Nana is the founder of Bliss Yoga Accra, one of Ghana’s first boutique yoga studios and now a 13-year institution that helped shape the country’s modern wellness landscape. It functions as a living laboratory for understanding stress, leadership fatigue, learning, and modern work on the body. What began as a wellness space has evolved into applied research on how people actually function in high‑pressure environments.
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Nana is a multidimensional lawyer who works with leaders and organisations to design ways of working that protect human capacity while improving long‑term performance — particularly within African social, cultural, and economic realities. Her value also lies in driving ideas and managing, end-to end - innovative projects and businesses. Nana believes culture is infrastructure, and that the body is one of the most honest sources of organizational/leadership data we have.
Across the continent, founders and businesses and initiatives are operating on exhausted nervous systems, scarcity mindsets. Here work sits at the intersection of organisational design, nervous‑system health, and culture, helping leaders move beyond short‑term productivity toward sustainable performance.
Nana also publishes and researches through Wellness in Black, a platform exploring African and Black wellness systems, labour, visibility, and power. The platform supports my consulting work by developing language, frameworks, and culturally grounded models of care and performance that are often missing from mainstream organizational strategy. Her background spans entrepreneurship, education, facilitation, and organisational leadership, with a creative practice that informs how I think about systems, space, and human behaviour.
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Nana is a sought-after speaker for business forums, trend panels and women’s events and serves on a number of boards and advisories. In recognition of her impactful work, Nana was named Entrepreneur of the Year in 2020 by the Tony Elumelu Foundation, a leader in impact investing with a $100 million commitment to support 10,000 entrepreneurs over ten years. She was also invited by the Biden White House to participate in a roundtable in Accra, gathering 6 leading Ghanaian businesswomen to discuss key issues affecting the state of entrepreneurship in Africa, during Kamala Harris' historic visit to Ghana in 2023.
Her entrepreneurial journey has earned her features in prominent media outlets, including CNN, BBC World News, Travel Noire, TEDx Accra, & Oprah (O) Magazine.
She works with:
• Founders and executive teams • Boards • HR and People & Culture leaders • Schools and educational institutions • Development organisations • Companies navigating growth, burnout, or cultural change
Areas of focus include:
• Mentorship • Organisational wellness strategy • Leadership sustainability and burnout prevention • Nervous‑system informed performance • Workplace culture design • African models of productivity and care
Education
B.A. Columbia University, New York
J.D. American University, Washington, D.C.
The Madeira High School, Mclean, Virginia
500-HR RYT Licensed Yoga Practitioner
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