ABOUT
DR. GLORY ENYINNAYA

DR. GLORY ENYINNAYA'S BIO

Dr. Glory Enyinnaya is the industrious business leader, consultant, writer and speaker who founded Kleos Advisory Africa to support entrepreneurship on the continent.

Driven by a vision of social transformation through technology, Dr. Glory Enyinnaya leverages her expertise in entrepreneurial change agency to create meaningful impact. Her work is guided by a belief in the power of technology to drive social change and improve lives. This vision is at the core of her efforts to shape the technological and business landscapes for a better world.

A Prosci-certified change manager, she has worked with blue-chip companies including Accenture, Ernst and Young and the World Bank and has led the implementation of complex technology solutions in some of the world’s largest organizations.

Some of her accomplishments include:
– Featured as a Global Scholar after founding Africa’s first online consulting platform by The Centre for Global Enterprise, New York
– Featured as one of the Top 50 MBA success stories globally by the Association of MBAs, United Kingdom
– Finalist for the World’s Best MBA Student award by Excellence Awards sponsored by the Wall Street Journal (2018)
– First African Board member of Beta Gamma Sigma (Top 1% global honor society)

She is a writer who contributes to publications such as Harvard Business Review, and has co-authored book chapters published by Routledge and IGI Global. She is also an international speaker who has graced podiums across the world, as well as a teacher, educating students at Pan-Atlantic University.

She has an unparalleled passion for female empowerment and is involved in other women empowerment programmes, participating in initiatives of the African Women Entrepreneurship Cooperative, Cherie Blair Foundation, She Leads Africa, Flourish Africa, and Grow Movement, among others.

She also helps entrepreneurs to access growth capital and serves on the board of ACMP Nigeria, Dominican College, and two e-commerce companies.

As she strives for social transformation through technology, she has taken courses offered by Stanford University, MIT, and Wharton Business School. She holds a first-class honours degree in accounting and an MBA from Lagos Business School, a PhD in Management from Pan-Atlantic University, and was class valedictorian for all three degrees.

Lauded by Focus Africa as one of the top 100 leading and emerging women in Africa, Dr. Glory Enyinnaya is shaping the technological and business landscapes for social change.

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Introduction

why i do what I do

I consider myself a philomath - I’ve always loved to learn.

For my first degree, I studied Accounting in the University of Nigeria and graduated as the valedictorian of my class with a First Class degree. My affinity for intellectual work informed my choice of a career as a business advisor. After graduation, I was fortunate to obtain my dream job at Accenture, where I worked for five years as a management consultant. I left to work as an independent change management consultant on technology implementation projects across Africa and became an international speaker and writer. 

 

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Conclusion

The desire to increase my business acumen inspired me to enroll in Lagos Business School’s Executive MBA program in 2016.

During the MBA, I discovered my passion for entrepreneurship, which I see as an opportunity for millions of poverty-stricken Africans to escape the shackles of deprivation and live a dignified life. While taking some MBA classes, I came across some interesting statistics. According to a 2015 study by the Global Entrepreneurship Monitor, Nigeria leads the world in enthusiasm for business. At the same time, in 2020, Nigeria overtook India as the world’s poverty capital i.e. the country with the largest number of people living in extreme poverty. These two facts intrigued me – how can the world’s most entrepreneurial society be the poorest, when entrepreneurship is the creation of wealth? I realized that there was a gap between the desire of many Africans to start a business and the acumen required to build a sustainable business. 

To this end, I launched my consulting business, and eventually started writing, speaking professionally and teaching for business schools. I love what I do and I find purpose in dedicating myself to empowering aspiring entrepreneurs to achieve their full potential.

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