Daniel Kwabena Owusu, MBA

Senior Project Manager at BlueCrest University College
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Ghana, GH
Languages
  • French and Spanish (Basic) -
  • French Elementary proficiency

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Foster Awintiti Akugri

Daniel is a very dedicated character and a good team player. He consistently demonstrates concern for others he works with. Having worked with Daniel on several projects, I believe he’d be a great addition to any team

Mohammed Suhuyini Zakaria, MBI

I work with Daniel as my Lead for Ecosystem Development since January 2020. He is a leader whose people skills has significantly shaped my growth while working with/under him. I find a Boss and Mentor in him, which is uncommon in the African corporate world. He is the best person you will want to lead your team most especially, Digital Innovation and Ecosystem Development projects.

Maxwell Beganim

Proactive and Astute Leadership.

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Credentials

  • Consulting Foundations
    LinkedIn
    Apr, 2022
    - Oct, 2024
  • Enterprise Architecture Foundations
    LinkedIn
    Apr, 2022
    - Oct, 2024
  • Technical Product Management
    LinkedIn
    Apr, 2022
    - Oct, 2024
  • Business Development Foundations
    Project Management Institute
    Dec, 2021
    - Oct, 2024
  • Change Management Foundations
    LinkedIn
    Dec, 2021
    - Oct, 2024
  • Mini-MBA Program Certificate
    International Business Management Institute (IBMI)
    Dec, 2021
    - Oct, 2024
  • Project Portfolio Management Foundations
    LinkedIn
    Dec, 2021
    - Oct, 2024
  • Agile Project Leadership
    Project Management Institute
    Nov, 2021
    - Oct, 2024
  • Business Analysis Foundations
    Project Management Institute
    Nov, 2021
    - Oct, 2024
  • Management Foundations
    LinkedIn
    Nov, 2021
    - Oct, 2024
  • Operational Excellence Foundations
    Project Management Institute
    Nov, 2021
    - Oct, 2024
  • Becoming a Product Manager
    Project Management Institute
    Oct, 2021
    - Oct, 2024
  • Cert Prep: PMI Agile Certified Practitioner (PMI-ACP)®
    Project Management Institute
    Oct, 2021
    - Oct, 2024
  • Cert Prep: Scrum Master
    Project Management Institute
    Oct, 2021
    - Oct, 2024
  • Digital Transformation
    LinkedIn
    Oct, 2021
    - Oct, 2024
  • Program Management Foundations
    Project Management Institute
    Oct, 2021
    - Oct, 2024
  • Social Media Marketing: Strategy and Optimization
    LinkedIn
    Oct, 2021
    - Oct, 2024
  • Business Innovation Foundations
    Project Management Institute
    Sep, 2021
    - Oct, 2024
  • Learning Data Governance
    LinkedIn
    Sep, 2021
    - Oct, 2024
  • Product Management First Steps
    Project Management Institute
    Sep, 2021
    - Oct, 2024
  • Product Management: Building a Product Strategy
    Project Management Institute
    Sep, 2021
    - Oct, 2024
  • Agile Intro
    IBM
    Sep, 2020
    - Oct, 2024
  • Enterprise Design Thinking Practitioner
    IBM
    Sep, 2020
    - Oct, 2024
  • Agile Instructional Design
    LinkedIn
    May, 2020
    - Oct, 2024
  • Agile at Work: Building Your Agile Team
    LinkedIn
    May, 2020
    - Oct, 2024
  • Instructional Design Essentials: Models of ID
    LinkedIn
    May, 2020
    - Oct, 2024
  • Design Thinking: Customer Experience
    LinkedIn
    Apr, 2020
    - Oct, 2024
  • HR and Digital Transformation
    LinkedIn
    Apr, 2020
    - Oct, 2024

Experience

    • Ghana
    • Higher Education
    • 100 - 200 Employee
    • Senior Project Manager
      • Dec 2022 - Present
    • United States
    • Non-profit Organizations
    • 1 - 100 Employee
    • Country Youth Lead
      • Jun 2022 - Present

