Michelle Sartorio Founder and CEO – Aue Natural Ltd and True Value Creation
Abiola Ayanleye Founder and CEO, Just Paint and SIP Lagos WBS Alum Abiola Ayanleye is a creative entrepreneur, business strategist, and the founder of Just Paint Ltd – a vibrant paint-and-sip themed restaurant that fuses food, fun, and creativity in one unforgettable experience. With a recently completed MBA from Warwick Business School, Abiola combines creative passion with sharp business acumen. Her background spans business development, experiential marketing, and event design. Her entrepreneurial journey is rooted in passion, purpose, and resourcefulness. Outside of running Just Paint, Abiola uses her voice to inspire aspiring founders by sharing real, relatable insights on building a business from scratch, embracing messy beginnings, and leading with authenticity.
Tribeni Chougule Executive & Leadership Coach, Social Sustain- ability Consultant and Speaker – Kinspace. WBS Alum and Alumni Network Ambassador Tribeni Chougule is an Inclusive Impact Coach and founder of Kinspace, a coaching and consulting practice that equips individuals and organisations to lead with clarity, courage, and conscience. Her work empowers leaders – especially those underestimated or underrepresented – to reclaim their voice, navigate transition, and drive meaningful change. After a 25-year career in global financial services, technology, and sustainability – including senior leadership roles at Visa – Tribeni made a bold pivot into entrepreneurship. She now helps others do the same: break boundaries, challenge norms, and reimagine leadership as a force for social sustainability and inclusive impact. Her approach blends strategic acumen with behavioural insight and deep lived experience. At Kinspace, she coaches professionals at every level, with a focus on identity-aligned leadership, inclusive impact, and leading through uncertainty.
WBS Alum and Alumni Network Ambassador Michelle Sartorio is a growth strategist and sustainability leader with two decades of international experience in brand positioning, strategy and sustainability consulting, and stakeholder communications. She has held senior roles at HSBC, Brookfield Asset Management, KPMG, LGIM, BBDO, where she led go-to- market, investor relations, and sustainable value creation initiatives across the globe. Michelle began her career in Brazil in advertising, working on campaigns for brands such as L’Oréal and Coca-Cola, before transitioning into finance. In 2024, driven by frustration with the beauty industry’s unsustainable practices and the rise of harmful messaging targeting young consumers, Michelle launched Auê Natural Ltd. The brand is set to disrupt the $677 billion beauty and personal care industry through authenticity, system change, and high-performance products powered by responsibly sourced Amazonian bioactives. Michelle also leads True Value Creation, a freelance consultancy practice focused on helping organisations embed sustainability, purpose, and long-term thinking into their core strategy.
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