About us
WHO WE ARE / HISTORY
We have work in more than 15 regions to strengthen eqaulity
The iCON Enterprise Foundation (iCON) is a Ugandan nonprofit committed to cultivating transformative leadership through the lens of family. At iCON, we believe everyone holds a leadership position within the family—as a child, parent, sibling, or caregiver. How individuals lead in their nuclear and extended families shapes how they lead in schools, workplaces, communities, and public service.
We do not chase positional leadership. Instead, we nurture behavioral and mindset leadership—building citizens who lead with purpose, integrity, and responsibility from where they stand.
Our work is anchored in the iCON Four-Dimensional Leadership Model (iFDLM) and implemented through immersive Leadership Academies and a responsive Family Support Program (FSP). We work primarily with school communities, organizational teams, and grassroots networks to build changemakers who embody the spirit of transformational citizenship.
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We promote the pivotal role parents / parental figures / guardians play in nurturing generational entrepreneurial leaders and fostering a culture of family wellbeing and social-economic transformation for a just world.
iCON helps individuals to discover and develop their potential for visionary and entrepreneurial leadership at all levels. iCON is committed to reinstating the pivotal role the family unit plays in building male and female family leadership to address negative cultural norms at the family level to prevent discriminatory attitudes and practices, family disharmony, family dysfunction and family financial instability. iCON is committed to leveraging African family values of kinship and community accountability where the family institution shapes individual and societal values, protects women and children, raises boys to be true gentlemen, fosters social cohesion and harmony, and equips children and young people with key leadership and life skills required to be productive and engaged citizens.
We promote entrepreneurial leadership for social transformation and advocate for parental responsibility. We strengthen family resilience by building family leadership capacity to innovatively address the barriers to gender equity, children’s education, women’s wellbeing, and family stability. Such barriers include negative social-cultural norms, poverty, ill health, violence against children, exploitation, exclusion, inequality, and inequity. iCON works with families that are in distress or/and disproportionately vulnerable and disadvantaged by intractable social, economic, cultural, health and natural challenges.
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Our Strategy
We Employ the following strategies in our work:
Self-Leadership and Personal Development
Cultivating self-awareness, values-based choices, emotional intelligence, and resilience.
Family Leadership
Exploring individual leadership styles within family structures, including parenting, sibling roles, and intergenerational responsibilities.
School/Workplace Leadership
Applying behavioral leadership principles to professional, academic, and peer environments.
Community/Public Service Leadership
Mobilizing collaborative action, civic engagement, and servant leadership to influence systems and society.
Over the next five years we aim to become a national voice to address the barriers to human capital development in general, children’s retention in school, women’s empowerment and effective parenting in order to ensure that no child is left behind.
Over the next five years we aim to become a national voice to address the barriers to human capital development in general, children’s retention in school, women’s empowerment and effective parenting in order to ensure that no child is left behind.
Our work will be guided by amongst others the Uganda National DevelopmentPlan 11 and 111, Uganda Vision 2040, the Uganda Education Act (2008), the Uganda Domestic Violence Act (2010), the Uganda Children’s Act (2016) and the Uganda Gender Policy (2017).