      • Serve as a youth development champion and advisor to assist in strengthening the country’s youth community engagement with the World Bank Group as an inclusive platform and lead the conversation on the importance of youth involvement in topics of development within the region. This will serve as an input source to Country Action Strategies, Country Partnership Framework, sector strategies, and selected investment programs of our knowledge portfolio. • Serve as a youth development champion and advisor to assist in strengthening the country’s youth community engagement with the World Bank Group as an inclusive platform and lead the conversation on the importance of youth involvement in topics of development within the region. This will serve as an input source to Country Action Strategies, Country Partnership Framework, sector strategies, and selected investment programs of our knowledge portfolio.

    • Switzerland
    • Non-profit Organization Management
    • 1 - 100 Employee
    • VP Career Development
      • Jan 2022 - Present
    • Managing Partner
      • Oct 2021 - Present

      • Serving as the face of the company and maintaining positive relationships with clients, vendors, and the community. • Developing and implementing strategic plans to ensure growth and financial stability. • Provide direct support to emerging growth opportunities. • Serving as the face of the company and maintaining positive relationships with clients, vendors, and the community. • Developing and implementing strategic plans to ensure growth and financial stability. • Provide direct support to emerging growth opportunities.

    • Switzerland
    • Non-profit Organization Management
    • 300 - 400 Employee
    • Impact Officer
      • Jun 2020 - Present

    • Founding Curator and Hub Chair
      • Jun 2015 - Present

    • South Africa
    • Non-profit Organizations
    • Founder and Knowledge Management Analyst
      • Jan 2017 - Present
    • Ghana
    • IT Services and IT Consulting
    • 1 - 100 Employee
    • Ecosystem Development Manager
      • Oct 2019 - Dec 2022

      •Project lead of the GTL-Nss Graduate Entrepreneurship and Innovation Service Program which is currently in a pilot face with 100 Service personnel in 8 regions of Ghana undergoing digital skills training in Flutter mobile app development in view to start a tech enabled business or transfer skills into the corporate space. •Provided strategic direction, leadership and project governance for a multimillion- dollar application project portfolio, which successfully supported and digitally trained more than 10,000 youth and startups across 15 regions of Ghana •Facilitate engagement to 32 community tech and innovation hub managers regarding project charter development, resource planning, project management best practices, and service delivery of project outcomes •Support the base innovation program (The World Bank and Mastercard Foundation Pathway to Sustainable Employment) to train unemployed youth/talents to be work ready, scout and place talents for internships and developing their startup ideas. •Co-design with the base innovation team the digital skills curriculums and decentralize to 32 tech and community innovation hubs in 15 regions across Ghana. •Manage 32 tech and community innovation hubs in 16 regions across Ghana under auspices of the YAW, Mastercard Foundation. •Most relevant accomplishment: -Facilitate the institutional hub strengthening support to 24 tech hubs in 15 regions across Ghana. -Lead the team, Co-designed and launched the following need-based tech ecosystem initiatives: Startup Business Advisory Services, National Mentorship Network, The Startup Coach School, The Startup Scaling Fund, Ghana Ladies in Tech, The National Acceleration Program, National Pre-Tech Program, National Local Investment Network, Ecosystem Coordination, Research and Ecosystem Mapping, and the Ghana Tech Lab-National Service Scheme Graduate Entrepreneurship and Innovation Service Program Launch. -Lead the Entrepreneurial Ecosystem Mapping team https://www.ghanaecosystem.com/ Show less

    • Ecosystem Support and Infrastructure Pillar Lead
      • Oct 2019 - Dec 2022

      1. Conduct desk studies, develop a methodology for mapping research, and design data collection tools. 2. Develop Support and Infrastruucture research volunteer toolkits and coordinate their field activities. 3. Develop stakeholder engagement strategy, engage national and local stakeholders, and participating organizations. 4. Coordinate and lead stakeholder engagement meetings. 5. Conduct data cleaning and storage. 6. Develop performance indicators and conduct ecosystem performance assessments. 7. Carry out descriptive quantitative and qualitative data analysis. 8. Write research reports Show less

