Joycee Awosika

Joycee Awosika is our facilitator for today as we tackle Module 13 (Marketing) of Kayana’s Passport to Business being implemented by Nyayo Moms Sokos. She is an award-winning entrepreneur, energy economist, speaker, and the founder and CEO of ORÍKÌ, the first and only all-natural farm-to-skin brand to operate a fast-growing premium product & wellness spa brand on the Continent of Africa. ORÍKÌ has set up 7 spas in 6 years and distributes products globally as well as provides contract manufacturing services for brands, hotels, and hospitality companies. Her work has been featured in several global publications including CNBC, The Huffington Post, Ebony Magazine, and The Guardian.

She has built a reputation for her expertise in creating structures for businesses and homes and provides Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) and templates through her platform, SOAR. She is avidly passionate about impacting SMEs to be sustainable and scalable, realizing that they form the backbone of any economy.

Before building ORÍKÌ full time, she worked for the United Kingdom’s Department for International Development’s (DFID) infrastructure assistance program in Nigeria, with the Nigerian Infrastructure Advisory Facility (NIAF) as the Technical Adviser on Research, Analysis and Informatics (Performance Monitoring) to the Honourable Minister of Power.

As the former Curator of the World Economic Forum Abuja Global Shapers Hub; a highly selective group of young people around the world, creating valuable impact in their communities, Joycee led a team of 21 entrepreneurial young leaders, on several community initiatives focused on education, youth unemployment and entrepreneurship.