Describe her as an ambitious woman with multiple talents and you will not be far from that. That is the best description for the Chief Executive Officer of Tin-ifa Ghana, Rev Nanayaa Tina Owusu-Prempeh, 45, who is an international motivational speaker, skin care and beauty consultant and an Information Technology (IT) expert.
To enable her perform her responsibilities as an international motivational speaker, Rev Owusu-Prempeh has set up the Spirit, Soul and Body Workshop under which she has initiated a series of workshops to motivate, inspire and educate staff of organisations, individuals and associations through workshop held in Accra, America,Togo and Nigeria.
Her Spirit, Soul and Body Workshop, which was launched on July 31, 2010 is broadcast on two channels on the Multi network as “An evening with Nanayaa” and the “Total U” Television programme.
She said she had touched the lives of a number of the participants who attend her workshops, adding that, as part for the workshop, she organises training sessions for corporate and religious bodies, NGOs, women’s organisations and youth groups.
“I believe in one person making a change and I believe I have to start making that change by motivating and making an impact on an individual” she said.
Improving productivity
She also believes in encouraging business owners to motivate their staff to build their confidence, and work towards improving productivity and increase profits.
Rev. Owusu-Prempeh also works as a skin care and beauty consultant by giving consultation on how to do and handle make ups. She said she believed in not only taking care of the spirit and soul but also taking good care of the skin.
She is the Sales Director of Mary Kay Cosmetics and the Unit Leader of Avon cosmetics, having trained as a skin care and beauty consultant by Mary Kay Cosmetics while in the USA.
“Taking care of the skin is not only limited to women but men as well. Also skin care is not only about make up but about the whole body and how to maintain it. Taking care of the skin means the things you take in your body and how they react to your skin.
The kinds of foods we eat are very important and this is where I come in as skin care consultant who would direct you as to what is good for you and how to keep the body healthy as you grow old” she said.
Rev. Owusu-Prempeh said as a technology consultant, her organisation, Tin-ifa Group Limited, an IT company, deals in computer networking, data storage and data recovery for companies, maintenance service provision for companies, and land mile Internet service which is to bring onto the door step of users.
“I closed down the Internet service for a while, so I am trying to negotiate with some telecommunication companies to rebuild it again. As a woman in this industry it has not been easy at all, I had to close down for a while due to some financial constraints“, she said.
She said while she was a child she liked to fiddling with appliances and electronics so she pursued a first degree in Computer Management from Gibbs College, and was a founding member of Soalvei USA, a mobile phone company.
She was also licensed by the State of New Jersey as Real Estate Salesperson, a Mortgage Solicitor and Notary Public.
Education and Family
Born on September 21, 1967 to Mrs Rose Serwaa Adjei and his Lordship Nana Isaac Barfour Adjei at Kofiase, Mampong in the Ashanti Region, Nanayaa had her primary education at Garrison Primary and continued her secondary education at Tema Secondary School.
She is multi lingua and can speak six local languages and three international languages which are English, Spanish and French.
She furthered her education in the United States of America in various capacities including; obtaining her first degree from Gibbs College in Computer Management and business administration, specialising in technology.
The St. Thomas University, Canterbury, Kent, England conferred on her a doctorate in Business and Human Management.
“I am very sensitive to the needs of my family” she said. She is a mother of two girls and two boys who stay in the United States with their father. “My husband and I have a lot of businesses in the country so there was the need for one to come down and look after it” she said.
“Initially when we left it for people, things were not managed well so one of us had to come down and take care of the businesses” she said.
However, she said the distance did not affect the relationship between her and the family because they communicate all the time and the children called her when they needed her assistance as a mother.
Life, work and challenges
Asked how she was able to cope with the demands of her business, she said although it had not been easy, she was able to surmount the problems through her believe in the grace of God, adding that she also had good human relations which helped her to deal with people at all times.
She said her life was God first, her family second then her career. When asked if there were any challenges that suppressed her work, she mentioned economic constraints.
She said the one challenge she faced was inadequate, unreliable and disloyal human resources.
“People say there are no jobs but when they get the jobs they do not want to work, as an entrepreneur, my role is to facilitate the ideas but you hardly get people who are ready to do that”, she said.
She explained that team work and reliable work force increases productivity which definitely increase income.
Advice to women
She said everybody had a talent but the full potential was influenced by the environment within which the person grew saying “it is important that you fill your mind with good and positive thoughts”.
Rev Owusu-Prempeh said she pursued a lot of courses because she believed God had given each and every one a talent and ,therefore, “there was no need restricting yourself to what God has given to you.”
She advised that young women should not allow men to use money to entice and abuse them because whatever a man can do a woman can do and “with God all things are possible”.
She encouraged women, who are God fearing and business-oriented, intelligent, and hardworking, to go into politics. She said with these qualities, a woman could play a critical role in national development.
She was a board member of the Ghana News Agency and was appointed by former President George W. Bush as honorary Chairperson of the Republican Party Business Advisory Committee of the New Jersey, United States of America.
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