Tânia Tomé
{{Short description|Mozambican Entrepreneur and humanitarian activist}}
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{{Use dmy dates|date=February 2021}}
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| birth_place = Maputo, Mozambique
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| nationality = Mozambican
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| occupation = Businessperson, writer, speaker, singer
| alma_mater = Catholic University of Portugal
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| years_active = 2001-present
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| website = {{URL|taniatome.com}}
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Tânia Tomé (born 1981) is a Mozambican public speaker, entrepreneur, and author.{{Cite web|url=http://www.expressodasilhas.sapo.cv/economia/item/52589-tania-tome-se-um-empreendedor-nao-for-bom-lider-e-apenas-um-empresario|title=Tânia Tomé: Se um empreendedor não for bom líder é apenas um empresário – Expresso das Ilhas|last=Ilhas|first=Jorge Montezinho, Expresso das|website=www.expressodasilhas.sapo.cv|language=pt|access-date=2017-11-19}}{{Cite web|url=https://portal.dnb.de/opac.htm?method=simpleSearch&cqlMode=true&query=idn=1037055322|title=Katalog der Deutschen Nationalbibliothek|website=portal.dnb.de|language=de|access-date=2017-11-19}} She also releases music under the name Queentanisha.{{Cite web |date=12 March 2013 |title=Tania Tome releases new álbum dreamloving |url=https://www.nydjlive.com/mozambican-tania-tome-releases-new-album-dream-loving/ |access-date=2021-08-26 |website=www.nydjlive.com |language=EN}}
Early life and education
Born in Mozambique, Tomé completed a degree in economics from the Catholic University of Portugal, with an academic merit award received from former Portuguese President Mario Soares.{{cite web|title= Tânia Tomé:Cabo Delgado, eticamente explorado, é a solução para Moçambique desenvolver-se|url=http://www.plataformamedia.com/2020/11/13/tania-tome-cabo-delgado-eticamente-explorado-e-a-solucao-para-mocambique-desenvolver-se|date=13 November 2020|access-date=11 September 2021|website=www.plataformamedia.com |language=pt}} She obtained a postgraduate degree in business administration from the Catholic University of Portugal, and completed an entrepreneurship and business program at Notre Dame University.{{Cite web|title=2016 Fellows |url=https://pulte.nd.edu/projects/mwf/fellows/2016/|access-date=2021-08-26 |website=www. pulte.nd.edu |language=en}}
Career
Tomé first worked as a credit analyst, and was an executive with an investment company. In 2011 she founded a firm called Ecokaya and was its CEO.{{Cite web|last=Hawken|first=Melanie |title=Tânia Tomé: a Mozambican serial entrepreneur using her skills to train and develop a new generation of business leaders in Africa -Lioness of Africa |url=http://www.lionessesofafrica.com/blog/2017/12/10/startup-story-of-tania-tome |access-date=2017-12-10 |website=www.lionessesofafrica.com |date=10 December 2017 |language=en-US}} In 2020, she published the self-help book Succenergy: Activate Your Energy, Discover All Your Success inside You, which led to an invitation to give a TEDx talk, followed by invitations to host training seminars in several nations in Africa and South America.{{cite web |title=Tânia Tomé quer transformar o mundo criando líderes|url=http://www.voaportugues.com/a/tania-tome-quer-transformar-o-mundo-criando-lideres.com|date=8 November 2020|access-date=2021-11-11|website=www.voaportugues.com |language=pt}} She specializes in entrepreneurship and leadership systems,{{Cite web|title=Meet Tânia Tomé, A Trailblazer Extraordinaire |url=https://www.tonyelumelufoundation.org/mentors/meet-tania-tome-a-trailblazer-extraordinaire|access-date=2018-11-30 |website=www.tonyelumelufoundation.org |date=30 November 2018 |language=en-US}} and often speaks on such topics in the media.{{Cite web|title= Tânia Tomé no Congresso Brasileiro
|url=https://opais.co.mz/tania-tome-no-congresso-de-leitura-brasileiro// |access-date=2021-08-26 |website=www. opais.co.mz |date=7 August 2020 |language=pt}}{{Cite web|title=Tania Tome apresenta álbum de estreia|url= https://rdpafrica.rtp.pt/apoios-rdp-africa/tania-tome-apresenta-na-rdp-africa-album-de-estreia/ |access-date=2021-08-26 |website=www. rdpafrica.rtp.pt |language=pt}}{{Cite web|title= Tânia Tomé lança romance ambientado numa comunidade do Rio de Janeiro
|url=http://br.trace.tv/cultura/tania-tome-lanca-romance-ambientado-numa-comunidade-do-rio-de-janeiro/ |access-date=2021-08-26 |website=www. br.trace.tv |language=pt}}{{Cite web|title=Tania Tome |url=http://www.antoniomiranda.com.br/poesia_africana/mocambique/tania_tome.html|access-date=2021-08-26 |website=www.antoniomiranda.com.br|language=pt}}
Tomé is the president of Womenice.org, a women's leadership organization that hosts the Global Leadership Conference.{{Cite web|title=Women month – Seminar debates women empowerment in the COVID-19 context |url=https://www.undp.org/mozambique/press-releases/women-month-%E2%80%93-seminar-debates-women-empowerment-covid-19-context|access-date=2021-08-26 |website=www.undp.org/ |language=en-US}} She is also a member of the Forbes Coaches Council and serves as a judge for the Stevie Awards.{{cite web| url= https://councils.forbes.com/profile/Tania-Tome-CEO-Executive-Coach-International-Speaker-Ecokaya/d287c9e2-ff40-4cdf-a605-edd3245905c7
| title = Tania Tome - CEO, Executive Coach & International Speaker - Ecokaya
| website = Forbes Councils
| access-date = 2 July 2023
