After Office Hours with Dr James Mworia

Everybody defines leadership differently but irrespective of how you define a leader, he or she can prove to be a difference maker between success and failure.

Let’s face it, without good leadership, all other business elements lie dormant. Strong leaders can help an organization to maximize productivity and achieve business goals, whereas weak leadership can hurt productivity and put the health of the business in risk.

Leadership is not one blanket characteristic that cures all ills, however, there are many different elements that must be present for an organization’s leadership to be considered adequate.

So what does it take to be a strong leader? How effective and important is good leadership to your business? And what are some of the red flags that you might be missing in your leadership skills or in your management team?

Join us for our Next After Office Hours with Dr. James Mworia, CEO Centum Investment Limited as we talk all things business leadership.  Dr Mworia will also share his inspiring story on his rise in Centum’s leadership from an intern to the C-Level, a position he has held for over a decade now.

Mr Mworia has excelled at implementing Centum’s earlier decision to invest big in areas such as real estate and fast-moving consumer goods, raising debt, selling some assets and structuring joint ventures to fund the capital-intensive projects.

The ventures have grown in value, allowing the company to book multi-billion-shilling gains and ultimately satisfying the bonus payment criteria of clocking a minimum return of 15 per cent on net assets each year.

You do not want to miss out on this!

The event will take place on 27th June, from 6pm to 7pm, 7th Floor Nairobi Garage, Pinetree Plaza.

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About James Mworia

Dr James Mworia is the current Managing Director and CEO of Centum Investment Limited the largest publicly traded private capital firm in eastern Africa.

With over 10 years of experience in investment banking and management, Mr. Mworia holds an LLB from University of Nairobi. He also has qualifications from CFA, ICPAK, CIMA and LSK.

Previously, he was the Senior IO at TransCentury. He is also a board member of Sidian Bank, UAP Group, UAP Life, General Motors EA, Servair – NAS, Nairobi Bottlers, Amu Power, CIMA Kenya, Lewa Conservancy Two Rivers Lifestyle Centre and CMA Corporate Governance Committee.

In October 2011 Mr Mworia was named Africa Young Business Leader of the Year at  All Africa Business Leader Awards (AABLA). This award seeks to recognize business leaders below the age of 40 years who have displayed exemplary character of leadership and innovation in business.

In September 2012 he was named Tutu Fellow 2012, African Leadership Institute in conjunction with Said Business School University of Oxford. Tutu Fellows go through a rigorous program that exposes them to a variety of leadership learning experiences. The 2012 class was made up of 23 high potential emerging leaders between the ages of 25 and 40.

In June 2015 he was named the East African Business Leader of the Year Award, AABLA

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