The accolade is well deserved as Donald Gwira has done a lot of excellent work over the years in the public relations industry, using his communication skills to improve the image and reputation of companies he has worked with over the years.
He has brought vibrancy, visibility and added value to Airtel’s corporate communications and corpoarte social responsibility activities since joining the company in 2011.
His stakeholder engagement has been exemplary in building a positive image about the company. Under his watch, the company continues to grow in reputation and has won many awards.
Commenting on the awards, Donald Gwira said, “I am greatly honoured and humbled by this award which has been an inspiration for harder work and greater determination in the future. I thank IPR for the honour bestowed on me and my teams who have been with me throughout my journey for all their support”. “I dedicate this award to them. They made it happen” he added.
Before Airtel Ghana, he handled the corporate communications function at Guinness Ghana Breweries Ltd. He was instrumental in engaging the media that led to the highest number of entries from Ghana and a Ghanaian business journalist winning a category of the Diageo Africa Business Reporting Awards (DABRA) for the first time in its history.
Prior to Guinness, Donald Gwira held various positions including Communications Manager for West Africa for Sightsavers International.
During his tenure, he was recognized as part of 36 exemplary leaders in a book entitled “Leading Coherently: Reflections from Leaders Around the World”. In this book, the author describes him as follows: “As communications expert, he led the public relations effort across West Africa to get the word out about the prevention and cure of blindness.
His creativity and “way with words” was effective in making the gift of sight a high priority for those within reach of his information campaigns”.
The book, which is authored by Nancy Stanford-Blair and Michael Dickmann draws insight from 36 exemplary leaders to describe a natural and potent relationship between leadership formation, performance and sustainability.
Through sharing their leadership stories, leaders from across the globe reveal prominent themes about how leaders are formed to the role of influencing others toward achievement of goals.
The leaders also reveal how leaders perform such influence on others, and how leaders sustain themselves and their leadership influence over time and adversity has become one of the reading materials for students of leadership across the world.
Mr. Gwira is a holder of a Bachelor’s degree in International Affairs from American University in Paris, France and a Master’s degree in Political Science, majoring in International Relations and a minor in Comparative Politics (Africa) from Howard University in the United States of America.
African Eye News.com