Recently, the premier community for young career and business women – She Leads Africa - held its innovative (travelling) bootcamp, the SheHive, in Abuja! SheHive
Abuja, which provided young and ambitious women with new skills in
climbing the corporate ladder, negotiating, developing a pitch deck,
identifying job opportunities, speaking with investors and more, was a
highly rated success.
The bootcamp saw 100
attendees over the weekend. On Twitter the #SheHiveAbuja hashtag made
2.5mn impressions in one week, whilst on Instagram the hashtag made over
5.5mn impressions. Participant feedback: 80% of participants gave the
event a 5/5 in terms of usefulness with the remaining 20% giving the
event a 4/5.
“One of the best decisions I have made was to keep up with She Leads Africa.” Adama Indimi, Style & Beauty Night host (Instagram @presido
- Speakers included the Nigerian Minister for the Environment, Hadiza Bala Usman (co-founder #Bringbackourgirls), Governor el Rufai, leading lawyer Asue Ighodalo as well as MTV Base and The Voice Presenter Stephanie Coker. These speakers covered topics including building a career in the public sector, how to negotiate, public speaking, and how to orchestrate an internationally recognised campaign. Governor el Rufai was interviewed by his son Bello and spoke passionately about the role and duty of men in ensuring gender equality in Nigeria.
Participants who purchased the exclusive All Access Pass
also had surprise visits from 2 of Nigeria’s most prominent investors,
the Nigerian Minister for Trade, Investment & Industry as well as
the Head of the Nigerian Sovereign Wealth Fund. The Sovereign Wealth
Fund head actually listened to some of the people's pitches and
requested a follow up meeting with one of the entrepreneurs!
"The
sessions have been intimate which I really like. They have also sought
to include us as much as possible by using our personal businesses to
create practical scenarios." - Eyak Bob, All Access Pass holder
(Instagram eyak_bob)
Sponsors
of the event included: Pulse NG, Bella Naija, YNaija, Ebony Life TV,
Lumo Naturals, Dark & Lovely, Maybelline NG Hairfinity, IE Business
School, Chicken Republic, Huawei, Etisalat, SoltoshMocktails, ACE and
Jobberman, The Guardian.
SheHive Abuja was also
supported by a wonderful Host Committee including Adama Indimi, Chidera
Okolie, Fatima Mamza (of Mamza Beauty), OG Ogechukwu (of Style Temple),
Ugo (Nkataa.com) and Rahama Sadau (KannyWood Actress).
She
Leads Africa will be taking the She Hive bootcamp on a tour across the
continent and diaspora in 2016, the next stop is New York (2nd-5th June
2016). Interested participants and partners can learn more about the
tour and sign up at sheleadsafrica.org or contact info@sheleadsafrica.org
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