Akua Nyame-Mensah

Akua Nyame-Mensah is an executive coach, speaker, and leadership expert dedicated to helping leaders grow with purpose and clarity.

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Throughout this year Akua has held numerous workshops for our student cohorts to help them with their personal and professional development. She is a brilliant facilitator and can easily adapt to each individual's needs to help them reach their true potential. In particular, the #IamRemarkable sessions have resonated with our students and helped them build confidence by speaking about their accomplishments

Ruth Clarke

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Why book Akua Nyame-Mensah for your next event

Inspires leaders to align personal growth with professional success.
Brings global experience and deep insight into leadership psychology
Creates safe, transformative spaces for leaders and teams to thrive.

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Executive coach and leadership speaker helping leaders grow from the inside out.

Akua Nyame-Mensah is an internationally recognized executive coach, facilitator, and speaker known for helping leaders unlock their full potential. As Founder and Chief Coaching Officer of ANM & Company, she supports leaders at every level to grow with clarity, confidence, and purpose. Drawing on her experience across five countries, Akua blends coaching, neuroscience, and emotional intelligence to build stronger, more self-aware leaders. Her engaging sessions challenge participants to reflect deeply and lead intentionally, making her a trusted voice on leadership, productivity, and well-being.

From Tech Innovator to Leadership Expert

Akua Nyame-Mensah’s career is a testament to the power of growth, adaptability, and purpose. Before becoming one of the most inspiring leadership voices of her generation, Akua made her mark in the tech world. At just 25, she launched an online real estate marketplace for Africa’s first technology unicorn, Jumia Group. There, she built and led teams from scratch, turning individual real estate agents into structured, high-performing agencies. Her early experience in building people and systems laid the foundation for her future focus: helping leaders develop the mindset and tools to scale their impact.

Building Better Leaders with ANM & Company

As the Founder and Chief Coaching Officer of ANM & Company, Akua has dedicated her career to building better leaders. Her mission is simple but powerful: to help leaders at all levels grow personally so they can drive meaningful business results. Through her company, she coaches executives, facilitates leadership development programs, and creates safe spaces for teams to connect, communicate, and collaborate effectively. Akua’s unique approach integrates traditional coaching with leadership psychology, neuroscience, emotional intelligence, and spiritual modalities, ensuring every session is both grounded and transformative.

A Holistic Approach to Leadership

What sets Akua apart is her ability to blend science, empathy, and strategy. She believes that business growth always starts with personal growth. By combining evidence-based coaching techniques with deep introspection, she empowers her clients to identify limiting beliefs, develop self-awareness, and make intentional choices. Her clients describe her as insightful, challenging, and compassionate, qualities that inspire lasting transformation. Whether she’s guiding executives through complex organizational challenges or leading workshops on productivity and wellness, Akua helps leaders bring their best selves to their work.

A Global Perspective on Leadership

Akua’s coaching and speaking style reflect her global background and multicultural understanding. She has lived and worked in the U.S., Nigeria, Ghana, Kenya, and South Africa, and has visited or consulted in more than 30 countries. This exposure to diverse leadership cultures gives her a rare perspective on what it means to lead across borders, industries, and generations. Her international experience allows her to connect authentically with audiences worldwide, making her sessions inclusive, relevant, and deeply engaging.

Credentials and Recognition

Akua is an International Coaching Federation (ICF) Associate Certified Coach and a Certified MBTI Practitioner. She is also a Top 100 #IamRemarkable Facilitator, recognized for her ability to inspire confidence and self-advocacy, particularly among women in leadership. Her academic background is equally impressive: a master’s degree in City and Regional Planning from the University of Pennsylvania, a bachelor’s degree in Growth and Structure of Cities from Bryn Mawr College, and a leadership-focused MBA from the African Leadership University School of Business.

Mentorship, Community, and Impact

Beyond her coaching and speaking, Akua is committed to developing the next generation of changemakers. She serves as a mentor and judge for several entrepreneurship programs, incubators, and competitions, including the Founder Institute, Seedstars, African Business Heroes, FemGems, and The Coaching Fellowship. Through these initiatives, she continues to support ambitious individuals and organizations across continents, helping them translate vision into sustainable impact.

