My career journey began in May 1995 as an intern in the Joy FM newsroom under the leadership of News Editor Fred Chidi. It was an amazing opportunity and a great experience to be part of a group of pioneer employees of the radio station in Ghana. After my one year internship, I was hired as a full-time broadcast journalist working alongside other seasoned journalists in the newsroom – covering local, regional and national news. It was an honor to be one of the pioneers and to be working with the likes of Gabby Adjetey, Samuel Atta-Mensah, Eugenia Appiah, Fred Chidi, Ivy Heward-Mills, the late Komla Dumor, Doreen Andoh, Ashiokai Akrong and a host of others. In early 2000, when I migrated to the United States, I wanted to pursue my passion in media. Unfortunately, certain cultural barriers and other circumstances prevented me from pursuing my dream job and that led me to enroll in a US college to pursue another degree this time in Professional Communication and Public Relations. After graduating from college, I made a career pivot with an opportunity to work for a Minnesota-based Fortune 100 retail company for 13 years in a variety of roles in Internal & Corporate Communications, Change Management & Organizational Effectiveness, Supply Chain, Finance, among others. After my children grew older, I decided to focus on building my career. I needed my children to appreciate me as a career mother. Fearful as it seemed at that time, I shook up all fear and launched into moving up the ladder in terms of my career. I took up the challenge, looking for bigger and better opportunities which caused me to switch jobs as I delved into working for a Fortune 500 retail & technology company in Minneapolis , where I pursued my new-found career in Organizational Development and Change Management for 7 years, after which I was promoted to a role leading Strategic Initiatives for the company’s Inclusion, Diversity & Equity [ID&E] function. A position in which I have championed and supported a successful redesign of the company’s Inclusion, Diversity & Equity capability based on learnings, industry trends, talent needs and external market competitiveness. Working girl 44 The Birthday Journal
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