About Laddering Your Success
Laddering Your Success (LYS) is a Houston, Texas based social profit organization that is focused on partnering with schools, educational institutions and community organizations to help students turn today’s dreams in a future of unlimited possibilities. Our purpose is centered on creating a future where first-generation, minority, underserved and non-traditional students can easily access knowledge, tools, resources and life-skills to create, select and live a productive and healthy life – from high school, to college and beyond.
Our Mission Statement
Our VISION Statement
We see a future where first-generation, minority, and non-traditional students have the knowledge, resources, and skills to step into alternative and higher education with deeper insights into their life and career. Where they leave various academic settings with all the tools necessary to continue their education as well as form healthy and productive lives.
Our values
Commitment
At Laddering Your Success, commitment means aligning our actions with our words and truth, creating trust and driving meaningful impact.
Wisdom
At Laddering Your Success, wisdom is doing good where we are, consistently growing until we can achieve our best.
Compassion
At Laddering Your Success, compassion is growing into our best selves while helping others rise along the way.
The lys process
Meet Our LYS Team
Festus Amoye
Founder / CEO
Olay Shorunke
COO
Wesley Okeke
CTO
Festus Amoye
Despite losing both of his parents at a very young age and battling challenges of poverty, Festus was able to become the first of his family to graduate college with multiple scholarships.
Festus owes not only his success but his very survival to his faith.
On his journey, he has helped over 15 students alone to enroll in college and develop the necessary skills needed to create a successful life.
Olay Shorunke
He has worked in multiple industries such as Sports and Entertainment with the Houston Texans, commercial property management as well as the oil and gas industry.
Wesley Okeke
LYS CTO / CEO of Headway Idea Labs
Wes’ genesis is a proud Nigerian native whose personal mission has been to ensure that each entrepreneur or engineer’s journey is never a lonely one. He began Headway Idea Labs after an 18+ year career in Business Development, Marketing and Sales within technology companies based in Boston and Silicon Valley.
He believes in the vital importance of having a simple and clear process in order to successfully take an idea from its raw concept to its complete fruition. He is the creator of the “5 Steps to Fruition” process steps (the fingerprints to your perfect business model).
To quote Wes’ “I am big on three valuable keys to success: Collaboration, Sustainability and Personal Growth!”
Cleo Franklin
CMO / Adviser
Dr. Heston Young
Compass Program Creator
Jamiee Carter
Director of Business Development
Cleo Franklin
Dr. Heston Young
Following his service in the military, he went on to pursue his Bachelors in Science and Biology at the University of Houston. Shortly after, he then completed his Doctoral Degree in Dentistry at Howard University.
Throughout his life, he has remained passionate about giving back and helping guide young adults in need of direction as he once was.
Jamiee Carter
Jamiee received her Bachelor’s in Communications and Media at Texas Southern University and later went on to pursue her Master’s in International Business at the University of Houston.
In her early years of living in Houston, she discovered her love for the industry business while working in banking as a Business Development Specialist. After developing skills in business, she went on to start her career in Logistics. Her passion for education is marked by the reality of her being the only senior from her graduating class at a small charter school to pursue higher education immediately upon graduation.
C.J. Charles
Product Strategist
C.J. Charles
How LYS Can Help You
