‘’ Effective fatherhood is about presence, not financial provision alone. If boys don’t have grounding, they could become men who break, rather than build, societies. Real change is when a boy who entered our programme confused and invisible becomes a man who is both competent and compassionate and then builds others’’ Precious Eniayekan is Founder […]
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Interview with Nicki Hallé: Executive search leader, founder & Managing partner
”I believe a quality search process must go far beyond matching CVs to specs. It’s about getting under the skin of both the organization and the leader, going deep into how results are achieved, not just what’s on the resume and this is why I believe my placed leaders stay longer than 18 months in […]
Interview with Jane Egerton-Idehen: MD/CEO, Nigerian Communications Satellite Ltd
‘’Africa’s engagement in space must be intentional, collaborative and impact-driven, beyond launching satellites to applying space technology to solve African problems: in agriculture, security, climate monitoring, and broadband access. We must shift from consumers to co-creators in the global space economy,’’. Jane Nkechi Egerton-Idehen is a technology executive and angel investor with over 20 years’ […]
Pumza Fihlani: Global journalist & Communications specialist
‘’I firmly believe that in order to maintain the audiences’ trust, we need to make sure that we get it right. That has served me well personally and has opened numerous doors’’ From cutting her media teeth as a teenage newsreader on a campus radio station while studying her Journalism undergraduate degree in South Africa […]
Interview with Iris Irumva: Leadership strategist & Founder, Lead Access Ltd
‘’Many leaders are still managing for output, not engagement. We chase KPIs without understanding the emotional contract people have with their work. We need to stop seeing leadership as directional and start seeing it as relational, a shared space where power is not held, but circulated.’’ Iris Irumva is a leadership strategist, coach, and founder […]
Interview with Mercy Murigi: International development professional
‘’We have to get out of the dynamic of having things done on our behalf. We need to pull together, ask what we can do collectively, what we should protect and what forms of government and leadership would move us from survival to collective wealth’’. Mercy is an international development professional, passionate about social inclusion […]
Interview with Dame Helena Morrissey: Global Executive & Diversity enabler
“There’s been a very incremental approach to encouraging diverse thinking and new ways of working. We need a wholesale set of changes. Companies need to start assessing people on results, not hours worked and really encourage people to believe in what they are doing.”
Interview with Stacey Hall: Business coach & Speaker
“Shoulds’ and “have-to”s are damaging. The more we choose what we will do, the more we feel we are in control of our lives, which leads to greater success in all areas of our lives”
Interview with Dudu Msomi: Leadership expert & Coach
“Leadership is about character, the willingness to do the right thing even if it is difficult or unpopular. Sitting on the fence is not an option”.
Interview with Yvonne Katsande: Current affairs talk show host
Knowing who or what you want to be in your life matters. You have to see the picture first of what you want to become before it can manifest in reality’
