Ep.16 Think like a Woman to Succeed as a Woman with Yosola Adigun
As we continue to celebrate International Women's Day 2021 and Women's History Month, it gives me great pleasure to introduce Yosola Adigun from Nigeria. We have an in-depth conversation about women leading and being successful by tapping into their feminine attributes. Yosola gives practical tools and numerous examples of how she has managed to climb the ladder in a male dominated industry and be formidable. You will definitely want a pen and paper to take notes.
Yosola Adigun, popularly known as Y.A., a graduate of Electrical Electronics Engineering has over 22 years' experience in the ICT world. Yosola is Skilled at leading diverse teams and companies to higher levels of delivery, including Strategic Business executions, Project management offices, Project portfolio management, Business Development, Governance, methodologies deployments, training, mentoring, coaching, assessments, and quality reviews.
Family Success is quite an important value to YA. She is skilled in Family Life teachings, a couples Pedagogue. She is a mentor to many, a SYMBIS (Save Your Marriage before it starts) Facilitator. She is a Certified John Maxwell team member and also the First (and Only) MarsVenus Coach in Nigeria, West, East and Central Africa. She is married to Abiodun and they are blessed with two wonderful children. Her mantra is "We are what we have decided and chosen to be". In short We all are a product of our choices.
Quotes
"Always ask the why questions"
"He said to me, "Our organisation has an unwritten policy that we will not employ females as engineers. We will only employ women to be the secretaries"
"I don't fool myself that we [men and women] are the same. We are different."
"We need to lead ourselves and how do we do that? We need to silence the voice of ``it's not possible. Silence the voice of insults."
"We need to fight equality with competence. It has to be a case where nobody else can do it but you."
"The female is more emotionally stronger than a male"
"It's amazing how we fight for equality but we want to remove some [things] at a point in time"
"In my career, I did have stages. I had stages where I stepped down and took lower jobs so I could have more time for my children and family."
"When you are good. When you are who the company really wants, they will bend"
"The Grass is not greener on the other side. It's greener where you water it."
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