Changing The Face Of A Continent, One Life At A Time! | Ndidi Okonkwo Nwuneli & Omon Odike

Описание: Today's guest is the phenomenal Ndidi Nwuneli - an expert on food ecosystems, entrepreneurship, social innovation, and philanthropy. Ndidi shares her social entrepreneurship journey with us; from NGOs built to empower the youth, to organisations that stemmed from the need to boost agriculture during a global food crisis.

She talks about how her relationship with God has shaped her into the woman she is, and how she plans to use this to achieve lasting success in her new position as the CEO of international advocacy organisation, ONE Campaign.

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CHAPTERS

00:00 - Intro
03:49 - How her social entrepreneurship journey began
06:56 - Setting up NGOs for the youth
09:30 - Boosting agriculture in a global food crisis
14:04 - Expanding a business into different regions
20:51 - Maintaining a relationship with God
24:59 - Sharing African stories
27:13 - Lessons from different boardrooms
31:49 - The best way to stay innovative
37:14 - Becoming the CEO of ONE Campaign
44:33 - Navigating a work life balance
45:51 - Leaving a legacy
47:52 - Trivia Time!


ABOUT THE GUEST ✨

Ndidi Okonkwo Nwuneli is an expert on food ecosystems, entrepreneurship, social innovation, and philanthropy. She has over 25 years of international development experience and is deeply involved in fostering impactful solutions in the global social innovation landscape, with a focus on Africa.

Ndidi started her career at McKinsey & Company’s Chicago office and returned to Nigeria in 2000 to serve as the pioneer Executive Director of the FATE Foundation. She is the founder of LEAP Africa, a non-profit committed to developing dynamic, innovative and principled African leaders and African Food Changemakers, which provides support for African entrepreneurs to start and scale resilient and sustainable agribusinesses.

She is also the co-founder of Sahel Consulting Agriculture & Nutrition Ltd. and AACE Foods Processing & Distribution Ltd. As of April 2024, Ndidi was named the CEO of ONE Campaign, an international, non-partisan, non-profit advocacy and campaigning organization that fights extreme poverty and preventable disease, particularly in Africa.


ABOUT THE SHOW ✨

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On this show, you'll hear several testimonies and success stories of Nigerian entrepreneurs - a wonderful source of motivation for startups and women in business. Each episode takes us through how to overcome some of the challenges of a business owner; especially the challenges of running a business in Nigeria!

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ABOUT THE HOST ✨

Omomene (Omon) Odike is the CEO & Principal Consultant of U-Connect, One of Nigeria’s leading Human Resource Company and Founder of Gr8jobsng, the first of its kind HR Recruitment Platform in Africa. As an Entrepreneur, she is credited with introducing innovative and pro-active solutions in Recruitment and Outsourcing, Training and Development, Verification & Background Checks, Pre-Assessment Testing as well as Quality Management Strategies to clients; positioning the U-Connect brand as a trail blazer in the Human Resource consulting industry.

Her experience spans over 18 years from Legal Practice to HR Consulting and she is very passionate about youth empowerment, employability and employment as well as women in business.


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