Twenty years, two continents, one common thread: people.

My story

Mine began far from the boardrooms where I now spend much of my time. In France, where I lived for five years in Lyon, I studied law, economics and management, then international business. Alongside my studies, I worked in customer relations, reception and services. Those years taught me what no lecture could: how to listen, how to read what people expect before they say it, and how to feel at ease in a room full of different cultures.

Coming home to West Africa was a choice, and staying was another. I built my career in telecommunications, then in Benin’s digital economy, then in institutional communications at the Port Authority of Cotonou. Along the way I learned to work with private companies, public institutions and international organisations, often all at once, and to connect ideas to opportunities and strategies to tangible results.

Today I work at the intersection of business development, strategic partnerships, stakeholder engagement and market expansion. I see myself as a connector, a problem solver and an accelerator. At 40, I am still learning: in 2026, I completed a Master’s degree in organisational communication at Université Sorbonne Paris Nord.

Writing runs through all of it. I believe words can clarify an idea, shape a perception and move people to act. For me, narrative strategy is not about visibility; it gives purpose, coherence and direction to ideas worth bringing to life.

There is more to my story than work. I am a multipotentialite. I have built businesses in fashion and, with Urban Green, in indoor plants, and they taught me as much about creativity, resilience and customers as any assignment. I am an artist, and a curious traveller: some twenty countries so far, and frequent trips between Benin and Nigeria that keep me between francophone and anglophone West Africa.

I am also a mother, a full-time commitment that keeps reshaping how I think about responsibility, time and the legacy we leave behind.

Through Notes from Africa, I share what I see: not a romanticised Africa, but one rooted in experience, curiosity and a real understanding of its possibilities and complexities.

Connecting people. Building bridges. Turning ambition into meaningful progress.