Mar 30 2021 55 mins
Our guest on Episode 36 is Abi Olukeye, founder and CEO of Smart Girls HQ, a STEM education solutions provider that creates engaging contents that facilitate exciting experiences to enable young girls achieve STEM career literacy by age 12.
Abi spearheads a movement to raise Smart Girls all over America. She shares how
- Each job she had opened her up to discover what her purpose is.
- She developed a mix of skills that allowed her to develop through her career.
- To harness the power of internet research to solve troubling, everyday problems.
- She is building an impactful business to address representation in STEM.
- How her business idea started from hearing her own kids talk about gender stereotypes.
To figure out what brings your creative juice to life, Abby submits: “find the thing that naturally connects with you first, and then you can go into the details later. But if you can’t grab that attention upfront, through something relatable, then you’re really fighting a losing battle.” 07:30
Some take-home for you are:
- What do you want? The better you are able to answer this question for yourself, the better your impact. 43:30
- Take the lead. Act, act and keep acting. 44:27
- Believe it is possible. 46:00
Abi Olukeye is the founder/CEO of Smart Girls HQ, A STEM education solutions provider that creates engaging content and facilitates exciting experiences to enable young girls achieve STEM Career Literacy by age 12. Core offerings include parent education for STEM informal learning at RaisingSmartGirls.com and Dear Smart Girl kits, a project based career-focused STEM curriculum for girls.
Previously, she led Internet of Things (IOT) strategy development and digital transformation projects at a diversified Fortune 500 manufacturing company. She has over fifteen years of professional and leadership experience spanning new product development, technology commercialization, process improvement and strategy. Watch her insightful TedTalk.
Connect with Abi on LinkedIn, Instagram, Twitter, Facebook and www.raisingsmartgirls.com
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