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FREE 3-DAY VIRTUAL SUMMIT
LIVE ONLINE | 13–15 OCTOBER 2026 | 6:00–8:00 PM UK BST
DIASPORA CAREER ELEVATION SUMMIT™
FROM STARTING OVER TO STANDING OUT
RESET → POSITION → ELEVATE
For professional women of African descent ready to gain career clarity, strategically position and communicate their value, strengthen their visibility and credibility, and progress with confidence in the diaspora.
LIVE online | 13–15 OCTOBER 2026 | 6:00–8:00 PM UK BST
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Hosted by Rosemary Songa | Founder, MOVE & ELEVATE™
YOUR EXPERIENCE IS YOUR FOUNDATION
You are not starting from nothing. You are starting from experience.
Now make that experience clear, credible and visible.
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This paragraph is your chance to connect with the hearts and minds of the people you want to serve. Put yourself in their shoes - what might be holding them back? How might you address those fears, limiting beliefs or hesitations and prove that your offer is the solution they need?
To get started, you can ask GG:
"GG, give me about 250 words of sales copy on why someone who is a [insert ideal client] needs to come to my event about how to gain clarity and career visibility. Lean into the pain points and desires of [insert ideal client]."
WHY I CREATED THIS SUMMIT
STARTING OVER DOES NOT MEAN STARTING FROM NOTHING
With the right clarity, communication and positioning, your experience can become the foundation for what comes next.
Have you ever felt unseen, underestimated or underutilised despite your experience and ambition?
You are not alone.
I have walked this path. My journey began when I moved from Uganda to the UK after over a decade as a university lecturer. Despite my expertise and ambition, I was told I was “too qualified” for some opportunities or lacked UK experience for others.
Navigating this transition required humility, adaptability and a mindset shift. It taught me that moving countries may change the professional system you are navigating, but it does not erase the value you have built.
For many professional women of African descent in the diaspora, the barrier to career progression is not a lack of ability. It is knowing how to translate your experience, position yourself strategically and communicate your value in ways decision-makers recognise.
If this resonates with you, the Diaspora Career Elevation Summit™ is your opportunity to reset your direction, position and communicate your value, and elevate your career.
Here, you will gain the insight and strategies to move forward with clarity and confidence towards your next level.
YOUR EXPERIENCE IS YOUR FOUNDATION
You are not starting from nothing. You are starting from experience.
Now make that experience clear, credible and visible.
COPY TIPS (Delete This):
This paragraph is your chance to connect with the hearts and minds of the people you want to serve. Put yourself in their shoes - what might be holding them back? How might you address those fears, limiting beliefs or hesitations and prove that your offer is the solution they need?
To get started, you can ask GG:
"GG, give me about 250 words of sales copy on why someone who is a [insert ideal client] needs to come to my event about how to gain clarity and career visibility. Lean into the pain points and desires of [insert ideal client]."
WHY I CREATED THIS SUMMIT
STARTING OVER DOES NOT MEAN STARTING FROM NOTHING
With the right clarity, communication and positioning, your experience can become the foundation for what comes next.
Have you ever felt unseen, underestimated or underutilised despite your experience and ambition?
You are not alone.
I have walked this path. My journey began when I moved from Uganda to the UK after over a decade as a university lecturer. Despite my expertise and ambition, I was told I was “too qualified” for some opportunities or lacked UK experience for others.
Navigating this transition required humility, adaptability and a mindset shift. It taught me that moving countries may change the professional system you are navigating, but it does not erase the value you have built.
For many professional women of African descent in the diaspora, the barrier to career progression is not a lack of ability. It is knowing how to translate your experience, position yourself strategically and communicate your value in ways decision-makers recognise.
If this resonates with you, the Diaspora Career Elevation Summit™ is your opportunity to reset your direction, position and communicate your value, and elevate your career.
Here, you will gain the insight and strategies to move forward with clarity and confidence towards your next level.
YOUR NEXT CAREER MOVE DESERVES MORE THAN GUESSWORK.
JOIN THE CONVERSATION. ELEVATE YOUR CAREER.
Whether you moved countries yourself or were born and raised in the diaspora, building a fulfilling career as a woman of African descent can bring pressures and barriers others do not always see.
You may be translating qualifications, rebuilding networks, navigating bias and unspoken workplace rules, or delivering at a high level while remaining under-recognised, underutilised or under-remunerated.
