Nigeria

Graphic Design

Branding and Identity Design

Copywriting

Branding

Digital Marketing

Project Management

Content Strategy

Content Creation

Certificate

United Nations Systems Staff College

Certificate Of Attendance

Masterclass

Master of Business Administration - MBA

MBRU Community Immunity Ambassador Program

Educational Webinar

Professional Diploma In Advertising

Educational Webinar entitled: Data Stewardship Roles and Defining Data Ownership

Mini MBA

Goodvertising Masterclass

Professional Diploma In Digital Marketing

EducatiWebinar

Mitchelle Defounga

Managing Partner

Communication

Collaboration

Problem-solving

Empathy

Organisation skills

Presentation skills

Customer service

Adobe Photoshop

Adobe Creative Suite

Stakeholder management

Time management

Team player

Conflict resolution

Leadership

Project management

Public Speaking

Negotiation

Introduce yourself, define mentoring expectations and goals. Learn and grow together.

General mentorship

Making remote and globally distributed teams work for you and your needs.

Working remotely

Learn essential burnout prevention techniques and replenish physical and emotional energy.

Managing burnout

Navigating micro-aggression, getting paid what you are worth and finding a community.

Being a woman in tech

Understanding factors that lead to a motivated team - recognition, communication and more.

Keeping team members motivated

Understand the process of training, motivating and directing your team members.

Managing people

How to create a positive workplace culture that drives collaboration and productivity?

Fostering a good team culture

Steps to building and maintaining a strong, cohesive and effective team.

Building an effective team

Learn the tips to successfully manage a team in a remote environment.

Managing a remote team

How to determine what is a good balance of skill sets for your organization's needs

Building balanced teams

Tips for transitioning into a new role or company.

Changing roles

Get actionable feedback on your resume or portfolio.

Resume and portfolio review

Practice HR, technical and behavioural interviews with mentors.

Practice mock interviews

Manage team expectations and get the most out of your meetings.

Running effective meetings

Identify and define potential product problems and generating possible solutions.

Identifying problems vs solutions

Learn how to properly present your work and share ideas and opinions.

Presenting your work with impact

Tips on how to work and collaborate with designers.

Working with designers

Managing being the only designer at your company and working with non-designers.

Being the only designer

Ways and resources to improve your design skills.

Improving design skills

Overseeing and guiding the strategic direction of the business and managing the business activities. Drive new business acquisitions, maintain client relationships. Maintain organizational goals, procedures, and policies.

Das Ziel, is a Lagos based Brand Comms, Creative Solutions and Sustainable Design Business, which drives brand and company growth. We creatively give your business the brand identity that connects with and speaks to your target audience.

We are a business built on the pillars of sustainable Creative solutions and Innovation, and we are positioned to exponential business growth. Inspired by your own story, we position and propagate your vision, mission, and objective.

Directing the Development and implementation of key procurement Strategies/contingency plans and ensuring that strategies and plans are aligned with organizational objectives.

Managing supplier performance on projects.

The maiden edition of Nigeria’s Marketing and Media Hackathon named MarkHack 1.0 is a Hackathon targeted at the marketing and media industry with the goal of producing revolutionary innovative marketing and media ideas, channels, platforms, and solutions that will further drive consumer engagement, consumer experience and audience recruitment.

I was Invited as a Mentor in the ANALYTICS & METRICS and CONTENT CREATION focus area.

As a Mentor, I worked with a shortlisted team(s) in achieving  a product market fit for their idea or product during the period of the hackathon.

At the end of the event, the teams I mentored were finalists and one of the teams won the competition.

Head over to www.MarkHack.tech for more info!

Oversee the design and creative development of enterprise-wide brand guidelines, digital programs, and audio-visual communications.

Provide vision and clarity to creative team members to ensure creative solutions for client needs and strategies.

Support the Executive Creative Director to provide leadership, build trust and credibility with partners and shape the culture of the Creative organisation.

Guide team growth and development as suited to the needs of the organisation, business objectives and marketing strategies.

