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About this Episode:

In this episode of The Transformative Leader Podcast, I’m happy to bring you a conversation with Nike Anani, where we discuss the pitfalls that founders and first-generation leaders often experience and ways in which they can ensure that their business continues to grow and succeed beyond their generation. We also discuss how “NextGen” leaders can contribute to this process and ensure they are doing their part in preserving and building on the successes of the past.

Nike Anani is a speaker, author, and consultant to NextGens who seek to lead their family businesses. She helps NextGens rise above operations into a non-executive board role with credibility, so that they are able to lead and formulate a plan to future-proof the business, becoming more effective change agents. Nike fuses her inside experience as a NextGen executive in her family’s enterprise, as a chartered accountant, and as a family business advisor to bring practical proven solutions to the table.

Nike has almost a decade of experience working in African family businesses, as a NextGen in her parents’ businesses, and also as a co-founder of several others. This inside experience as a NextGen birthed a passion to help others in similar shoes as herself in being effective change champions that collaborate with other family members and stakeholders in co-building legacy businesses that would outlive them.

After graduating from University College London, United Kingdom, with a degree in Economics in 2008, Nike worked at Deloitte London for 3 years in Corporate Tax International where she qualified as a Chartered Accountant. Thereafter in 2011, she relocated to Lagos, Nigeria to work in her family’s businesses.

She is the co-founder of African Family Firms, a pan-African association of family businesses, and the author of “Building Resilient Family Enterprises”. She is a member of Family Firm Institute. Nike is rated as one of the top 100 Consultants globally in the Family Enterprise World by Family Capital, a leading online publication for Family Businesses.

She is happily married and a mother to two young boys, who are her biggest sources of inspiration to leave a lasting legacy on our world.

Guest Links:

• Website: nikeanani.com/

• Podcast: The Connected Generation

• LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/nikeanani/

• Twitter: twitter.com/nikeanani

• Facebook: facebook.com/nikeanani/

• Instagram: instagram.com/nikeanani/

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