Patience Mapeza ’19 is a Senior Retail Banking Manager for NMB Bank in ZiEMBAbwe. She joined NMB in 2002 a few years after the former merchant bank registered as a commercial bank. She has risen steadily through the ranks ever since. Patience now manages over 14 bank branches across the country, working hard to drive […]
A Week in the Life of Njideka Nwabueze ’20
Njideka Nwabueze ’20 is a Proposition Manager at Diamond Bank Plc, Nigeria. She leads BETA proposition, a digital savings strategy to increase financial inclusion for low income un-banked and underbanked market entrepreneurs – especially women. Njideka’s weekly rhythm involves managing 1,200 mobile field agents across over 270 Diamond Bank branches in Nigeria. These field agents […]
Two-way Strong: The story of V^3 Leadership Development at ALUSB
Leadership Development is at the core of the ALUSB EMBA programme. We adopt a unique V^3 leadership model which trains leaders at the nexus of Virtue, Vision, and Value. To do this, we consolidate premium content, experiential learning, self-reflection exercises, and on-the-job practice for a holistic leadership course. If a picture speaks a thousand words, […]
A Week in the Life of Likeleli Monyamane ‘19
Likeleli recently re-launched Inspire Innovation in her home-country, Lesotho. In the past month, she has been working on getting the business off the ground. This week in her life is a reflection of the grit and spirit of a startup founder, mother, mentee, teammate, and ALUSB student. “My reason for doing an EMBA was to […]
A Week in the Life of Akua Nyame-Mensah
Akua Nyame-Mensah ’19 has worked in e-commerce for the past four years. She was the Managing Director at Jumia Classifieds, Nigeria and Ghana. For the past few months, she served as the leader at a design and build company. She currently aspires to take an entrepreneurial route starting with career advisory services. Wake up. Stretch. […]
A Week in the Life of Bame Moremong ’19
Bame Moremong ’19 is the Executive Director of Brand Botswana, at Botswana Investment and Trade Centre and a current ALUSB EMBA student. She manages marketing teams and mothers two daughters while studying her EMBA. Her depiction of this week is as true to life as an executive’s existential template. She is customising this template for […]
OLUWATOYIN AROWOLO’18 :THE SKY IS THE LIMIT FOR ALL OF US!
Oluwatoyin “Toyin” Arowolo ‘18, a wife, a mother of two, and a Nigerian entrepreneur, with plans to expand beyond Nigeria. As Toyin enters the home stretch of the ALUSB EMBA, she shares a message for women considering this programme, and talks about the moral responsibility that lays ahead now for the founding class of 2018, […]
BRENDA KOBOLA ‘19: LEADER, MOTHER AND EMBA STUDENT!
Brenda Kobola’ 19 works in the Human Capital space at Standard Bank Group. In this interview, Brenda discusses striving for work-life balance as she manages work, study, and family life. She also describes her personal leadership journey since she joined ALUSB. Here are some highlights from Brenda’s interview: How do you strive for work-life balance […]
An Interview with ALUSB Guest Faculty Ayesha Bedwei
It was inspiring to spend some time with ALUSB Guest Faculty Ayesha Bedwei, a Partner and Diversity & Inclusion Leader at PwC in Ghana. In this interview Ayesha shares some powerful insights about the nuances of doing business in Africa, as well as her thoughts about how to empower and encourage more women into senior […]
