Empowering Women Entrepreneurs: Skye Bank Organizes Webinar 2.0

Skye Bank Plc. is committed to empowering women entrepreneurs across various sectors of the Nigerian economy. This position was further reiterated by the bank when it announced its planned webinar 2.0 for Skye Pearl subscribers following from the success of its webinar 1.0 with the theme “Tips to survive a challenging economy” which attracted almost 10,000 viewers. Several positive testimonials were also received from the participants.

Eyo Bassey, managing director of Payporte Technologies, Agada Apochi, managing director of Unified Payments-PayAttitude, and John Obaro, managing director of SystemSpecs – Remita, will facilitate the webinar.
Skye Pearl Initiative is a best in class program which offers women real value-add beyond finance, taking into account the holistic needs and concerns of women in their quest to actualize their potentials either as entrepreneurs, professionals or stay-at-home mums. We offer knowledge and networking opportunities, market linkages and access to finance in ways that clearly reflect the attitudinal difference between men and women which are critical dependencies for business success.

Speaking on the planned webinar, Ndubuisi Osakwe, Group head, Retail Banking, described the programme as the bank’s way of empowering and improving the businesses of its customers, especially the female customers, by enabling them to take full benefit of ‘our product offerings’ and afford them a reliable financial partner to grow their businesses.

Osakwe added that the Skye Pearl webinar 2.0 whose topic is ‘Technological adoption: The New Normal for Business Optimization & Economic Growth’, is scheduled to hold on Facebook Live on Thursday, May 4, 2017. It will be facilitated by male industry experts who are getting involved in the “Be Bold for Change” campaign for women.

“The initiative is targeted mainly at our women, our Pearls, who own Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) and are seeking to leverage technology to scale and optimize their business,” Osakwe said.

“They will get valuable answers, growth hacks and insights from three of the biggest technology experts in Nigeria. Participation is simply by following Skye Pearl on social media (Facebook).”

“Although our targets are women in business, professionals and stay-at-home moms, other individuals are also encouraged to register and view live as the knowledge will be valuable to all,” Osakwe said.

The Skye Pearl Initiative is anchored on six pillars namely, capacity building, information, networking; empowerment, mentoring, and access to finance. This is aimed to project Pearl Woman as someone who is “precious, informed, connected, evolving and a role model”.

The Initiative has, in the past, partnered NECA Network of Entrepreneurial women (NNEW) to train women entrepreneurs on book keeping and budgeting. On account of the impact of the initiative, Skye Bank has been listed on the Global List of Organizations supporting Women Empowerment Principles (WEPs).

Skye Bank is a leading Nigerian retail bank with wide-ranging electronic solutions promoting consumer lifestyle and e-commerce experience for its customers.