Sadia
When I was asked to write a blog on this site, many thoughts crossed my mind. The most important was that Ida obviously did not know much about my IT skills or my lack of interest/experience in social networking but the more I thought of the nature of the blogs the more I realised that doing this was incredibly important to me. So here goes -
I am a 41 year old Sierra Leonean, married mother of one who has lived in the UK for 25 years. I originally trained as a cancer nurse in London. I moved into the pharmaceutical industry after eight years of nursing, went into a variety of sales and marketing roles and left three years ago to become self employed. My first business was starting an out of hours childcare company offering a level of service and flexibility that I had not had when working full time. Three years on, I also now consult and take up Strategic Interim Management roles mostly in the pharmaceutical industry. I am I am also completing my MBA at Warwick University this year.
So I hope that I can find enough to share within that experience but linking it to me being a woman, black and African.
