Dr. Tewa Onasanya is an Entrepreneur and Philanthropist with over 20 years’ experience. A Publisher, Author and Mindset Stylist holds a BSc in Pharmacology from the University of Portsmouth, UK and a Diploma in Fashion Journalism from the College of Media and Publishing, UK, a certificate in Mindfulness from Udemy and a Certified Law of Attraction practitioner. Her Distinguished Fellow and Honourary Doctorate of Philosophy in Leadership and Performance Management is from the Institute of Leadership, Manpower & Management Development.
She is the Founder of Exquisite Magazine a Fashion, Wellness and Lifestyle Magazine for the unlimited woman. Exquisite magazine organises the exquisite magazine awareness for cancer events which include the EMAC #Smearit walks and Smearathon, events aimed at increasing the awareness for cervical cancer prevention and free screening for people. In 2009, Exquisite Magazine started an only female awards ceremony called the Exquisite Lady of the Year (ELOY) Awards and Conference, aimed at sustaining women empowerment by celebrating and empowering women of excellence in different fields. The ELOY Foundation was created to sustain women empowerment through access to mentors, affordable finance, trainings, grants and more to help build and sustain their businesses. This is done through the ELOY Foundation Sustainable Empowerment Program (SEP) and the ELOY Foundation Network.
Dr Tewa has been featured in numerous international and Nigerian media which include the CNN, BBC, New York Times, Wikipedia, Punch, Guardian, Thisday, Vanguard and more newspapers, Television and Radio stations. She has won several awards internationally and in Nigeria.
Dr. Tewa is passionate about empowering, inspiring and motivating people to be the best version of themselves. She is also a Mindset Stylist and the author of the bestselling book Rule Your Mind; How to Rule your mind to live the life you desire intentionally and others.
She is married and blessed with children.
“I love to inspire and motivate people to be the best they can be and best version of themselves. With my wealth of experience of almost 20 years (in Sept 2023), I want to share my knowledge to empower other people”.
Tewa Onasanya the Pharmacologist.
Tewa studied Pharmacology at the University ofPortsmouth, UK and graduated as one of the top of her year in 2000. She went on to work in different Pharmaceutical industries including SmithKline Beechams now GSK, Roche, Organon in the Netherlands, Arzo Nobel in Germany to name a few. After almost 10 years in the Pharmaceutical industry as a Clinical Data Manager working on research data for medicines. She finally got bold enough and left her clinical role to focus on her fashion, beauty and lifestyle magazine, Exquisite which she started whilst still working.
Tewa Onasanya the Publisher
In 2003, Tewa Onasanya launched the pilot edition of exquisite magazine, a fashion, beauty and lifestyle magazine for women of colour. Whilst living in Essex, UK, she found the gap in the market for magazines that caters for the woman of colour. She then decided that instead of complaining about it, do something about it. That was how Exquisite magazine was birth. With adverts in four core London underground stations, like Liverpool street station, Oxford street station, Tottenham court road station and more and publicity on Ben TV, exquisite was widely accepted. Tewa was interviewed by the BBC in 2004 to talk about the rise in tapping into the black British community by the mainstream beauty industry. The title of the feature was the rise of the ‘ethnic pound’. Following the success of exquisite magazine in England with its exquisite fashion parties and tea parties, exquisite was launched in Lagos Nigeria and Tewa moved back to her country of origin in 2007. Exquisite magazine is one of the best female magazines in Nigeria with circulation nationwide and still in the UK. In 2014, Tewa was interviewed by CNN reporters for the Passion to Portfolio program which focused on how she turned her passion into a business portfolio from a Pharmacology background.
Tewa Onasanya the Philanthropist
After her move back to Nigeria, Tewa found out that a lot of women were unaware of cervical cancer which according to the WHO reports, kills one woman every hour in Nigeria. With this report, Tewa decided to use exquisite magazine as a platform to increase the awareness for cervical cancer and also offer free screening. This started off with a fashion party in 2010, that was held annually to raise money for screening and awareness, this was later changed in 2012 to a walk called the EMAC walk. EMAC is acronym for EXQUISITE MAGAZINE ANNUAL CANCER walk. With the Exquisite Magazine Cancer Care Foundation, Tewa Onasanya and the Exquisite magazine team have been able to screen thousands of women in Lagos and many other states in Nigeria. Tewa also started a campaign called the SMEARIT™ to raise more awareness for cervical cancer prevention. The EMAC SMEARIT™ event is held every year in January (cervical cancer awareness month) and in September (Gynaecological cancer awareness month). The EMAC Website is www.smearitafrica.com
The ELOY Awards Foundation, also founded by her is used to sustain women empowerment and celebrate women. Since its inception in 2009, the ELOYs have been awarded to over 300 outstanding women. In 2018, the ELOY Awards became the ELOY AWARDS FOUNDATION aimed at sustaining women empowerment and celebrating women. In 2019, the ELOY Foundation Sustainable Empowerment Program was launched to provide access to entrepreneurial training, information on affordable finance, networking opportunities, mentoring and grants to women in MSMEs. Till date, almost 200 women have graduated from the ELOY Foundation Sustainable Empowerment Program and 30 of them have been awarded the ELOY Foundation Grant.
ELOY website www.ELOYawards.com
Tewa onasanya the Originator
With the vision and mission of Exquisite Magazine being to celebrate, inspire, motivate and empower women, Tewa Onasanya started a tea party in 2005. An event that brings women together to network and communicate. In 2009, she started the only female awards in Nigeria called the ELOY Awards. ELOY is an acronym for EXQUISITE LADIES OF THE YEAR, which uses its platform to celebrate women of excellence in different fields and also uses to continue to raise awareness for cervical cancer. The ELOYs have become the most sought-after awards for women in Nigeria, with every lady looking forward to the ELOY season to find out if she has been nominated or who have been nominated. The ELOYs is split into two sections, one of the sections have a list of categories that are changed every year to accommodate new categories, thereby giving people a fair chance of being nominated in whatever fields they are in. The other section are the recognition awards, which we call the Ladies Who Inspire awards. Every year, the public nominates and votes and the public choose winners with the input from the judges, headed by Tewa Onasanya.
Tewa Onasanya the Mindset Stylist
Following the discovering off a book that changed her life in 2012, Tewa decided to bring her knowledge of how life is supposed to work by helping people renew their mindset and attitude towards life. With her life changing experiences, she has been able to and still is moulding the life she desires and has been coaching people to also have that freedom. She started a daily inspirational quote on her instagram page which is aimed at jolting peoples thinking to be the best version of themselves. These quotes started under the hashtag #emotivatewithtewa and now includes the tag #mindsetshiftwithtewa.
In 2018, Tewa published her first book called RULE YOUR MIND – HOW TO STYLE YOUR MIND TO LIVE THE LIVE YOU DESIRE INTENTIONALLY. She has since published 6 more books till date.
With her wealth of experience of being an Entrepreneur, Philanthropist, Publisher, a Mindset stylist and the transferable skills acquired from her degree in Pharmacology, Diploma and Certifications, she has been invited to and still gives presentations at events as keynote speaker, speaker or moderator.
Tewa has been featured in numerous international and local media which include the CNN, BBC, New York Times, Wikipedia, Thursday, Businessday and more. She has won several awards internationally and in Nigeria.
Tewa is passionate about empowering and inspiring people to be the best version of themselves. She is married and blessed with children.
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