Where Women's Leadership
Converts to Influence, Leverage & Legacy
Shaping a Future Where Women Lead
Our Vision
To be the foremost social impact enterprise shaping a future where women and girls are at the forefront of transformational leadership and innovation across sectors.
Our Mission
To advance women's empowerment and influence globally through storytelling, role modelling, high-impact convenings, strategic networks, and evidence-based research.
✦ Why CELD Uses the VIALL Pathway
CELD's work is designed to ensure women do not remain visible without power, influential without authority, or impactful without continuity. The VIALL Pathway provides a disciplined, end-to-end model for converting women's leadership into sustained societal transformation.
The VIALL™ Pathway: From Visibility to Legacy
Our Strategic Pillars: Translating Experience Into Power
GLOBAL REACH & IMPACT
Leadership Development
Positioning women in roles where they design economic policy
Economic Empowerment
Connecting women entrepreneurs to capital, markets, partnerships
Institutional Influence
Building partnerships with multilateral organizations, governments
Head‑of‑State Engagement
Trusted at the Highest Levels of Power
Presidents & Prime Ministers
First Ladies of the World
Join the Movement From Visibility to Legacy
✦ for women leaders
Join the Global Power Women Network
Connect with peers, access opportunities, amplify impact.
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Partner With CELD
Collaborate on convenings, research, network initiatives.
GET IN TOUCH →Message from the ED
Across the world, women are increasingly visible in leadership spaces. Yet visibility alone does not translate into decision-making authority, institutional influence, or enduring legacy.
CELD exists to close that gap.
As Executive Director, I lead an organization built on a disciplined framework: the VIALL Pathway. We move women deliberately through Visibility → Influence → Agency → Leverage → Legacy, ensuring leadership does not stall at recognition but advances to real power — the power to shape policy, mobilize capital, and build institutions that endure.
Our work sits at the intersection of storytelling, evidence-based research, high-impact convenings, and strategic networks. We operate in systems — policy, finance, media, and governance — where we don’t just create space for women’s voices, but position women to design outcomes, broker partnerships, and institutionalize change.
This is not performative empowerment. It is conversion work.
We collaborate with governments, DFIs, multilateral organizations, and private-sector leaders who recognize that advancing women’s leadership is not charity — it is strategy. It strengthens economies, stabilizes governance, and unlocks innovation.
Whether you engage with CELD as a partner, participant, policymaker, or ally, you are contributing to a movement that refuses to accept visibility as the ceiling. Together, we are ensuring women’s leadership is structurally embedded,economically consequential, and built to last.
With purpose,
Dr Mrs Ibifuro Ken-Giami
Executive Director
Centre for Economic and Leadership Development (CELD)
Continue the Conversation
Beyond our institutional work, I reflect on the personal dimensions of leadership — the inner architecture that sustains the outer work — through DIVAO, my personal newsletter exploring identity, power, legacy, and the lived experience of women who lead.
CELD Organisational Summary
Global Power Women Conference 2024 Recap
On a crisp September afternoon in the heart of New York City, the Graduate Center at CUNY buzzed with an unmistakable energy
filled with powerful and ambitious women. The Global Power Women Conference 2024 was more than just an event; it was a celebration of resilience, innovation, and a shared commitment to harnessing technology for women’s empowerment. As the grand auditorium filled with voices echoing purpose and determination, the conversation on “Advancing the Transformative Power of Technology through Women’s Lens: Shaping the Future of Business and Governance” was set to take flight. Read more…
The Global Power Women Yearbook. Volume: A Legacy of Courage and Transformational Leadership Pre Order
On December 31, 2024, the Global Power Women Yearbook Vol. 2 — a powerful celebration of courage and transformational leadership that highlights the extraordinary achievements of women shaping our world today is set to be released.
🎯 Theme: A Legacy of Courage and Transformational Leadership
✨ Why You Need This Yearbook:
• Exclusive Insights: Stories are a timeless force that inspire, educate, and transform. Dive into the inspiring journeys of women leaders like Baroness Joanna Shields, Giorgia Meloni, Kamala Harris, Ibukun Awosika, Priyanka Chopra, and many more!
• Lessons in Leadership: Discover how these trailblazers overcame obstacles to create lasting change….Keep Reading.
The Global Power Women Awards London 2025
The Global Power Women Awards London 2025 is designed to stand as a testament to the strength and influence of female leadership worldwide. As evidenced in its slogan- “Celebrating the Strength of Female Leadership, Honouring Her Power, Role Modelling Excellence & Inspiring Change,” this prestigious event is dedicated to recognizing the remarkable achievements of women who are not only leading in their fields but are also setting the standard for excellence and inspiring transformative change.
Influential leadership is crucial on a global scale as it drives progress, fosters innovation, and promotes a more equitable and sustainable world. Women leaders, in particular, bring diverse perspectives and inclusive approaches that are essential for addressing complex global challenges. Their influence extends beyond their immediate spheres, inspiring others and creating ripple effects that lead to positive societal changes…. Keep Reading.
Our Upcoming Event
The Women Leadership Development Forum & Executive Retreat, London, United Kingdom.
The Women Leadership Development Forum & Executive Retreat, London, United Kingdom, billed to hold from 27th January – 1st February 2026, at the Hilton London Paddington 146 Praed St, London W2 1EE.
With the theme – “Anchored & Elevated: Women Leading with Vision, Grace, and Legacy Building.”
This exclusive 5-day leadership experience is designed for wives of senior military and para-military leaders, senior female officers, and distinguished public sector women across Africa.
It offers a rare, curated environment where women of influence and female leaders of governmental associations, departments and ministries can step away from demanding roles to reconnect with purpose, strengthen leadership capacity, enhance personal well-being, and build powerful networks with peers.
The retreat blends leadership mastery, emotional resilience, wellness experiences, and strategic conversations around influence, stability, and nation-building—reflecting the unique responsibilities carried by women connected to Africa’s security and governance ecosystems.
OBJECTIVES OF THE FORUM
The objective of this forum includes the following:
• To learn how to step up their engagements and build collaborations/partnerships for successful projects implementation, fundraising, as well as high-impact visibility.
• To develop the leadership and assertiveness skills of women leaders, to prepare them for higher leadership roles in society and also for life outside public office.
• To connect women leaders with the connections, resources and tools required for global collaborations and impactful leadership; among others.
COST IMPLICATION
Executive Package: $3,500 per delegate (US Dollar) this fee covers the following:
• Registration fees
• Certificate of completion
• 5 Nights’ Accommodation in a 4-star hotel (Arrival on the 27th, Departure on the 1st)
• Airport pick-up and drop-off
• Daily Meals – breakfast and Lunch, and tea breaks
• A half-day tour around London, UK
• Closing Dinner & Awards ceremony
Standard Package: $2,400 per delegate (US Dollar)
This fee covers the following:
• Registration fees
• Certificate of completion
• Daily Meals – breakfast and Lunch, and tea breaks
• A half-day tour around London, UK
• Closing Dinner & Awards ceremony
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