Dzigbordi Kwaku-Dosoo is a Ghanaian businesswoman, speaker, media personality and consultant

She is the founder and CEO of The DCG Consulting Group and Allure Africa.
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Early life and education

Dzigbordi was born in

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, to the late Mr. Tennyson Emmanuel Kwaku and late Mrs. Vivian Americana Mould. She had her secondary level education at the

Accra Girls Senior High School Accra Girls Senior High School is an all female second cycle institution in Accra in the Greater Accra Region, Ghana. It operates as a non-denominational day and boarding school. It runs courses in business, general science, general arts, hom ...

, in the Greater Accra Region. She continued at the

Virginia State University Virginia State University (VSU or Virginia State) is a public historically Black land-grant university in Ettrick, Virginia. Founded on , Virginia State developed as the United States's first fully state-supported four-year institution of high ...

, where she obtained a bachelor's degree in finance and accounting and an Executive Education at

Harvard University Harvard University is a private Ivy League research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Founded in 1636 as Harvard College and named for its first benefactor, the Puritan clergyman John Harvard, it is the oldest institution of higher le ...

. She is currently a certified high-performance Coach (CHPC), International Etiquette Protocol consultant, and Image Consultant.

Career

She was recruited right out of university into a retail bank in New York, and worked in traditional retail and business banking and learned about investment bankin

Eventually, she returned to Ghana and became the Head of Trade and Research Unit at the Strategic African Securities, Ghana. Later on, she established a financial service consultancy called "Business Linkages International", which included consulting with the

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Group’s Multilateral Investment Guarantee Agency (MIGA), the International Finance Corporation (IFC) and

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. The company transitioned into the Eagle Group in 2004. In 1998, after a ten-year career in finance, Dzigbordi founded a spa business in Ghana called the Allure Saloon, which then became Allure Africa. She once owned an aromatherapy and body-care brand called ''Kanshi'' which was featured in ''

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'' in 2010 before entering the United States market in 2014. She formerly owned a talk show called ''The Dzigbordi Show'' which aired in 46 countries in

Africa Africa is the world's second-largest and second-most populous continent, after Asia in both cases. At about 30.3 million km2 (11.7 million square miles) including adjacent islands, it covers 6% of Earth's total surface area ...

, the UK and

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Volunteering

Dzigbordi is a member of the Executive Women Network and doubles as a Trustee of the Children’s Heart Foundation Ghana a charity that raises funding for children with congenital heart diseases.

Personal life

She is the wife of the late Lionel Van Lare Dosoo, a former Deputy Governor of the Bank of Ghana. She is a mother of one child.

List of awards and nominations

External links

Website: http://www.thedcggroup.com

References

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