Book Akua Nyame-Mensah for Your Event

When you book Akua Nyame-Mensah for your event, you invite a speaker who inspires leaders to think differently about success, resilience, and well-being. Her sessions combine powerful storytelling with actionable strategies that participants can apply immediately. Whether she’s delivering a keynote, facilitating a workshop, or moderating a panel, Akua’s presence energizes and transforms audiences.

Akua’s message resonates with organizations that believe leadership is not about hierarchy, but about self-awareness, empathy, and purpose. Her work reminds us that when leaders grow, businesses and communities thrive.

Customer Reviews

Ruth Clarke Campus Manager, CODEOP

Despite the fact that most of us have worked together for over a year - the session with Akua was the first time I felt everyone on the team actually opened up about their ambitions, even the most closeted and silent team member.

Rolake Rosiji Managing Director

Akua is a wonderful facilitator who brings energy and enthusiasm into her conversations. When we hosted an alumni of color event with Akua, it felt like she was sitting in the room with us. I could see folks engaging, taking notes, and getting excited to apply her coaching prompts immediately.

GABRIELLE GARY ASSOCIATE DIRECTOR OF AFFINITY PROGRAMMING, BRYN MAWR COLLEGE

Keynotes

Keynote by Akua Nyame-Mensah:

TRUE PRODUCTIVITY IS NOT JUST ABOUT DOING MORE

Time is the most precious asset anyone has. Whether you are an employee or part of a senior leadership team, deciding what to do with your time can be a daunting task. Beyond deciding what to do with our time, we are constantly being distracted.

In this workshop, Akua breaks down the relationship between productivity, resilience, and mindfulness. Participants are encouraged to reflect, brainstorm and prioritize initiatives. She also challenges participants to assign tasks and build internal and external accountability measures to increase productivity.

Participants will leave with a new perspective on how to approach prioritization and the strategies to create more time in their professional and personal life.

A perfect workshop for University Students, Intern Programs, Leadership Teams, Incubators, and anyone struggling with time management or focus.

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Keynote by Akua Nyame-Mensah:

GO FROM SURVIVING TO THRIVING WITH SELF-LEADERSHIP

Being a leader can be lonely. Being a young leader can be not only lonely but very confusing. Akua was given the opportunity to launch an online business at the age of 25. Leveraging her experience as a fast-growing startup leader, Akua encourages clients to cultivate habits that will enable them to be more resilient starting with leading themselves.

In this interactive workshop, Akua shares her 3 steps to lead your own life - setting your course, following it, and correcting as you go. Audience members will walk away with practical & actionable tips that you can implement right after leaving the session.

A perfect workshop for middle school to university students, intern programs, incubators, motivational conferences, leadership teams and anyone going through a transition in life.

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Keynote by Akua Nyame-Mensah:

HOW TO ENGAGE YOUR TEAM & BUILD CULTURE TO WIN

Having built a team and brand from the ground up, Akua has experience recruiting and managing individuals toward a common goal. Focusing on developing a shared language and building trust and safety, Akua challenges clients to improve connections and awareness in this workshop. Akua also shares antidotes and examples from her own leadership experience having built and run teams across two countries.

Here’s what the audience will learn from this workshop:

How to cultivate their self-awareness
How to simplify engagement with their key stakeholders
How to set better expectations for themselves and others

Understanding your preferences, building on opportunities for growth, and communicating our strengths are key to being successful. Participants will walk away from this session with actionable steps and strategies they can implement right away. Bonus: The workshop can include a personality assessment to increase the participants’ ability to reflect and connect with each other. A perfect workshop for Human Resources, Incubators, Leadership Teams as well as those in management roles.

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Keynote by Akua Nyame-Mensah:

HOW TO INCREASE IMPACT & INFLUENCE

Communication is crucial in every aspect of our lives. Whether we are engaging with potential investors, superiors, or reprimanding a member of our team it determines how we interact with others and how we feel about ourselves. Akua shares her personal story about how she overcame her reluctance to speak publicly and outlines how the audience can leverage their innate preferences to appropriately assert themselves so they can influence and inspire a group of people toward achieving a common goal.

Participants will walk away from this session with strategies and activities that can be implemented immediately and a knowledge base of what to keep in mind moving forward.

A perfect workshop for University Students, Conferences, Incubators, and Leadership Teams.

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