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Globally, women are taking the reins of leadership, charting new courses in their areas of influence and helping to enthrone growth both locally and internationally.  Today, the daunting clamour for the place of skirts and heels in the boardroom, professional roles, business executive positions, entrepreneurship, public service and politics have surpassed the sentimental biases of equality or the penchants of parity. Women are equally measured and assessed based on their contributions and performances in their sphere of influence.

Therefore, we own the responsibility to sing a new song of unprecedented performance, rewrite the dogmatic narratives and recreate the murals that tell a brand new story about how women have come of age in their quest for success. Women in leadership positions have continued to prove their mettle and worth as excellent resources capable of handling tough challenges with strong focus on outstanding results.

Over the years, women have faced several challenges that put their leadership capabilities to test, hence the reinforcement of the position “women need women”! Simply put, we all walk in some kind of heels and know where it hurts the most.

Most discussions about women as leaders focus on the executives and management, offering inadequate attention to women climbing the rungs, women struggling in the open market or women who took career breaks and were unable to return to work to pursue their aspirations. This drives the passion to create a platform that affords women the opportunity to share experiences, reinforce learning and establish best practices both for local and international participation.

As the Executive Director of the Women in Leadership Summit that took place on 8th December 2016 in  Douala Rabingha, Cameroon, the news was not just about the drought of female leaders, but the need to further reinforce the initiatives that will project women.  It was about a raising a new tribe of women who have new thinking and are driven by performance amongst many other things.

The initiative further reinforces the need for executive female leaders across all business facets and public sectors to meet aspiring young leaders to share experiences, leverage existing opportunities, explore new frontiers and deploy strategies that will birth a competent and formidable female workforce.

The exciting theme for the summit ‘Inspiring women to Lead, Engage and Impact growth’ birthed a new sense of direction where made leaders meet leaders on the rungs for excellent deliberations. The clamour to have more women in leadership positions is drowning and eroding gender equality agenda. It has created a genuine platform where women can share their own stories and the consequences of their failure so as to create templates of best practices and solutions. During the programme, the panel of excellent women and men discussed the 21st century leader extraordinaire, which includes the ability of an executive to survive in the workplace especially with the advent and influence of new technology, the internet and the digital resources. The panel also discussed ‘Building Bridges’, which essentially focused on how to surmount the different challenging issues. And also, peace and security in the workplace.

We are grooming new fledglings that will stand on the shoulders of eagles for a gallant ride to success. We would leverage the myriads of resources to produce new female leaders that will take the baton, run with the vision and engage budding professionals who will impact growth both in the workplace and the nation as a whole.

Bonjour Douala ! Good Morning Lagos !

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