Tolu Awoderu is a Customer Success & Enablement Specialist in the HR tech space. Tolu has Experience coaching HR leaders within high growth organizations to use data to drive company culture and improve the employee experience.In this episode, she discusses the key steps for building strong teams, the importance of diversity in teams, building team trust, how small businesses can motivate and inspire their team, and building an organizational structure.

Osasenaga Enogieru has extensive experience driving innovation programs in innovation hubs and large corporations as a consultant. He has been an innovation coach and has helped set up more than 150 innovative entrepreneurs in sub-Saharan Africa by running startup mentoring programs at Enspire and Wennovation Hub.He will be discussing how startups can prepare themselves for investment opportunities, the various ways to find funding, and some common mistakes startups make when fundraising.

Tolulope Babajide is a development professional with expertise in fundraising, resource mobilization, multi-sector partnerships and government relations. She currently serves as the Innovations and Partnerships Advisor on the World Bank (Nigeria for Women Project). We discuss the important hallmarks and ways in which entrepreneurs and start-ups can build Collaborative Systems for Sustainable Growth, the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on collaboration and the role technology has played in this.

This week, we will be speaking to Fikemi Adesola, the Administrative and Project Management Lead at Impact Hub Lagos. We will be chatting with her about enabling Nigeria’s Post COVID economic recovery with the New Economy Booster. The New Economy Booster is a program designed to support impact-driven entrepreneurs and innovators with ventures, startups, non-profit organizations or initiatives based in Nigeria and Ghana, that are contributing to the country’s post-pandemic economic recovery."

Welcome to HubCast by Impact Hub Lagos, a podcast for the Nigerian innovator, changemaker and entrepreneur. In each episode, we will bring to you exciting and inspiring content where we will share knowledge, insights, opportunities and real innovator stories from the Impact Hub Lagos community. As the bloodline of our economies, entrepreneurs need to be supported and given every opportunity and resource to succeed. It is our mission to empower you from Intention to Impact. We will be introducing you to the Impact Hub Network, a home and vibrant community for innovators, an inspiring space for visionaries and a workspace for entrepreneurs who are creating tangible solutions to the world’s most pressing issues. Impact Hub is one of the world’s largest networks of co-working spaces focused on building entrepreneurial communities for impact at scale globally. This introductory episode of            HubCast by Impact Hub Lagos, features Solape Hammond, Co-founder of Impact Hub Lagos, and Patrick Eromosele, the CEO/MD of Impact Hub Lagos.