Northwood hosts worldwide woman entrepreneurs

The group came to Northwood as portion of a extended-time partnership with the Institute of Financial Empowerment of Girls (IEEW).

Each and every 12 months, about 30 females from just about every region go by an in-country instruction software concentrated on entrepreneurship. The best pupils from each class are invited to travel to the U.S. around the summer time to participate in a leadership improvement software.

In the previous 16 several years, the IEEW and Northwood University have educated about 1,000 woman entrepreneurs, who have in flip created careers for in excess of 16,000 men and girls in their respective corporations.

This yr, Northwood University hosted 17 Rwandan ladies and two Afghan girls from July 17-24 on Northwood’s major campus.

The management advancement method consisted of early morning lectures by Northwood professors and other organization professionals. The group visited area businesses in the Great Lakes Bay Region in the afternoon to master about their operations. Additionally, there was time for contributors to interact in a small business pitch competition listen to a panel discussion and meet community leaders above lunches and dinners.

During a graduation ceremony Friday, IEEW Founder Dr. Terry Neese thanked Northwood for its 16-12 months partnership with IEEW’s Peace By Business plan.

No other system has frequently educated girls in equally these international locations for as prolonged as Peace By Organization, famous Manizha Wafeq, Afghanistan’s in-state facilitator for IEEW.

For the duration of his keynote address at a graduation ceremony held Friday morning, President Kent MacDonald informed the team Northwood is committed to producing feminine…