Griselda Togobo

About

Griselda Togobo

Griselda Togobo is a leading voice on equality and inclusive business practices. She has spent more than a decade building communities and championing equality for women’s and girls’ economic empowerment. She works closely with organisations to close the gender gap in the science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) sectors.

She is a multi-faceted entrepreneur, engineer and chartered accountant. Her experience as a black woman in the corporate world drives her to help progressive global companies create inclusive workplaces. She works directly with CEOs and business leaders to embed a culture of inclusion at the heart of their talent strategy. Griselda offers a fresh approach to developing leaders. She is a respected and impactful speaker known for her high energy and engaging style.

She graduated from Cambridge University, Wolfson College, with an MPhil in Industrial Systems, Manufacture and Management. Before becoming an entrepreneur, she was a management consultant at Deloitte LLP.

Griselda Togobo is CEO of Forwardladies.com, a women’s professional development company with an ambition to advance female leadership for an equitable and sustainable future for the next generation. Griselda is also the author of Unstoppable Women, Female Entrepreneurs’ Stories to Inspire and Motivate.

Griselda is also CEO of The Ad-vance Group, a trusted provider of high-quality learning solutions and consulting services with offices in the UK and Ghana.

In response to the high rate of education exclusion in Sub-Saharan Africa, Griselda has launched Advancing Futures, a non-profit focused on addressing children’s educational needs and women’s economic empowerment in low-income communities in Ghana.

Griselda recently created and took to market a new planning tool, the Goal Achiever Planner, designed to help high achievers plan their days with a holistic focus on mindful productivity, wellbeing and mental health while integrating work and family life effectively.

Griselda serves on the Board of The National School of Contemporary Dance. In addition, she is an Ambassador for the Open University, Black Students Support Fund, a Fellow at the Girls’ Schools Association (GSA), an Enterprise Ambassador at Leeds University and a Leader In Residence at Lancaster University. Griselda lives in West Yorkshire with her husband, Michael, their son, Makavo and daughter Elinam.