    • United Kingdom
    • Non-profit Organizations
    • 1 - 100 Employee
    • Online Jury
      • Jun 2017 - Dec 2022

      Main project features: The Global Teacher Prize is an annual US $1 million award by the Varkey Foundation to a teacher who has made an outstanding contribution to the profession. Activities performed: Help in selecting the top 50 potential awardees before the final top 10 Main project features: The Global Teacher Prize is an annual US $1 million award by the Varkey Foundation to a teacher who has made an outstanding contribution to the profession. Activities performed: Help in selecting the top 50 potential awardees before the final top 10

    • Sweden
    • Strategic Management Services
    • 1 - 100 Employee
    • Design Team Lead
      • Jun 2018 - Sep 2021

      Main project features: Is a two-day event where creative teams work together on local challenges related to the UN Global Goals. Using a tailored toolkit, we will create interventions aimed at short term targets in support of the long-term goals. Activities performed: Responsible for program structure and content development, training and selecting the teams that achieved the project objective. Main project features: Is a two-day event where creative teams work together on local challenges related to the UN Global Goals. Using a tailored toolkit, we will create interventions aimed at short term targets in support of the long-term goals. Activities performed: Responsible for program structure and content development, training and selecting the teams that achieved the project objective.

    • United States
    • Non-profit Organizations
    • 700 & Above Employee
    • Design Consultant
      • Oct 2019 - Nov 2019

      Main project features: The Youth Challenge is part of the Ghana Generation Unlimited – a multi-sector public-private global partnership enabling the largest generation of young people in history to become productive and engaged members of society. Activities performed: Helped participants to develop their ideas using the Design thinking Approach and processes. Main project features: The Youth Challenge is part of the Ghana Generation Unlimited – a multi-sector public-private global partnership enabling the largest generation of young people in history to become productive and engaged members of society. Activities performed: Helped participants to develop their ideas using the Design thinking Approach and processes.

    • Ghana
    • Financial Services
    • 500 - 600 Employee
    • Associate Director, Digital Marketing and Communication
      • Apr 2018 - Oct 2019
    • Media Production
    • Licensed Curator
      • Nov 2013 - Sep 2018

      Responsibilities: • Bring together community change makers and policymakers to inspire, inform, motivate and impact the younger generation to take responsibility and create initiatives to help empower women in their respective communities. • To help promote and achieve the third millennium development goal (MDG); promoting gender equality and the empowerment of women in Ghana. • Act as a liaison between TED and my community to spread the vision of the organization. Responsibilities: • Bring together community change makers and policymakers to inspire, inform, motivate and impact the younger generation to take responsibility and create initiatives to help empower women in their respective communities. • To help promote and achieve the third millennium development goal (MDG); promoting gender equality and the empowerment of women in Ghana. • Act as a liaison between TED and my community to spread the vision of the organization.

    • Canada
    • Non-profit Organizations
    • 700 & Above Employee
    • Director, IEI Implementation for National Alumni Association
      • Mar 2017 - Apr 2018

      Helping the AIESEC Africa Alumni to implement the IEI(Inspire-Engage-Influence) framework in 26 African Countries to magnify the socioeconomic impact in Africa. Helping the AIESEC Africa Alumni to implement the IEI(Inspire-Engage-Influence) framework in 26 African Countries to magnify the socioeconomic impact in Africa.

