Biography for BCP Servant Leader
Professional Profile of S. Ali McIntosh - 2023
Sharell Ali McIntosh is a visionary and a pioneer of new path to Trot. A life-long learner and a self-driven Futurist, she was socialized as a product of a Pastoral Home and the Public School system in the Bahamas, graduating from the R. M. Bailey Senior High School in Nassau, Bahamas in 1983.
Becoming a Creative writer at the tender early age of fourteen (14) years, she was encouraged to be an avid reader, and to aspire to be whatever she wanted to become, by her mentor and pastoral mother. Thus, by the tender age of twenty (20), she was apprenticed as a Photo-Journalist with The Nassau Herald, during the 1987 General Elections Campaign, when she was introduced to politics at the highest level of the Bahamian society.
Shadowing that one-year job, she became employed for several months, as an Economic and Business writer, by the fledgling newspaper, The Bahama Journal, when it first began publishing back in 1987. After that short stint, she founded and published in the late 1980’s, the Bahamas 1st Interdenominational Periodical, the Bahamas Spectator Magazine, which provided local Church news and Religious commentary; allowing Ali to fulfill her early ambition to become a full-time Writer and Journalist.
S. Ali McIntosh, as she is professionally known, joined the staff of the Broadcasting Corporation of the Bahamas (BCB) in August 1988 at the age of twenty-two (22), as a News Reporter Trainee, under the Tutelage of Veteran ZNS Broadcaster Carl Bethel, acquiring all the Competencies of Radio and Television broadcast production. At the completion of her six-month In-Service training, Ali entered the Radio Programming Department as a Radio Announcer, choosing to stay in ZNS Radio Department, even when a position for a News Reporter was available in the Newsroom.
During her four & half year Tenure at the BCB, she hosted a Daily (4-6) hour live Radio Show, produced and hosted several Talk shows, including 'Back to Basics', 'Straight Talk with Ali McIntosh', and several editions of the legendary 'The Young Bahamian Show'. Additionally, Ali was first introduced to Television by Co-Hosting ZNS TV 13 - Live Television Broadcast of the Quin-Centennial Celebrations of Columbus Discovery of the New World in October 1992.
S. Ali McIntosh resigned her post at the BCB in December 1992 to start her own company. She spread her wings and ventured into the field of Sales, Advertising, Marketing and Public Relations, establishing the firm, Almac Agency in Nassau & Miami, Florida in 1993, with the motto, ‘Image is Everything’. The firm sought the creation of Marketing, Advertising and Imaging campaigns for companies; the Sales of Industrial products for Oil Spills; and the distribution of Beauty Culture products, with the formation of Almac /Equeene Beauty Club, (which encouraged women to Love & Pamper themselves); in partnership with Ivoine Beauty Salons, one of the largest beauty salon chain in the country at the time.
Changing her direction to Ministry in September 1995, Ali took up the challenge, along with several Youth Leaders, to lead the formulation of Youth Development Programs for the nation, through the National Committee For Youth Renewal & Revival (NCYRR), a non-government, non-profit organization she founded, after receiving a vision from God. She became its founding President, and the Executive Director of its Light for Life Youth 24-Hr Counselling Hotline and Centre. As a result of her consistent Advocacy and lobbying for Youth Development initiatives in the Nation, she was appointed as a member of the National Youth Advisory Council in January 1997 for a two-year tenure, by the Minister of Youth in the Bahamas Government.
During that time, Ali's creative writing gift peaked, as she became a prolific and courageous writer, contributing a weekly column in the local newspaper, The Nassau Guardian, entitled ‘Answering The Call’ for several years in the late 1990s. The widely-read opinion Column dealt with a variety of national issues including spiritual, social, legal and political discourse. The column was occasionally syndicated, publishing also in both The Tribune (Nassau) and the Turks & Caicos Times.
Committed to Nation-Building, she has served as a member of the Consultative Committee of the Northeastern Division - Royal Bahamas Police Force from January 2002 until 2007; and has attended many conferences and workshops over the past two decades, locally and abroad on social revitalization, including the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) conference on Domestic Violence in Latin American & The Caribbean, and Youth Federation for World Peace in Washington, DC; Two (2) United Nations sponsored-conferences on the Judicial Application of Human Rights in the Caribbean, and the Convention on the Elimination of all types of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW) Reporting in Nassau; and the United Nations Development Fund for Women (UNIFEM) Conference on Transformational Leadership in Christ Church, Barbados.
