DOI: https://doi.org/10.52843/cassyni.rz6j31

On Thursday June 13, 2024, we held a seminar in our Topics in Emergent Entrepreneurship series. 

This free seminar was a conversation between author Ike Onyema Obi and Drew Harris, Lived Places Publishing Collection Editor. They talked about Ike's experience as a Nigerian entrepreneur, reflecting the challenges many emergent entrepreneurs face. The context of Nigerian posed unique challenges, and Ike recounts taking risks, seizing opportunities, learning persistently, and building his networks to help grow his businesses.

Announcing a new seminar in the new Topics in Emergent Entrepreneurship seminar series: The Risks and Rewards of African Entrepreneurship: Overcoming Africa’s Challenging Landscape. 

Session Descripiton

Please join us for this conversation between Drew Harris, The Emergent Entrepreneur Collection Editor at Lived Places Publishing and Ike Onyema Obi, author of A West African Entrepreneur's Challenging Path to Financial Freedom: For Future and Family. Ike is a Nigerian entrepreneur whose path to business success reflects the challenges many emergent entrepreneurs face. Ike has mastered being agile and resilient in an African context - taking risks and seizing opportunities, filling knowledge voids by learning persistently, and shaping his networks to help grow his businesses.

This seminar is free to attend and open to all.

Date: Thursday, June 13, 2024

Time: 12:00-1:00pm EST (5:00–6:00pm GMT)

To attend, sign up at the following link: Register here

About the Speakers

Ike Onyema Obi is an entrepreneur and multiple business owner.

Dr. Drew Harris teaches Strategy and Entrepreneurship, and was the first President of the Connecticut Consortium of Entrepreneurship Educators (a division of the Entrepreneurship Foundation). He earned his Ph.D. in management from NYU’s Stern School of Business. Drew’s research centers on the role formal privileges (those written into law or organizational rules) play in skewing outcomes in organizations, communities and states. Central to his work as teacher and mentor is being grounded in place and developing the others’ potential at the intersection of person, physical space and place in time.

About Ike’s book

A West African Entrepreneur's Challenging Path to Financial Freedom: For Future and Family follows the journey of a Nigerian entrepreneur who builds from nothing to owning multiple businesses and creating financial success.

Available on April 24, 2024 in all formats.

For collection librarians: To add this book to your collection, please see https://livedplacespublishing.com/page/librarians

For other seminars in this series: Topics in Emergent Entrepreneurship | All LPP Seminars

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Please send questions or inquiries to Michael Boezi at michael [at] lived places publishing [dot] com