Brigitte Dzogbenuku is founder and Executive Director of Mentoring Women Ghana (MWG), and has been associated with Aviation Social Centre, Enactus Ghana, Ashanti Goldfields Company Limited, SC Johnson Wax, among other top companies.
A mother of one, she’s also a regular columnist for weekend newspaper The Mirror and in 2014, participated in a protest organized by pressure group Occupy Ghana.
PROFILE OF BRIGITTE DZOGBENUKU
Brigitte Dzogbenuku is the Founder and Executive Director
of Mentoring Women Ghana (MWG), which runs programs that inspire and
empower young women and girls into making a positive difference in their
communities. She won the Fortune/Goldman Sachs Women’s Leadership Award
in 2008. Prior to her work at MWG she was General Manager of Aviation
Social Centre, a fitness and recreational center in Accra, where she
introduced various innovative fitness programs and events into this
niche industry in Ghana. In 2011, she founded Recreational Facilities
Management, which became Helm Management Services. In this role, she
managed the Barclays Bank Club House for four years, until September
2015. She has also established Ve Flavour Industries, an edible palm-oil
production and packaging for-profit company that works with women in
the Volta region of Ghana, contributing to their socioeconomic
empowerment. Brigitte is driven by the Ghanaian woman’s strong will to
succeed no matter the odds and has a dream of seeing women in key
leadership roles in Ghana.
Mentoring Women Ghana (MWG) is an NGO established in Ghana
in 2009 with the aim of supporting the personal growth of young women
through mentoring by more mature and accomplished women. Through sports
programs, professional interaction, and personal development programs,
mentors inspire young women and help them achieve leadership qualities,
career direction, and personal and social development through which they
can positively impact their immediate communities and beyond. MWG’s
vision is a community of empowered women who are contributing to the
development of their communities and positively impacting lives of
others. MWG has been the flag-bearer of the international Global
Mentoring Walk for the past eight years and had mentored more than 320
young women as of 2016.
She gives presentations on etiquette and
manners, andalso exercise and wellness to various groups and
organisations with emphasis on the youth, and is a Coach for the
Ghanaian Women’s Social Leadership Program – a Muheres Por Africa (Women
for Africa) program run through the New York University’s Wagner
Institute. She is also a certified Empowerment Trainer and also serves
on the Board of Enactus, Ghana.
This fun-loving mother of one enjoys entertaining
and having friends and family in her home. She loves her sports
especially tennis, and plays not to win but essentially to have fun, for
fitness.
Brigitte holds a BA in Modern Languages from the University of Ghana, Legon.
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