Consultant, trainer and soft-skills specialist | Côte d’Ivoire
Aquilas Yao is an Ivorian consultant, trainer, author and soft-skills specialist. He works with Fondazione Soleterre in Côte d’Ivoire as Country Coordinator for Work Is Progress, a programme focused on employment and social inclusion. Soleterre describes Work Is Progress as operating in Côte d’Ivoire and other countries to help people enter and remain in work.
His experience spans youth development, leadership, and peacebuilding. He has worked with organisations and initiatives including Audace Institut Afrique, GIZ, the Magic System Foundation, the World Bank’s Youth Advisory Group and the Friedrich Naumann Foundation. He has also worked as a consultant for the Registry of the International Criminal Court.
Aquilas serves as Vice President of the Centre for Education for a Sustainable Society. Much of his work is practical: training, coaching, and mentoring people as they develop skills and identify how they can use their abilities.
For Fulfilling Jobs for Peace, that experience keeps the conversation close to a basic question: what helps a person turn ability into work that can actually sustain a life?
More: Work Is Progress and Fondazione Soleterre.
