Dr Joy Isa is an energetic educator, counsellor, and advocate for women in leadership, whose career, spanning three decades since 1996, has shaped education across Africa. She holds a doctorate in Curriculum, Instruction and Assessment from Walden University, an MSc from Buffalo State University, and CPD credentials from Harvard Graduate School of Education and Oxford’s Saïd Business School, alongside certifications in international school leadership, youth counselling, and child safeguarding.
For over two decades, she has developed curricula and facilitated professional development for diverse learning organisations including COBIS, AISEN, APEN, Teach for Nigeria, ASHOKA Nigeria, and Corona College of Education, and delivered leadership training across the Banking, FinTech, and NGO sectors. Her journey spans school leadership across British and American international schools in East and West Africa, and founding ISED, the Isa School of Education, where she now serves as President and Lead Consultant.
She currently serves as Director of Marketing and Admissions at Rugby School Nigeria, and as a board member at Osnon Academy, Zamani Academy Zimbabwe, Pistis Leadership and Life Institute, and Lumilearn, where she serves as a Non-Executive Director.
A WIMBIZ Life Member and author of two books, with a third underway, she mentors the next generation of African women leaders.
