Tânia Tomé

Tânia Tomé (born in 1981 in Maputo, Mozambique) is a public speaker, entrepreneur, life coach, economist, poet, novelist, TV personality, author and lyricist.
Early life and education
Born in Mozambique, Tomé completed a degree in Economics from the Catholic University of Portugal, Porto, with an Academic Merit Award received from Former Portuguese President Mario Soares.
She obtained a postgraduate degree in business administration from the Catholic University of Portugal, United States before she went on to complete an entrepreneurship and business programme at Notre Dame University.
Career
In 2002, Tome began her career as a credit risk analyst in banking. In 2007 she joined an investment development agency as Head of Credit & Risk Mitigation and as Head of New Business and Investment. Upon leaving the company in 2011, she started a firm called Ecokaya and then later became the Ecokaya Chief Executive Director CEO.
Her self-help book, Succenergy: Activate Your Energy, Discover All Your Success inside You (2020), led to her delivering a TEDx talk and giving leadership training and lectures in countries including Uganda, Rwanda, Brazil, Cape Verde, Angola, Mozambique, Portugal, São Tomé and Príncipe, Sierra Leone, and the US, among others.
Tome has also been working as a global ambassador, advisor, and mentor. According to the Tony Elumelu Foundation, she is a Trailblazer Extraordinaire mentor who advocates for a more inclusive, dynamic, and efficient entrepreneurship and leadership ecosystem."
She is the president of Womenice.org, an organization with a mission to empower women and youth by enhancing their leadership capacity and facilitating access to opportunities.
Womenice.org is known for organizing the Global Leadership Conference, featuring over 30 speakers from more than 10 countries, equipped with diverse tools and skills to foster empowerment and growth."
Tomé is a Forbes Coaches Council member and American Business Award judging committee member for the Stevie Awards.
TV & Media Interviews
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Her interviews in the Lusophone space have gained widespread recognition, with appearances in countries such as Brazil, Cape Verde, Portugal, Angola, Mozambique, Sao Tome e Principe, among others. Renowned media outlets and TV channels like Trace, Voice of America, National Mozambican Television, Cape Verde National Television, BBC Africa, Angolan National Television, Record, Claudia, Lusa, and RTP have featured Tania Tome, further solidifying her reputation as a prominent figure in the industry. ."
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Awards and honours
2003 Portuguese Academic Award by former Portuguese President Mario Soares (Portugal-Africa Foundation)
2015 Young Executive Business Leader Award by Global Banking Finance Awards (UK)
2018 Most Influential People of African Descent (MIPAD)
2020 100 Mais Influentes da Lusofonia- 100 Powerlist
2021 The Choiseul 100 Africa Most Influential Leaders of Tomorrow (France)
2022 Forbes Coaches Council Member
2023 American Business Award Judge Member
Books
Agarra-me o sol por trás (poetry) (Showesia/Mozambique, 2010)
Agarra-me o sol por trás, outros escritos e melodias (poetry) (Editora Escrituras, Brazil 2010)
Conversas com a Sombra (prose poetry) (Editora Showesia, Mozambique, 2011)
Conversas com a Sombra" (prose poetry) (Publisher - Editora de Letras, Angola 2013)
Conversas com a Sombra 2.0 (novel) (Editora Chiado, Portugal, 2020)
Succenergy - Ativa a Sua energia e descubra todo Sucesso que há em você (Lisbela Editora, 1st editio, Personal Development) - Brazil
Succenergy - Ative a Sua energia e descubra todo Sucesso que há em você (Amazon Brazil, 3st edition, Personal Development) - Brazil
Succenergy - Para Adolescentes – Preparação para o Sucesso (Amazon Brazil, 1st editio, Personal Development) - Brazil
Melanina, Uma Sonhadora da Favela do Quinto Grito (novel, "Melanin, A Dreamer from The Fifth Shout Neighborhood") (Amazon Brazil, 2022)
Melanina, Uma Sonhadora da Favela do Quinto Grito (novel) (Alcance Editores, 2022)
Other participations and works
Co-author of the book Seminario de Palestras da República de Mocambique on the theme of Culture and Creative Industries for Wealth Creation (50 pages, 2011) - Mozambique
Co-author of the book Tempo e dinheiro - Lisbon Press 2020 - Portugal
Co-author of the book Lideres do Sec XXI - Lisbon Press 2020 - Portugal
Poetry DVD - Showesia - Tribute to José Craveirinha
Other Activities
In 2011, the writer, poet, and founder of Showesia, Tania Tome, was one of the guests invited to participate in the first-year celebration of the Portuguese language and culture on May 5th, established by UNESCO. Other participants included Calane da Silva, Lourenco de Rosario, among others.
In 2014, the Brazil-Mozambique Cultural Center (CCBM) organized the 8th Course of Brazilian Literature. The course featured conferences given by writers Tania Tome, Mia Couto, Calane da Silva, among others. It was mainly aimed at university students, with the objective of promoting the Portuguese language and stimulating discussions about various Brazilian literature authors who have influenced a wide generation of writers from Mozambique, Angola, Guinea-Bissau, and Cape Verde. From José de Alencar to Mario de Andrade, including Manuel Bandeira,Guimarães Rosa, and Jorge Amado.
Music and writing
Singer, poet, and composer Tania Tome entered the artistic world at the age of 7 when she won the award for the best voice in the Music Contest organized by the World Health Organization (WHO) in Southern Africa. At the age of 13, she took part in her first soirée, where she sang, recited, and played piano with poems by José Craveirinha, in a performance that included the presence of the honoree."
"She changed her artistic name to Queentanisha and has been releasing multiple singles. One of them celebrates her 34 years as a singer, commemorating the anniversary of her first public performance. The single not only traces the history of music in Africa up to the present day but also reflects Queentanisha's personal journey."
Tomé has released an album, Encontro. She has published poetry and fiction in a 2010 collection Agarra-me o Sol por Trás ("The Sun Grabs Me from Behind"). She has promoted poetry in Mozambique through encouraging poets and musicians to collaborate, and co-producing a theatrical and visual arts celebration many authors inclusind José Craveirinha's poetry. And she did create the concept and neologism- Showesia.
Aidoo Lamonte and Daniel F. Silva, who translated and introduced her work in Lusophone African Short Stories and Poetry after Independence: Decolonial Destinies'' (2021), write of her unusual career, to be a writer, but also a notable public person as entrepreneur, activist and international speaker that is changing the narrative:
Lamonte and Silva see Tomé's work as influenced by other women writers Guimarães Rosa from Mozambique, such as Mia Couto Paulina Chiziane, Lília Momplé, and Lina Magaia.
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1981 births
Mozambican businesspeople
Mozambican writers
Women business executives
Living people
Life coaches
Personal finance education
Mozambican poets
Mozambican people of Portuguese descent
Mozambican novelists
Mozambican short story writers
Mozambican children's writers
20th-century poets
20th-century novelists
21st-century novelists
20th-century short story writers
21st-century short story writers
20th-century pseudonymous writers
21st-century pseudonymous writers
21st-century Mozambican people