Organised by Creative Entrepreneurs
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Mo Lishomwa is an award-winning, result-driven Senior Digital Business Leader with a passion for people & technology with extensive global experience, She is also a key member of the BIMA; The voice of the digital and tech communities. In this 60 minute session, Mo will discuss the results of their recent white paper on diversity in the tech industries whilst also sharing her own experiences working in the sector. Expect to hear
- Mo’s personal story and how she broke into the tech sector
- The challenges of working with global brands on product and business development
- Strategies for improving diversity in the tech industry
About Mo Lishomwa
Mo is a business, people, and relationship builder. She has a digital career spanning over 20 years, where she's held leadership positions across business transformation, creative, marketing & technology. With Yahoo!, BBC, Adidas, Saatchi & Saatchi, Adobe, Publicis Sapient; and growth program 2Y3X covering APAC, EMEA, MENA, and North America.
Her professional highlights include research and development of Programme Information Pages, which serves as the backbone to the I-player and all BBC data. Building Adidas' first wearable & personalised technology business - miCoach. And as an intrapreneur built Adobe's Northern Europe's consulting business to an 8-figure yearly business.
Mo is an ambassador on BAME 20:20 an organization that aims to have 20% of new entrants to the communication industry coming from Black, Asian, and Minority backgrounds, and 20% of leadership positions being held by the same in the UK. She has mentored with the Eastgate Educational Trust with Adobe Youth Voices a program to help young people from diverse backgrounds the power of storytelling, self-expression, creativity, collaboration, flexibility, and persistence. She serves on the BIMA I&D council.
About Zoom Dive
Our live Zoom Dives bring creative business experts together in conversation with Creative Entrepreneurs founder Carolyn Dailey to tackle some of the most urgent topics currently affecting business owners and freelancers in the wake of the COVID-19 crisis.
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This event will be recorded and the audio file will be uploaded on our Soundcloud page.
- inclusion
- diversity
- diversityandinclusion
- tech
- diversityintech