Rehema Isa

Activist, Brainstormer, Business adviser, Business mentor, Connector, Consultant, Entrepreneur, Life mentor, Project manager, Social entrepreneur

Rehema is a seasoned business strategist and social impact entrepreneur. Her career includes corporate roles in finance, risk management, strategy, as well as entrepreneurial endeavours. A pan Africanist, she is co-founder OYA and chief convenor of Womanomics Africa, charting an economic highway which traverses geo-political boundaries connecting women in Africa to business opportunities and to each other (www.womanomics.net). A thought provoking facilitator sees her engaging with executive level strategic planning sessions, think-tanks and workshops. An engaging storyteller and strategy execution coach, Rehema shares inspiring and thought provoking keynote talks referencing leadership and personal mastery in consultation and through regular national radio contributions.

There are three conversations that I am passionate about: 1. Practically growing business on the African continent as a strategy for emerging South African entrepreneurs - Lessons, Insights, and Opportunities (what the strategic planning framework does and doesn’t prepare you for) 2. The use and leverage of strategic storytelling as a stakeholder engagement culture and the opportunity it presents in a growth strategy of a business. I bring to the conversation what organisation storytelling is and isn’t, why and how the emerging and growth oriented South African entrepreneur needs to be doing more of this, and how corporate south Africa needs to incorporate African stories in their culture. 3. Developing people, and not just “identified leaders”, through mentoring and coaching - improving personal and organization performance.

Storytelling as an essential skill of the growth oriented African entrepreneur.

Sewing. I can design and sew my own clothes.