The Imboneza Business Conference featured inspiring talks on successful businesses based on good leadership and a stable family. Speakers included Destry Wilborn, Charisa M. Munroe Wilborn, Hubert Sugira Hategekimana, H.E AMB. Charlie Masala, and Bishop Dieudonné Nahimana Foundation (DNF).
Destry Wilborn, one of the speakers at the Imboneza Business Conference (IBC), shared valuable insights into leadership:
- Be one that Tells the truth
- Know that Leadership is not having all power.
- You need help: Ask for help and accept the help.
- Take the risk to trust people.
- Remember who you are.
Charisa M. Munroe Wilborn, our second guest at the IBC conference, discussed the theme of “branding yourself.” She emphasized, “Your business cannot surpass your level of self-branding. You need to elevate in order for your business to elevate.” She also shared practical tips on personal branding:
- Take daily self-inventory – assess your personal life
- Solve a problem – find something about you that solves a problem for the world. People pay for a solution.
- Run towards your vision.
- Build relationships that will get you and keep you running towards that vision.
- Keep your networking – work your net, use other people’s gifts.
- Stay focused – on the vision, purpose.
- Make sure you are mentoring successors and allow yourself to be mentored.
Hubert Sugira Hategekimana, our third guest speaker, shared insights on achieving business success:
- Develop a successful product – a successful business is first about the product.
- Establish processes to ensure your business continues working even when you’re not there anymore.
H.E AMB. Charlie Masala spoke on the theme “Customer service as a tool.” He emphasized:
- All customers have expectations from the business they buy from. If you as a business don’t meet those expectations, your business will lose.
- Most people are influenced by the image of the business rather than just the product itself.
