About Lead from the Heart

Not the loudest voice.
The most honest one.

"We are not the loudest leadership voice in the room. We are the one that asks: can you sustain this?"

2013
Founded
2019
Formally relaunched
Hundreds
Developed directly through LFTH
2,000+
Reached through TLA partnership

Lead from the Heart began as a vision in October 2013 — first under the name Pinnacle Forum Cameroon, then renamed Lead from the Heart weeks later. For its first six years, it lived as a community of conviction more than a consultancy.

In 2019, after Silas attended ALICT — a leadership programme he'd been recommended for six years earlier — Lead from the Heart was formally relaunched as a leadership development practice. The Leadership Heartbeat methodology itself crystallised in 2025 during a three-month sojourner experience at ALICT in South Africa.

Today, LFTH works across corporate retreats, executive coaching, an annual flagship leadership intensive (Vision Quest), and partnership programmes that have reached over 2,000 leaders through the Transformational Leadership Academy (TLA) with Royalty World and Mendem Foundation.

"We are not the loudest leadership voice in the room. We are the one that asks: can you sustain this?"

Foundational laws

Three laws that hold it all together.

Love.

Leadership begins with how we see people. Not as resources, not as metrics — as human beings worthy of your best care and attention.

Faith.

Sustained impact requires conviction beyond the visible. The leader who only acts on what they can see will not endure.

Hope.

The leaders we serve carry it for others, even when their own runs low. We help you find and protect your source of it.

These three have anchored every programme we've built since 2013.

The founders

Two holding hands
going into nations.

Lead from the Heart is not a solo operation. It carries a joint calling — Silas and Vivian Achu, each bringing distinct gifts toward the same direction.

Silas Achu

Silas carries a calling to help leaders sustain impact without losing themselves. He founded Lead from the Heart in 2013, and the Leadership Heartbeat methodology crystallised in 2025 during three months at ALICT in South Africa.

Through corporate retreats, executive coaching, and Vision Quest, he walks with leaders learning to lead from rhythm rather than grind. Whole Leader Institute is where his calling and Vivian's meet — shaped for executive couples.

Vivian Achu

Vivian carries a calling for inner healing and family restoration across Africa. A prophetic worshiper, intercessor, and Sozo-trained practitioner, she walks with people navigating the hidden weight they carry — identity, healing, and the work of becoming whole.

Through Thriving Circle, she leads a community of practice for those learning to live whole, across the full family lifecycle. Whole Leader Institute is where her calling and Silas's meet — shaped for executive couples.

The practice

The consultants who do the work.

Silas Achu

Silas Achu

Founder & Principal Consultant

Silas carries a calling to help leaders sustain impact without losing themselves. His leadership journey began in 2010, in the pioneer batch of the Bethel Atlanta School of Supernatural Ministry in Cameroon, and was tested in the corporate world as Managing Director of Omni Capital, a UK-backed software company in Buea.

The vision for Lead from the Heart crystallised in October 2013. In 2019, after attending ALICT — a programme he'd been recommended for six years earlier — Silas formally relaunched LFTH as a leadership development practice. The Leadership Heartbeat methodology itself crystallised in 2025 during a three-month Sojourner experience at ALICT in South Africa.

He lives in Buea with his wife Vivian and their two daughters, Charlotte and Geula.

Author of

Dreams to Reality Marketplace Shift The Leadership Heartbeat Built to Lead
Gamaliel Agbor

Gamaliel Agbor

Senior Consultant, Training & Facilitation

Gamaliel leads the room. He carries a calling to teach with clarity and conviction, and he is the consultant clients work with most directly when LFTH is in delivery — designing sessions, facilitating retreats, and walking groups through the Leadership Heartbeat in real time.

He brings ten years in finance and accounting — including roles at Orange Cameroon — alongside eight years of congregational leadership, where his teaching gift was refined across both contexts. Since joining LFTH in January 2025 as Partner and Leadership Trainer, he has co-facilitated the Transformation Leadership Academy, led the first remote LFTH delegation to UNHCR (2025), and delivered the first full in-person retreat day without Silas present at the Mendem Foundation staff retreat (2026).

Gamaliel holds a BSc in Finance and Accounting from the University of Derby, UK, and lives in Buea.

Doris Ngum

Doris Ngum

Senior Consultant, Client Strategy

Doris opens the door. She carries a calling to mobilise communities and move vision into action, and she is the consultant clients meet first — shaping the strategic conversation, scoping the engagement, and aligning the work with what the organisation actually needs.

She is the Founder and Executive Director of Royalty World, LFTH's longest-standing implementation partner, and brings the vision and momentum that complement Silas's methodology and depth — what they describe as "vision plus system, energy plus depth." A trained Kaizen Consultant (JICA) and Associate Chartered Management Accountant (ACMA, London, 2008), she combines operational excellence with inspirational facilitation.

She lives in Buea, where she also co-founded Rinoo Cameroon and serves as Entrepreneurship Coach at the Higher Institute of Management Studies.

Partnerships

Long relationships,
not transactions.

We work in long relationships, not transactions. Our core partnerships include Royalty World (TLA), Mendem Foundation (TLA & community leadership), ALICT, and Bethel Atlanta Cameroon (BAC). Each is named because the work would not exist without them.

Royalty World

Co-implementation partner on the Transformational Leadership Academy. LFTH contributes content and methodology; Royalty World contributes operations and community mobilisation — together we have reached over 2,000 leaders.

Mendem Foundation

TLA partner extending the work into community leadership development. Mendem hosted the first retreat in 2026 fully delegated to Gamaliel — a milestone in LFTH's multiplication journey.

ALICT

The African Leadership Institute for Community Transformation. Where Silas was formed as a leader (2019 student, 2025 Sojourner) and where the Leadership Heartbeat methodology crystallised.

Bethel Atlanta Cameroon

The faith community where the Leadership Heartbeat is lived before it is taught. Silas serves here as Co-Supervisory Leader, and BAC remains the laboratory where every principle in this work gets tested in real ministry life.

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