Joycee Awosika

Joycee Awosika is an award-winning entrepreneur, energy economist and speaker. She has a history of running companies, mainly ORÍKÌ, the first and only all-natural farm to skin brand to operate a fast-growing premium product & wellness spa brand on the Continent of Africa. ORÍKÌ has developed 10 wellness spas in 8 years and distributes products globally as well as provides contract manufacturing services for brands, hotels, and hospitality companies. Her wellness spas are rapidly growing across Africa with a branch in Nairobi Kenya and locations across Africa in view.

Her work has been featured in several global publications including: CNN, CNBC, The Huffington Post, Ebony Magazine, and The Guardian. She has built a reputation for her expertise in creating structure for businesses and home, and provides Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) and templates through her platform, SOAR.

Joycee is avidly passionate about impacting SMEs to be sustainable and scalable, realizing that they form the backbone of any economy. Prior to building ORÍKÌ full time, she worked for the United Kingdom’s Department for International Development’s (DFID) infrastructure assistance program in Nigeria, with the Nigerian Infrastructure Advisory Facility (NIAF) as the Technical Adviser on Research, Analysis and Informatics (Performance Monitoring) to the Honorable Minister of Power. Joycee contributed to energy policy, the privatization of the power sector and multi-sector collaborations during the Power Sector Privatization Reform in Nigeria.

As the former Curator of the World Economic Forum Abuja Global Shapers Hub, a highly selective group of young people around the world, creating valuable impact in their communities, Joycee led a team of 21 entrepreneurial young leaders, on a number of community initiatives focused on education, youth unemployment and entrepreneurship.
Joycee is a World Economic Forum Global Shaper Alumni, a nominee of The Future Awards Prize in Public Service, 2013 & 2016, and selected into the African Leadership Network. She sits on the board of Oxfam's Work in Progress Program and on two other charity organizations.
She is a Tony Elumelu Entrepreneurship Program Fellow.