These barriers do not mean you lack value. But waiting to be noticed is not a career progression strategy. The longer you remain without clear direction or positioning, the greater the cost to your confidence, earning potential, fulfilment and access to aligned opportunities.
You do not need more generic career advice. You need conversations that recognise your context, practical strategies you can apply and a clearer path forward.
Across three focused evenings, gain practical insights to reset your direction, position and communicate your value, and elevate your visibility, credibility and progression.
You have come too far to leave your next chapter to chance. This is your opportunity to move forward with clarity, confidence and intention.
Click below to reserve your place now.
YOUR NEXT CAREER MOVE DESERVES MORE THAN GUESSWORK.
JOIN THE CONVERSATION. ELEVATE YOUR CAREER.
Whether you moved countries yourself or were born and raised in the diaspora, building a fulfilling career as a woman of African descent can bring pressures and barriers others do not always see.
You may be translating qualifications, rebuilding networks, navigating bias and unspoken workplace rules, or delivering at a high level while remaining under-recognised, underutilised or under-remunerated.
These barriers do not mean you lack value. But waiting to be noticed is not a career progression strategy. The longer you remain without clear direction or positioning, the greater the cost to your confidence, earning potential, fulfilment and access to aligned opportunities.
You do not need more generic career advice. You need conversations that recognise your context, practical strategies you can apply and a clearer path forward.
Across three focused evenings, gain practical insights to reset your direction, position and communicate your value, and elevate your visibility, credibility and progression.
You have come too far to leave your next chapter to chance. This is your opportunity to move forward with clarity, confidence and intention.
Click below to reserve your place now.
Three focused evenings. Two hours each evening. One strategic journey: From Starting Over to Standing Out.
Reset your direction. Position and communicate your value. Elevate your career.
FOUR STRATEGIC SHIFTS. ONE CLEARER PATH FORWARD.
You already bring experience, capability and ambition. These four shifts will help you apply them more strategically to the career you want next.
SHIFT #1: RESET YOUR DIRECTION
When your career no longer reflects your experience, values or ambition, your next move can feel uncertain. Gain the clarity to reset your direction and move forward with greater confidence and intention.
SHIFT #2: POSITION YOUR EXPERIENCE
Your qualifications, achievements and cross-cultural experience may not be readily recognised in every professional context. Learn how to translate them into a clear career narrative that communicates your relevance, value and readiness for what comes next.
SHIFT #3: COMMUNICATE YOUR VALUE
Doing excellent work is not enough when its impact remains unseen or difficult to articulate. Strengthen how you communicate your expertise with clear, credible evidence so the right decision-makers can recognise your value and leadership potential.
SHIFT #4: ELEVATE WITH INTENTION
Waiting to be noticed can prolong stagnation and limit access to aligned opportunities. Build momentum through strategic visibility, purposeful relationships and focused action towards meaningful progression, increased earning potential and career fulfilment.
READY TO STOP GUESSING AND START MOVING FORWARD?
Meet The Speakers
Experience you can learn from. Strategy you can apply.
Hosted by Rosemary Songa, the Diaspora Career Elevation Summit™ brings together a curated line-up of leaders and experts with diverse professional and diaspora perspectives.
Their expertise spans career strategy, leadership, communication, visibility, professional networks and progression.
Through masterclasses, interviews, candid conversations and panel discussions, they will share practical insights, real experiences and context-aware strategies you can apply to your own career.
Different journeys. Distinct expertise. One shared purpose: to help you move from Starting Over to Standing Out.
RONKE LAWAL
PR & Communications Consultant | Founder, Ariatu PR
Positioning & Visibility
Ronke is an award-winning PR and communications consultant, personal branding coach and Founder of Ariatu PR.
With over 20 years of experience, she helps professionals and organisations position their brands, strengthen executive presence and build credible visibility.
Her work has a particular focus on Black audiences and African and Caribbean diaspora communities. She is also an Honorary Professor at Lancaster University Management School.
FATIMA ALIMOHAMED
Pan-African Strategist | Founder & CEO, African Brand Warrior
Cross-Cultural Positioning
Fatima is an award-winning Kenyan Pan-African strategist, board leader, brand architect and TEDx speaker.
As Founder and CEO of African Brand Warrior, she has built and transformed category-leading brands across African markets, working with multinational corporations, governments and home-grown businesses.
Her deep understanding of culture, consumers and markets brings a powerful perspective on how professionals can position their value across borders while remaining authentically African and globally competitive.
