Mercy Irivwieri is a self-motivated professional who specializes in corporate and strategic communications. From her younger days, spreading love and support to other people was something she craved and this made her develop an interest in public speaking. Prior to her current passion, she had envisioned having a law career in order to defend the oppressed which shows us a pattern. She truly deserves her name, Mercy! Want the whole pack of icebergs? Yay!! Let’s go skating, read on.
Mercy Irivwieri’s Educational outline
Having explored her elementary years in Delta, Edo, Ekiti and Lagos State, Mercy is currently based in the Federal Capital Territory-Abuja. You can call her “Mercy, The Explorer”. Her commitment and tenacity brought her this far, ladies, borrow a coin from this. In an era where ladies are selling their future prosperity in exchange for temporary luxury, Mercy is building her future. Mercy bagged her B.Sc. degree in Communication and Media Studies with honours from Afe Babalola University. Beautiful, Bold, and Brainy, I’m impressed! She has been in the corporate space for 6 years and possesses three years of working experience in tech.
Over the years, Mercy has explored her passion in notable organizations in Nigeria. Starting as an intern at the Nigerian Television Authority and Axxon Energy Group between 2015-2016, to becoming an Account Executive after the completion of her internship at Robert Taylor Media in 2017. Jake Riley Limited also benefitted from her communication expertise where she was a Communication Analyst.
Mercy currently manages the position of a Senior Associate in Marketing Communications at a Business Consulting and Technology Solutions company called iCentra Consulting. And did we forget to mention that she started her own PR and Comms brand called Rear PR which she has been running at her own pace for 3 years. She is indeed a dynamic and purpose-driven professional. Hotcake!
More Credits about A Woman of Impact
Mercy is very passionate about impacting people and creating opportunities that benefit those around her. She proved this by creating “The Work Detox”, a platform that connects professionals and experts of various fields where you can vent and talk about work or business-related issues, work stress, anxiety and topics of interest. Mercy has also volunteered and championed various projects focused on youth mentoring and career counselling in collaboration with Foundations like the Global Initiative for the Advancement of Africa and The Stage Africa Foundation. She is highly endorsed by those she has been privileged to work with.
Professionally, she has certificate courses in Project Management and Customer Service and Relationship Management from SkillsEdge Consulting Limited. She is also an Associate Member of the Nigerian Institute of Public Relations. Apart from being a techie, Mercy has performed exceptionally in the media and business management space. She has innovated and successfully managed the communications of an IT governance and Change Management project for a public sector company. As a woman of impact, Mercy is of the idea that there is a need to organize more tech conferences. Publishing tech newsletters will also keep people updated about the latest trend in tech. The status quo of the world of work is rapidly evolving. Mercy advises newbies in tech to get practical experiences and upskill.
Mercy Irivwieri, A Woman of Balanced Lifestyle.
As a popular adage goes “The lifespan of work is longer than that of a human”. Mercy is conscious of her healthy living, so she creates a me-time outside her work. Asides from relaxing by either reading or doing more research on her interests, she enjoys watching tv shows and cooking and definitely knows how to have a good time by partying and hanging out with friends. My brother, no be every time you go dey do serious, enjoy life small!
Do you want to know the secret tools that took Mercy this far in her career journey? Creativity, Communication, Organization and most importantly, CONSISTENCY! Keep that in your left hand.
Mercy, the amazing team at Techtrend Africa look forward to your groundbreaking Innovation.