Meet Louis Tembo - Your Brand can make or break your career and business

Louis Tembo is the Founder and President of Achievers Zambia, a fast growing and highly effective Career Development firm. Achievers Zambia was established in 2007, starting as Resume Gurus and expanding to the current multipurpose Human Resource, Leadership, Career Development and Business Development firm.

Achievers Zambia’s purpose, through its leader Louis Tembo, is to:

• Empower job seekers with professional accomplishment based resume’s that outline a job seekers, career background, core competences, career highlights and accomplishments on each job as well as necessary training all in line with the type of job one wants – resumes that immediately catch the eye of the recruiter, addressing job requirements.

• Empower job seekers with interview presentation skills though interview coaching and mock interviews depicting actual interview situations.

•  Empower university and college students with career counseling and careers expos.

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Alchemy Future Leaders Forum Launch Programme - 28 September 2013

The Alchemy Mentorship Programme presents

Alchemy Future Leaders Forum Launch – 28 September 2013

Commonwealth Youth Centre, UNZA

	PROGRAMME
8:00	Registration
8:30	Welcome from A.WiL and Why Women	Clare Simmonds
9:00	Words from our Guests of Honour – Cathy Phiri and Chisenga Muyoya Cover Girls for the next Alchemist Edition
9:30	Words from our Sponsors - Foschini	Clotilda Mulenga – Director Foschini
10:00	Before you quit your job – Becoming an Entrepreneur	Matt Grollnek
	Following your dream, Starting your business 101, growing your business, taking it to the next level
10:30	Break
11:00	HR – Building your career	Mumbi Kandeke Mwila
	Getting Hired, Negotiating your pay, Rising to the top
11:30	Your Brand	Louis Tembo
	Projecting success, becoming a brand people want to be associated with
12:00	Lunch
13h00	Opening of Lean In Mentorship Event	Chimango Chikwanda
14h00	Mentor Session 1
15h00	Mentor Session 2
16h00 – 17h00	Feedback and Panel Q&A

Speaking at the Alchemy Future Leaders Forum 28 September 2013 on The Power of Your Brand - Miyanda Maimbo

For more than 10 years, Miyanda Maimbo has earned a reputation for providing skilled and practical guidance as a Business Consultant with a heavy incline towards Human Resource Management. She is a nationally recognized authority and has been given an award by the Zambian Institute of Human Resource Management for her contribution towards the development of Human Resource Management in Zambia.

Prior to starting her own Group of companies, Miyanda worked for 8 years in the Courier and Communications industry. She quit a well-paying job with all its perks to start her own business. She went through serious financial challenges initially but eventually became a successful entrepreneur whose businesses cut across many industries including Human Resource Consulting, Events management, Retail (Health and beauty solutions), property management, media and communications.

Miyanda is a member of the Zambia Institute of Directors, The Association of Image Consultants South Africa, and The Zambia Institute of Human Resource Management.  Miyanda sits on the Boards of Diamond General Insurance Limited.

Media

In 2006 Miyanda introduced a column in The Post Newspaper, the leading private Newspaper in Zambia entitled ‘Human Resource Talk’. Miyanda writes about matters that affect people in the workplace, it is one of the most popular columns in the paper.

IMAGE CONSULTING

Miyanda is certified as an Image Consultant through Colorworks International South Africa.

Lessons from the last Alchemy Mentorship Programme (AMP) 26 July 2013 - Joyceann Wainaina CEO Citibank Zambia

Joyce-Ann Wainaina at the AMP Lean in Session held on 26 July 2013 at Top Floor in Lusaka speaking on Confidence.

"Fake it!  Fake Confidence until you feel confident."  When you get up to present or go for that important meeting or interview, your confidence will carry you even when you are not prepared. As a leader you won't always have the luxury of being prepared.  Speak with the conviction of your self-belief.

Don't miss the next AMP event - Future Leaders Mentorship session on 28 September 2013. Tickets on sale at Foschini Manda Hill and Levy Junction Lusaka.  The event is sponsored by Foschini Zambia.

Meet Cathy Phiri - Guest of Honour at Alchemy Future Leaders Forum 28 September

Catherine N. Phiri serves as Managing Director for Media 365, a cause-related communications company based in Lusaka, Zambia.  Ms Phiri has been in this position since May 2011, though is one of the founding directors of Media 365.  Cathy is the Executive Producer of Zambia’s most popular drama series Love Games

Through Media 65, Cathy has:

·         Produced award-winning campaigns such as the Zambia initiative of the OneLove regional campaign, called OneLove Kwasila,

·         The Zambia adaptation of the UNICEF and Johns Hopkins University/CCP Brothers for Life campaign

·         The African Peer Review Mechanism campaign on governance

·         Developed the strategy for the Electoral Commission of Zambia’s awareness campaign for the 2011 elections.

Prior to her relocation to Zambia, Ms Phiri was Vice-President of Social Responsibility for MTV Networks International reporting to MTVNI Social Responsibility Senior Vice President, Ms Phiri managed MTV’s multi-million dollar sexual health projects internationally through MTVNl’s multimedia global HIV and AIDS initiative Staying Alive.

Before working for MTV Networks, Ms Phiri served as the editor for AIDSChannel.org where she was responsible for the management and development of the global HIV and AIDS web portal of OneWorld International.  Furthermore, she was accountable for managing partnerships with donors and other partners collaborating on the web portal. 

Additionally, Ms Phiri was the co-founder of Youth Media which is a non-profit multimedia institution, specialising in Behaviour Change Communication, disseminating information about sexuality and HIV and AIDS to young people in Zambia.  

Ms Phiri also served as the Executive Editor of Trendsetters, an award winning sexual reproductive health newspaper in Zambia, run and owned by Youth Media. 

A native of Zambia, Ms Phiri received her Postgraduate Diploma in Journalism from the London School of Journalism and is currently pursuing her MBA (Marketing Strategies) from the London Metropolitan University. In 2009, Ms Phiri was awarded John Hopkin’s University/Center for Communication Programs, Gold Medallion for Excellence in Health Communication.