Brilliance Beyond Borders: Remarkable Women Leaders Share the Power of Immigrace ~via @ChinweEsimai
I had the good fortune to have a dear friend and colleague who I had not connected with f2f in a long while, Chinwe Esimai, accept my invite to Brand Innovators #bisummit last week. Was so wonderful to spend some time together… her uplifting spirit, never-ending smile, and inspirational passion is infectious.
We covered many topics, including her passion project, Chinwe’s recently released book… BRILLIANCE BEYOND BORDERS: Remarkable Women Leaders Share the Power of Immigrace. I hope you will read about it here and take the opportunity to watch Chinwe's brief video about the book. /Ted
AFTER HUNDREDS OF YEARS OF UNITED STATES HISTORY AND TENS OF MILLIONS OF IMMIGRANTS, FROM MULTIPLE AWARD-WINNING LAWYER AND TRAILBLAZING CORPORATE EXECUTIVE COMES THE WORLD’S FIRST-EVER IMMIGRANT WOMEN’S GENIUS BLUEPRINT!
Brilliance Beyond Borders: Remarkable Women Leaders Share the Power of Immigrace delivers the ultimate blueprint to: unlock your genius; gain the confidence to define success on your own terms; and build a remarkable legacy in the United States and beyond.
Are you tired of:
Not knowing how to honor your history and culture while building your life and career in the United States;
Not knowing what truly lights you up;
Feeling stuck and overwhelmed;
Not knowing how to move forward in your dreams, goals, and intentions; and
Not having the right mentors to guide and support you?
You will learn from, and be inspired by, the largely untold stories of 17 trailblazing immigrant women leaders from all around the world and across various industries (including fashion, music, finance, law, business, sports, and medicine). You will also discover how to define a compelling future and set new standards of success, joy, and fulfillment.
“Immigrace” is immigrant’s grace or immigrant’s genius, and it’s an immigrant woman’s highest expression of her purpose and potential! Of the 73 million women in the US workforce, 11.5 million are foreign-born. The truth is—even in the midst of headlines and political debates about immigration reform and in the wake of MeToo and other female-centric movements—millions of immigrants, especially women, aren’t living up to their fullest potential.
Based on her personal experience and the stories of trailblazing women from around the world and in diverse industries, author Chinwe Esimai shares five indispensable traits that make an ocean of difference between immigrants who live as mere shadows of their truest potential and those who find purpose and fulfillment:
Saying yes to your immigrace
Inner self-mastery and finding joy
Daring to play in the big leagues
Transforming failure
Embracing change and innovating
These five traits are the foundation of the Brilliance Blueprint, a step-by-step guide to help readers achieve their own extraordinary results and build their own remarkable legacies.
Introducing Brilliance Beyond Borders
About Chinwe
Chinwe Esimai is a multiple award-winning lawyer, trailblazing corporate executive, writer, and speaker who helps women leaders discover and embrace their genius and live lives of impact and fulfillment.
She is managing director and Chief Compliance Officer for Legacy Franchises at Citigroup, Inc. Prior to that, she was Chief Anti-Bribery Officer at Citigroup. She’s the first person to hold these titles in the bank’s history. She is also an executive council member of the Ellevate Network, serves as a Cherie Blair Foundation mentor, and is a member of Apollo Theater’s EmpowHer, a group of dynamic women supporting teens through a variety of initiatives.
Chinwe has received numerous awards: American Banker’s Most Powerful Women in Banking; Leading Ladies Africa’s Most Inspiring Women; Tropics Magazine’s Most Powerful Africans Shaping the Future of Africa; Nigerian Lawyers Association Trailblazer of the Year; Face2Face Africa Corporate Leadership Award; and Diversity Magazine’s Elite 100 Women Changing the Face of Corporate America.
She is an executive council member of the Ellevate Network and serves as a Cherie Blair Foundation mentor.
Chinwe is the host of the Brilliance Beyond Borders podcast, and her leadership insights have also been featured in leading publications including Forbes, Thrive Global, Black Enterprise, Medium, and Knowledge@Wharton. She has delivered keynotes to prestigious audiences and has spoken three times at the United Nations.
She obtained a Bachelor of Arts in political science, summa cum laude, from The City College of New York and a juris doctor from Harvard Law School. She lives in Sparta, New Jersey, with her husband and three children.
