Book Review: Pivoting in Heels by Carole Mandi

This book features interviews of powerful women who are industry leaders in Kenya and how they cope with the Covid-19 pandemic as they steer their firms.

The interviews also tackle topics on technology, pre and post Covid 19 world and overall leadership,

The book begins with a foreword from the first Lady of Kenya Hon. Margaret Kenyatta and features, notable industry leaders such as Energy Champion, the KenGen MD & CEO Rebecca Miano, Isuzu East Africa Boss Rita Kavashe, BOC’s Marion Gathoga-Mwangi, EABL’s Jane Karuku, KAM CEO Phyllis Wakiaga, Absa Bank’s Elizabeth Wasunna, TIFA’s Maggie Ireri among others.

These women are drawn from diverse worlds; financial industry, telecoms, beauty and fashion industry, motor and beverage industry and research etc.

The author, Carole Mandi is renowned media personality and publisher and has put in work in this glossy covered magazine.

She is the owner of famous glossy magazine True Love, which brought-back-to-life.

The 100-paged book, is a good companion, a great coffee table book.

Apart from the brief interview, the book also contains over 45 quotable quotes from the women leaders; all their pictures are taken in white dresses.

Desperate times do not just call for desperate measures but for focused and courageous leaders who arc willing to pave the way in a volatile, uncertain, complex and ambiguous world. There has been no other time in recent history when the quality of leadership was collectively tested in the furnace of a global crisis as in zozo.

This high quality and glossy coffee table book is a collector’s item. It features the journeys of women CEOs and business leaders in Kenya and how they coped with the pandemic from a personal and professional perspective. It is an inspiration keepsake that celebrates all that women did right when the world was falling apart on several levels.

Buy this book from Nuria Store.

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