tara fela-durotoye
@taradurotoye
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CEO of Africa's Leading Makeup Company,Young Global Leader(WEF),Forbes 20 Young Power Women in Africa.Africa's top 100 young business leaders.ALN Class of '13
Lagos, Nigeria
Joined July 2010
The waiter just asked if this is our 1st anniversary😆. we proudly said 15years E se o Jesu
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Congratulations to my love @feladurotoye on your admittance into the Forbes Coaches Council. 👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏
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The message of #ANewNigeriaIsPossible is coming to you .Ladies!Ladies! @feladurotoye is looking forward to meeting you this Friday
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My evolution has been from being a manager to being a leader and then to being a managing leader😀.
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I wanted to build a company that the team will be proud of and that Nigerians and Africans will be proud of.
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Celebrity Toke Makinwa @tokstarr sponsors new batch of participants into the @HouseofTara Makeup school . Congratulations to all beneficiaries . #Empowerment #impact #skills
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Lunch with The President of France @EmmanuelMacron as he inaugurated the French Nigeria Business club .Cheers to France opening up their markets to Nigerian brands 🥂 #EmmanuelMacron
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Nigerians won all the advocacies this week. This is how the office of the citizen works. If we keep quite, they will do nothing. Congratulations everyone!.
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Keynote speaker at Austrian chamber of commerce conference on Africa in Vienna 🇦🇹
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My response “people only care about what u care about when u care about them “.
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#feladurotoyewins #ANNprimaries .In 2006, because of an urgent need to help Students excel, Mr. Fela Durotoye put out this video as a cry for help to save the Nigerian students .Watch this video
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Tomorrow by 8pm, join Fela Durotoye, our President come 2019 for a live Facebook chat. The focus this Sunday is AGRICULTURE. He will be discussing policies, plans, priorities and programmes. Make it a date with him. Come with your questions and suggestions
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To all the entrepreneurs who in spite of the difficult environment didn’t quit but kept keeping on . Cheers to you all.#Opportunities #Nigeria.
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God has prepared a table before you . Ensure to sit down at it and partake in what he has prepared for you . Be present to enjoy everything . Enjoy the relationships HE will bring your way . Be present to learn the lessons in the challenges you will face . .
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How many times will I say I am proud of you . It’s beginning to sound like a cliche . Haaaa!!!!!Omoniiiii!!! @Omonioboli .You over try . WHAT!!!.Love is war is off the hook . Everyone over do. #loveiswar #netflix.
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Humans want to be loved respected ,they want their voices heard.
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like to support @HouseofTara against counterfeiters #BuyTheProduct #BuyGenuine.When u purchase u give us the resources for the fight.
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My favourite quote in recent times is that employees who come to work with you are your Joseph’s.they come with value to give but as employees we need to see it harness and showcase to the world.
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I have some wonderful news. One week after CNN Africa's reporting on the hideous sex for grades practice in Nigerian universities, the Nigerian senate has passed a motion to investigate this practice in universities and schools.Thank u @StephanieBusari & @CNNAfrica.
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A team member lost their child early hours of the morning and I was the first he called .A full grown man crying . People are human and want to know you care for them then they will go to any mountain for you.
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As an entrepreneur there is a tendency to have an “employeesRevil syndrome “.
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Speaking at Stanford graduate school of business. Great time last night http://t.co/cRB6hEZHMY.
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@ikemba @d_problemsolver @feladurotoye It’s actually not politics .even our children do same .change starts with us .He was nice,courteous and polite to the woman people respond better to courteous people.
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Harvard business Sch association -Leadership award in entrepreneurship presented by minister of industry trade&investment
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As the leader I knew I needed to lead by example .by sharing the need to inspire our team who are human with hearts minds and hands.
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We pay pensions ,leave allowances ,life insurance ,health insurance . in a bid to be world class.
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I dedicate this to all women who are breaking grounds across the continent . We are all PowerWomen.
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I hope 🤞🏽 that we are encouraged to be authentic in our leadership style .Be the best of yourself .I am a nuturer ,a mentor and an enabler by nature so I am in my forte.
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People wanted to see a vision of the future ,how their future was tied to it .People wanted to be part of making a difference.
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I created a vision for @HouseofTara to inspire my people to come on this journey with me .This vision is known by heart by every employee.
