AFRICAN WOMEN IN
FAMILY BUSINESS
CONFERENCE
3 days
30 NOV. - 2 dec. 2020
26+ contributors
WOMEN IN AFRICAN FAMILY BUSINESS conference
#AWIFB2020
OUR MANDATE
Annual African Women In Family Business Conference
Phoenix
Women in Family Firms overcoming their limitations, rising to the challenge to become successful leaders that maximise their potentials and lift others. Women that blaze the trails for future generations.
1st AFRICAN WOMEN IN family business
conference
Join us in November/December 2020 for another of many firsts for African Family Business as African Family Firms bring you the 1st ever annual Women In African Family Business Conference.
This conference, offers the opportunity for women in Africa, to share their knowledge and experience and to contribute to the world of women in family business management and governance. The aims of the conference are to:
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Celebrate and Champion Women in Family Businesses (“WIFB”);
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Inspire and Equip Rising Generation of Females in Family Businesses;
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Shine a light on how WIFB can come together to support each other’s upward mobility in African Family Firms; and
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Create awareness for Family Firms on how they can actively identify and nurture female talent (in the family and in the business).
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Themed Phoenix,
Women in Family Firms overcoming their limitations, rising to the challenge to become successful leaders that maximise their potentials and lift others. Women that blaze the trails for future generations.
Consider this the Must-Attend event for Women in your Family Business in 2020.
PHOENIX
#AWIFB2020 conference
HOSTS & SPEAKER LINEUP
1st Annual African Women Family Business Conference
Celebrating and Champion Women in Family Businesses
DAY 1 : 30 NOVEMBER 2020 DAY 3 : 2 DECEMBER 2020
PHOENIX 2020
Tsitsi Mutendi
Co-founder AFF
Family Business Advisor
Business Continuity
Family Governance
co-HOSTS
DAY 1: 30 NOVEMBER
Day 1, Session 1 (11:00-12:15):
11.00 – 11.15 – Introduction to AFF, conference and theme
11.15 – 12.15 – Keynote Address – Challenges Women Face in African FBs
Speaker: Nancy Guzha
Day 1, Session 2 (12:15-13:15):
12.00 – 13.00 – Panel discussion - Challenges Women Face in African FBs
Panel discussion (Focus keynote address: Challenges Women Face in African FBs).
Panel members:
Moderator: Dr. Nadine Kammerlander
Day 1, Session 3 (16:00 - 17:00):
16.00 – 17.00 – Keynote Address - Female Founder Flourishing Against All Odds
Speaker: Roselyn Musarurwa Charehwa
Day 1, Session 4 (17:00-18:00):
17.00 – 18: 00 – Panel discussion
Panel discussion (Focus keynote address: Female Founder Flourishing Against All Odds)
Panel members:
Moderator: TBC
Dr Divine Ndhlukula
Name
DAY 2: 1 DECEMBER
Day 2, Session 1 (11:00-12:00):
11.00 – 12.00 Women and Governance
Expert Speaker
Day 2, Session 2 (12:00-13:00):
Keynote address – Capital raising for female-founded firms
Speaker: Adesuwa Okunbo-Rhodes
Day 2, Session 3 (16:00-17:00):
16.00 – 17.00 Overcoming Challenges Female Successors Face
Keynote address – Overcoming Challenges Female Successors Face
Speaker: Fola Laoye
Day 2, Session 4 (17:00-18:00):
Panel discussion – Overcoming Challenges Female Successors Face
Panel discussion Overcoming Challenges Female Successors Face
Panel members:
Moderator:
DAY 3: 2 DECEMBER
Day 3, Session 1 (11:00-12:00):
11.00 – 12.00 – Breaking through the FB Glass Ceiling Success Story
Day 3, Session 2 (12:00-13:00):
12.00 – 13.00 – Keynote address on Leadership
Speaker: Madeleine Mkunu
Day 3, Session 3 (16:00-17:00):
16.00 – 17.00 – Panel Discussion on Diversity and Inclusion in the FB
Day 3, Session 4 (17:00-18:00):
17.00 – 18.00 - Panel Discussion on Women in the Community
Nancy Guzha
Chief Executive Officer at Syndicated Resources
When: 30/10 11:15 CAT
Challenges Women Face in African FBs
Dr. Nadine Kammerlander
Professor at WHU - Otto Beisheim School of Management
When: 30/11 12:00 CAT
Panel Discussion: Challenges Women Face in African FBs
Roselyn Musarurwa Charehwa
Founder Surdax Investments PVT Ltd
When: 30/11 16:00 CAT
Female Founder Flourishing Against All Odds
Dr Divine Ndhlukula
Managing Director at Securico
When: 30/11 17:00 CAT
Panel Discussion: Female Founder Flourishing Against All Odds
Madelein Mkunu
International Development Practitioner at Leading Women of Africa
When: 02/12 12:00 CAT
Leadership
Adesuwa Okunbo Rhodes
Founder and Managing Partner of Aruwa Capital Management
When: 01/12 12:00 CAT
Capital-raising for female-founded firms
