Application Deadline: May 29th 2021
DOT Kenya seeks to engage 30 young vibrant leaders from different parts of the country, who are passionate about entrepreneurship and community impact, to be part of our Daring to shift: Social Entrepreneurship program for a period of 12 months beginning July 1, 2021.
DOT Kenya’s Daring to Shift program is designed to embody DOT’s youth led mission through incorporating youth voices and building the leadership capacity of outstanding youth within the DOT network and from communities that DOT Kenya works. The D2S Social Innovators program will provide strategic and specialist advice to upcoming Social Entrepreneurs and help them to establish impactful businesses within their communities.
I remember feeling tense on the day of my HBS interview. Not only because I was nervous about the interview although I was but because if I was admitted, I was unsure whether I belonged at HBS. I am a Midwestern, first-generation college graduate from a blue-collar family. It didn’t matter that I spent six years living in New York and Switzerland and that I built my career in public accounting and finance. Harvard and the Ivy League for that matter always felt like a place for
other people.
I’ve been through transitions before. I went from playing basketball on a rundown outdoor court to world-class facilities at the University of Kansas. I went from a 100-person hometown to a metropolis of 8 million. I went from shoveling mud for my family’s water well drilling business to working in private equity deals. But the day of my HBS interview, I still felt intimidated.
We need more women in politics – Tinu Philips, Founder, Ladies Breaking Boundaries
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From left Cynthia Ifode, Vice-President,; Yomade Momoh-Ayanda; Olajumoke Saliu; Lara Amubieya, President; Tinu Philips, Founder; Omawunmi Ola-Edagbami and Tolulope Olufemi, all awardees and members of Ladies Breaking Boundaries, an initiative to grow more employed women in Business during the LBB 2020 Business Award and Recognition dinner held in Lagos over the weekend. Photos Lamidi Bamidele
By Lamidi Bamidele
A women group, Ladies Breaking Boundaries LBB, has decried low level of participation of women in Nigeria politics saying this has denied them opportunities in taking vital decisions on leadership front.