Coach, Speaker and Leadership expert. Aida is a Moroccan-Canadian trainer, holistic coach, university professor and public speaker. With over 15 years of experience working with organizations across North-America and North Africa, she also served as a second lieutenant in the Royal Canadian Navy, a paramilitary organization where she strengthened her leadership skills. She works with professionals and individuals to help them reach their full potential.

Allal Bennani is an entrepreneur, IFS therapist and expert in leadership psychology. As a former world brand Director of ZARA Man, the largest fashion retail group in the world, he managed a team of people from 22 nationalities, helping them grow individually and optimizing their capabilities. Driven by his passion to empower people, Allal decided to leave INDITEX and fully focus on the study and research in different areas of practical psychology and personal development. An adventure that took him to over 50 countries and gave him the privilege to meet and work with people like the Dalai Lama, Tony Robbins, Dick Schwartz, just to name a few… Today, Allal Bennani helps entrepreneurs, professionals and individuals to grow, optimize their skills and achieve results. He is the founder of VIEVA a European based company that is specialized in the wellbeing and mental health in the workplace. He also delivers conferences and trainings in 4 different languages in many European countries, the Middle East, America and Africa.

CEO Orange Money Group. Aminata Kane Ndiaye is CEO Orange Money Group, managing mobile money activities in 17 countries. She previously led Orange Sierra Leone as CEO, driving it to market leadership with significant revenue growth and innovation in mobile money microcredit, energy, and e-Education. She joined Orange in 2013, focusing on B2C marketing performance and later on Orange Money Senegal’s marketing and strategy, contributing to its mobile money growth. Aminata holds degrees from HEC Paris and MIT Sloan School of Management and has worked at McKinsey & Company, Goldman Sachs, BNP Paribas, and MEDEF. Recognized as a Young Leader by the French African Foundation and a Young Global Leader by the World Economic Forum, she also received the Africa CEO of the Year Award at the AfricaCom / AfricaTech Festival. She was listed among the 100 Women CEO in Africa by Africa.com and Harvard University.

Professional Dancer. Growing up on the islands of Cape Verde, Ana Paula discovered and developed her artistic talent from a young age. With a keen eye for new trends and always on the lookout for creative ideas, she joined her first dance and theater companies during her teenage years in Senegal. When she finally moved to Montreal, her passion for dance soared to new heights. Reaching the finals in the Canadian championship, and as a rising star in dancesport, she soon began teaching and coaching the discipline. During the 26 years she spent in Montreal, she pursued a very active career and family life, excelled on major stages in Quebec, founded her ArribaDance studio and raised her two sons. Ana Paula now manages her second studio, ArribaDance Dakar, and has reconnected with her artistic roots in Africa. Her goal is to share her multicultural experience and knowledge using a physical, rhythmic, feminine, revitalizing, and artistic approach to movement and emotion.

Trainer in NonViolent Communication® and certified coach - Psychotherapist - Founder of AV2-CONSULTING. Following her engineering studies, Anissa worked in international software consulting groups, rapidly climbing the management ladder to become a director. After a rewarding 15-year career, she became a certified coach, trainer, sand psychotherapist, combining her passion for interpersonal relationships and neurosciences. Her professional experience and deep convictions have confirmed that communication based on empathy and assertiveness has a direct influence on well-being in the workplace and performance within organizations. Since 2015, she has been accompanying companies such as L’Oréal and Kering to train them in NonViolent Communication® and to weave the links with neurobiology to share transformative approaches for personal and professional fulfillment. Anissa is born in Kenya, is of Indian origin and currently lives in France. She combines her multicultural diversity with her professional experience, having accompanied thousands of people in Europe, Africa, Asia and North America.

