Yemisi Izuora
The Group Managing Director, FBN Holdings, Nnamdi Okonkwo and Elias Igbinakenzua founder and CEO of Globus Bank have charged young professionals with understanding of some of the key drivers of personal success and national development.
Speaking at the Center for Values in Leadership, CVL monthly Role Model Forum, RMF, they indicated that young professionals are critical to reshaping the Nigeria economy and entrepreneurship with tenacity, integrity, strong values, perseverance and focus are critical to nation building.
The RMF had participants drawn from young professionals, business leaders and university students.
Okonkwo and Igbinakenzua, both took on the subject of The Mystery of Capital and Entrepreneurship in Finance.
They had shared lessons from their careers and factors that drove their career ascendance.
In his opening remark, the founder of Centre for Values in Leadership, Prof Pat Utomi who traced the history of more than ten years of RMF being used to provide leadership development schemes rooted in values challenged young professionals to learn from the experience of both Iggbinakenzua and Nnamdi that the word of impossible does not exist when there is passion, knowledge and ethics.
He further said that talent management experts have much to learn from how Nnnamdi and Elias.
They both spoke to the power of Networking and Mentoring as they navigated the world of organizational politics to be significant value creators. Ironically both men served as Chairmen and Vice-Chairmen of the Chattered Institutes of Bankers Committee of Mentoring.
Amongst the participants were professionals in banking, students, entrepreneurs and expatriates manager..Many were excited at the focus of both speakers on mentoring and networking in their career development.