Susan Nsibirwa

"I think I’ve evolved over the years, but right now, I’d call myself a passionate learner of life."

"My entire career has been around advertising, communications and marketing, but I just have a passion and a zest for life, for brands and for people."

"Those three pillars; life, brands and people, that’s who I am."

"I am a graduate, of journalism."

"I graduated from Makerere University."

"I having my career then evolving into advertising; working with advertising agencies and then going into marketing and communications as my broad field of specialization."

"That’s who I am."

"From what people see from the professional side, I’m a lover of sports."

"I also like to see myself as a believer in people."

"I do quite a bit in terms of mentoring and lifting people up."

"Any opportunity I get to lift others is a gift."

"I take that with a big spoon."

"I am a Jesus lover and that really underpins my values as a person."

"What else can I say about me?"

"I’m into public speaking, I take any opportunity, like every week, I am speaking to some people."

"I’m frequently doing public speaking engagements."

"I and the microphone can’t be put apart."

"I’d describe my childhood as ‘very protected and yet very instrumental in who I am today’."

"Why do I say protected?"

"I say protected because my parents did their level best to afford us the best of what they could offer."

"I come from a huge extended family, and so there were always big cousins around, and protected in terms of when I look back now, in terms of privilege, because there’s so much that we could do that the average family could not do at the time."

"That’s why I’ll say protected."

"When I say very pivotal in who I am today, it also made me very independent because I was put in boarding school when I was seven years old."

"Once you’re put in boarding school at a very young age, you’ve got to figure out life on your own quite early."

"That, then, made me be in a protected environment and yet helped me develop into a very independent person."

"When I look back at my childhood, I’ve got fond memories of big family gatherings."

"I’ve got fond memories of being in a private British school in Kenya."

"I’ve got fond memories of childhood friends that I can no longer trace, because we were in this private British school."

"Once you come into secondary school, then you start forming lifelong relationships, especially from my secondary school and those are the lifelong relationships that I have now."

"I have fond memories of growing up in Kenya, Nairobi."

"Even when I go there now, I smell the air and it brings back childhood memories."

"That’s my childhood."

"My career journey is one I’m really grateful for, because obviously, I have worked for the big corporations that come to mind."

"When I joined MTN Uganda as advertising manager, prior to that I’d been with advertising agencies so I have many years of advertising experience."

"I joined MTN as an Advertising Manager and then Brand Manager."

"And then from there, I went to Commercial Microfinance Bank as the Head of Marketing and Retail."

"I went to DFCU Bank as Head of Marketing and Communications."

"I then took a break for a year. After the sabbatical and I joined Vision Group, a media conglomerate."

"I never need more than three years because after three years, I feel like, ‘Okay."

"I think I’ve done what I came to do here."

"I move on to the next challenge, because I love challenges."

"I don’t like to sit in a place where I feel like I’m being paid, but I’m not really doing much."

"I am not adding any more value."

"Sometimes that calls for crazy decision making, but I love challenges."

"I love to feel that when I wake up in the morning, and I go to work, I’m going to make a difference."

"I’m going to add value to the company."

"That’s why my previous work stints were all three years, until I got to Vision Group where I surprised myself by lasting eight years."

"I guess why I survived eight years, so to speak, is because I kept re-inventing my role such that by the time I left, my role had grown by leaps and bounds as I kept re-inventing it and adding responsibilities and finding new ways to keep myself challenged."

"My career path has really been one where when I look back, intentional, and yet not intentional by my standards."

"I honestly see the hand of God leading and guiding me and placing me in different institutions and I doing my bit and and always giving my best."