Empowering People Through Sustainable Philanthropy
Women: Inspiration & Enterprise - 82 Mercer
Philanthropy, Social Enterprise and Corporate ResponsibilityInspiration Day features some of the most impressive minds in
philanthropy, politics, business, entertainment and media. Whether your
goal is to make a real difference to the issues you care about or to get
tips from your role models about overcoming the obstacles to success,
here’s where you'll get help becoming the very best version of yourself.


WIE Network is a next generation media company that aims to inspire
social change through the creation of engaging and inspirational filmed
content, large scale forums and innovative social media programs. The
company’s properties include the annual women’s conference, The WIE
Symposium; WIE Interact, an online social network for women, and a new
online reputation service to be announced. Other projects include a
feature film about legendary African heroine Yaa Asantewaa; and a
documentary that explores the role of forgiveness in conflict resolution
around the world.

WIE Network’s principals are television host and political commentator
June Sarpong, and branding and entertainment marketing expert, Dee Poku.
According to Sarpong and Poku, the WIE Symposium was created as way of
uniting women from different backgrounds. The event engages women from
the world’s wealthiest nations in the quest to give a voice to those
less fortunate than themselves: "As New York based British women of
Ghanaian heritage, we consider ourselves to be citizens of world. And as
such our mandate is to unite and empower women everywhere. We all share
common goals of wanting to be happy and successful, to have strong
families and dynamic careers. And that’s what the WIE Symposium is
about, setting aside our differences and uniting behind our common
aspirations."