Ep 15 - GRAND RISINGGGGG Ft Bami Kuteyi, DEI Speaker, Consultant and Founder -Twerk After Work

Alicia and Bami are DEI business partners, good friends, and practically now sisters! They've been working closely together for 3 years. Within their first 6 months of working together they reached over 5,000 employees globally at some of the most credible organisation s including Nike, Google, Meta, Analog Folk, Shopify and more. In 2018 Bami Kuteyi decided to risk it all and quit her job as advertising specialist and Black Googler Network Lead at Google to focus on diversifying the fitness industry to create the inclusive award-winning dance fitness movement 'Twerk After Work'. In 2020, with the increased focus on the BLM movement she decided to expand her DEI efforts and pour them back into the industry that she came from. Today Bami is a wellbeing, confidence and fearless influencer, with a global team of over 20 dance fitness instructors worldwide.

 

In this episode Bami and Alicia discuss:

- Dating as a successful Black woman in London

- Moving from Canada to Dublin to work at Google 

- The birth of Twerk after Work 

- Knowing when to leave your 9-5

- How Bami and Alicia connected 

- Getting the B2B bag

- Moving to Mexico during lockdown & Growing in spirituality 

- Making "feel good" business decisions

- Working with friends, how to make it work

 

Connect with Bami on the links below

Bamikuteyi - IG & Linked In

https://www.linkedin.com/in/bamikuteyi/

https://www.bambamboogie.com/twerkafterwork

https://www.instagram.com/twerkafterwork/?hl=en