FOUNDERS – LEGACY GIRLS' COLLEGE

Dr. Mrs. Ellen Hagan is the Founder and Chief Executive of L’AINE Services Limited, Ghana’s leading Human Resource Consulting Firm. It is the first Ghanaian company to
produce a world-class HR magazine called the HR Focus, and the first Ghanaian company to organise an annual HR conference; dubbed the HR Focus Conference and Awards. With a mission to improve lives, her organisation has trained and found employment for over 20,000 people and still counting as well as providing mentoring career counselling and guidance sessions for the youth. As an entrepreneur, Dr. Mrs. Ellen Hagan is a highly respected Human Resource Practitioner in Ghana and a Fellow of the Institute of Human Resource Management Practitioners, Ghana (IHRMP). Her stellar track record has won her numerous awards including the 2010 Strategic Leadership Award at the Global HR Excellence Awards, the 2011 CIMG Marketing Woman of the Year, the 2013 VLISCO Be Your Dream Award, the 2013 Outstanding Female Entrepreneur at the Ghana Women Awards and 2013, Best Entrepreneur in Corporate Business Services at the Ghana Entrepreneur Awards and lately the Ultimate Woman of the Year Award at the 2017 EMY Africa Awards; an honour bestowed on only one woman each year at a ceremony set aside solely to recognise men. Her company, L’AINE has chalked several successes and awards over the years such as being the only HR Company to be ISO 9001:2015 certified and the only HR Company to have been listed in the Ghana Club 100. She is a Co-founder of Legacy Girls’ College, Akuse – currently the only all-girlsAre You private school in Ghana with a strategically enhanced Ghanaian and British curriculum – that helps young female students develop critical thinking and life-long analytical skills to become successful leaders.

Additionally, she established the L’AINE Foundation, a not-for-profit entrepreneurship foundation, to assist in the development of youth entrepreneurship. She serves on several boards including the Danish Sounding Board and the University of Ghana Business School Board. She has been part of a delegation to ILO conferences on several occasions representing the Ghana Employer’s Association. She is a graduate of the University of Ghana, Legon and holds an MBA from the University of Leicester, UK. She has written three (3) books; “Soft Skills; What Gives One Jobseeker An Edge Over Another”, “All about Job Interviews” and “Why are you Here” and published several articles in the Business and Financial Times, the HR Focus Magazine and the Christian Sentinel of the Methodist Church of Ghana. Dr. Mrs. Ellen Hagan is also a marriage counsellor and is married to Mr. Gilbert Nana Hagan and has been blessed with four children and six grandchildren.

Mrs Essie Anno Sackey, known as Essie, is a remarkable individual with a diverse portfolio of achievements and contributions across various sectors. Essie is a co-founder of Legacy Girls’ College, Ghana’s first private girls’ senior secondary boarding school. The institution aims to provide holistic education, nurturing young girls into future women leaders capable of catalyzing positive change in society. Essie’s dedication to education and empowerment is evident in her involvement in Legacy Girls’ College, which opened its doors in September 2015. In addition to involvement in the management of Legacy Girls’, Essie is currently a Director with Century Aviation Ltd and RS Travel & Logistics, a Travel Management company in Ghana. Notably, before her current endeavours, Essie served as the Managing Director of Ghana Airports Company from 2007 to 2009, overseeing the management of all airports and aerodromes in Ghana. Her responsibilities encompassed operational, technical, financial, and human resources aspects of the company. Furthermore, Essie is instrumental in Biochemical Products Ghana Ltd, a venture aimed at enhancing agricultural productivity in Ghana and sub-Saharan Africa. Through the application of tissue culture technology, the company focuses on producing target crops such as plantains, bananas, pineapples, and yams, contributing to food self-sufficiency in the region. Her professional journey includes significant roles at British Airways in Ghana, where she ascended from Sales Specialist to become the first Ghanaian Country Manager, a position she held until 2007. Essie’s educational background comprises a BA degree in Economics and Statistics from the University of Ghana, Legon, and an MBA from the Graduate School of Management at Brigham Young University, Utah, USA.

Beyond her professional and educational pursuits, Essie is actively engaged in community service through her involvement in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, where she serves in the leadership of the Women’s Groups. She demonstrates her commitment to education by establishing a library for children at Denkyira Presbyterian Church Primary School in the Central Region. In her personal life, Essie finds solace in gardening and cultivating vegetables in her backyard and on her porch. She shares her life with Prof Sammy Sackey, and together they have three children. Essie’s multifaceted contributions to business, education, and community service underscore her dedication to making a positive impact on society, embodying the values of leadership, innovation, and compassion.

Founders Philosophy

Despite numerous affirmative action initiatives, there are still only a limited number of women in politics, institutions and communities, as leaders.

The confidence of a woman to dare to be in such spaces begins with an awareness of one’s self-worth and self-esteem.
At Legacy Girls’ College, our mission, is to provide a high quality educational environment that recognizes the individuality of
each student and nurtures their development to achieve their full potential intellectually and socially.

Our vision is to support the development of students to understand their rights and make them capable of contributing positively to national development.

At Legacy Girls’ College, we encourage our young girls to reach beyond the stars. Our mantra is encapsulated in the statement by Ellen Sirleaf Johnson, the former president of Liberia, “the size of your dreams must always exceed your current capacity to achieve them. If your dreams do not scare you, they are not big enough” and “just because something has not been done yet, doesn’t mean it can’t be.”

We provide strong mentors who interact with students in our quest to create a culture of achievement. A Legacy Girls’ training teaches students that there is pride in acting right even when nobody is watching; our definition of ethical leadership. We encourage an awareness of issues in their local communities and their participation and responsibility to help generate solutions. Measures are put in place to develop caring, confident and competent women, with a ‘can-do’ attitude and to encourage them to work hard to leave a legacy that extends beyond their period of education.

This legacy, we believe, will live through the girls who have been fortunate enough to have had a Legacy Girls’ College training.