If you are a new woman in business, I have a question for you; how do you feel about video marketing? I will leave this question here for now. Please read on… Last night, I sent a message to my Creative Director informing him of how much we had made from a recent product re-launch. …
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Hello there, We are almost at the end of 2020! Time does fly indeed. If you are in business, then I bet you have set you business goals for the final quarter already. Here is a tip that I thought might help. The visit… Recently I visited a very good friend for a business conversation. …
The Testimonial… I have had many testimonials from the wonderful women I coach, but this recent one really made me feel like I had won a million dollars. First let me tell you about her. We shall call her Tope. She is Nigerian and a member of our Facebook group called The Fabulous Woman Community. …
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Recently, one of our frequent participants asked if we could have a virtual Breakfast With The Girls and I smiled. Actually, I have been tossing the idea around in my head and a few other people have asked but no concrete decision has been made yet. Breakfast With The Girls has gradually become our signature …
THE ROLE OF EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTIONS IN FOSTERING ENTREPRENEURSHIP DEVELOPMENT Mr. Chairman, fellow speakers and panelists, distinguished invited guests, I bring you greetings from a very chilly Kumasi! YACEDX Ghana, congratulations on an already successful African Magnates Summit 2019! When I told my 10-year old daughter that I was preparing a speech on ‘the role of …
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While on the Mandela Washington Fellowship two years ago, Kellogg’s School of Business at Northwestern University (USA) did a wonderful job of exposing us to the different tech and business incubation hubs in Chicago. Once a week we would go on a site visit to mostly hubs and I was really impressed by the sizes of the co-working spaces or shared offices/workspaces as well as the equipment I saw. In fact in one of the hubs, I saw a very lovely Ghanaian woman who shared her story about how renting an office space was so difficult and frustrating until she got a place at that particular hub.
The Campus Director, Faculty and staff of Webster University, distinguished invited guests, ladies and gentlemen; I bring you greetings from Kumasi also known as Oseikrom. Thank you so much for this invitation to come and speak about ‘Preparing for College and Career’ at your Open House event. First of all, you have a beautiful campus! …
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Immediately I completed university, I had two choices: to return to my temporary summer job in the US or to go on a working holiday visa trip to the UK where my then boyfriend lived. Obviously, I chose UK! While in the UK, I did many temporary jobs including office assistant, old people caregiver, receptionist, cleaner, filing clerk, call center agent, etc. I also took various classes and wrote a couple of exams, but at the time I did not consider any of these geared towards any particular career path; I just wanted to survive and perhaps gain work experience. I returned to Ghana to do my national service at the Ministry of Finance and Economic Planning and had an amazing experience assisting the Head of Public Relations.
We cannot give up on Africa. Africa is all we’ve got!
As the person who created the Fabulous Woman Network, who has also had some experience in the corporate field, here is what I have to say to men. Women have a lot of buried treasures and potentials that can be used. Don’t only focus on what it is that you’ve seen, for instance, they are good at typing or answering the phone or making coffee or doing whatever. There’s so much more that we can do in the workplace. Push the women. Give them more challenging roles, and you’ll be amazed. Even when pregnant nine months, you’ll be amazed the results that women can deliver.