KEMO CAMARA
Diaspora Expert | Social Entrepreneur | Community Builder
Networks & Momentum
Kemo is a respected diaspora expert, social entrepreneur and community builder, and the visionary behind Omek, a community-driven career and professional development platform connecting bicultural talent of African descent with leading brands, meaningful resources and a global network.
He champions identity, bicultural fluency and collaboration as powerful drivers of belonging, career growth and leadership.
His mission is to enable African diaspora professionals to build meaningful relationships, expand their opportunities and become transformational leaders of the future.
DANNY DEN HARTOG
Lifestyle Business Coach | Entrepreneur
Expertise & Opportunity
Danny den Hartog is a lifestyle business coach and entrepreneur who helps experienced corporate professionals recognise the value within their knowledge, experience, relationships and story, and explore what they could build from it.
Before becoming an entrepreneur, Danny developed an international career in sales and business development across Europe, Asia and Africa. Over the past 11 years, he has coached and trained thousands of people worldwide.
His work combines practical business thinking with a belief that experienced professionals do not need to start from nothing. They can build from the expertise, strengths and professional foundations they have already established.
AUGUSTINA “MS.ABA” AUSTIN
Communications Strategist | Diaspora Engagement Specialist
Founder, BYAustin
Identity | Leadership | Opportunity Creation
Augustina “MS.ABA” Austin is a communications strategist, entrepreneur and diaspora engagement specialist with over a decade of experience in strategic communications, branding and cross-cultural collaboration.
As Founder of BYAustin, she helps organisations connect with African and diaspora communities. Through The Expert Brand, she supports professionals in strengthening their personal brands and visibility.
She is also Director of The Hague African Festival and a media personality and presenter.
Her work centres on identity, leadership and opportunity creation, helping professionals draw on their experiences and navigate multiple cultures with confidence.
ROSEMARY SONGA
Career Elevation Coach | Communication Strategist Founder, MOVE & ELEVATE™
Summit Host | Career Clarity, Strategic Positioning & Communication
Rosemary Songa is a Career Elevation Coach and Communication Strategist with more than two decades of experience spanning higher education, recruitment, banking and corporate communications.
Having rebuilt her own career after moving from Uganda to the UK, Rosemary brings both professional expertise and lived diaspora experience to the Summit.
Through MOVE & ELEVATE™, she helps high-achieving mid-career women gain clarity, strategically position and communicate their value, strengthen their visibility and credibility, and progress into aligned, fulfilling careers.
At the Summit, she will guide participants through the RESET, POSITION and ELEVATE journey, delivering practical teaching, reflections and career-elevation strategy across the three evenings.
LET'S RECAP - HERE'S WHAT YOU GET FOR FREE WHEN YOU SIGN UP TO BE A PART OF THE
DIASPORA CAREER ELEVATION SUMMIT™
Three focused evenings designed to help you reset your direction, position your experience and elevate your career with intention.
1. THREE LIVE EVENINGS
Join us from 13–15 October 2026, 6:00–8:00 PM UK time, for one connected journey across RESET, POSITION and ELEVATE.
2. EXPERIENCED VOICES
Learn from accomplished leaders and professionals whose insights are grounded in African, diaspora and international career realities.
3. PRACTICAL STRATEGIES
Gain actionable guidance to translate your experience, communicate your value, strengthen your visibility and make more intentional career decisions.
4. LIVE PARTICIPATION
Take part in guided reflections, live conversations and Q&A designed to help you apply the insights to your own career.
Meet The Speakers
Experience you can learn from. Strategy you can apply.
Hosted by Rosemary Songa, the Diaspora Career Elevation Summit™ brings together a curated line-up of leaders and experts with diverse professional and diaspora perspectives.
Their expertise spans career strategy, leadership, communication, visibility, professional networks and progression.
Through masterclasses, interviews, candid conversations and panel discussions, they will share practical insights, real experiences and context-aware strategies you can apply to your own career.
Different journeys. Distinct expertise. One shared purpose: to help you move from Starting Over to Standing Out.
RONKE LAWAL
PR & Communications Consultant | Founder, Ariatu PR
Positioning & Visibility
Ronke is an award-winning PR and communications consultant, personal branding coach and Founder of Ariatu PR.
With over 20 years of experience, she helps professionals and organisations position their brands, strengthen executive presence and build credible visibility.
Her work has a particular focus on Black audiences and African and Caribbean diaspora communities. She is also an Honorary Professor at Lancaster University Management School.