Analyze effectiveness of creative outcomes as they impact the business, the team, the organisation and executive management.

Set Project Goals and objectives with partners and ensure clarity of expectations and deliverables.

Responsible for reviews and performance management of team members and freelancers.

Work closely with the Executive Creative Director and Management to ensure Organizational Effectiveness, Talent Retention & Acquisition.

Managing suppliers on set building projects and preparing & managing logistics & transport budgets, monitoring expenditure and implementing remedial measures where needed.
Also functioned as the supplier relationship manager on projects.

Arterial Network is a dynamic Pan-African, civil-society network of artists, cultural activists, entrepreneurs, enterprises, NGOs, institutions, and donors active in Africa’s creative and cultural sectors. Established as a member-based, non-profit organisation, Arterial Network operates all across the continent in both English and French, and is led by an elected Steering Committee which represents the five regions of the continent. Arterial Network's five core focus areas to support the arts are advocacy (through the Artwatch Africa project), capacity building, market access, knowledge management and information dissemination. Its Continental Secretariat is now based in Abidjan, Côte d'Ivoire, as of the 1st of February 2017. Arterial Network celebrated its 10th anniversary in March 2017 in Abidjan.

Arterial Network Nigeria was launched on the 25th of March 2011.

In 2014, CORA Foundation and Arterial Network Nigeria signed a Memorandum of understanding and financial support was provided to the chapter.

www.cora-arterialnigeria.org

I was selected as a Design Mentor for Google Launchpad Start Lagos, 2017.

"Google Developers Launchpad Start is a one week problem solving bootcamp for early stage startups focused on subjects including product strategy, UX and UI, technology, marketing, business development and presentation skills."

21 startups were selected for Google Launchpad Start Lagos 2017.

I mentored some startups on Design with reference to the following;
Human/User Centric Design.
Customer empathy as a mindset.
Personas (Needs, Wants, Fears, Motivations).
User Journeys.
Prototyping (Paper/Digital Usability testing, Feature Priotizing).
UX/UI Design experience.
Qualitative/Quantitative Analysis Process.

https://events.withgoogle.com/launchpad-start-lagos/ -for more info.

Oversee Creative projects through the concept/production stage to completion and provide quality control over concepts and projects on FrieslandCampina WAMCO (Peak Milk, Peak Chocolate, Peak Tea Mix), Airtel Nigeria (Airtel Networks Limited), UBER, RED BULL, SFH (Society for Family Health), and Malta Gold.
Oversee print production, publication, production cum brand communication applications across all media.

Direct work of junior designers.
Mentor team's overall knowledge of design cost and analysis.

Together with team, develop and produce effective advertising campaigns.

Negotiate with and manage third party contractors and suppliers on productions, set building and delivery.

Oversee the Creative design of advertisements and print materials, as well as the filming of television commercials. (Oversee projects through the production stage to completion and provide quality control over concepts and projects.)

Develop Creative Ideas and Concepts; Present Ideas to Colleagues and Clients.
Liaise with Clients on Interpreting their briefs; making their vision a tangible and deliverable product. 

Along with team/account executives, plan and implement budgets to ensure both quality and efficiency and establish schedules on short and long-term projects.
Familiarize with clients’ products and services, the target audience and their competitors’ activities.

Together with a Copy Writer, write Clear, Persuasive Original Copy. Also Proofread copy to check spelling and grammar error.

Selects a photographer, an illustrator, models, and any props necessary for an ad.
Also negotiates with printers and estimators to determine what services will be performed with regards a project.

Conceptualize and Illustrate Editorial Cartoons.
Conceptualize and Illustrate Cartoon Strips for The Weekend Cartoon Page.
Illustrate for Feature and Other Stories.
Creatively Directs Page Planning of the Newspaper together with the Cartoon Editor.
Attend Media Briefings and events

Assist The Creative Director in drawing scamps, Illustrations and storyboards.
Develop Creative Ideas and Concepts.

Tutored 100 and 200 level students on Art Anatomy and Drawing.
I also assisted in mentoring 400 level students on Art anatomy.

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