Shade Ladipo is an Equity & Inclusion Specialist, Social Activist, and Entrepreneur with over 10 years experience working with women and other systematically underrepresented groups. At the age of 25, she founded Avienti Limited — a Destination Management Company with three offices in Nigeria.
Shade recently restarted her career in 2020 by moving to Canada and now provides Diversity, Equity & Inclusion solutions for businesses. In this capacity, she produces DEI programs targeting the workforce, workplace, community, and communications. She Co-create and lead training programs and workshops on Anti-Racism, Recruiting, Inclusive communication, Sexual & Gender diversity, Accommodations, and Accessibility.
Emeka sits down with Shade to talk about building confidence and breaking the limiting beliefs holding you back. Before arriving in Canada, she served as the Country Manager for WEConnect International in Nigeria where some of her roles included Supplier Diversity Training, Fundraising, Event Management, Account Management, Client Services, Donor Relations, External Communications and Strategy. She is one of the founding members of the Lagos Global Shapers, where she represented Nigeria at World Economic Forum events between 2006-2015 and also one of the Co-Founders of Enough Is Enough Nigeria, now one of the most vocal non-partisan organizations credited to being a major part of the platforms for young people in deciding Nigeria’s path of change.
- What does confidence mean to you?
- Have you always been confident?
- What are the foundations to build confidence?
- What are the beliefs that have held you back?
- What are the common beliefs that hold women back?
- Confidence vs Arrogance
- Is confidence simply an act or an art?
- Dealing with negative comments
- Is confidence inborn or can it be learnt?
- Confidence and external validation or dependency
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LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/shadeladipo/
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