Aivory Gaw and Kike Ojewale teach us what to do when our plans don’t go to plan. #IWD
Kike Ojewale
A Brief Overview
Kike Ojewale, Senior Associate at Dentons ACAS-Law
KIKE’S Story
In 2010, it was Kike’s dream to obtain a training contract with the global law firm, Dentons. Despite working hard, she didn’t get it and, after another rejection from Herbert Smith, she moved back to Nigeria. It took around six years of practice and finding her niche, for her to feel like she made the right choice. Nine years later, she was working for ACAS-Law when they decided to combine with Dentons. Kike is now a Senior Associate for Dentons ACAS-Law.
“‘No matter what life throws at you, God’s plan will always prevail. You deserve everything good and I know God is still going to surprise you with even more blessings.’ ”
How we’re inspired by KIKE
When we have goals and ideas of where we want to be in life, we can want them to come to fruition as soon as possible. We can even find ourselves feeling lost when we don’t achieve what we hoped we would. We love how Kike’s story is a testament to the reality that everyone’s goals happen at different times and that just because we’re not where we want to be right now, when we’re patient and put in the work, it doesn’t mean we’ll never get there.
AIVORY GAW
A Brief Overview
Aivory Gaw, Chief Brand Officer at Boldspace
AIVORY’S story
Aivory is currently the Chief Brand Officer at Boldspace. Previous to this, she was the global business development director at WPP. Aivory has lived in five countries throughout her life, which has shaped who she is and helps her in her work. She has also worked at AKQA, where she led work for clients including Nike, Danone, Kimberly Clark, and LVMH Group. Before working for agencies, Aivory created digital marketing and campaigns for Lancôme at L’Oreal.
“‘I have seen that every unexpected thing does not have to be a negative thing. There is always a way to spin it to be something in which you can thrive.’”
How we’re inspired by AIVORY
We all have expectations of how we think our life should be and appear, and it can be hard when our hopes for how something would go don’t match the reality of our situation. In Edition 7 of Magnify Magazine, we loved Aivory’s perspective on dealing with the loss of expectation in her career and motherhood. Today we’re inspired by Aivory’s outlook that, even if it looks different to how we thought it would, we can still find peace where we are and hope for our future.