Ce delivers lessons for empowerment
we in the community had to collectively overcome,” she noted. “If there’s a lesson I’ve learned as a woman… is that life’s challenges are always going to be there for you as a person and they are always going to multiply because of your gender… I don’t see that as a handicap, however, but as an opportunity to overcome,” she told the attendees.
The main guest speaker was Dr. Rosh Khan, Chief Executive Officer of Franklin Covey Guyana, Masterclass Institute and Social Rank Media, who encouraged those who were in the audience to be resourceful. Khan recalled that when he was just starting out in his career, he was given the opportunity to attend a conference in New York, where he and other persons that were in attendance were allowed to market themselves and exchange business contacts with other.
Khan said that he had forgotten his business cards but instead of choosing not to attend the event, he used his initiative and created cards on the spot. “I ran up to the business centre in the hotel and I fired up Microsoft PowerPoint. I opened myself a little text box, I wrote my name in there, I put my contact information in there. I went to the person who was running the business centre and I said, ‘How many can I print?’” Khan recalled.
He stated that though his business cards were different from the others, he was still able to effectively market himself and was given an opportunity to be a presenter at the same conference two years later.
Other speakers included businesswomen Ashaka King and Pamela Dillon, and Lilowatie Naipal.
Those who were awarded for the work in their communities included Odessa Primus, Nadira Manbodh, Roland Eudoxie, and Debbie and Peggy Chin.