TOPIC: Creating a brand and building engagement
Jenk is a 19- year-old social entrepreneur, public speaker, social change activist, and DJ as well as the Founder & CEO of Thred Media, a social enterprise focused on Publishing, Media, Consulting and Production aimed at Generation Z.
The central tenet of the business is the 100% social change-focused website Thred where the writing team covers all aspects of youth culture seen through the lens of social change in 17 different languages. It reaches 350k+ teens and young adults from 220+ countries/territories a month and has won several awards.
On the speaking circuit, Jenk enjoys talking about the future of Generation Z, Young Entrepreneurship, Social Change and Youth Employment with the hope of helping other young people develop their impactful ideas. He has spoken at more than 90 conferences including three TEDx Talks entitled ‘Ideas Ink.’; ‘Breaking the Pattern’ and ‘Can a ‘Like’ change the world- the power of clicktivism’ as well as having spoken at 7 Model United Nation conferences including Oxford University: Model United Nations Conference- London. Others include Forbes Summit, Cinncinati; Vox YMS NYC Marketing Conference- New York City; Knowledge Summit- Expo Dubai; Oxford Global: Summit For Young Leaders- Athens & London; ABTA Annual Conference, Morroco; World Lottery Association Annual Conference, Lomdon; Amazon AWS Summit- London; SES Student Employability Summit- London, NACUE Enterprise Conference and SME Beyond Borders Conference- Dubai.
Jenk is a member of the Google Z- Council, Oracle for Startups, Microsoft Surface Young Entrepreneur Team and The Knowledge Society (TKS).
He also sits on the Marketing Board for Founders4Schools, WorkFinder App, UpNext Education, BeMe Health and Prospect 100 as well as being an Ambassador for Global Citizen (poverty/climate), Climate Science (climate), Earth Day (climate), Force of Nature (climate), Youthtopia (climate), Bite Back 2030 (school food programs), Youthify (climate), Youth Climate Database (climate), Ivy House (education), Let’s Localise (education), BeMe Health (mental health), SoundMind (mental health), and The Song Academy (youth empowerment).
Jenk has been seen in West End theatre, TV, commercials, music videos, short films, voice-overs and several commercial print campaigns. Jenk’s hobbies include piano, gaming, rowing and rugby.
DATES:
Masterclass session: 12th September with Jenk Oz.
Mentoring session: 26th September with Natalie McCool.
