Topic: Working and doing business with or in Africa, lessons and opportunities learned in the appropriation of the concept of antifragility.

Abstract

Impact and management of companies, organizations and people with eclectic contexts and cultures in perpetual motion requires the appropriation of the concept of antifragility.

Lessons and opportunities learned in the context of working and doing business with or in Africa. 

From a certain angle and approach, changes, crises and cultural differences are opportunities.

Background

Regularly mentioned among young leaders contributing to shaping an African economic narrative, engaged as a council of women and men politicians or CEOs, through her functions at the African Development Bank (AfDB) or BIG4 PricewaterhouseCoopers ( PWC) in the past, Gérardine Mahoro is also an entrepreneur, constantly looking for impact. 

She is the founder of ACT05 whose mission is mainly to help promote local opportunities and facilitate business through country focus and sector focus, thanks to its “VISIT & INVEST IN” concept; and Impact Athari, which specializes in business impact. Before ACT05 and Impact Athari, she worked for PWC Paris in strengthening the francophone Africa consulting and strategy practice of BIG4.

Gérardine Mahoro was cited by the magazines Forbes Africa and Tropics Magazine among the under 40s who are shaping the Africa of tomorrow and, nominated in 2019 Young Leader of the French African Foundation, under the high patronage of the presidents of France and of Ghana Emmanuel Macron and Nana Akufo-Addo.

Between Europe and Africa, she has been traveling the African continent for many years, and has created an important network on both continents.