    • Ghana
    • Media Production
    • 1 - 100 Employee
    • Head of Digital Marketing and Publishing
      • Jun 2017 - Mar 2018

      1. Plan and execute all web, SEO/SEM, marketing database, email, social media and display advertising campaigns. 2. Design, build and maintain our social media presence. 3. Measure and report performance of all digital marketing campaigns, and assess against goals (ROI and KPIs)Identify trends and insights, and optimize spend and performance based on the insights. 4. Brainstorm new and creative growth strategies. 5. Plan, execute, and measure experiments and conversion tests. 6. Collaborate with internal teams to create landing pages and optimize user experience. 7. Utilize strong analytical ability to evaluate end-to-end customer experience across multiple channels and customer touch points. 8. Instrument conversion points and optimize user funnelsCollaborate with agencies and other vendor partners. 9. Evaluate emerging technologies. Provide thought leadership and perspective for adoption where appropriate Show less

    • Hong Kong
    • Education Administration Programs
    • 1 - 100 Employee
    • Assistant Project Manager
      • Sep 2017 - Oct 2017

      Main project features: Market Study Mobilization and Commencement of Engagement as the school reposition on its niche offerings. Activities performed: Part of the team that undertook the project and cleaning of the data output. Main project features: Market Study Mobilization and Commencement of Engagement as the school reposition on its niche offerings. Activities performed: Part of the team that undertook the project and cleaning of the data output.

    • Switzerland
    • Non-profit Organizations
    • 700 & Above Employee
    • Co-design Analyst and Regional Mobilization Facilitator
      • Aug 2017 - Oct 2017

      Main Project features: 25,000 young people aged 18-35 told us in our 2017. Young people from 186 countries shared their views on Economy and Global Outlook, Governance and Civic Engagement, Technology and Innovation, Values and Society and Business and the Workplace. Activities Performed: Part of the Design and mobilization team in curating the survey. Main Project features: 25,000 young people aged 18-35 told us in our 2017. Young people from 186 countries shared their views on Economy and Global Outlook, Governance and Civic Engagement, Technology and Innovation, Values and Society and Business and the Workplace. Activities Performed: Part of the Design and mobilization team in curating the survey.

    • Ghana
    • Media Production
    • 1 - 100 Employee
    • Digital Account and Social Media Manager
      • Dec 2015 - Sep 2016

      Clients Managed: ADB, UT Bank, UBA Ghana, GLICO Life Insurance, Ghandour Cosmetics, Scent of Africa, Goil Ghana, Groupe Ideal, Rush Energy Drink, Electromart Ghana, Special Ice, StarLife Assurance, Teledata, Best Assurance, LG Ghana, GTI Executive Education, MO’GO Limited, PolyTank, Royal Habit, WESTAFCO, RelNat, TISU, Lenovo Ghana, Vulkano Games, Unibank (Mobile Banking Bank Comparatives), PPP Ghana( Digital 2016 Election Campaign), Petits Scholars, and Fox Cooling Co.LTD Researching, campaigning & content creation, execution, monitoring and reporting as well as knowledge of some SEO best practices. Work with clients to create a social media strategy that collaborates with marketing, PR and advertising campaigns, research top influencers, competitors, and trends in clients' industries. Create timely and engaging content optimized for platform used and intended audience. Monitor sites for customer service opportunities and initiate conversations on behalf of the client. Analyze and report social media actions on a monthly basis for successes and new opportunities. Create engaging and professional visuals that reflect clients and their brand, i.e. customize social media pages (ex. Facebook, Twitter, Google+, YouTube), develop supporting offline collateral, create original content, etc. Stay current with social media trends and tools – includes attending networking and educational events, reading blogs, and listening to podcasts. Continue to refine and define our social marketing process. Work with teams to create a solid branding message that's reflected across RDM marketing materials and social media content. Available to attend select client and company events outside of standard hours and manage live postings. Show less

    • National Project Manager
      • Sep 2013 - Oct 2015

      I was in charge of the successful FLIP (Financial Literacy Project) in Ghana. I had the chance to manage close to 30 team members across Ghana. . Develop the concept note of the project and lead initiating across the country. • Lead a team to help instil the financial culture and impact more than 500,000 individuals across the country. • To coordinate with all relevant stakeholders to get involved in the project. I was in charge of the successful FLIP (Financial Literacy Project) in Ghana. I had the chance to manage close to 30 team members across Ghana. . Develop the concept note of the project and lead initiating across the country. • Lead a team to help instil the financial culture and impact more than 500,000 individuals across the country. • To coordinate with all relevant stakeholders to get involved in the project.