Sustainability Leader, L’Oréal Sub-Saharan Africa Zone. Celeste is a dynamic leader with extensive experience in communications, marketing and sustainability. She is passionate about driving meaningful change by aligning business goals with social and environmental priorities. Currently leading L’Oréal’s sustainability agenda in Sub-Saharan Africa, she has spearheaded transformative initiatives, including programmes that empower women and vulnerable groups, reduce environmental impact and foster inclusive growth. Resilient and adaptable, Celeste excels at navigating complex challenges and managing transversely across portfolios. A passionate advocate for social justice, Celeste is dedicated to creating opportunities that uplift individuals and communities, believing in the potential of women leaders to drive systemic change. With unwavering determination, she uses her platforms to inspire progress and ensure her work leaves a listing societal impact.

A scholar, educator, humanitarian author and the founder of Tererai Trent International. Distinguished as Oprah Winfrey’s “AIl-Time Favorite Guest” Dr. Tererai Trent received her doctorate in interdisciplinary evaluation from Western Michigan University and teaches courses in Global Health at Drexel University. She has published two highly acclaimed children’s books and is the author of the award winning The Awakened Wornan – Remembering & Reigniting Our Sacred Dreams (Simon & Schuster). In 2018. Dr. Trent received the NAACP Award for Outstanding Literary Work. Rooted in humble beginnings, Tererai grew up in a cattle-herding family in rural Zimbabwe, in a country known as Rhodesia under colonial rule, where cultural practices and a war that liberated her country charted the course of her life. Despite facing many obstacles, she never lost sight of her dreams for an education. Dr. Trent is among ten women named the most inspiring women in the world by the Statues for Equality Project of Gillie and Marc. With nine other women, including Oprah Winfrey and Jane Goodall, a life size bronze figure in New York immortalized Tererai on Women’s Equality Day on August 26, 2019.

Happiness Teacher and Author. Author, speaker and TV presenter, Florence Servan-Schreiber is the founder of Essentia Groupe, a training and corporate consulting firm devoted to spreading happiness and gratitude through management tools and strategic innovation. She earned her degrees in humanistic psychology and sustainability management from San Francisco universities. Trained in Positive Psychology by Tal Ben Shahar, she published two French best sellers “3 kifs par jours”(3 “likes” a day and other scientific happiness rituals) and Power Patate (Discover your superpowers) and performed on stage in the first, theatrical happiness masterclass, touring in Europe.

SIFCA Groupe Sustainable Development and Communication Director from 2014 to this day, as well as Secretary General of the Group’s Foundation, which she co-founded in 2016, Henriette Gomis Billon engages in numerous volunteer activities benefiting rural populations in Côte d’Ivoire. Building on a career that began in education and communication, she also served as the Quality and CSR Director for Orange Côte d’Ivoire and as Secretary General of the Orange Foundation. Her dedication to social impact and improving the quality of life for rural communities has earned her multiple accolades, including the Chevalier dans l’Ordre National in 2016, Officier dans l’Ordre de Mérite Agricole and Chevalier de l’Ordre du Mérite de l’Education Nationale in 2017, and Chevalier de l’Ordre du Mérite de la Femme et de la Famille in 2024. Together with the SIFCA Foundation, she has received, among others, the Recognition of the Ministry of National Education for their actions in favor of the Ivorian School Feeding Program in December 2024.

Chief Marketing Officer at Google Africa. Dr. Masito is the CMO for Google Africa, where he is responsible for bringing to life Google’s mission and values. Brand and Marketing expert with over 25 years experience, he held several C level roles at Unilever, Nike, Vodafone, and also serves on various non-executive and academic advisory boards such as TiAuto, GIBS, Red & Yellow Creative Business School. UCT PhD graduate – Business and Behavioural Science. Mzamo’s passion for education led him to start a non profit – African Men Care (www.africanmencare.org.za). He won several awards including Women in Marketing (WiM) global award for promoting gender inclusion.

