Ellen Manasi

Ellen Manasi has a curious mind with a zest for life and a passion for supporting entrepreneurs who operate off their talent, not only to generate revenue but to make an impact too. She has gained the respect of her peers with her unique approach to ecosystem building, as well as her astute networking abilities and entrepreneurial mindset.

As a seasoned Business Developer with 15 years’ experience working in corporate working across diverse industries, she founded The Growth Age, a growth consultancy that supports high-impact entrepreneurs and their purpose-led projects with generating revenue and maximising their impact.

Her expertise lies in ecosystem building, which largely involves connecting entrepreneurs and the organisations that serve them with people and resources that could help them. She is skilled at forming strategic partnerships, aligning synergies, facilitating business-to-business matches in order to create a lasting impact for all parties involved
Ellen believes in leveraging existing networks and harnessing the power of partnerships in order to generate measure value.

She has a growing interest in amplifying the voices of social impact founders through strategic story telling that impacts their target audience, enabling their enterprises to attract more prospects such as potential partners, stakeholders and investors.

As an advocate of personal growth and development, she launched Brand Value, a platform that helps entrepreneurs and changemakers strategically position their personal brands to attract opportunities aligned to their vision, establishing them as thought leaders in their field.

Ellen is a true champion for creativity and belives that creativity combined with collaboration are the new currencies of the new economy.
Her mission is to inspire individuals and organisations to realise their untapped potential by empowering them to unlock the value of creativity beyond artistic expression. She believes that creative leadership is the common thread in most successful organisations as their leaders have embraced creative thinking as the fuel for sustainable success.

During her days working in corporate, Ellen often took breaks in between to ignite her creative pursuits which always had an entrepreneurial focus. As a Corporate Creative who is also an advocate for the creative economy, she is committed to continue using her consultancy, The Growth Age, as a vehicle in bridging the gap between entrepreneurs and their target markets.