About Ọgọ Ogbata
In Summary…
“Ọgọ (pronounced ‘or-gore?’) leverages her creative insight and abilities to deliver highly-inspiring training, coaching and consulting programmes designed to help professionals in today’s challenging world to discover the unique talents and assets that distinguish them from the competition, unleash their creativity and maximise performance and productivity. Her clients achieve desired results quickly and affordably – be it changing career paths, launching new projects or making an impact in the world! She has written several books, holds certification in Business Mentoring and Coaching from the highly regarded University of Northampton Business School and manages an Enterprise Network for creative and inspiring people who want to start, run and grow their own businesses.”
Personal Profile:
Ọgọ has her origins in Enugu State, Nigeria, where the ‘Igbos’ are famed for their unwavering determination to succeed against all odds. Her father (prior to self-employment) was divisional manager at a multinational oil company, her mother a mathematics teacher/home-maker and her siblings avid entrepreneurs also. She lives in Northamptonshire, England, (with her husband – a corporate litigation solicitor) where she creatively inspires excellence in professional audiences and relaxes by reading, cooking, travelling and having thought provoking discussions with the discerningly curious.
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The Journey:
Ọgọ has ‘always’ loved writing and remembers penning sketchy stories as early as age four yet majored in Computer Science at the historic University of Nigeria. Soon after graduation, she started writing a socio-political column for The Guardian (one of Africa’s largest circulated newspapers), whilst working as an executive at a direct marketing multinational company – solving complex problems for some of the world’s top brands.
When she got married and relocated to the UK to join her lawyer husband (leaving behind all her family and friends), Ọgọ quickly discovered that in addition to learning a totally different culture and integrating very quickly, she also had to rebuild her career from scratch. So she further honed her sales, marketing and all round business skills in the financial services sector before gaining hands-on experience at various multi-national training and development companies. By dint of grace, hardwork and creative dedication she excelled and learnt much about herself in the process.
Despite making invaluable contacts as well as amassing diverse knowledge and expertise in the corporate arena, Ọgọ often felt that something was missing. Instinctively, she had come to realise that she had a powerful gift which enabled her to ‘creatively inspire high levels of excellence’ in the clients she worked with and that entrepreneurship was the vehicle of that exciting destiny. Craving more flexibility and creative freedom, she stepped out in faith and after many bumps, detours and hard knocks was well on her way to Career Heaven.
“So many people are stuck in jobs and lives they really don’t want and that’s a painful experience I can definitely relate with. From an organisational point of view, creativity is the soul of business – people who just show up and work for the sake of a salary are not the most dynamic and productive specie.”
True Inspiration:
Ọgọ draws inspiration and insight from her Christian Faith, her humble beginnings, various failures and successes, mutual relationships, practical experience and dedicated research. In her view, creativity and business sense must go hand in hand in order for today’s professionals and entrepreneurs to maximise their potential. It is this belief that has inspired the business name ‘Creativity and Sense LLC’.
“In these challenging times only the innovative will survive so I help professionals, organisations and communities make the most of their people, their talent; their future, via dynamic training and development.”
Media Profile:
Listed as one of the faces of modern Africa by The Independent on Sunday, Ọgọ has been invited to read from her work at a variety of venues across the UK (for instance The Southbank Centre and Battersea Library in London) as well as contribute to top-notch publications like The Independent, Training Journal, Training Zone, Better Business Focus and Talent Engagement Review.
On several occasions, she has featured as a guest expert on BBC Radio Northampton and the BBC World Service in London. Passionate about her homeland, she has also spoken at a live seminar at Bush House, The Strand – London, (alongside the Nigerian ambassador to the UK) on the political history and economic prospects of Nigeria (listed as one of the ‘Next Eleven’ economies by Goldman Sachs).
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