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Dear friends ,.I will be on Twitter this morning 8:30 sharing my values of building a culture that drives growth at House of Tara .ps follow my tweets and retweet . Many thanks . @taradurotoye.
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My husband @feladurotoye and I thought about our capabilities and interests and decided to be true to ourselves we needed a vehicle that is a reflection of us.
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As the leader “leading the people “to this destination it became clear we needed to put in systems and policies to ensure HOT was run by me or anyone with a culture that will enable our people.
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Many who are pregnant are about to go into labour call me or get someone to call me to let me know so I can pray .U can’t force that .when a woman is in labor all she thinks of his help .you don’t call your boss.U only call the person whom u know cares for u.
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To the joy to see many of these ones at our recently concluded #1000voices event .celebrating our Tara beauty entrepreneurs.
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Through the almost 20 yrs of my business journey I have learnt to evolve.
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I killed the mindset of that is negative towards employees and encourage team members to believe the best in their managers.
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To create a WORLDCLASS culture where our talents can be empowered engaged and enabled #houseoftarabestplacetowork.
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This journey started almost 9yrs ago .Building a structure ,institutionalizing our process and procedures and establishing the culture that HOT now has.
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You CARE enough for your team members by ensuring they are the best version of themselves by “loving on the sinner but hating the sin”.
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Be true to who you are on your own journey it makes the road less travelled be easier to enjoy.
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Under mentorship and tutelage she ha grown from being a MUA to being a branch coordinator to heading the northern region and today she heads the entire Nigeria 🇳🇬 @raliatyesufu.
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As a leader I learnt that my people needed to work in a place where the goals was one of the other things.
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INEC, Nigeria : Petition for INEC to begin Voter Registration in Nigeria ahead of the 2023 Elections - Sign the Petition! via @Change.
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I teach my masterclasses based on my raw experience as an entrepreneur in NIGERIA 🇳🇬.
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As a manager I wanted to only implement my set of activities and achieve my goals.
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Some years ago a company driver was rude to me I reported him to the hr team and asked he is sacked . guess what they said to me ?Its against company policy to sack someone cos they were rude .there are steps to be taken before termination.
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Mentors give guidance on the road you have never travelled before but they know too well.#rolemodel
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He said to me have you thought that the team maybe afraid of u because u shout a lot ?.
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As a manager my focus was on organizing motivating developing and managing discipline.
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Some of our stars have left to move to other organizations but many have moved to start their own enterprise.
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World class was key word !Culture was the key word.
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I believe I have incredibly gifted team members and I show them by believe by giving them Autonomy .Showing them my weaknesses and extending empathy to them .
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The recently concluded #1000 voices event .the team were there till 2am anc returned at 6am to the venue to ensure enrtything went well.During a thanksgiving session they expressed the sense of accomplishment at the success of the event .Thats ownership 👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾.
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At a company retreat he made me make a pledge to the entire company never to raise my voice again.
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Fake have not been created by persons who have anything to loose.They produce anything 2 make a buck.So they don't care about u.Fake=cancer
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Other entrepreneurs ask me “how are people at hot so passionate about the company “?.
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As an entrepreneur with little experience in Hr I Trusted my instincts same instincts I have engaged to make many business decisions .other times I engaged HR experts.
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People needed to be treated as so .and I found the team reciprocated most times to this treatment of care.
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Congrats to team @houseoftara on this recognition by the Ministry of Finance #jobcreation & #empowerment
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Leading by inspiring ,painting a pic of the future of the company and their pic in that pic gives people hope.
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This journey is a long one but a road I am committed to walking on.
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Tweet chat with @IbukunAwosika talking about her desire to see the next generation thrive @IAmSteveHarris
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I am proud to say that LBS sent researchers to us to discuss this.
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We encourage managers to give feedback and I reward openness but commending any one who gives not so complimentary feedback.
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We reward CARE because we want everyone to know and understand that care a a core value is not lip service.
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My dearest brother @Omojuwa This is wishing you a happy birthday & Gods grace in this new year .😍 #twitterking.
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Be present to know the habits you need to kick out and new patterns you will need to adopt to thrive . Welcome to your season.#2020NewYear.
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She has worked and exemplified leadership is so many ways .She is reputed as caring enabling and empowering .This is the HoT spirit.
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