FATIMA ALIMOHAMED
Pan-African Strategist | Founder & CEO, African Brand Warrior
Cross-Cultural Positioning
Fatima is an award-winning Kenyan Pan-African strategist, board leader, brand architect and TEDx speaker.
As Founder and CEO of African Brand Warrior, she has built and transformed category-leading brands across African markets, working with multinational corporations, governments and home-grown businesses.
Her deep understanding of culture, consumers and markets brings a powerful perspective on how professionals can position their value across borders while remaining authentically African and globally competitive.
KEMO CAMARA
Diaspora Expert | Social Entrepreneur | Community Builder
Networks & Momentum
Kemo is a respected diaspora expert, social entrepreneur and community builder, and the visionary behind Omek, a community-driven career and professional development platform connecting bicultural talent of African descent with leading brands, meaningful resources and a global network.
He champions identity, bicultural fluency and collaboration as powerful drivers of belonging, career growth and leadership.
His mission is to enable African diaspora professionals to build meaningful relationships, expand their opportunities and become transformational leaders of the future.
DANNY DEN HARTOG
Lifestyle Business Coach | Entrepreneur
Co-Founder Coach africa
Expertise & Opportunity
Danny den Hartog is a lifestyle business coach and entrepreneur who helps experienced corporate professionals recognise the value within their knowledge, experience, relationships and story, and explore what they could build from it.
Before becoming an entrepreneur, Danny developed an international career in sales and business development across Europe, Asia and Africa. Over the past 11 years, he has coached and trained thousands of people worldwide.
His work combines practical business thinking with a belief that experienced professionals do not need to start from nothing. They can build from the expertise, strengths and professional foundations they have already established.
AUGUSTINA “MS.ABA” AUSTIN
Communications Strategist Diaspora Engagement Specialist
Founder, BYAustin
Identity | Leadership | Opportunity Creation
Augustina “MS.ABA” Austin is a communications strategist, entrepreneur and diaspora engagement specialist with over a decade of experience in strategic communications, branding and cross-cultural collaboration.
As Founder of BYAustin, she helps organisations connect with African and diaspora communities. Through The Expert Brand, she supports professionals in strengthening their personal brands and visibility.
She is also Director of The Hague African Festival and a media personality and presenter.
Her work centres on identity, leadership and opportunity creation, helping professionals draw on their experiences and navigate multiple cultures with confidence.
ROSEMARY SONGA
Career Elevation Coach | Communication Strategist Founder, MOVE & ELEVATE™
Summit Host | Career Clarity, Strategic Positioning & Communication
Rosemary Songa is a Career Elevation Coach and Communication Strategist with more than two decades of experience spanning higher education, recruitment, banking and corporate communications.
Having rebuilt her own career after moving from Uganda to the UK, Rosemary brings both professional expertise and lived diaspora experience to the Summit.
Through MOVE & ELEVATE™, she helps high-achieving mid-career women gain clarity, strategically position and communicate their value, strengthen their visibility and credibility, and progress into aligned, fulfilling careers.
At the Summit, she will guide participants through the RESET, POSITION and ELEVATE journey, delivering practical teaching, reflections and career-elevation strategy across the three evenings.
LET'S RECAP - HERE'S WHAT YOU GET FOR FREE WHEN YOU SIGN UP TO BE A PART OF THE
DIASPORA CAREER ELEVATION SUMMIT™
Three focused evenings designed to help you reset your direction, position your experience and elevate your career with intention.
1. THREE LIVE EVENINGS
Join us from 13–15 October 2026, 6:00–8:00 PM UK time, for one connected journey across RESET, POSITION and ELEVATE.
2. EXPERIENCED VOICES
Learn from accomplished leaders and professionals whose insights are grounded in African, diaspora and international career realities.
3. PRACTICAL STRATEGIES
Gain actionable guidance to translate your experience, communicate your value, strengthen your visibility and make more intentional career decisions.
4. LIVE PARTICIPATION
Take part in guided reflections, live conversations and Q&A designed to help you apply the insights to your own career.
Want to go further?
Your free registration includes LIVE-ONLY access to all three Summit days. After reserving your place, you will have the option to upgrade to the £37 VIP Experience for full Summit replay access, the VIP Career Elevation Workbook, priority question access, the Day 3 VIP Group Hot Seat and the Curated Speaker Resource Pack.
MOVE FORWARD
Your next career move deserves clarity, strategy and action. Reserve your free place and take the first step towards a career that better reflects your experience and ambition.
See you there!
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