Why We Love: Itoro Ugorji
After 6 years in the Banking industry, one would assume Itoro Ugorji would dive into another branch of the Finance sector. But passion, grit and dedication took her elsewhere.
Welcome to this week’s edition of Women We Love, and for this week we are talking about the child whisperer, Itoro Ugorji! As the CEO & Team Lead of one of Nigeria’s leading providers of innovative and practical childcare solutions, The Baby Lounge, Itoro has proved to be in a lane of her own.
Career
One of the earliest accounts of Itoro Ugorji’s career life is in the Banking sector, working to build 2 of Nigeria’s leading banks. After a 6-year career, she decided to pursue her passion in childcare. But not before gaining International exposure, skills and competency trainings to enable her perform in the best way possible. Today she holds a diploma in Children’s Studies, an M.Sc in Early Childhood Education with a specialization in administration, management and leadership, among other certifications in areas of Childcare. As a member of the U.S National Association for Educating the Young Child (NAEYC) and the World Forum Foundation, Itoro has worked with household names like Total E&P (Nigeria), Unilever (Nigeria), Chevron Employees Cooperatives, HIS and N.B.C and is an alumni of the Tony Elumelu Foundation and a Cherie Blair Foundation mentee. Now, isn’t that someone you’d want training your child?!
Back to the Beginning
However, Itoro’s primary desire to create The Baby Lounge gives credence to the saying – “where there’s a need, there’s an opportunity”. After waiting 7 years for a child, and discovering the lack of suitable childcare services in Nigeria, Itoro saw a gap that needed to be filled. This led to The Baby Lounge – a premium childcare service designed to help the working mom. Their services make it easy for moms to leave their kids in the hands of worthy caretakers they can trust. Read more here.
And Itoro continues to provide value with her new column on TW – Momma Tales! Powered by Molfix Nigeria and The Baby Lounge, Momma Tales is designed to provide insight with relatable stories culled from her archives of personal experience. She’s deciphering parenting and all that comes with raising children with stories that will engage and thrill you.
You can get a taste of what to expect every Friday at Noon HERE.
It is because of her relentless passion and desire to make the next mom feel secure that we are glad to say thet Itoro Ugorji is a Woman We Love!
