The countdown to the most anticipated women’s career forum, Just Women, is still on with Ruka Sanusi.
Mrs. Hagan would speak on the topic The 360 woman: walking the tight rope of family and career at the #JustWomen Forum on Thursday 27th March at the National Theatre.
Mrs. Ellen Hagan is a human resource practitioner with over 25 years’ experience. She is an executive member of the Governing Council of the Institute of Human Resource Management Practitioners, Ghana and has represented the Ghana Employers’ Association (GEA) during International Labour Organisation (ILO) conferences on various occasions.
Additionally, she is a co-founder of Legacy Leadership Girls’ School, a secondary institution which aims at nurturing and guiding the leadership potential in girls.
About 20 years ago, Mrs. Ellen Hagan had the dream of establishing an employment agency and training centre mainly for secretaries and administrative staff. This was at a time when no such company existed in Ghana, West Africa.
This dream, at present a reality much bigger than the dream itself, is L’AINE Services Limited (the word L’AINE is French for first-born or eldest), a self-owned, self-managed wholly Ghanaian company. Now, it is not only an employment and training organisation, but a human resource centre which includes such human resource services as outsourcing, organisational development, salary surveys, rapporteuring, staff performance appraisals, CV preparation, interview grooming, psychometric tests, amongst others.
L’AINE Services Limited has its Head Office in Accra and 3 branches, in Accra, Takoradi and Kumasi.
Her passion for writing has led her to be the very first Ghanaian to produce management training videos in Ghana using Ghanaian actors and presenters, where scenarios typical of the Ghanaian work environment and attitudes are portrayed. The 10 management training videos that she has produced so far, act as a very effective way of correcting behaviour because Ghanaian participants understand the language and culture and therefore identify more readily with the subject during training programmes.
She has also written a number of articles for the HR Focus, L’AINE’s quarterly magazine which is distributed free of charge. The HR Focus is currently the first and only human resource magazine in Ghana. She is also a board member of “The Christian Sentinel”, the magazine of the Methodist Church and writes articles for the magazine – as well as writing plays on social issues which are aired on National radio.
Career counseling and guidance is another area in which she focuses a lot of her attention. She mentors the youth at tertiary level when they are about to enter the world of work. Following this desire to see the youth move forward in their work life and to open the eyes of the youth to job opportunities other than formal office work; to encourage them to think out of the box and to fulfill their career and life expectations, she established The L’AINE Foundation to source funds to bring to reality the youth’s ideas and plans. The Foundation tries to secure funds to support entrepreneurship.
She is married to Mr. Gilbert Hagan, himself an entrepreneur, and they have four children.
Don’t miss the opportunity to meet, listen to and interact with Ellen Hagan.
Call 0302226013 and 0209307707 to register now!!
By: Kojo Akoto Boateng/citifmonline.com/Ghana