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Birthing Purpose, a social enterprise, has officially announced the launch of its pioneer entrepreneurship series called “The Business of Purpose”.

The Business of Purpose Series is organising her pioneer meeting titled “Building a Purpose Driven Enterprise” scheduled for May 25, 2019.

In a statement, the group said the event is a premiere “in its purpose-igniting entrepreneurship series; serving as a platform for personal capacity development and empowerment of young entrepreneurs to create and transform their existing businesses to purpose driven (social) enterprises that are profitable and positively impact their local communities.”

“The Business for Purpose Series offers an opportunity for learning from experts, networking with SME support entities including government bodies, financial institutions, accelerators, incubators as well as acquaintance with real, after-the-event facilitating programs geared towards advancing and reinforcing required skills for successfully operating sustainable for-profit enterprises,” the statement read.

“The event also offers an extensive and holistic experience which aims to highlight the benefits of operating a purpose driven business instead of the usual run-of-the-mill traditional enterprise. Esteemed speakers include Dr Seye Kehinde, Ade Adeyemi, Tessy Zidon Peters, Adetola Okanlawon (MBA-IT), Olawunmi Ogunde.”

Commenting on the event, Tobi Odukoya, CEO of Birthing Purpose, said: “Most world changing innovations that have become multi-billion dollar products and services stemmed from wanting to solve a problem, and creating a solution that meets that specific need; that way many lives are touched by that single product or service.”

According to the organisers, the event will cater to 150 “passionate and budding entrepreneurs”.