Joyce Aryee inspires Vivo Energy Women

Renowned Management Consultant and Executive Director of the Salt and Light Ministries, Rev Joyce Aryee, has urged women to work collectively to change misconceptions.

According to her, women could be perceived to be comfortable in the lower ranks of the corporate world.

That, she said, limited women’s progression to leadership roles, hiding their rich creativity and innovative abilities —especially when many women had accepted the perception themselves.

She was speaking at Vivo Energy Ghana’s International Women’s Day event to celebrate and empower its female workforce to aspire to greater heights.

Speaking on the theme for the year, #EachforEqual, Rev. Aryee urged women to embrace collective individualism — developing themselves for the benefit of the whole.

“Women are intelligent, focused, resilient and compassionate, qualities they can leverage to make a significant difference.

In consciously empowering women, men must also be empowered in order to align with the current trends in recognition of equal rights and opportunities for all”, she said.

Effective leaders

The Managing Director of Vivo Energy Ghana, Mr Ben Hassan Ouattara, who spoke on ‘Women in Leadership’, recognised that there was no gender bias in leadership.

He said leadership effectiveness was based on the individual and not on sex.

However, women might instinctively care more about their team’s well-being and have a stronger desire to connect with them on a personal level, thereby making women more transformational leaders than transactional leaders.

He, therefore, urged them to take advantage of their natural abilities to aim at top leadership roles.

A senior family physician of the Korle-Bu Polyclinic, Dr Priscilla Vandyck-Sey, advised women to be more conscious of the pressures associated with the corporate world and undertake regular medical check-ups to ensure they were fit to deliver on their collective individualism agenda.