Emmaline Datey

Event Planner (Ghana)

Biography

EMMALINE’S PROFILE

Emmaline is a Public Speaker, HR Strategist, Leadership and Personal Development Coach, SME Business Advisor, as well as an Events Consultant. As an HR strategist with up to 10 years’ of Human Resource general practice, she has had experience within several industries to include Aviation, Oil and Gas, Academia, Media and Wellness. Emmaline has been honored as one of Ghana’s 100 Most Influential Women in 2017, one of the Top 100 speakers in Ghana, 2018 and one of the 2020 50 Most Influential Young Ghanaians.

Emmaline chartered as a Professional in HR (PHR) in 2014 with the Human Resource Certification Institute, USA and possesses a first-class degree from the Valley View University in Human Resource Management (BBA). She also bagged a certification from John Maxwell Team as a certified speaker, trainer, and coach in Aug 2021.

She contributed immensely to the EIB Network GH Limited from its initial commencement of Business in September 2014 as HR Executive and successfully climbed to the position of Group HR and Admin Manager focusing her energy on being an effective HR Business Partner to its strategic departments and developing some of the best media talent in the country in liaison with Managers. After 6 years of selfless service to the EIB Network, she decided to leave corporate world to fully give herself to helping businesses in Africa and their leaders and teams build resilience and succeed in a seemingly unpredictable business environment.

Hence, she followed the path of fulltime entrepreneurship as a freelance consultant and a startup leader. She is the Founder and CEO of ICS Africa (Impact Concepts and Solutions Africa) – a budding Pan African company that provides Management Consulting, Personal & Professional Development, Marketing and Communications, as well as Corporate Events Engineering and Management services.

Emmaline is also the founder and lead blogger of a digital platform called The Fearless and Fabulous Network where she inspires women in leadership, faith, love and career, personal growth as well as promote exceptional women, globally. She is also the Director for Membership and Business Development at the Ghana Chamber of Young Entrepreneurs (GCYE), the official network of young Ghanaian business owners with interest covering every sector of the private enterprise. As an advocacy group, GCYE was formed with the primary objective to unite, engage, and promote initiatives and innovations of young entrepreneurs to facilitate support in their pursuit of economic prosperity. She also participated in contributing to the development of the Ghana Startup Bill which is hoped to be passed as an Act in the earliest future.

Later, following her passion for the African youth and their development as leaders and generational thinkers, she started a youth mentorship club and personal development university called Level Up Africa. By the grace of God, she has been able to impact the lives of young Ghanaians that have come her way and helped to put them on the right path towards, self-confidence, career development and advancement. She ensures she impacts her mentees via soft skill and capacity building programs free of charge.

Her social Media handles are:

  • LinkedIn (Emmaline Datey)
  • Facebook (@emadateyofficial, @gcnafrica, and @TheFnFNetwork)
  • Twitter (@emadatey and @TheFnFNetwork),
  • Instagram (@emativator_gh, @gcnafrica)
  • and thefandfnetwork.wordpress.com.

As a vibrant speaker, she focuses on Leadership, Personal branding, Personal Growth and Success Strategies, Career Development, Life Skills, and HR Strategy. She has been a keynote speaker on platforms such as:

  1. Presbyterian University College Women’s Conference
  2. Leadership Speaks Webinar
  3. Business Milk Tour Entrepreneurship Seminar
  4. GIJ Students Seminar
  5. Moneywise
  6. Jogging with Heroes
  7. Ghana Skills & Employability Summit
  8. The African HR Leaders Conference
  9. Live FM’s Girl Code
  10. Business Startup Clinic
  11. Wordsmith Global Tertiary Tour
  12. Build and Monetize your Brand Masterclass 2019
  13. The National Sales Summit, 2019
  14. The Business Chamber Summit, 2019
  15. Tanoe Workshop 2019
  16. Ahaban Workshop 2019
  17. Accra Youth Summit 2019
  18. Success Africa 2019
  19. Leaders and Entrepreneurs Workshop 2019
  20. Speak Write Program 2019
  21. Talk Over Lunch 2019
  22. The Black Mastermind Business Mastery Session 2019
  23. National Courier Association Workshop 2019
  24. Girls Connect 2020
  25. Academic Outfitters Webinar 2020
  26. Hubs Management Capacity Series 2020
  27. Negotiations, Contracts, & Commitments Workshop 2020
  28. Career Coaching and Mentoring Webinar 2020
  29. Get Connected Career Acceleration Webinar 202
  30. Accra Spintex Startup Summit 2020
  31. The Incubator Nesthub Webinar 2020
  32. Alacrity Team Personal Branding Webinar 2020
  33. Invest Pro Personal Branding Webinar 2020
  34. Bilth Moment Webinar 2020
  35. Valley View University School of Business Seminar 2020
  36. National Students’ Achievement Award 2020
  37. Kasanufo Public Speaking Contest 2021
  38. Goal Crushing Summit 2021
  39. World Speech Day – IWD Edition 2021
  40. The Staff Productivity Workshop 2021
  41. The Brand Summit 2021
  42. Startup Nexus 2021
  43. The Business Hub Webinar 2021
  44. Youth Leadership in Africa Webinar 2021.

As a Corporate MC, she has hosted corporate events to include: the African Twin Fashion Festival 2016/17, Women CEO Summit 2018, Ghana AI and Block Chain Forum 2019, The Career and Love Affairs Conference 2019, Hacklab 2019, To Get Her Summit 2020, and the Africa African SMEs Dialogue 2021.

Additionally, Emmaline served on the Ghana Event Awards board in 2017 and 2018. She currently sits on the Board for the Foundation for Behavioural and Attitudinal Change (FOBAC) Ghana and the Africa Digital Festival. In 2020, she also served as a jury for ‘The 5K Challenge’, a business pitch for young entrepreneurs powered by Platinum Africa Solutions Limited.

As a motivator, she developed the brand name Emativator, with the aim of inspiring lives, shifting mindsets, and igniting dreams.

Emmaline channels her positive energy into coaching people to becoming unusual leaders, executing leadership development strategies and events or programs that are aligned with organization vision and goals. She is passionate about promoting the African Dream and the Ideal African Brand. She believes that the only way Africans can achieve great results is through great people and great people need great leadership.