Akua Nyame-Mensah is a leadership-focused learning & development advisor, certified executive and leadership coach(ICF), recognized L&D facilitator, speaker, and host of the Open Door Conversations Podcast. As a former startup executive, she launched an online platform for the first African-based technology unicorn. Akua has had the opportunity to live and work in the U.S., Nigeria, Ghana, Kenya, and South Africa and has consulted in and visited over 30 countries worldwide.  She now partners with multinational organizations and high-growth startups to design and implement leadership experiences and immersions virtually and in person worldwide.  In her work, she loves combining 'traditional' coaching approaches with leadership psychology, neuroscience, emotional intelligence research, and spiritual modalities.  Akua works with leaders who are juggling a million responsibilities. She helps leaders clarify where they should focus their time and energy each day through her services and products, so they go from taskmasters to strategically aligned.

Outside of her coaching and corporate speaking engagements, she is a regular mentor, coach, and judge for various entrepreneurship-focused organizations, including Stanford Seed, Google for Startups, Arlan's Academy, Founders Institute, Seed stars, African Business Heroes, FemGems, and The Women's Impact Alliance (formerly The Coaching Fellowship).  Akua has a master’s degree from the University of Pennsylvania, a leadership-focused MBA from the Africa Leadership University School of Business, and is a member of Google’s Mastery Faculty, a selective group of facilitators committed to creating live magical learning experiences in-person or virtually.

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