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Jazz Shaper: Flavilla Fongang

Posted on 24 May 2025

Flavilla Fongang is a multi-award-winning serial entrepreneur and an international keynote speaker. Computer Weekly named her the number 1 most influential tech woman in the UK in 2022. 

A woman with straight shoulder-length black hair sits on a mustard-yellow couch, leaning against a wooden wall.

She is the founder of Black Rise, the first AI-powered business platform that connects Black professionals & businesses to facilitate connections, sharing knowledge and opportunities. She is also the founder of the largest European non-profit dedicated to Black professional women in tech, and she is an Entrepreneurship Expert with the Entrepreneurship Centre for Saïd Business School, University of Oxford and a UN brand partner.  

She is the author of “99 Strategies to Get Customers”. 

Highlights

Life is about being comfortable, being known, and I’ve always done that.

I’m a butterfly... it’s always a matter of evolution.

I can see the commercial value of diversity.

Until you have a well-seasoned chicken, you don’t know what you’re missing.

Always go beyond what people expect and that’s the best way to approach life.

Confidence is never built overnight; it’s putting yourself more and more out of your comfort zone.

Your first husband is your education.

The more you learn, the more you build a currency that nobody can touch.

The enablement of a full potential.

Everybody should think bigger and bigger, right, because what’s the point to live a life that is unfulfilling?

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