Meet Jeph B. Acheampong
Jeph B. Acheampong is the Founder and Director of Blossom Academy, an award-winning educational institution based in West Africa. Blossom Academy creates pathways for underserved youths to develop data skills, empowering them to enter the evolving job market and build sustainable livelihoods. The academy’s impactful work has earned Jeph and his organization notable recognition, including the prestigious Expo 2020 Dubai Global Innovator Award, as well as honors from the Livelihood Impact Fund, the African Visionary Fund, and the Patrick J. McGovern Foundation. Their achievements have been highlighted in prominent media outlets such as CNN’s What’s The Big Idea, the United Nations Decent Jobs For Youth, and the Nasdaq MarketSite in Times Square, New York.
Before founding Blossom Academy, Jeph was a founding member of Esusu Financial, a fintech unicorn that uses data-driven solutions to empower tenants and improve property performance. He also worked as a data solutions consultant at Experian PLC. Jeph holds a Bachelor of Arts in Economics from New York University and has served as a Fellow at both Princeton in Africa and Acumen.
ENTREPRENEURship
Creating economic opportunities for underserved communities through education and technology.
PUBLIC SPEAKING
Organizing customized workshops and contributing my thoughts on panels centered on job creation, economic empowerment, and entrepreneurship.
CREATIVE WRITING
Documenting varied life experiences and motivational messages through creative writing to uplift and empower readers on their respective journeys.
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NOTABLE ACHIEVEMENTS
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The Social Innovation + Change Initiative (SICI) is a community of individuals, organizations, and movements working on breakthrough efforts to tackle our world’s most pressing social and environmental challenges.
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One of twenty leaders selected for the Youth Digital Leadership Seminar and Exchange Campus held in Guangzhou, China, where youth leaders visited high-tech enterprises, shared experiences in digital development, and showcased and encouraged youth actions with innovative and collaborative solutions in advancing SDGs and global development.
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The African Visionary Fund channels unrestricted funding to high-impact African social changemakers, transforming development across the continent while simultaneously tackling inequities, injustices and power imbalances in grantmaking.
https://africanvisionary.org/partners/blossom-academy
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The Acumen Fellowship program is an intensive leadership development program cultivating a pipeline of tomorrow's social changemakers.
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Milestone Makers selects a small cohort of entrepreneurs to receive individualized business mentoring, coaching, training, and resources all at no cost.
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Princeton in Africa helps future leaders develop lifelong connections to the people and nations of Africa.
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Selected as part of 142 Global Innovators from 76 countries - using innovative solLinkutions to solve global challenges in education, health, employment and many more sectors.
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The World Economic Forum Global Shapers Community is a network of young people driving dialogue, action and change.
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ChangemakerXchange (CXC) is a global community providing a safe, fun and empowering space for young changemakers. It fosters profound and long-lasting connections, nurtures wellbeing, enables peer-learning and meaningful collaboration.
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The Future of Ghana publication features Ghana's Top 30 Under 30 pioneering Future Leaders who are impacting industries globally.
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NYU Up-and-Comers — those nominated by their peers, faculty and members of the NYU community — are taking their skills out of the classroom and making waves in their fields.
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President's Service Awards are given to students or student organizations that have had an extraordinary and positive impact on the University community, including achievements within schools and departments, the University at large, local neighborhoods, and NYU's presence in the world.
UPCOMING ENGAGEMENTS
2024 World Youth Development Forum, Guangzhou, China
2024 ITU Digital Skills Forum, Manama, Bahrain
2024 Talent4Startups Gathering, Kigali, Rwanda
“As a management consultant to NGOs, governments, corporations and start-ups across the world, especially in Asia and the US, I have become familiar with the traits that finely separate the visionaries from the dreamers. The former are not only imaginative and think of possibilities as many dreamers do, but they are also big-picture oriented, highly motivated, and positively energized. Visionaries are themselves do-ers and are never afraid of failures, from which they learn as they work endlessly to improve themselves and their ventures. Jeph is a visionary and an entrepreneur...a social entrepreneur. His thoughts are always on how he can improve the well-being and lives of others who are less fortunate or sidelined in society. What truly makes him different is that he builds on his ideas through inspiring everyone around him and channeling their energies into his social endeavors, and therefore helping the many individuals who are the beneficiaries.”