Talking Trade with Femi Boyede has been set up to discuss, in a professional manner, all the angles related to all the issues that a firm, an individual, or a country can expect to confront as they design, implement or modify their strategic process to manage trade. It is a virtual platform for engaging discussions on international trade from its components, through the values it offers to individuals, corporations, and countries, reducing poverty, creating employment, growing national economies, increasing corporate profitability, etc).
Date and Time: Saturday July 3rd 2021
12pm (US&Canada)
5pm (West Africa Time)
Guest Speaker: Titi Ojo (Acting. Executive Secretary (NPNEN) –The Network Of Practicing Non-Oil Exporters Of Nigeria
Moderator/Anchor: Lady Kay
Host: Femi Boyede
Keynote Presentation
Topic: Tips for Successful Engagement in International Trade by the Guest Speaker -Titi Ojo- Acting Executive Secretary NPNEN
Webinar Slides
Guest Speaker - "
Tips for Successful Engagement in International Trade"
Titi Ojo (Acting Executive Secretary, The Network Of Practicing Non-Oil Exporters Of Nigeria (NPNEN).
Titi Ojo is a business consultant and SME development practitioner with professional experiences spanning Information Technology, Enterprise Development, Training & Capacity Building, Project Management, Strategic Leadership and International Development.
In 2014, she was awarded the Humbert Humphrey Fellowship in recognition of her contributions to Leadership and Public Service by the US government. She completed 1 year of professional development as a Fulbright scholar at Cornell University, NY, in International Agriculture & Rural Development.
Titi has contributed to national development in several capacities. She served as a National Advisor on the 2SCALE project (Toward Sustainable Clusters in Agribusiness through Learning in Entrepreneurship), a five-year Dutch-funded project supporting business ideas from the private sector that addresses both commercial and development objectives. Titi consults in the International Development Space with a focus on building a thriving Non-Oil Exports sector through enabling Trade policies, capacity building for exporters and market access development. She served as the Exporter Voices Lead on the Trade Policy Workstream of the Policy Development Facility program of UKAID. This is just to name a few.
Titi is passionate about quality and through her work continues to build the capacity of SMEs to compete favorably in international markets through improved quality standards.
Titi Ojo Acting Executive Secretary NPNEN
She is a trained Lead Auditor for ISO 9001:2015 Quality Management Systems (QMS), ISO 14001:2015 Environmental Management Systems (EMS) and ISO 22000 Food Safety Management Systems (FSM), a set of worldwide proprietary, industrial and commercial standards.
Titi is a business coach, the founder of The Idea Factory, a monthly mentoring programme for business start-ups and young people who seek profitable ways of expressing their business talents. The ‘Idea Factory’ is a platform that enables business ideas to become reality through co-creation and mentoring.
Titi is passionate about social entrepreneurship and community development and has organized several programs and projects through her work. She is a seasoned communicator and leader, a Distinguished Toastmaster having attained the highest qualification in Toastmasters International.
She is currently the Acting Executive Secretary of the Network of Practicing Non-oil Exporters of Nigeria (NPNEN), an umbrella organisation for collaboration among the different actors in Nigeria’s non-oil export value chain.
Expected Outputs and Outcomes
The outputs of the Trade Webinar series will include:
a. Webinar Report: A summary of key findings and policy recommendations distilled from each session, combinations of sessions, papers, and keynote speeches.
b. The proceedings of the webinars, incorporating relevant comments and feedback from peer review and webinar participants will be published after the episode or quarter.
c. Presentation of these findings and recommended solutions will be made to relevant governments agencies, ministries and parastatals as well as other identified stakeholders.
d. Our inhouse team will track results of the webinar series, and make updates available to subscribers and stakeholders.
The Moderator
Kemi Amusan popularly known as Lady Kay is a linguist (French and English), an Editor, a Crisis Prevention Intervention Trainer and a community leader (leading several thousands of blacks) as the immediate past president of the Nigerian-Canadian Association in Greater Toronto Area, Canada. She currently works as an Assistant Registrar in a great university in the Caribbean. Lady Kay gives back to the community as the Senior Advocate of Global Women Ambassadors, Canada. In this role, she organizes programs to educate, elevate and facilitate many socio-cultural, entrepreneurship, immigration, educative, empowerment programs for families. Lady Kay is also the host of Agbajo Owo and Ask Lady Kay – the broadcasting arms of Global Women Ambassadors that seek to ‘build the community, one family at a time’.
The Host
Olufemi Boyede has over thirty years of professional experience in international trade and strategy, policy advocacy and human capital development. He has broad expertise in trade and business environment improvement, regional integration frameworks, trade linkages, services exports, public-private dialogue and advocacy on non-oil exports and enterprise development issues.
He has a strong background in private sector management positions and consulting roles in the business, trade and logistics communities, and more recently has held numerous senior trade and export development positions in Nigeria’s public and private sectors. In addition to several Consultancy assignments with International Agencies including the World Bank, DFID, GIZ, USAID, the Commonwealth Secretariat and the International Trade Centre (ITC).
‘Femi’s 30 years of international trade expertise places him in a leveraged position to provide professional advice to worldwide with clients (both importers and exporters) helping them to successfully navigate the day to day complexities of the international trade industry.
His passion to increase awareness and equip international trade stakeholders forms the basis for these series of webinars.