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Mitsubishi Motors ,SheLeadsAfrica shed light on the experiences of women in Nigeria’s Corporate World

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In today’s world, the importance of networking cannot be overstated. Companies and big corporations have attributed big successes to their abilities to navigate the sectors they belong to.

To commemorate the International Women’s month, She Leads Africa,a community that helps young African women achieve their professional dreams in conjunction with Massilia Motors Nigeria, the sole distributor of Mitsubishi Motors in Nigeria and subsidiary of the CFAO group, Wednesday the 27th of March organised a private evening of networking and learning tagged,”Drive Your Ambition”.

Drive Your Ambition took place at the Mitsubishi Motors showroom in Victoria Island bringing together a myriad of senior executive Nigerian women from different sectors of the economy under one roof to share and learn from each other.

The opening note was given by Funmi Abiola, Head of Marketing and Communications for Massilia Motors who shed more light on the Drive Your Ambition tagline which was created in 2017 when Mitsubishi Motors turned 100 years old. The event is a continuation of their efforts to Nigerian’s breaking grounds in various industries.

The session officially kicked-off with a few words from the Co- Founder of SheLeadsAfrica, Afua Osei.

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Osei in her welcome address highlighted the importance of networking and encouraged attendees to partake in a bonding session. The goal of the session was for the attendees to meet new people with experiences similar or different to theirs.

Subsequently a panel of three senior level female corporate executives was introduced. They were picked from diverse sectors of the economy. Amuche Okeke-Agba, a Partner in McKinsey & Company’s Lagos office. She co-leads the Recovery & Transformation Services practice for McKinsey in West Africa, Ijeoma Agboti-Obatoyinbo, the Managing Director / CEO of FBNQuest Funds Ltd, and lastly, Ugochi Agoreyo, a Partner Development Senior Specialist for West Africa at SAP.

The panel was moderated by Abosede George-Ogan, Director, Strategy, Partnerships and Stakeholder Management at the Lagos State Employment Trust Fund. The women spoke of their experiences gained in the course of their careers, the challenges they have faced and the lessons learnt from those challenges.

The sessions left lasting impacts in the minds of the audience present with one of them remarking;

“The most interesting person I have met today is Precious, she is an engineer, the first female engineer I have met”