International Women’s Month at GCIC came to a close with a final, two day, female entrepreneurship masterclass for cohort 7 female-led enterprises, on Self-leadership and Personal Initiative.

The sessions were held as part of the Women Entrepreneurship Transformation Programme (WETP), which has been designed to respond to the specific needs of women in business and to help amplify female voices.

The first day of the masterclass was led by the Executive Director of the Centre, Ruka Sanusi and revolved around the theme of “Self-Leadership.” As part of the session, Ruka screened four videos highlighting the varying, impactful stories of the trailblazing and inspirational Terasa Njoroge, Robin Hauser, Leila Hoteit and a selection of pioneering Ghanaian women who influenced Ghana’s history of activism and female empowerment. Amongst these pioneering Ghanaian gender equity icons were women such as Justice Annie Jiagge, the first woman to become a Judge in Ghana and in the Commonwealth, Professor Florence Dolphyne, the first female professor and first female pro-vice chancellor of the University of Ghana and Nana Konadu Agyeman Rawlings, the first woman to run for President in Ghana.

Ruka used the videos and the trajectories of these remarkable women to draw out themes of leadership, and to highlight the parallels between the leadership qualities of the women in the videos and the businesswomen participating in the masterclass.