite the earful. After months of wrestling with confusion and the pain that comes with healing, things began to look up. Rather, I did. I began to look outside myself more and out into the world around me. I discovered that I wasn't the only one who struggled, I wasn't the only one with pain and maybe, just maybe, I could use my extensive experience in those fields to make the world a better place. I had found my why and I chose to believe in it. I decided that I didn't want to live a debilitated life anymore. I decided that I would use all my pain to fuel my newly ignited passion to help people who have struggled, people like you and me, to live the life they've been afraid to even dream of. But first, I had to help myself.

Helping myself started with further exploring my relationship with God, receiving counselling, going back to college and developing meaningful relationships. All of which were incredibly difficult at first, I must admit. After a few years of wrestling with who I used to be, I won a few rounds and my confidence started to grow. I rediscovered my appetite for growth and worked on maximising my life satisfaction by opening myself up to as many value-adding experiences as possible. These experiences helped me better understand myself, what I want and how I can contribute to society. I started going to church, applying myself at university and volunteering with charities. At university, I connected with the chaplaincy and completed the Seas Suas training to support student wellbeing, I discovered the IdeasLab and completed entrepreneurial development programmes like CreateHER, and I even started a radio-show podcast, LOMAH, which amplified creatives in my community and engaged with difficult topics on the human condition. I started to feel alive again, and believed I was ready to expand and offer support beyond myself. I volunteered with Jigsaw, a mental health charity and became an advocate for youth mental health. I facilitated philosophical inquiry for first year students via a peer-assisted learning programme and I held LIFT roundtable discussions on positive leadership with other students at university. Hey, it wasn't all sunshine and rainbows, I also experienced some hard times and failures but I had learned to no longer let those define me and accepted them as part of the vicissitudes of life. So, where I am at now?

Over the years, I've come to learn that fulfillment is derived from pursuing a life marked by purpose and harmony. So fueled by a desire to help others , I aim to create a career that integrates the different dimensions of the human experience and thereby foster cohesion. I am particularly interested in the intersection between Faith or philosophy, psychology, creativity and innovation. My experience facilitating communities of philosophical inquiry helped me to realise the importance of supporting people to 'become' rather than just 'do'. I believe that what we do should stem from who we are and as we work on becoming, whatever that may look like for each individual, what we do will naturally follow and vice versa. I see the UIF as another step on the journey of the becoming-doing paradigm. I would like to help students to discover their potential and become the best version of themselves. I believe this can be achieved by cultivating a community of curiosity and creativity, where students can work together, learn from each other, solve problems and be equipped with the skills required to excel within themselves, at university, in the market place and beyond.

So, I've been Ola, who are you? Feel free to connect with me on LinkedIn. I'd love to hear your story and support your dreams in any way I can. Thank you for coming to my TED talk :D.

'''Matthew 29:37-39''' "Jesus replied: “‘Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind. This is the first and greatest commandment. And the second is like it: ‘Love your neighbor as yourself'"
==Achievements==
• Winning Team of IdeasLab Enterprise Challenge 2024: Successfully developed a sustainability project to streamline Boston Scientific' s distribution process.

• Seas Suas Certificate 2024: Effectively trained to support student health and wellbeing through awareness and encouragement. Topics included mental health, alcohol and drugs, sexual violence, suicide prevention, peer-to-peer support and relevant supports services.

• Start100 Participant 2024: Completed the IdeasLab programme to develop communication and storytelling skills, business and commercial acumen to understand markets, funding opportunities and how to leverage the ecosystem to further support the development of ideas.

• Flirt FM Radio Essentials Badge 2023: Certificate of acknowledgment for learning about community media, structuring a show, operating a sound desk and participating in the station’s output.

• LIFT Leadership Certificate 2021: Completed training to facilitate roundtable discussions while exercising the Positive Leadership values of honesty, competence, accountability, empathy, respect and positive attitude.

==Social media profiles==
https://www.linkedin.com/in/olamide-jalaade/

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==Bio==

==Achievements==
• Winning Team of IdeasLab Enterprise Challenge 2024: Successfully developed a sustainability project to streamline Boston Scientific' s distribution process.

• Seas Suas Certificate 2024: Effectively trained to support student health and wellbeing through awareness and encouragement. Topics included mental health, alcohol and drugs, sexual violence, suicide prevention, peer-to-peer support and relevant supports services.

• Start100 Participant 2024: Completed the IdeasLab programme to develop communication and storytelling skills, business and commercial acumen to understand markets, funding opportunities and how to leverage the ecosystem to further support the development of ideas.

• Flirt FM Radio Essentials Badge 2023: Certificate of acknowledgment for learning about community media, structuring a show, operating a sound desk and participating in the station’s output.

• LIFT Leadership Certificate 2021: Completed training to facilitate roundtable discussions while exercising the Positive Leadership values of honesty, competence, accountability, empathy, respect and positive attitude.

==Social media profiles==
https://www.linkedin.com/in/olamide-jalaade/

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