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Mar 8, 2021
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Today is International Women’s Day

Happy International Women’s Day to ALL WOMEN facing life and smashing their goals despite all challenges.

You rock!

And we celebrate you!

AGS LightBox Session: Using LinkedIn to Drive Your Personal Branding Visibility

Our Lightbox session this week is one for the career builders and everyone interested in building a Personal Brand.

Our coach for today has worked with multinational brands and carved an niche for herself in Branding and Marketing.

Fiyin is the East & West Africa Marketing Manager: Sensodyne at - GlaxoSmithKline Consumer Healthcare with responsibility for Nigeria, Kenya, Mauritius, Uganda, Tanzania, Ethiopia, Madagascar, Ghana, Gambia. Her experience straddles across brand management, innovation, digital marketing and recruitment across Africa and Europe gained through managing world class brands.

She’s been nominated for the renown 'The Future Awards Africa' Prize in the professional service category for excellence and impact in the corporate world. Fiyin is a seasoned speaker who’s spoken at many industry conferences and networks across Nigeria, Kenya, Turkey, Pakistan and the UK.

An avid believer in the power of knowledge transfer and helping people rise to become the best they can be, she started EmpowerU; an emerging enterprise that trains and equips individuals with employability skills and tools they need to excel in the workplace.

If you know anyone who these sessions will be useful for, Share with them so they can download our AGS Tribe app on the iOS or Android store, then upgrade to either the Silver (N5,000 monthly) or Gold (N50,000 annually) membership to participate in our weekly capacity building sessions, AGS Lightbox.

We look forward to seeing you this Thursday at 8PM.

Thank you.

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AGS Quote of the Day

“Well-behaved women rarely make history.”

Eleanor Roosevelt

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