Forbes Coaches council member, Ezekiel Solesi to speak at YAWC 2024

Member of the prestigious Forbes Coaches Council, Mr. Ezekiel Solesi, will be speaking at this year’s edition of the Young African Women Congress (YAWC) 2024, organizers have confirmed.

Slated for Abuja, Nigeria between October 27 and 31, the Congress is expected to have over 1500 participants comprising of young women from Nigeria and across Africa as well as from the diaspora in attendance who’d receive training, mentorship and coaching from African world-renowned speakers and leaders.

Mr. Ezekiel Solesi will join other prominent African giants to among others, share the story of their journeys to the global stage with the hope of inspiring Africa’s teeming women, particularly the young African women, to take up their place in prominent sectors on the global stage.

Mr. Daniel Osei Tuffuor, Founder and Executive Chairperson of the YAWC Network – organizers of the event – expressing his delight at the news, described it as a “massive addition”.

“What we have done now is to get the right persons, Africans, whose stories will inspire, and at the same time, provoke a sense of awakening in the African youthful population, especially in the African girl child. And in doing this, there could be no better a person to add to the list than Ezekiel, together with the other speakers, who are in themselves, a global brands from the African soil.”

Ezekiel Solesi’s Profile

A prolific author, insightful speaker and a serial entrepreneur, Ezekiel Solesi is the cofounder of NatureGift Product Ltd., a company that produces natural soaps from pawpaw (Naturefeel Papaya Soap).

He is also the co-founder of Smids Animation Studios, one of the top two animation companies in Nigeria and the CEO of LIMBsimple an organisation whose acronym means ‘Life, Investing, Money and Business made simple.’

A business strategy consultant, Ezekiel Solesi had worked with over 2,400 businesses including some of the top companies in Nigeria in various industries, helping some of them improve revenue from the multi-million Naira mark to the billion Naira a year revenue mark.

He has spoken for and trained organizations such as The Africa Achievers Awards which was held in the United Kingdom; the Common Wealth; First Bank (Fifth Gear Consulting); Unity Bank PLC; Shell Nigeria; ECOWAS; the Presidency (Senior Special Assistant to the President, Public Affairs); Nigerian Telecommunication Satellite Limited (NIGCOMSAT); Center for Peace and Security Africa (CPASAfrica), and the Nigerian Ports Authority (NPA).

Others include the Lagos State Government (LASG); Small and Medium Enterprise Development Agency of Nigeria (SMEDAN); Pwan Group; the Nigerian Youth Conversation etc.

He has also consulted for the Society for Family Health, Abuja and the Enhancing Nigeria's Response (ENR) to HIV and AIDS project, one of the largest Department for International Development (DFID) projects by the United Kingdom in the world.

As a coach and trainer, some of the courses he has handled in the course of his work include Change Management; Business Communication; Strategic Planning, Team Building; Entrepreneurial Thinking etc.

As an author, he has the book titled "The Game of Money" to his name, which was adjudged by one of the Nigerian national news papers as being "capable of making a rich man out of a poor employee who reads it, accepts the idea and practices them.”

He is also the author of “The Entrepreneur”, a book which was adjudged the simple start book on entrepreneurship ever written.

Ezekiel Solesi currently hosts the LIMBsimple Strategy Factory, a monthly strategy workshop for entrepreneurs looking to scale their businesses in various sectors.

Prior to that, he was the host of the LIMBsimple Enterprise Development Conference, Abuja and the Entrepreneurs MeetUp, a connection hub for aspiring, budding and experienced entrepreneurs.