We round off a stellar cast of human recourse female leaders in the month of March with our Woman Crush this Wednesday who also doubles as our Woman of the Month. No other than your quintessential HR guru; ‘Lara Yeku.
Lara is is a global HR leader, a coach, and a strategist who has had a progressive career climb. She started her career at Cadbury Nigeria Plc. Thereafter, she moved to Human Capital Development Consultants Ltd (HCDC), one of Nigeria’s fastest-growing HR Consulting firms and later joined DHL Excel Logistics as a Human Resource Officer. In 2008, Lara joined the HR team at Accenture and rose to the position of Country HR Lead for Accenture in Nigeria until March 31st, 2019.
Lara cares about the professional growth of HR professionals, hence, she founded the HR GEMs Coach Network (Human Resources Great Excellent Minds Coach Network) – a platform that offers a safe haven for HR professionals to thrive, learn, share and build life transformation skills.
She is also the author of the first of it’s kind, imaginative mentoring through storytelling concept book – My HR Storybook for HR professionals. She is currently the Head of HR, Food Division at Flour Mills of Nigeria.
We at Pride Magazine Nigeria applaud her work in the professional scene and contributions to the human resource industry in Nigeria, Africa and the world at large.