Summit 2024
Lead Where You Are
The edition that widened the room — a deliberate push to bring marketplace leaders and school pupils alongside the church community, and the first year certificates were awarded across every track.
2026 Summit24–25 October 2026
Your leadership has a higher purpose.
Two days of world-class leadership teaching from the global GLS faculty, hosted in Apapa. Practical, faith-anchored, and built for anyone who carries responsibility for other people.
- When
- Saturday 24 – Sunday 25 October, 2026
- Where
- New Port Baptist Church, Apapa, Lagos
The 2025 Summit at New Port Baptist Church, Apapa, Lagos.
Hosted by New Port Baptist Church, Apapa
About the Summit
Everyone deserves to be led well.
The Global Leadership Summit is a two-day event broadcast to hundreds of host sites in more than 100 countries. New Port Baptist Church, Apapa is one of those host sites — which is how world-class faculty reaches Lagos at a price a teacher, a trainee or a small business owner can actually pay.
It runs on one conviction: when leaders get better, everyone around them gets better. Homes, businesses, classrooms, churches, teams. We keep the fee deliberately low and the church underwrites the rest, because the person who most needs to be in the room is rarely the one with the biggest budget.
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World-class faculty
Sessions from the global GLS faculty — chief executives, pastors, researchers and practitioners who lead at scale — brought to Apapa and framed for where we actually work.
02
Leadership as service
Influence is stewardship, not status. Every session holds to the conviction that leaders exist for the good of the people they lead.
03
A room worth being in
Business owners, ministry leads, teachers, public servants and secondary school pupils in one room for two days. The corridor conversations matter as much as the stage.
Is this for me?
If even one person follows you, this is for you.
You do not need a title, a team, or a decade of experience. Each year the room holds a chief executive sitting beside a secondary school pupil, and both leave with something they can use on Monday.
- Business owners & entrepreneurs
- Pastors & ministry leaders
- Managers & executives
- Teachers & school leaders
- Public sector & NGO leaders
- Students & emerging leaders
Past editions
What the last Summits looked like.
Summit 2025
Design Your Tomorrow
Two days in Apapa working through what it takes to build a bridge-building leadership culture — and a closing ceremony where delegates, including pupils from schools across the area, received their certificates of attendance.
- Sessions from the global GLS faculty, streamed and hosted in Apapa
- A dedicated track for secondary school pupils and young leaders
- Excellence awards and certificates presented at the closing ceremony
Gallery
The 2025 Summit, in Apapa.
Sessions, the closing ceremony, and the delegates who filled the room — from schoolchildren to chief executives.
19 photographs
Questions
Before you register.
Still unsure about something? Email gls@newportbaptistchurch.org and a real person will reply.
Your seat for both days, all sessions, your delegate materials and a certificate of attendance. It is a subsidised rate — the church underwrites the rest so cost is not the reason anyone misses out.
No. The Summit is open to everyone. A large share of delegates each year come from other churches, from businesses, from schools, and from organisations with no church connection at all.
The GLS is a two-day leadership event broadcast to hundreds of host sites in over 100 countries. New Port Baptist Church, Apapa is one of those host sites, which is how world-class faculty reaches Lagos at a local price.
The moment your payment is confirmed we email you a ticket with a QR code and a short ticket code. Bring either one to the registration desk and we will check you in.
Check your spam folder first. If it is not there, use “Find my ticket” to have it re-sent, or email us and we will sort it out manually.
Yes. Register each person individually so everyone gets their own ticket and check-in code. If you are bringing more than ten people, email us and we will help you coordinate.
Registration is non-refundable but transferable. If you cannot make it, email us before the Summit and we will move your seat to someone else.
Two days that change how you lead.
Registration is ₦5,000 — a subsidised rate covering both days, all sessions, your materials and a certificate of attendance. Your ticket arrives by email the moment payment clears.