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Suzanne F. Stevens

Suzanne F. Stevens

Suzanne F. Stevens ignites leaders & entrepreneurs to cultivate cultures of community conscious-contributions™. Suzanne F. Stevens is a Certified Speaking Professional (CSP). The CSP is the only earned professional designation for speakers recognized internationally by some 15 speaking associations serving members in over 20 countries. Internationally, only 15% of speakers have earned this designation. Suzanne is one of only sixty-three Canadians who currently hold this designation for speaking excellence. Suzanne F. Stevens is a social entrepreneur, professional speaker, pioneer, host, philanthropist, and soon to be an author. In 2016, thirteen years after founding and leading the Ignite Excellence Inc. Group as President and CEO, she rebranded the organization to The YouMeWe Group. Previously she focused on influencing, differentiating and engaging more people and more business. The YouMeWe Group's primary focus is celebrating, cultivating and co-creating conscious contributions™.

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October 21, 20160Comments

TSiBA Education and YouMeWe Foundation partner for tertiary education

After many discussions and intensive research, I’m very excited that the YouMeWe Foundation will be supporting tertiary education for women in South Africa thru TSiBA Education. I had the pleasure of

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Mary Ogallo Global Bag project and country girls caucus
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November 17, 20140Comments

First Foundation Recipient Creates a Massive Ripple Effect!

When I returned to Kenya 2011, Mary Ogalo was heading up the Global Bag Project in Nairobi. Global Bag Project is a US based non-profit social enterprise that donates the

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July 31, 20140Comments

Changing the lives of African Women and their communities

Investing in leadership today, for tomorrow  July 31, 2014—Through the generous spirit of donors and various fundraising initiatives, the YouMeWe Foundation (formily the Ignite Excellence Foundation) has now assisted twenty-six women

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June 23, 20140Comments

Cape Town to Cairo – Spin for Scholarships

  Sunday June 1, 2014 Where can you go on a Sunday afternoon, get fit, travel a continent, raise funds and contribute to the advancement of women, while elevate their families out

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TIAW award winners
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June 21, 20140Comments

TIAW honours Individuals who Make a Difference

TIAW news release Suzanne F. Stevens Attends the TIAW 2014 Global Forum with Leaders from Throughout the World Suzanne F. Stevens, Founder of the YouMeWe Group (Ignite Excellence Inc.) recently attended

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June 18, 20140Comments

Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, President of Liberia – Africa Rising? Really?

We still wonder why educating girls in the developing world is such an important topic... well because not enough is being done about it! As put by one of

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April 2, 20140Comments

TIAW World of Difference Awards – Washington March 2014

I just returned from the The International Alliance for Women (TIAW)Forum and World of Difference Award ceremony. I was honoured to receive an award for women economic empowerment in

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September 19, 20130Comments

It only takes one…

 The other day I receive a note from one of Ignite Excellence Foundation recipients. It is when I receive these messages of the impact one person can make, it re-energizes

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July 5, 20130Comments

Suzanne F Stevens speaks on African women Leadership

Suzanne F. Stevens speaks at CC Africa Event Suzanne F. Stevens is a professional speaker, entrepreneur, trainer, host, philanthropist and founder of the YouMeWe Group (formily Ignite Excellence Inc. Group of

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March 30, 20120Comments

Hiking Heights for Higher Education – A climb worth hiking

  Do you want to get involved - Either Hike with Us, or Donate? In our continued attempts to push our edge to our personal potential, my husband and I embarked on

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February 27, 20120Comments

Johnny Walker. Keep Walking.

Somewhere down the new Thika Road Super Highway, a large billboard spills into the faces of traffic jammed motorists. The photograph is that of an apparently well known Jazz maestro.

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December 9, 20110Comments

A Foundation Graduate invest in the poor & the environment

Mary Ogalo, a Ignite Excellence Foundation Recipient and now graduate invests in her community by taking a Management position with 'Global Bag Project.' An Ignite Foundation Special Presentation. An update on past

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December 2, 20110Comments

African Women will bring an Economic & Political Advantage

A great reference for Women to know how much they are needed economically in Africa!Africa needs to harness the power of its women to drive full economic growth and development,

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Africa Internation University Graduation 2011
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November 15, 20110Comments

Giving Responsibly:

Responsible Giving is as Serious as making the income in the first place!This is my fourth trip to Africa, and my longest. Although my husband and I are working on

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November 1, 20110Comments

Giving to Get is Not Being Giving

We had just come back from hiked in Volcanoes National Park down the Virunga mountains after seeing a family of gorillas; a highly anticipated experience. My husband and my euphoric

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October 10, 20110Comments

Four years in 25 minutes!

Slightly under a year ago I flew to Cape Town in South Africa for a conference. I had the good luck of landing on a sunny cloudless sky. Now, if

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September 4, 20110Comments

A New Lease on Life

By Maggie Gitau (Ignite Excellence Foundation Recipient)  I grew up on an idyllic hill that was nestled between two rapid streams, each river less than a five minute skip and

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August 15, 20110Comments

Ignite Excellence Awards 4 Scholarships!

Through the generousity of  donors, the Ignite Excellence Foundation is proud to inform you we provided  four scholarships to wonderfully diverse and committed women. Three of the four recipients will

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