SERIAL ENTREPRENEUR | CONSCIOUSNESS ACTIVIST | AUTHOR | international SPEAKER
A former Fortune 500 Executive, Multi-Award-Winning Entrepreneur, Published Author, Consciousness Activist, Intuitive Healer, and seasoned Scholar and Spiritual Director in Interfaith/Interspiritual traditions
Former Executive in a Fortune 500 Company
Multi-award winning serial entrepreneur
Named on Oprah Winfrey’s “O Power List” for Africa
One of “the 20 young Africans building Africa’s future” by FORBES
200 African Changemakers
Swaady has been featured in 300+ media including:
Short bio
Swaady Martin, an inspiring thought leader and multi-awarded entrepreneur, is a transformative force in conscious leadership and business models who ignites positive change through her ventures and initiatives.
Swaady has 25+ years experience in Business Management & Strategy, new Business Model development Brand Building working with corporations and various entrepreneurial ventures (family businesses, start-ups). She is a former Corporate Executive at the Fortune 500 company GE (General Electric) and a multi-award winning entrepreneur, founder of one of Africa’s most admired brand, YSWARA African tea company.
Her influence extends beyond the realm of business. A Consciousness activist, she founded Tounché Global Consciousness Summit & Events, LovingKindness Boma, an independent publishing house creating conscious books for children with diverse main characters, and Divine Indwelling, an Institute for Sacred Wisdom and Global Peace dedicated to Religious Literacy, Interfaith Harmony and Global Peace.
Swaady is an alumna of the Harvard Divinity School, NYU Stern, The London School of Economics & Political Science (LSE), HEC Paris Business School and HEC Lausanne. She’s an Archbishop Desmond Tutu Leadership Fellow , a certified Yoga & Mindfulness teacher, an Intuitive Healer, and an Interfaith Spiritual Director. She is currently doing a PhD in Interreligious Dialogue and Diplomacy with a focus on Counter-Terrorism and Deradicalization.
Profiled extensively in the media, she has been featured on several magazine covers, received numerous recognitions including the Forbes and Oprah Winfrey O Power lists for Africa. She is also a Board Member of the African Leadership Institute (AFLI), The Institute of Natural Law, and a founding member of Facebook’s Group Global Initiative 'The Boost Leaders Network'.
Swaady’s Organizations
YSWARA
AGROBENEFICIATION | LUXURY
LOVINGKINDNESS BOMA
PUBLISHING
TOUNCHÉ (NON-PROFIT)
CONSCIOUSNESS EVENTS
DIVINE INDWELLING (Non-PROFIT)
RELIGIOUS LITERACY CENTER
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