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Empowered Sapiens Mulier International Leadership Summit 2023: Building Stronger Communities Through Womenโ€™s Empowerment

Speakers at the just concluded ESMI LEADERSHIP SUMMIT

We firmly believe that when women are empowered, when their voices are heard and their contributions acknowledged, the entire society benefits.

WASHINGTON DC, UNITED STATES, August 31, 2023/EINPresswire.com/ -- Empowered Sapiens Mulier Initiative (ESMI) held her annual virtual Leadership Summit on August 26th -August 27th bringing together a powerhouse of different keynote speakers representing the United States of America, United Kingdom, Kenya, Gambia, Nigeria, and different nations in Africa. These two days conference pulled on the expertise of the presenters to uplift, educate, and represent the different advocacies to create a positive impact for women in Nigeria.

๐ƒ๐š๐ฒ ๐Ÿ ๐œ๐จ๐ง๐Ÿ๐ž๐ซ๐ž๐ง๐œ๐ž ๐ฌ๐ฉ๐ž๐š๐ค๐ž๐ซ๐ฌ ๐ฐ๐ž๐ซ๐ž ๐š๐ฌ ๐Ÿ๐จ๐ฅ๐ฅ๐จ๐ฐ๐ฌ:

Giftie Umo, founder of Girls Leading Africa, a nonprofit in rural Nigeria, spoke on โ€œEmpowering Women in Rural Communitiesโ€.

Caroline Rakus-Wojciechowski, a UNESCO fellow in Santiago Regional Bureau of Education for Latin American and Caribbean, spoke on โ€œLeveraging Allies for Innovative Empowermentโ€.

Dr. Judy Wright, an accomplished medical director, author and global speaker and co-host of the Queens on Call podcast, spoke on the topic of โ€œFrom Burnout to Fired Upโ€.

Oumie Sissokho, who has been in grassroots activism for almost two decades and the co-Founder of The Girls Agenda, a young womenโ€™s led organization that champions the rights of adolescent girls and young women, spoke on โ€œOvercoming Social Cultural Barriersโ€.

Obinna Edeh, a lecturer in the Department of Public Law in the University of Nigeria and whose vast experience includes being a consultant for the United Nations Development Program, and served as a staff lawyer, consultant, and advisor for organizations such as the Counsel on African Security and Development, OPCW and more, spoke on โ€œDiscussing the legal framework for promoting and protecting the rights of women and the girl childโ€.


๐ƒ๐š๐ฒ ๐Ÿ ๐‚๐จ๐ง๐Ÿ๐ž๐ซ๐ž๐ง๐œ๐ž ๐ฌ๐ฉ๐ž๐š๐ค๐ž๐ซ๐ฌ ๐ฅ๐ข๐ง๐ž-๐ฎ๐ฉ:

Angela Nguku, a member of the Peoples Advisory Board of the Lancet Global Health Commssion on High Quality Health Systems in the SDG Era and the Deliverer for Good Campaign advisory group in Kenya, spoke on โ€œNavigating the society factor and Owning your leadership spaceโ€.

Dr. Joy Ogbemedia, a Senior Lecturer in the Leadership, Governance and People management subject group at Leeds Business School Beckett University, spoke on โ€œEntrepreneurship and Innovation.โ€

Moderating this powerful summit who also were the main highlight closing keynote speakers were Ambassador Dr. Melody Garcia and Ambassador Dr. Mark Anthony King, who co-founded Soul Script Enterprise, Leaders of UNICEF Unite Orlando, both are multiple award-winning Global Keynote Speakers. Multi-media icons, Humanitarians, authors and Certified Behavioral Coaches in Psycho-Neuro Actualization, Timeline Therapy, Six Sigma, NLP, and more spanning a collective powerhouse background in corporate leadership, entrepreneurship, crisis management and the list goes on. Both are not new to global leadership consult and communication. Dr. Garcia spoke on Social Conscious Leadership, the identity of a woman who mobilizes impact and leadership while Dr. King spoke on overcoming societal oppressions that are often faced by women in developing countries.

The searing messages from these keynote speakers elevated the learning and emotional responses of engagement and actions.

๐๐ซ๐ž๐š๐ค๐ข๐ง๐  ๐๐š๐ซ๐ซ๐ข๐ž๐ซ๐ฌ, ๐ˆ๐ฆ๐ฉ๐š๐ซ๐ญ๐ข๐ง๐  ๐–๐ข๐ฌ๐๐จ๐ฆ

The Empowered Sapiens Mulier Initiative (ESMI) is a non-governmental organization that seeks to provide solutions to socio-cultural women & girl child problems through Community projects and activities while leveraging innovative advocacy strategies.

Founded by ๐€๐๐š๐จ๐›๐ข ๐„๐ณ๐ž๐š๐๐ฎ๐ฆ, in 2016 and has a board of trustees running operations that includes scholarships provision, helping circumvent food scarcity, provide mentorship, and outreach work through various programs for women in Nigeria.

ESMI wants to spread the message of hope and compassion. They believe that a single action can make a difference in the community, and that collective action can greatly impact the world.

Through their four pillars found in Education, Advocacy, Women Economic Empowerment and Leadership, ESMI teams work tirelessly each day to contribute their part to the greater good.

They have accomplished much for a smaller sector of the NGOโ€™s but their impact has been deeply felt. The annual summit is a capstone milestone moment to continue to bridge universal gaps in learning and personal development growth. This summit was not your typical feel-good conference, it was transformational messaging brought on by those noted in this yearโ€™s powerful line up.

Soul Script was honored with a recognition and award by ESMI for their consulting, contribution, and moderation of this unforgettable event.

For more information, please contact info@sapiensmulier.org

Adaobi Ezeadum
Empowered Sapiens Mulier International
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