Michael Podolny - Theodora Africa

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Michael Podolny has over 45 years of experience working with the owners of privately-held businesses. Podolny’s career began in the world of financial transactions working first in commercial banking then as a principal of an investment banking firm focusing on mergers and acquisitions of smaller privately-held businesses and finally as a consultant helping businesses plan and execute for their ultimate exit.
Going into semi-retirement in 2014, he began to travel extensively. His interactions with many business owners and working people throughout the developing world convinced him of the very important need for job development in the developing world. He undertook a multi-year process of finding a project that would be best suited for his skills and connections. In 2019, he came to Ghana, West Africa. Working with long-time disadvantaged woman advocate Gail Grant, they developed the concept of Theodora Africa which was launched in 2020, has successfully completed its prototype and is looking to scale substantially.
Theodora Africa is an innovative platform whose mission is to transform the lives of African women via the power of business creation. Hundreds of thousands of African women find themselves funneled into sex work due to environmental factors (no social safety net, lack of jobs, misogynistic culture). We use the power of business creation, but not any business creation, but businesses that provide meaningful business services to underserved developed country markets.
Our primary innovations are:
1. We find the market opportunity first before we recruit and train – seeking out underserved markets for outsourced services in developed countries where our sales price is a value to our clients but the amount earned is substantial for our participants.
2. Creating specific environments to drive behavior change – don’t just teach…create a total immersion into a new set of values that drives individual transformation of participants faster.
3. Pathway to ownership – we are not the entrepreneurs…our goal is to make our participants the ultimate owners so we don’t just create jobs, we create capital.
You can help Theodora Africa by HELPING YOURSELF! If you find you need an administrative assistant and hire a Theodora Africa assistant, you make your own life better but simultaneously create a better opportunity for women in Africa. How cool is that? Theodora Africa services...a win for your

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