Dr. Mrs.
Ellen Hagan

Dr. Mrs. Ellen Hagan

Dr. Mrs Ellen Hagan is the Chief Executive of L’AINE Services Ltd, Ghana’s leading HR organization and a proud member of the Ghana Club 100; a company she has successfully developed and maanaged over the past 20 years. She is an entrepreneur and a human resource practitioner with over 25 years’ experience and has represented the Ghana Employers’ Association (GEA) during International Labour Organization (ILO) conferences on numerous occasions. She is also an Honorary Fellow of the Boardroom Institute of the Graduate School of Governance and Leadership and a board member of “The Christian Sentinel”, the magazine of the Methodist Church.

Additionally, she is the co-founder of Legacy Leadership Girls’ School, a secondary institution that aims at nurturing and guiding the leadership potential in girls.

Dr. Ellen Hagan is a graduate of the University of Ghana, Legon and holds an MBA from the University of Leicester, UK. She also holds a Doctor of Philosophy in humanities (Phd. Hum Honoris Causa) from the Pan African Bible Seminary.

She is a multi-award-winning entrepreneur with some of her awards being the CIMG Marketing Woman of the Year 2011 award, in recognition of her invaluable investment and service to human resource development in Ghana, the Outstanding Female Entrepreneur at the Ghana Women Awards 2013 and the Best Entrepreneur in Corporate Services 2012 by the Ghana Entrepreneurship Foundation.

Inspiring Change

Achievements

Honours & Awards

  • Africa’s Most Influential Women in Business and Government Award, CEO Magazine 2013 – 14
  • International Star for Leadership in Quality Awards (ISLQ) 2013
  • The Golden Award for Quality and Business Prestige 2013
  • Outstanding Female Entrepreneur, Ghana Women Awards 2013
  • Oscars Kafour 2013
  • VLISCO Ambassador 2013
  • Ghana Investment Promotion Council (GIPC) 50th most prestigious company of Ghana Club 100 Awards 2013
  • International Star for Quality Awards, Gold Award, 2012, in Geneva
  • Best Entrepreneur in Corporate Business Services 2012
  • 9th Most Influential Personality in Ghana for the year 2012
  • Nobles International Award by the West African Nobles Forum 2012
  • CIMG, Marketing Woman of the Year – 2011
  • CIMG Print Advert of the Year, 2011 for L’AINE’s “Bend Over Backwards” campaign
  • Ghana Investment Promotion Council (GIPC) 50th most prestigious company of Ghana Club 100 Awards 2011
  • Strategic Leadership Award, World HRD Congress in India 2011, in recognition of achievement in human resource development in Ghana
  • Best Consultant and Best Consultancy for the year 2010/2011 by The International Christian Business Excellence (ICBE) Awards

Recently she was honoured at the Kufour Awards in Cotonou for her contribution to the world of work. She was also conferred with the “Strategic Leadership Award” at the World HRD Congress in India in 2011, in recognition of her achievement in Human Resources development in Ghana and also received the B.I.D International Gold Star for Quality Award, in Geneva, in 2012. She was also the VLISCO Ambassador for the year 2013 after winning the Vlisco ‘Be your Dream Award’ and was also named by e.TV as the 9th most influential Ghanaian in 2012 when they released their annual 100 most influential Ghanaians of the year. She was recently named as the Regional Winner for the Business/Professional Services sector in the CEO Africa’s Most Influential Women Awards.

Dr. Hagan is an avid writer and author of three books, “All About Job Interviews”, “Soft Skills; What Gives a Jobseeker an Edge Over the Other,” and “Why Are You Here?”

She writes for the HR Focus Magazine, a quarterly magazine published by L’AINE Services, currently the first and only human resource magazine in Ghana and over the past decade, she has written and published 40 articles in “the Christian Sentinel”. These articles have covered diverse issues that affect the daily lives of Christians, and non-Christians, at home, in their communities and in the work place. Career counselling and guidance is another area in which she focuses a lot of her attention.  She mentors the youth at tertiary level when they are about to enter the world of work.  Following her desire to see the youth move forward in their work life and to open the eyes of the youth to job opportunities other than formal office work, she established The L’AINE Foundation, an entrepreneurship foundation that supports start-up companies with mentorship, training and funding.

She is married to Mr. Gilbert Hagan; himself an entrepreneur, and they have four children.