In today's episode, Omon has a chat with Funke Bucknor-Obruthe, the founder and CEO of Zapphaire Events (one of the leading events companies in Nigeria). Funke shares how she went from being a practicing lawyer to being one of the pioneers of event planning in Nigeria, as well as some of the entrepreneurial challenges she has faced with people management.
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CHAPTERS
00:00 - Intro
01:25 - How a practicing lawyer became an event planner
04:51 - Running an event planning business successfully
07:36 - Why constant reinvention is important in business
12:13 - Empowering your employees
13:08 - Challenges of dealing with employees
16:40 - Challenges of an entrepreneur
26:53 - Tips for aspiring entrepreneurs
31:56 - Balancing work and life as an entrepreneur
35:22 - Outro
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ABOUT THE GUEST ✨
Funke Bucknor Obruthe is a Nigerian entrepreneur and lawyer. She is the founder and CEO of Zapphaire Events and is regarded as one of Nigeria's pioneering event planners. After practising law briefly, Funke was employed at Tie Communications, an advertisement agency, where she worked for a short period. In 2003, her love for event planning made her start Zapphaire Events, an independent event planning enterprise. She has since gone on to plan and organise several high-profile events within and outside Nigeria and has won awards and recognition including being featured in CNN's Inside Africa for planning a Nigerian royal wedding.
ABOUT THE HOST ✨
Omomene (Omon) Odike is the CEO & Principal Consultant of U-Connect, One of Nigeria’s leading Human Resource Company and Founder of Gr8jobsng, the first of its kind HR Recruitment Platform in Africa. As an Entrepreneur, she is credited with introducing innovative and pro-active solutions in Recruitment and Outsourcing, Training and Development, Verification & Background Checks, Pre-Assessment Testing as well as Quality Management Strategies to clients; positioning the U-Connect brand as a trail blazer in the Human Resource consulting industry.
Her experience spans over 18 years from Legal Practice to HR Consulting and she is very passionate about youth empowerment, employability and employment as well as women in business.
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