Excelling Even in Difficult Working Environments

Connie Smith is Scottish - South Sudanese, born in Khartoum and now living in South-West England with her family. She spent most of her childhood and half of her career living in multiple countries across Africa.

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Her career began with running a direct sales business, in the USA over her summers while doing her MA at Edinburgh University in Scotland. This 4-year experience has been the foundation for her grit and has given her the transferable skills to work in emerging markets and specifically last-mile distribution contexts. After graduating she spent time working in the corporate sector in London focusing on B2B enterprise sales, team management, and commercial channel management.

 

In 2016 she set up a consultancy to transition her commercial skill set into supporting the social impact sector. She has helped over 50 socially-minded organizations and their teams to build culture and transform their results while supporting individuals to become effective leaders. Not only has she worked in the WASH sector, but also in Solar, Healthcare, Agriculture, Telecoms, Displacement, Nutrition, and Tech Start-Up spaces, focusing most of her engagements between London and Africa.She has spent time living and working in over 15 different countries.

 

On top of delivering sales and business consulting services, she has been invited to deliver public engagements and run workshops at conferences such as Skoll, WEDC, World Water Week, Ashden Awards, Social Enterprise World Forum, Pioneers Post events, Unreasonable Institute East Africa or REPP investees. She has also founded and still chairs the Charity, Evergreen Africa operating in Eastern Uganda.

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