When it comes to business growth, branding and customer relationship top the must-do chart. Oftentimes, these variables are sorely missed and misplaced by a good number of businesses so much so that intervention becomes imperative. That is where our Woman Crush Wednesday, Noella Ekezie, comes in.
Noella is brilliance personified. This is proven through her founded agency, Ellae Creative Branding Agency. Ellae is an integrated creative, brand, digital and marketing communications agency in Lagos, Nigeria. Noella, through her brand-building expertise, has executed projects for both Fortune 500 companies and challenger brands including organizations such as the USAID, BASF Germany, the Nike Foundation, Google Inc, Exxon Mobil, Cognizant, Citi Bank, Union Bank, Sterling Bank, Keystone Bank, Paga, Wakanow, et cetera.
Her brilliance is properly backed up by her educational background. Having schooled at the prestigious Parsons School of Design, New York and also at the Harvard Business School, Boston, it isn’t far-fetched to say the execution of her work has an undertone of creative ingenuity.
She has received global recognition and awards for groundbreaking work, including Gold and Silver awards at 2016, 2017 and 2018 editions of the annual Transform Brand Awards Middle East and North Africa (MENA) held in Dubai, UAE. Additionally, she has been listed as one of Nigeria’s Most Inspirational Women by The Guardian.
Her passion & interest in the national development and growth of the design and digital industry, Noella through her agency Ellae, in 2016, established the Designers Arise platform, the No. 1 Talent Showcase Platform for Creative Professionals across Africa.
Her passion for developing budding creative talent inspired the Lagos Creative Enterprise Week team, who reached out to Noella facilitate the masterclass titled: Finding your Unique Selling Proposition at the 2019 edition.
Noella is an inspiration we are glad to celebrate.