Lead Yourself First: How 2 CEOs Transitioned From Employee To Entrepreneur| Future Females Lagos

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Future Female Lagos October Event:

Being an employee can be liberating for women who are comfortable doing what they love and meeting organizational goals without bearing such an intimidating title like “CEO”.

But what happens when you want to drop the hat of an employee and make your side hustle the main hustle?

For one, you will need different sets of skills to pull this off because the safety net of monthly salary as an employee is gone.

This month we have 2 phenomenal women who successfully transitioned from paid workers to founders. They will be sharing how they managed their entrepreneurial ambition as salary earners, knocked the internal barrier that makes them feel not quite ready to make the big change and fearlessly stepped in the role of business owners.

Our first speaker is Lebari Edo-Ukpong:

Lebari Ukpong leads the Inside Edge Limited (IEL) team, a lawyer who worked at the British Deputy High Commission, Lagos for ten years as a Trade Development Manager, developing Britain’s economic interest in Nigeria. Lebari advised and produced tailored reports for British and Nigerian businesses and governments, and organized programmes to support bilateral trade through clinic sessions, seminars, and exhibitions in Nigeria, UK, Egypt, France, UAE not only to businesses but the UK and Nigerian government officials.

In 2006, Lebari changed her career from business development to education as the Director of London Metropolitan University's Nigeria Office and was responsible for complete operations including marketing, student’s admission, and visa. She also advised faculties on curriculum and established links and collaborations with Nigerian institutions and professional bodies. Lebari initiated and managed an effective high-profile scholarship programme and also sat on several scholarship interview panels including the UK Chevening Scholarship.

Lebari is a certified 6seconds.org Emotional Intelligence Assessor, Facilitator, Educator and Life Coach. In June 2014, Lebari started Inside Edge Limited, which now represents Schools and Universities in the UK, France, Ireland, USA, Switzerland, France and Canada and has worked with over 1200 students to get the best-fit education. She regularly speaks at events and seminars on - Intentional Parenting - Enhancing Student’s Potential - Preparing Students for Scholarships - Options After Secondary School - Emotional Intelligence And has coaching and workshops on Optimising Performance Developing noble goals and projects that align with SDGs and inspire active citizenship. Lebari also designs and delivers transformational EQ programmes for Social and Emotional Learning for Teachers, Growth mindset, and Optimism for optimal performance.

Our Second speaker is Chibuzo Emeti:

A computer science graduate of Imo State University, Owerri, she started her career as a banker at Diamond bank now Access bank, and rose to become a Banking Executive, after 7 years, she left to run her business after managing it as a side hustle. She is also a member of the Chartered Institute of Bankers.

She is a founding partner of Chumet Institute limited ( A computer Institute with a vision of creating employment in southeast Nigeria through IT Programs. It is an accredited Jamb CBT center since 2016 with a strict policy against malpractice) has enrolled over 12,000 students with 15 employees (Full time and Part-time).

She is also a director at Davich Technologies Limited (A renewable Energy Company) and a director at Duch Medtech Ltd ( A biomedical engineering firm that repairs and services all kinds of medical equipment.).

We hope you join us.

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