Ali has also spent considerable time on Sabbatical over the past two decades in the United States, particularly at the American University in Washington, D.C; researching and writing on the areas of the Bahamian Constitution, National leadership, Good Governance, Constitutional Democracy, and the Westminster system.
In May 1999, she officially launched the Bahamas Constitution Party (BCP), which she founded in 1998; and ran in the 2002 General Elections, as its sole candidate. In 2012, she contested the General Elections with five (5) candidates, making history as the first woman to ever lead a political party into General Elections. In October 2012, she contested the Bye-Election in North Abaco, making history as the first woman to ever contest a Bye-Election in the Bahamas. In 2017, she once again led the BCP into General Elections with eighteen (18) candidates, and again in 2021 General Elections. She continues to make history as the only female leader of a political party in the Bahamas, as she continues to serve as the Servant Leader of the BCP.
In continuation of her work with Women Advocacy, Ali has also represented the Bahamas as an Official Advisor at the United Nations General Assembly on the Commission of the Status of Women (CSW) in New York, in February 2005 & 2007, 2009; and as a Member of the Bahamas Delegation in March 2019, when she was introduced to HRH Sophie, Countess of Wessex, the Emissary for the Commonwealth and Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II.
Ali has earned the status of Certified Competent Toastmaster (CTM) from Toastmasters International since 1991. This has contributed greatly to her gift as an articulate Speaker and prolific Teacher, which has provided her the opportunity to speak to many social and religious forums across the country. She has been a well-sought after radio talk-show guest for many years; and she now serves frequently on Television as a Guest Contributors, with fresh and mature commentary on political and national issues.
She was recognized by the National Gospel Excellence Award Committee in 1997 with the ‘Humanitarian Award’, and in 2001 with a special ‘Changing a Generation’ Youth Award, for her work with and on behalf of the youth of the Bahamas. She was honored in January 2018 by The Grace Centre with the Majority Rule - Sir Lynden Pindling Nation Building Award; and in December 2018 by the Esther Ball Network with an Award for Ministry & Political Leadership. She was officially recognized in February 2020, jointly by the Bahamas Government and the Women United Organization, as the First Female to lead a political party in the Commonwealth of the Bahamas.
An active and long-standing member of the Seventh-Day Adventist Church in the Bahamas; Ali has administratively structured, and spiritually-led the Conference-wide Lay Prayer Ministries activities of the South Bahamas Conference; and served as one of two Lay Associate Directors, for three and a half year until June 2018.
She is an Author, a Philanthropist, and a servant of mankind. She has founded her personal charity initiative, the Ali McIntosh Children Charities. She has no children of her own, yet she is considered a mother to the nation’s youth, because of the pivotal role she has played in the lives of so many of the nation’s youth.
Ali McIntosh is a founding member of the Executive Board of Directors of Women United (Bahamas); a Founding Member & Ex-Officio Officer of the Executive Board of the Bahamas Chapter (2019) of the Caribbean Institute for Women in Leadership (CIWIL); the Public Relations Director for the National Organization of Women's Association in the Bahamas (NOWAB); and a member of several other civic and community-oriented Women and Children Advocacy Committees, including Civil Society Bahamas.
Ali is the President & CEO of S. Ali McIntosh & Associates Leadership Consultants, and the Chairman of the Josiah Institute for Leadership and Public Policy, a Tertiary level Institute, she founded in the Bahamas, for the training of leaders and public servants for the institutionalization of Good Governance.
After serving in the gospel ministries for more than thirty ( 30) years, Ali was officially Ordained in March 2022 to the Gospel Ministry as a Senior Elder and Servant Leader; by the Global Kingdom Ministries Intl - Praise, Power and Deliverance Fellowship Ministries in the State of Georgia, United States of America. She has been appointed as its Director of International Recruitment, and Advisor on Global Servant Leadership. She leads the new-established Servant Leader Ministries Intl, a teaching & Training Outreach.
Elder S. Ali McIntosh is a published author of the new book ' How To Reconstruct A Nation: Righteous Principles for National Leadership & Governance' which became available January 2021, and is available everywhere ebooks are sold; and hardcopies can be ordered on www.Amazon.com, www.booksamillion.com and www.barnesandnobles.com and other wholesalers, including publisher Christian Living Books. Ali is available for Speaking both locally & internationally.
Professional Contacts
Telephone - 242- 423-2709 / 242-524-1798
Emails - salimcintosh@gmail.com / ali@samcintoshassociates.com
sambahamasbusiness@gmail.com / info@bcpparty.org
Websites www.samcintoshassociates.com / www.thejosiahinstitute.com
www.bcpparty.org