Dee is the founder and CEO of The WIE Suite, a private membership community and peer learning platform for women in leadership launched in 2020. This Spring, we are excited to reveal that Dee will launch The WIE Suite UK.
In 2019, she also founded Black Women Raise, an initiative designed to accelerate the ability of leading black female founders to raise growth capital, scale up and create pathways for the women behind them.
A frequent speaker on women’s workplace advancement, culture and community building, Dee has been named one of Marie Claire Magazine’s 50 women changing the world, one of TRUE Africa’s 100 Top Innovators, amongst other accolades.
Tell us about your background.
Well I’m a Brit currently living in New York and I grew up between London and Accra, Ghana. My parents emigrated to the UK from Ghana in the 1960s. And I then moved to America in 2003 to work for a movie studio. I thought it’d be for a couple of years but twenty years later, I’m still here with an American husband and son in tow!
My love of connecting people ultimately led to the recreation of my company, birthed from the intimate dinner parties I used to host to bring together inspiring women within my network. My parents had instilled a deep work ethic in me that persists to this day. That hard work, knowledge, and experience were the key to success. True but not enough for women. I had an epiphany halfway through my career. I needed to work smarter, not harder. Success is a direct result of the relationships we build and more importantly the people opening doors for us and providing tactical support. So the supper club quickly evolved into a more tactical, curated community and peer coaching platform for women in leadership.
I studied maths at university and remain a bit of a maths nerd to this day, so nothing brings me more joy than the fact that my 11-year-old son has inherited that love of numbers. We live in Brooklyn Heights which is about as close to feeling like London as I could get.
