Female entrepreneurs are becoming more optimistic about the growth of their businesses.
One of them is Dr Maymunah Kadiri, a Goldman Sachs Scholar on Entrepreneurial Management, with the Enterprise Development Centre (EDC) of the Lagos Business School (LBS), Pan Atlantic University.
Her interest is impacting lives positively.
She has expertise in coaching business leaders. She found an opportunity in providing service to people who have been out of work due to emotional health-related conditions, and are finding it difficult to get back to work.
A certified rational emotive and cognitive behavioural therapist from the Albert Ellis Institute, New York, United States, Mrs Kadiri, deploys therapies to help people overcome barriers to getting back into mainstream employment, aid recovery, and keep one well.
It started as a small venture, but has expaned into a training and consultancy business. Her selling point is assisting Nigerians who have suffered from depression with capacity building and training to build assertiveness skills, confidence building and reducing anxiety.
Through hard work and word-of-mouth, she has helped many people to get back into routine work places– where everyone understands that the good and bad times can be difficult. She gives talks to professionals, and carers.
She has done a lot of work through networks of schools, universities and Small and Medium Enterprises(SMEs), and networking groups to get the word out.
Realising that starting, or maintaining a private practice is quite hectic, she enrolled at the EDC to learn business management. The programme enables her to learn business plan development and the creation of marketing strategies.
Mrs. Kadiri coaches business owners. She equips entrepreneurs, academics and psychotherapists with the necessary skills to succeed in business . She seeks to create extraordinary results for individuals and businesses who desire aggressive growth.
A strategic, creative thinker, she develops systems that support superior employee and customer relationships, and drive organisational productivity.
A dynamic Consultant Neuro-Psychiatrist and a Fellow of the National Post-Graduate Medical College of Nigeria (FMCPsych), with over 10 years experience, she is also the Medical Director, Pinnacle Medical Services, a medical consultancy firm dealing on psychological and mental health related issues.
How much did you start the business with? About N2 million on rent, few equipment and staff.
How much is the business worth now?Some millions and counting.
Is it expensive to start?Yes, this is because you need the required expertise. This means you will need an intense training both medically and entrepreneurial management. What supplies do one need to start?
She is committed to leaving her clients more capable to sustain achieving the future they desire.
Her experience includes executive coaching, facilitation of group development sessions, and consulting.
Her work blends building trust, coaching and counseling skills, and increasing engagement and commitment among employees with developing high performing teams and sharing leadership roles.
