Bloom Weekend 2025 – Celebrating Progress, Power, and New Potentialities on the Empowerment Occasion

On the Stanbic IBTC Bloom Weekend 2025 which was themed: “Bloom into Extra”, 1000’s of feminine entrepreneurs, professionals, and leaders gathered to forge connections, sharpen their enterprise and management expertise, and unlock new alternatives for progress and success.

Day-one kicked off with an lively media parley at Harbour Level, Victoria Island, Lagos, on Friday, 20 June 2025 and was then adopted by a strong Entrepreneurial Seminar hosted by the Enterprise Knowledge Centre of Pan Atlantic College. The SME coaching was effectively attended with over 1000 individuals becoming a member of each bodily and on-line, throughout numerous enterprise sectors. This system modules included ‘Introduction to Entrepreneurship’, ‘Constructing a Scalable Enterprise Mannequin’, ‘Entry to Finance and Funding Readiness’, and ‘Digital Advertising and marketing and Promoting Abilities’.

Day-two commenced with a Yoga-session led by Morolake Yasmin Olomu adopted by Girls At The Desk Empowerment Sequence (LATTES), a hybrid occasion hosted by Stanbic IBTC Pension Managers. this featured a robust keynote message by Endurance Torlowei, founding father of Torlowei, a Nigerian style home identified for its luxurious ready-to-wear clothes and the creator of the “Esther Costume, presently owned by the Nationwide Museum of African Artwork (NMAA) in Washington, D.C.

A carefully-selected and completed line-up of girls leaders and creators then got here collectively on a panel to debate the subject “Seasons of Progress: Navigating Objective, Prosperity, and Private Energy at Each Stage of life”. The panelists have been Eunice Showunmi-Adeyemi, Chief Inventive Director, Q21 Options Restricted, Oler Oladele, Chartered Monetary Analyst, Dr. Adrienne Tikolo, Director of Dyslexia Nigeria, Aderinsola Adeyemi “DictionwithDerin”, Diction Teacher and Content material Creator, and Edidiong Akan, Head, Compliance, Stanbic IBTC Pension Managers.

One other notable spotlight have been the Bloom weekend Masterclasses. Ore Lawani, Founder Arami Necessities, took the stage to talk on “Constructing a enterprise in Nigeria from the Floor up” whereas Aderinsola Adeyemi, “DictionwithDerin”, delivered a session on “Command the Room: Constructing Govt Presence By Communication”. This yr’s Bloom Weekend was certainly full of insights and instructive steering for each girl in each season, whether or not in provider or enterprise.

The Bloom Weekend Hub, a buzzing market, featured a shocking array of actions from the ‘Commerce Truthful’ showcasing exhibitions from female-owned enterprise house owners in meals; female care merchandise corresponding to make-up, skincare, haircare, style; kids’s items and so forth, to the ‘Village Market’ that includes exhibitions of uncooked meals stuff by feminine enterprise house owners, to the ‘Wellness and Rest’ house for ladies to get massages, henna, pedicures and so forth.

This yr’s occasion was all-inclusive with a ‘Blue child’s nook’ full of video games and actions the place mother and father may drop off their kids to be minded whereas they loved the curated Bloom Weekend actions. In the meantime, Stanbic IBTC’s on-site advisory cubicles supplied personalised monetary consultations, serving to ladies chart clearer paths towards monetary independence.

In her remarks through the opening media parley, Bunmi Dayo-Olagunju, Deputy Chief Govt, Stanbic IBTC Bank, reaffirmed Stanbic IBTC’s long-term dedication to gender fairness, expressed openness to continued dialogue and collaboration with the media. She mentioned, “In the present day, I encourage the journalists current right here to discover the tales behind the numbers. Please use your platforms to highlight female-led companies and encourage a ripple impact of progress and improvement”.

Equally, whereas delivering her speech Olajumoke Bello, Head Enterprise, Stanbic IBTC Bank, shared the imaginative and prescient behind Bloom Weekend as a celebration and platform for empowering ladies in enterprise which aligns with Stanbic IBTC’s broader dedication to inclusive progress and financial empowerment. she mentioned, “Bloom Weekend 2025 showcases our dedication to empowering ladies as a result of we imagine that if you give ladies the fitting instruments, networks, and platforms, they don’t simply bloom, they modify the world round them.”

Omolara Osunsoko, Govt Director Operations, Stanbic IBTC Pension Managers, emphasised in her introductory speech on LATTES, that “by LATTES 1.0 to 4.0, we’ve got listened, realized, and grown with 1000’s of girls throughout Nigeria. We not solely demystified pensions, we supplied a secure house for ladies to have actual conversations about cash, ambition, motherhood and identification”.

Suggestions from attendees was overwhelmingly optimistic. Many described Bloom Weekend as “life-changing”, “transformative”, and “the increase they wanted to push and Bloom into Extra.”

By highly effective storytelling, actionable mentorship, and intentional community-building, Bloom Weekend 2025 has firmly established itself as an occasion and a cornerstone motion for ladies’s management, profession constructing, and entrepreneurial progress in Nigeria.