Bank Chiefs Task Young Professionals On Nation-building

Chief executive officer and group managing director of FBN Holdings Plc and the chief executive officer of Globus Bank Elias Igbinakenzua have charged young professionals on nation building, saying they need to understand some of the key drivers of personal success and national development.

The duo, who spoke at the CVL monthly Role Model Forum, indicated that young professionals are critical to reshaping the Nigeria economy and entrepreneurship with tenacity, integrity, strong values, perseverance and focus are critical to nation building.

The forum holding at the CVL Place in Victoria Island had participants drawn from young professionals, business leaders and university students.

They spoke on “The Mystery of Capital and Entrepreneurship in Finance” and shared lessons from their careers and factors that drove their career ascendance.

In his opening remark, the founder of Centre for Values in Leadership, Prof Pat Utomi, who traced the history of more than ten years of RMF being used to provide leadership development schemes rooted in values challenged young professionals to learn from the experience of both Igbinakenzua and Nnamdi.

According to him, the word of impossible does not exist when there is passion, knowledge and ethics, adding that talent management experts have much to learn from Nnnamdi and Elias.

‘’They both spoke to the power of networking and mentoring as they navigated the world of organizational politics to be significant value creators. Ironically both men served as chairmen and vice chairmen of the Chartered Institutes of Bankers’ Committee of Mentoring,’’ he said.