Polo Avenue champions female entrepreneurship for economic stability

In positively lending voice to the development and sustainability of women in business and in offering a veritable platform for networking, Jennifer Obayuwana Executive Director Polo Avenue, Nigeria’s foremost  luxury brand renowned for shaping and redefining the standard of premium quality, has reaffirmed her  commitment and support to the women in management, business and public service.

She said that “there is indeed a growing need to support females across all works of life, with the necessary entrepreneurship skills and mindset needed to serve as catalysts in stabilizing the nation’s current economy.

Hosting moderators of the recently held Women in Management, Business and Public Service (WIMBIZ) conference to a cocktail event, an event which took place at the Polo Towers, Lagos and had in attendance the crème of Lagos female business executives, conference moderators and council executives of WIMBIZ, Obayuwana expressed delight at sponsoring the event and reaffirmed her full commitment and support to the Women in Management.

In a statement Obayuwana continued that in her role at Polo Avenue, the organization remains unswerving in its key responsibility of providing a highly visible and viable platform in nurturing, sponsoring and equipping young female entrepreneurs to maximizing their utmost potentials.

The annual WIMBIZ conference which this year, 2015 themed on “Leadership” sought to essentially call out women to take the lead and standout as dynamic forces in today’s society.

The annual conference which steadily increases in attendance by women across various spheres of the nation’s economy is designed to adequately discuss a broad range of issues centred on cutting edge themes which remain topical and relevant to women in business, corporate, public and development sectors.

A truly Nigerian non-profit organization, WIMBIZ continues in its charge, to be the catalyst that elevates the status and influence of women in ensuring their positive contributions to nation building.

In successfully bringing to a close the evening’s networking affair, Obayuwana urged top-level female executives to continue in their efforts in lending their expertise and support through mentorship in particular to younger women, in other to nurture better interactions amongst the female gender which will in turn, elevate the attraction and retention of women across all spheres of the economy thus yielding positive nation building.

DANIEL OBI