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| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20230701141354/https://councils.forbes.com/profile/Tania-Tome-CEO-Executive-Coach-International-Speaker-Ecokaya/d287c9e2-ff40-4cdf-a605-edd3245905c7
| archive-date = 1 July 2023
| url = https://stevieawards.com/aba/entrepreneur-thought-leadership-awards-judging-committee
| title = Entrepreneur & Thought Leadership Awards Judging Committee
| website = Stevie Awards
| date = 8 March 2019
| access-date = 2 July 2023
| url-status = live
| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20230701141714/https://stevieawards.com/aba/entrepreneur-thought-leadership-awards-judging-committee
| archive-date = 1 July 2023
}} She has been recognized for her contributions to Mozambican and Portuguese culture,{{Cite web|title=MAPUTO: CCBM SEDE DAS CELEBRAÇÕES DIA DA LÍNGUA PORTUGUESA - 5 DE MAIO |url=https://literatas.blogs.sapo.mz/2011/05/04/|access-date=2021-08-26 |website=www./literatas.blogs.sapo.mz|language=pt}} and has published several books of poetry and fiction.{{Cite web|title=CCBM promove curso de Literatura|url=https://www.jornaldomingo.co.mz/artes-letras/ccbm-promove-curso-de-literatura/|access-date=2021-08-26 |website=www.jornaldomingo.co.mz|date=29 June 2014 |language=pt}}
Tomé is also a singer, and at age 7 won a Southern Africa music content held by the World Health Organization. She has released some music under her own name, in the jazz, soul, and afropop genres. In 2018 she adopted the stage name Queentanisha and has released several singles under that name.{{Cite web |title=QUEENTANISHA |url=https://www.rtp.pt/programa/tv/p41695/e30/ |access-date=2021-08-26 |website=www.rtp.pt |language=pt}}
Aidoo Lamonte and Daniel F. Silva, who translated and introduced Tomé's literary works in Lusophone African Short Stories and Poetry after Independence: Decolonial Destinies (2021), described her unusual career:
{{blockquote|Throughout the 2010s, Tomé became a public figure of sorts, opening her own business consulting firm in Mozambique ... she has given TED talks and toured as a motivational speaker, targeting generations of Mozambican, Lusophone, and international audiences with facile notions of individual agency that dissimulate existing structures of marginalization. At the same time ... she has articulated, though, tacitly, relations of solidarity between the Mozambican state and other left-leaning governments in the Global South. Her first collection of literature, Agarra-me o Sol por Trás, garnered praise upon release. ... her poetry is centered on the body, particularly, the Black female body, in its entrapment within the various webs of imperial, patriarchal, and political meanings and violence.}}
Awards and honors
- 2003 Portuguese Academic Award by former Portuguese President Mario Soares (Portugal-Africa Foundation){{cite web|url=https://cartaodevisita.r7.com/conteudo/30418/conheca-tania-tome-uma-das-100-pessoas-mais-influentes-do-mundo-segundo-o-mipad-new-york/|title=Conheça Tânia Tomé: uma das 100 pessoas mais influentes do Mundo, segundo o Mipad New York|publisher=cartaodevisita.r7|access-date=2019-11-10}}
- 2015 Young Executive Business Leader Award by Global Banking Finance Awards (UK){{cite web|url=https://www.globalbankingandfinance.com/global-banking-finance-review-awards-2015//|title=Global Banking & Finance Awards – 2015 – Award Winners|date=26 March 2015 |publisher=Global Banking & Finance|access-date=2019-11-10}}
- 2018 Most Influential People of African Descent (MIPAD){{cite web|url=http://www.portaldeangola.com/2019/07/03/tania-tome-entre-as-100-personalidades-mais-influentes-do-mundo/|title=Tânia Tomé Entre As 100 Personalidades Mais Influentes do Mundo |date=3 July 2019 |publisher=Portal de Angola|access-date=2019-11-10}}
- 2020 100 Mais Influences da Lusofonia- 100 Powerlist{{cite web|url=http://www.powerlist100.bantumen.com/2021/tania-tome/|title=Tânia Tomé 100 Power List |publisher=Bantumen|access-date=2019-11-10}}
- 2021 The Choiseul 100 Africa Most Influential Leaders of Tomorrow (France)
Books
- Agarra-me o sol por trás (poetry) (Showesia/Mozambique, 2010) {{ISBN|978-1661787424}}
- Agarra-me o sol por trás, outros escritos e melodias (poetry) (Editora Escrituras, Brazil 2010) {{ISBN|978-8575313886}}
- 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){{ISBN|978-9895289738}}
- Succenergy - Ativa a Sua energia e descubra todo Sucesso que há em você (Lisbela Editora, 1st editio, Personal Development) - Brazil {{ISBN|978-1705374405}}
- Succenergy - Ative a Sua energia e descubra todo Sucesso que há em você (Amazon Brazil, 3st edition, Personal Development) - Brazil {{ISBN|979-8681320470}}
- Succenergy - Para Adolescentes – Preparação para o Sucesso (Amazon Brazil, 1st editio, Personal Development) - Brazil {{ISBN|979-8678698643}}
- Melanina, Uma Sonhadora da Favela do Quinto Grito (novel, "Melanin, A Dreamer from The Fifth Shout Neighborhood") (Amazon Brazil, 2022) {{ISBN|978-6500400021}}
- 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
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Category:Mozambican businesspeople
Category:Women business executives
Category:Personal finance education
Category:Mozambican short story writers
Category:Mozambican people of Portuguese descent
Category:20th-century novelists
Category:21st-century novelists
Category:20th-century short story writers
Category:21st-century short story writers
Category:20th-century pseudonymous writers
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Category:21st-century Mozambican people