Founder of PRECIOUS, the leading online network and resource for women of colour, is a trained journalist and editor with a strong background in web and traditional media. She launched PRECIOUS in 1999 when working in the New Media department at ITN. It was the first digital publication aimed at women of colour to [...]
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Get to know Foluke Akinlose MBE…one of our winter edition panellists of the I’mPOSSIBLE conversation
Posted by admin on December 10th, 2012
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No Comments »The I’mPOSSIBLE conversation returns for the winter edition, Wednesday, December 12, 2012
Posted by admin on November 17th, 2012
The ground-breaking event; the I’mPOSSIBLE conversation powered by Mizani UK returns for the last time in 2012. The winter edition takes place on Wednesday, December 12 from 6:15pm at Pearson plc. UK headquarters. With esteemed author and journalist; Hannah Pool at the helm as host, the panellists are: Foluke Akinlose MBE founder of PRECIOUS (www.preciousonline.co.uk), [...]
Posted in The I'mPOSSIBLE. conversation Tags: author, Best-selling, Black, Black British women, black female networking, Black females, black people, black women, Brit, Britain, Brits, Concierge, conversation, Dorothy Koomson, empowerment, female empowerment, females, Foluke Akinlose, Foluke Akinlose MBE, growth, I'mPOSSIBLE, I'mPOSSIBLE conversation, inspiration, L'Oreal, London, Mizani, Mizani UK, MIZANI US, networking, novel, nurture, Pearson, Pearson plc, people of colour, positive, precious, Precious Awards, Precious online, Quintessentially, Rachel Ritfeld, Rachel Springate, Simone Bresi-Ando, uplifting, upliftment, Winter, women, women of colour British women 1 Comment »L’Oreal’s Mizani UK returns as sponsor of the I’mPOSSIBLE conversation
Posted by admin on May 11th, 2012
The I’mPOSSIBLE conversation event has gone from strength to strength in just a year of its existence. Having attracted panellists such as Bonnie Greer OBE, Charlene White, Angela Ferreira, Margaret Casely-Hayford, Michelle Gayle, Hope Powell CBE and many many more stellar British women of colour who constantly and unapologetically define success on their own terms. [...]
Posted in The I'mPOSSIBLE. conversation Tags: black female networking, black hair, black hair care, British, business, conversation, entrepreneur, female entrepreneur, female networking, hair, haircare, inspirational, L'Oreal, Lynn Franks, Mizani, Mizani UK, MIZANI US, networking, Pearson, Pearson plc, people of colour, sharing, women, women of colour No Comments »In conversation with brilliance; British women of colour share their life stories to inspire. February 8, 2012
Posted by admin on February 9th, 2012
Yesterday (Wednesday, February 8 ) Pearson’s London headquarters saw a trailblazing panel of British women of colour share their life stories with an attentive, eager to learn, engaged and positive audience for the second; I’mPOSSIBLE conversation. Beautifully hosted by Charlene White, ITN news presenter and journalist; the five-strong panel of company secretary and chief [...]
Posted in The I'mPOSSIBLE. conversation Tags: actress, author, Black, black female networking, Black females, black people, black women, Britain, British, British women of colour, Casely-Hayford, Charlene White, Chief Legal Head, Company Secretary, Consultant, consultant orthopaedic surgeon, conversation, Dentist, Dr Uchenna Okoye, Eastenders, Grange Hill, I'mPOSSIBLE, ITN news, ITV news, John Lewis, Law, Lawyer, London, London Smiling, Margaret Casely-Hayford, Michelle Gayle, Miss Samantha Tross, Mizani, orthopaedic, Pearson, Pearson plc, people of colour, racism, Rev Rose, Reverend, Reverend Rose Hudson-Wilkin, Samantha Tross, singer, Uchenna Okoye, UK, UK law, Waitrose, women, women of colour 1 Comment »