Gender and Family Businesses with Dr Eleanor Khonje

Voice of African Family Business with AFF

Dr. Eleanor T. Khonje, PhD is a feminist scholar and researcher, motivational and keynote speaker, leadership trainer and coach, communications strategist, entrepreneur and women’s rights activist. She is a United Nations consultant in Geneva, Switzerland and is the CEO of ETK Leadership Solutions and the Legacy of Queens Network and founder of the projects-based NGO, African Diaspora Leadership in Action (ADLA). Dr. Khonje is extremely passionate about building and motivating leaders to unleash their full potential and excellently walk in the totality of who they were created to be. Through ETK Leadership Solutions and The Legacy of Queens Network, Dr. Khonje curates inspiring and transformative leadership trainings and workshops and offers coaching for leaders who dare to walk in the totality of their dreams. Moreover, with a zeal for development that makes an impact, Dr. Khonje also curates leadership workshops for organizations – international organizations, private sector entities, governments, non-governmental associations and educational institutions – that carefully bridge leadership training with the address of social justice issues particularly on gender and racial equality. A TEDx speaker, she has presented motivational, keynote and academic talks at numerous organizations, universities and conferences. Dr. Khonje is a sociologist whose research expertise include gender and development, feminist theories, Public-Private Partnerships (PPPs), corporate social responsibility, international political economy, entrepreneurship and business development and leadership studies. Dr. Khonje is an alumni of The University of Texas at Arlington where she completed her bachelor’s degree in Political Science/ International Relations, The Graduate Institute of Geneva where she finished her master’s in Development Studies and the University of Lausanne where she completed her doctorate in Social Sciences with a dissertation analyzing the neoliberalization of feminism in Nigeria.