The 2021 WISCAR Annual Conference themed, “Playing Big, Time
to take our Place” will have in attendance over 30 world-class speakers, policy
makers and thought leaders. The conference will feature a variety of events
such as virtual mentoring roundtables, youth panels and keynote panels which
will create an avenue for attendees to engage in open dialogue.
In furtherance of the organisation’s commitment to closing
the gender gap and empowering the potentials of professional women, the 2021
Annual Leadership Conference will also highlight recommendations required for
sustainable national development while providing networking opportunities for
conference attendees.
The Keynote speaker for the event is Bola Adesola, an astute
banker and the first female Board Chairman of Ecobank Nigeria. Adesola chairs
the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) Bankers’ Sub-Committee on Economic
Development, Sustainability and Gender. She was appointed to the Board of the
United Nations Global Compact by the UN Secretary-General in 2015 and elevated
to Co Vice-Chair of the Board in 2018. She is also a member of the Women
Corporate Directors Foundation.
Commenting on the expectations of the event, Amina Oyagbola,
the Founder and Chairperson of WISCAR, said “We are thrilled to be physically
hosting the 2021 WISCAR Annual Leadership and Mentorship Conference. Due to the
pandemic, the 2020 Mentoring Conference was virtual, while that was great, we cannot
wait to host our guests both physically and virtually as this year’s conference
is a hybrid one.
This Year’s theme “Playing Big, Time to take our Place”
reaffirms WISCAR’s commitment to empowering and developing professional women
who then actively contribute to the development and growth of the country.”
WISCAR is a non-profit organization focused on empowering
and developing professional women to contribute to development and growth in
Nigeria and indeed Africa.
This is implemented through various structured
mentoring programmes focused on empowering and developing professional women in
diverse careers in the formal & informal economy to contribute to
nation-building in Nigeria.
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