WIEN Woman Podcast: Fatima explains how female energy drives the power business

Sopuruchi Onwuka

The Business and Project Development Manager at Prado Power, Dr. Fatima B. Mohammed, has a lot of tips to share with other women play in the nation’s energy sector where traditional role stereotypes provide them with lean opportunities.

In the sixth episode of the meteoric WIEN Woman Podcast, Dr Mohammed dumps tons of tips on how female career pushers and business startups can navigate intricate curves in exploiting commercial opportunities in the energy industry.

Dr Mohammed projects the profile of a dynamic and results-oriented business development professional with proven success in identifying growth opportunities, expanding market presence, and building strategic partnerships within the global market.

She is a time proven expert in market analysis, client acquisition, negotiation, and stakeholder engagement, with a track record of delivering measurable revenue increases.

Dr Mohammed is also skilled at designing innovative solutions that align with client needs and organizational goals. She is adept at fostering long-term relationships with clients and partners, consistently driving business expansion and profitability.

Equipped with robust tertiary education that entailed courses of study in variegated disciplines across six universities in Nigeria and abroad, Dr Mohammed made rapid career strides with footprints at several wave making companies, including Zigma Limited, Neelds Services Limited, Adhubbing, 7ven Oaks ·and Prado Power.

In sharing her experiences with the hosts of WIEN Woman Podcast, Dr Mohammed narrated to Rolake Akinkugbe-Filani and Engr Charlotte Essiet what it truly takes to navigate the energy industry as a woman.

Listeners can catch up with the conversation here: https://youtu.be/TbFUExN90cI

The WIEN Woman Podcast is hosted by the indefatigable amazons who produce incredible dialogues that generate invaluable lessons for listeners.

Mrs Ainkugbe-Filani is the former General Manager & Group Head of Corporate Development and Investor Relations at Zenith Bank Plc. She is also the Director of Research & Strategy at WIEN. Rolake is very popular as host of financial intelligence shows on national television stations and cable networks. Her shows enjoy robust audience in the domestic and global business community.

Engr Charlotte Essiet is the Chief Executive Officer of Elint Systems Limited and the immediate past Media and Publicity Director of WIEN. Her deep understanding of the energy industry operations, corporate politics and regulatory issues position her in vanguard of collaborative efforts to compel change.

The Podcast is part of the advocacy strategies conceived to enable public audience catch up with WIEN on its mentorship and empowerment programmes. The show has clear intention to harness valuable advice from mentors for the guidance of young professionals and business startups that still navigate the industry.

President of WIEN, Mrs. Eyono Fatai-Williams, explains that the goal of the podcast series is to create a space where women in the energy and related sectors can share ideas, strategies, and gain inspiration.

“We believe that by amplifying these voices, we can foster a more inclusive and supportive environment for women in energy.”

According to Mr Fatai-Williams, very insightful and suspense packed discussions have been lined up to share the experiences of great and accomplished women who come with inspiration and knowledge in the very entertaining episodes.

The Executive Secretary of WIEN, Engr Asanimo Omezi, explains that the WIEN Woman Podcast series serve as platform to dive into engaging conversations, profound interviews and thought-provoking discourse with leading women professionals and experts in the industry.

Discussions necessarily provide winning strategies for emerging female leaders who confront gender specific challenges in work environments where they suffer gender minority.

 WIEN as a gender support base remains fully committed to propel the advancement of women in the energy industry and promoting diversity and inclusion though her various programs and initiatives, Engr Omezi stressed.