To SisterGolf’s Shella Sylla, girls run the world in Birmingham

By: Ali Nolan

For the last 10 years, Shella Sylla has called Birmingham home. She was born in Nassau, Bahamas, and grew up in Miami, but as the founder of SisterGolf, an organization that teaches women golf to help them in the corporate world, she said there is perhaps no better place to live and work.

That’s because Sylla believes Birmingham elevates and provides a great network for female entrepreneurs. It’s an element of the city she cherishes because she knows the challenges of being a high-power woman in the corporate world firsthand.

Sylla’s background is in commercial and corporate banking and commercial real estate financing. Early in her career, she was tasked with business development and attracting clients to her bank. She found that an already difficult job was even tougher just because of who she was.

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