Founder & Executive Director
Erika Amoako-Agyei is the Founder & Executive Director of Africa Intercultural Consulting. She is an experienced intercultural trainer & consultant, public speaker and writer working with global companies with existing or expanding operations in Africa.
In 2016, Erika Amoako-Agyei was selected by Stanford University for an international assignment in Ghana to help advance economic opportunities in West Africa. As part of the Stanford Institute for Innovation in Developing Economies (SEED), Erika will bring the expertise of the Stanford Graduate School of Business and the Innovation of Silicon Valley to CEOs in Africa. Serving as a Business Coach, Erika will support high-potential entrepreneurs in multiple countries to scale and grow their business, increase revenue, create new jobs and open new markets. By leveraging her skills as a business leader, Erika’s role in West Africa will support Stanford’s larger initiative to eradicate poverty in developing economies by increasing the business capabilities of locally owned companies.
Erika has prior experience working internationally. For nearly a decade, she worked for the US tech giant, the IBM Corporation, starting in the US, and then transferring to West Africa for several years based in Ghana. As the Country General Manager, Erika managed IBM Ghana Operations and supported multiple projects in other countries, including Nigeria, Liberia, Sierra Leone, the Gambia and Cameroon. Her position requirements also included regular visits to the IBM Regional head office in Johannesburg, South Africa. Upon returning to the United States, Erika became the Director of Corporate Relations for the Thunderbird School of Global Management. She later went into business for herself, founding a computer hardware and software consultancy providing independent consulting to Africa-based corporate, educational and government clients.
She is now an active consultant and trainer with top US Oil companies, global technology firms & other industry corporate and non-profit clients. From her experience, she delivers cross-cultural training programs for executives, multicultural teams, expatriate families and international students. As a visiting professor with the Sam Walton College of Business at the University of Arkansas, she teaches graduate and undergraduate students in her summer course, “Conducting Business in Africa.”
In the summer of 2011, she spent nine weeks touring Ghana on a national campaign trail as media spokesperson and personal aide for a presidential candidate. Drawing from her experience, she has authored Cross-Cultural Management and Organizational Behavior in Africa published by John Wiley & Sons (2009) for the Thunderbird International Business Review. She has also written a businessperson’s guide to the social and professional cultures in sub-Saharan Africa, titled Business and Social Etiquette in Africa: A Guide to Understanding Culture and Business Practices.
Contact: Africa Intercultural Consulting by Email: [email protected] or Phone: (602) 488-9685.
Follow Erika Amoako-Agyei:
Twitter: http://twitter.com/Erika_Amoako
Facebook: Africa Business Review Face Page
Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/AfricaBusinessReview
Website: www. AfricaBusinessReview.net
In 2016, Erika Amoako-Agyei was selected by Stanford University for an international assignment in Ghana to help advance economic opportunities in West Africa. As part of the Stanford Institute for Innovation in Developing Economies (SEED), Erika will bring the expertise of the Stanford Graduate School of Business and the Innovation of Silicon Valley to CEOs in Africa. Serving as a Business Coach, Erika will support high-potential entrepreneurs in multiple countries to scale and grow their business, increase revenue, create new jobs and open new markets. By leveraging her skills as a business leader, Erika’s role in West Africa will support Stanford’s larger initiative to eradicate poverty in developing economies by increasing the business capabilities of locally owned companies.
Erika has prior experience working internationally. For nearly a decade, she worked for the US tech giant, the IBM Corporation, starting in the US, and then transferring to West Africa for several years based in Ghana. As the Country General Manager, Erika managed IBM Ghana Operations and supported multiple projects in other countries, including Nigeria, Liberia, Sierra Leone, the Gambia and Cameroon. Her position requirements also included regular visits to the IBM Regional head office in Johannesburg, South Africa. Upon returning to the United States, Erika became the Director of Corporate Relations for the Thunderbird School of Global Management. She later went into business for herself, founding a computer hardware and software consultancy providing independent consulting to Africa-based corporate, educational and government clients.
She is now an active consultant and trainer with top US Oil companies, global technology firms & other industry corporate and non-profit clients. From her experience, she delivers cross-cultural training programs for executives, multicultural teams, expatriate families and international students. As a visiting professor with the Sam Walton College of Business at the University of Arkansas, she teaches graduate and undergraduate students in her summer course, “Conducting Business in Africa.”
In the summer of 2011, she spent nine weeks touring Ghana on a national campaign trail as media spokesperson and personal aide for a presidential candidate. Drawing from her experience, she has authored Cross-Cultural Management and Organizational Behavior in Africa published by John Wiley & Sons (2009) for the Thunderbird International Business Review. She has also written a businessperson’s guide to the social and professional cultures in sub-Saharan Africa, titled Business and Social Etiquette in Africa: A Guide to Understanding Culture and Business Practices.
Contact: Africa Intercultural Consulting by Email: [email protected] or Phone: (602) 488-9685.
Follow Erika Amoako-Agyei:
Twitter: http://twitter.com/Erika_Amoako
Facebook: Africa Business Review Face Page
Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/AfricaBusinessReview
Website: www. AfricaBusinessReview.net