    • United States
    • Higher Education
    • 1 - 100 Employee
    • Global Spotlight Ambassador
      • Mar 2013 - Apr 2015
    • Assistant Research Analyst
      • Aug 2011 - Jul 2012

      • Designing and assisting in the development of questionnaires to ensure the necessary data is captured. • Making meaning of data to aid in strategic decision making. • Authoring reports containing actionable recommendations. • Communicating with community indigenes to understand and document their business objectives and help in restructuring. • Designing and assisting in the development of questionnaires to ensure the necessary data is captured. • Making meaning of data to aid in strategic decision making. • Authoring reports containing actionable recommendations. • Communicating with community indigenes to understand and document their business objectives and help in restructuring.

    • United States
    • Education Administration Programs
    • 1 - 100 Employee
    • Senior Team Lead
      • Mar 2011 - May 2011

      Responsibilities: • Created online marketing campaigns using Google AdWords, AdSense and G+. • Wrote campaign reports. • Promoted a local business visibility using search engine optimization. • Led a team of 12 dynamic individuals to compete in the challenge. Responsibilities: • Created online marketing campaigns using Google AdWords, AdSense and G+. • Wrote campaign reports. • Promoted a local business visibility using search engine optimization. • Led a team of 12 dynamic individuals to compete in the challenge.

    • Ghana
    • Non-profit Organizations
    • 1 - 100 Employee
    • National Head, Talent Management and Local Committee Development
      • Jul 2010 - May 2011

      Responsibilities: • Ensure the development and implementation of all the talent management systems in context of the new information system at national and local level. • To build strategic partnerships to enhance the AIESEC Experience – either related to the talent management processes or to talent development programs. • Ensured strong human resources capacity and learning performance of the organization by providing tools, training and strategies to the organization. Responsibilities: • Ensure the development and implementation of all the talent management systems in context of the new information system at national and local level. • To build strategic partnerships to enhance the AIESEC Experience – either related to the talent management processes or to talent development programs. • Ensured strong human resources capacity and learning performance of the organization by providing tools, training and strategies to the organization.

    • United States
    • Software Development
    • 700 & Above Employee
    • Firefox Student Ambassador
      • Jun 2010 - Mar 2011

      Worked with our global community to promote openness, innovation & opportunity on the Web in 6 local universities and 10 Senior High Schools in Ghana Worked with our global community to promote openness, innovation & opportunity on the Web in 6 local universities and 10 Senior High Schools in Ghana

Education

  • Erasmus University Rotterdam
    Professional Certificate, Innovation Management
    2022 - 2022
  • MIT Sloan School of Management
    Product Design and Development
    2022 - 2022
  • Harvard Business School Online
    Introductory, Resilient Leadership
    2022 - 2022
  • Harvard Business School Online
    Introductory, Designing Organizational Structure
    2022 - 2022
  • Metropolitan School of Business & Management (UK)
    Advanced Professional Certificate, Project Management
    2021 - 2022
  • Stanford University Graduate School of Business
    Certificate Program, A New Type of Leader: Anchored on Purpose, Fueled by Humor course, International Business
    2021 - 2021
  • National Institute of Business Management (NIBM) Global
    Master of Business Administration - MBA, Business, Management, Marketing, and Related Support Services
    2021 - 2022
  • Accra Business School
    Associate Degree, Strategic Management and Leadership
    2021 - 2022
  • International Business Management Institute (IBMI)
    Mini- MBA, Business Administration, Management and Operations
    2020 - 2020
  • Stanford University Graduate School of Business
    Certificate Program, Design thinking: From Insights to Viability
    2019 - 2019
  • University of Cape Coast
    Bachelor of Science (BSc), Mathematics and Economics(minored in Computer Science)
    2007 - 2011

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