Imose’s Charge to Women for International Women’s Day 2025

As women worldwide planned to celebrate International Women’s Day on 8 March 2025, the women of Imose Technologies gathered for a breakfast meeting on Friday 7 March.

The event hosted by our Executive Director, Taiye Osayi-Izedonmwen, with the guest speaker as Mrs Yemi Ojo-Aromokudu, Founder, Yela Education Services and former Chairman of Family Life Conference, was themed “Charge.” 

“Charge” was our company’s expression of the global theme, “Accelerate Action,” and our guest speaker, Mrs Ojo-Aromokudu, started her talk by stating that women must work twice as hard as men to be respected and acknowledged in society and business. Thereafter, she gave her “charge” to women as follows:

1. Value – Women will not be given respect and acknowledgement because they are women or because they are beautiful. To be respected, they must value themselves and let people know how they want to be addressed.  

2. Boldness – Women who take charge are bold. The world will not hand you what you want or deserve. Being introverted is not an excuse for not taking charge.

3. Vision – A woman who will accelerate and take charge of her life must have a vision. She must envision her life for the next five to 10 years, write it down and pursue it. That is how she will be able to track and evaluate her achievements in future. Her vision should be for her entire life, not just about her job—as a woman, wife, mother and career woman. The vision will be reviewed, rewritten and revised depending on the seasons of life. The vision must also be supported by a purpose and goals to make it achievable.

4. Community – Every woman must have a community. In her community, there must be burden bearers who share in her challenges and push her to attain her goals and gatekeepers who hold keys to open doors to opportunities. A woman who is charged and accelerating must also use the opportunities presented by gatekeepers wisely, or they will shut the door. The other category of people women should have people in their community are promoters and counsellors.

5. Prioritising self – Women must be kind to themselves.  They must proactively make time to relax and de-stress. Every woman de-stresses differently, so know yourself and how you de-stress. Women must be intentional about prioritising their mental, emotional and physical health.

6. Self-belief – Understand your strengths because everyone has weaknesses, but self-belief enables you to pick up yourself when you fail. It is okay to fall, but when you fall, it is a crime to remain there. One of the ways to get back up is to reach out and ask for help. Asking for help is a strength and not a weakness.

7. Working smart – Women must get their priorities right, set goals and break their goals into smaller tasks to make them more achievable. Dispose of non-value-adding relationships. Be a God-pleaser and not a man-pleaser. Don’t work for your salary; work for the improvement and growth of the company. Don’t work for money; work for wealth. Money is spent but wealth can be relationships. Wealth is enduring and keeps growing.

To wrap up the meeting, our Executive Director reiterated the importance of value: women valuing themselves and creating value. She stated that this can be achieved through self-awareness, urging women to seek resources and books to help them become self-aware.