Astou D’Jamat Dubois

Astou D’Jamat Dubois

CEO, Spotlight Production | Coach

Based in Côte d'Ivoire, Astou Djamat-Dubois, is bilingual seasoned executive planner and dedicated event trainer, founder and CEO of Spotlight productions, an experiential event management agency specialised in custom "on demand" corporate and social events.
With over 15 years of experience, this creative planner started her career in Canada where she was involved in planning and coordinating major cultural events, festivals such as the Calgary Global Fest and Afrikadey Festival and Calgary Movie Festival to name a few. She was also involved in coordinating a few movie premieres for Nollywood producers based in Canada.
Since her return back to her homeland, she has been hired by a variety of clients to assist with high profile Women leadership conferences, luxury showroom grand openings, charity galas and tradeshows.
Astou holds a Certification in Wedding and Event Planning as well as a Masters Degree in Business Administration She has attended half a dozen event conferences across Africa, Canada and in China both as participant as well as speaker or moderator.
In 2012 she co-founded Event Pro International, a bilingual events training agency whose vision is to build capacities and inspire professionalism and excellence in the African event space. As an event planning coach, she has trained and mentored over 500 event professionals across Francophone Africa.
In 2019, she signed a partnership agreement with Ghana-based Wedding Magazine DREAM and transformed it into the 1st ever bilingual event publication dedicated to luxury weddings and events in Africa and distributed internationally.
This mother of 4 defines herself as an panafrican at heart and is always ready to contribute to any african-based initiative that advances the cause of excellency and collaboration within the continent.