Executive Coach PCC and Change Leadership expert. With 26 years of professional experience in Management Consultancy, Education and NGO development, Nayla has co-founded in 2011 bluestorm, a boutique executive coaching and advisory firm specialized in catalyzing individual, group and corporate transformations. Nayla advises top management teams in the collaborative design and implementation of strategic transformation initiatives. She combines in her interventions organizational learning principles with professional coaching practices to help them leverage diversity and work on strategic alignment and cultural change. She is passionate about relational complexity and cooperative maturity. Her high sensitivity allows her to deeply understand people and encourage them to embrace their inner shadows and light.

Kundalini Yoga teacher. After taking courses in Ireland for 5 years and teaching intermittently for 3, I obtained a certification as a Hatha and Kundalini Yoga teacher from the Samadhi Yoga Ashram, based in Rishikesh, India. Armed with this knowledge, I decided to teach Kundalini Yoga in Abidjan and share what I’ve learned over the years, specifically in dealing with stress.

CEO Daken Business Coaching & Founder Financial Serenity Academy. After 18 years in banking in 4 African countries, as CEO, Director of Credit, Branch Manager, Project Department Manager and more, Olivier Dadjeu K. is the CEO of Daken Business Coaching, a coaching firm that he started to help experienced executives find inner peace in money matters, create a sustainable life balance and build generational wealth. He holds an Executive MBA from China Europe International Business School (CEIBS), ranked the number one business school in Asia and in the top 20 worldwide.

Leadership Development Practitioner, Ontological Coach and Founder of Narachi Leadership. Rachel is the founder of Narachi Leadership, a practice aimed at developing deep benches of leaders across Africa. She is an ontological coach and a neuroscience coach. Rachel has been coaching and developing high-impact leaders her entire professional career. Having trained and worked in top institutions across the world including at McKinsey, Yale, Allan Gray Orbis and Newfield Network, Rachel understands the business of excellence in leadership quite intimately. Her ambition is to transform and empower African leaders with tools to accelerate their own development and that of their environments through training, coaching, facilitation and advisory. She uses tools from anthropology, ontology, psychology, neuroscience and systems thinking. Rachel is a Mandela Rhodes Scholar, a Desmond Tutu Leadership Fellow, a Mellon Mays Fellow and a Felix Scholar. Rachel has worked with senior and executive leaders from across the African continent and beyond and has spoken, moderated and facilitated on various platforms including the UN, TEDx, Obama Leaders and the World Bank. She sits on the boards of Mandela Institute for Development Studies (MINDS), Jakes Gerwel Fellowship, St. George’s College and Old Mutual Youth Fund (Zimbabwe). She is also a contributor for Inc Africa

Consultant, Coach and Author. Rebecca is an experienced business leader with over 20 years working for corporations in the IT industry. She has led high performing teams, supporting clients in Europe, Africa and Middle East and Turkey region. Rebecca studied Information Technology Systems, Project management and Service Management. Leveraging her leadership experience she currently focuses on providing services for clients as a Consultant in the IT and Learning and Development space. She equips individuals and organisations with practical winning strategies to realise their vision, impact and progress.

Author and Lecturer on The Science of Happiness. Tal Ben-Shahar is an author and lecturer who taught the most popular course at Harvard University on Positive Psychology, and the university’s third most popular course on The Psychology of Leadership —with a total of more than 1,400 students. Tal consults and lectures around the world to executives in multi-national corporations, the general public, and at-risk populations. Topics include leadership, ethics, happiness, self-esteem, resilience, goal setting, and mindfulness. He is the author of the new books “Happier, No Matter What: Cultivating Hope, Resilience, and Purpose in Hard Times” and “Happiness Studies”. He is also the author of “The Joy of Leadership”, “Choose the Life You Want” and The New York Times bestseller “Happier: Learn the Secrets to Daily Joy and Lasting Fulfillment”. Tal is the Co-founder of Potentialife and the Happiness Studies Academy. He created the world’s first Master’s Degree in Happiness Studies. An avid sportsman, Tal won the U.S. Intercollegiate and Israeli National squash championships. He earned his Ph.D. in Organizational Behavior and B.A. in Philosophy and Psychology from Harvard.