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Wole Osunmakinde Learning Consultant, Performance Coach, Business Consultant, Public Speaker, Author Wole Osunmakinde is a Philomath C-Suite Executive, Polymath Learning and Development expert, and Performance Coach. A graduate of University of Lagos, he holds MBA in Management. He is a Certified Corporate Trainer and Leadership Expert. He is a Certified Six Sigma Master Belt holder and a Certified Scrum Agile Coach. He is currently running an Executive Programme in Entrepreneurship at the Harvard University. His excellent Consulting and Coaching skills leverage on wealth of experience and exposure in highly reputable pharmaceutical (GlaxoSmithKline, May & Baker, WWCVL), financial (Trustfund, Zenith) and management consulting organizations (KPMG, Greenville Consulting, Michael Stevens Consulting), in which most of his core job functions involved Learning & Development, Business Development, Customer Service, Performance Coaching, Competency Framework Development, Project Management, Business Consulting, International Commerce and HR Business Partnership. Wole is currently consulting/facilitating for a number Management Consulting firms including McTimothy Associates, Greenville Consulting, Lagos Business School, Michael Stevens Management Consulting, MacTay Consulting, KPMG, ETL Consulting, FERAHILLTOP Consulting, Nigeria Institute of Management, Sigma Institute Switzerland, as well as professional bodies such as Nigerian Seminars and Training, Learning and Development Network International, etc. He has been a well patronized facilitator/trainer/consultant and key-note resource person in diverse organizations which include local and multinational business organizations, NGOs, religious organizations, and government agencies. His cutting edge among equals is the ingenuity in improvising customized Learning and Development and Peak Performance Solutions in both classic content and exceptional facilitation within short notices, for individuals and organizations. Wole’s ideology of business/management consulting and life coaching is not just passing on information but initiating and sustaining personal and organizational transformations. He has been rated by many as one of the best Life/Performance Coaches in Nigeria. His life and professional watchwords are Nobility, Excellence and Purpose Wole is a member of various professional bodies including International Six Sigma Institute, Nigeria CEO|C-Level Executives, Nigeria Seminars & Trainings Network (Consultant, Feature Writer), Learning & Development Network International (Conference Speaker), HR Professionals Leverage Nigeria, Certified Corporate Trainers, International Performance Coaches, etc. Books written by Wole include Leadership Today, Critical Factors, The Biography & Portrait of Ebenezer Obey-Fabiyi, 360º Singles, and Transformation Agent. He is happily married to Mobolaji Osunmakinde, PhD.
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Olatoye is a versatile and experienced business management professional with deep competencies in Strategy, HR Consulting, Project Management, Finance and Capacity Building. He is a Chartered Accountant, a PRINCE2 Project Management Practitioner and a Certified ISO 31000 Lead Risk Manager. He holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Economics (1988) and a Master’s degree in Development Economics (1996) and is also a Certified Senior Financial Analyst, a Certified Professional Trainer and an ITIL Continuous Service Improvement Specialist. Withover 30 years’ managerial and consulting experience; covering diverse industrial sectors (Manufacturing, Banking, Telecommunications, Brewery, FMCG & Logistics) and various business sizes, Olatoye has severally led turn-key structural and human transformation projects for small, medium and very large organisations across Nigeria and beyond. He has successfully managed Business Process Re-engineering projects, Organisational Transformation and Change Management Projects, Financial Management and Capital Restructuring Projects and Digital Transformation Projects for very large organisations within the Nigerian business space. Despite his wide exposure to large projects, he has equally been impactful in smaller projects, particularly for Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs), many of which he has over the years consulted for and assisted in financial advisory and management support capacities. Based on his belief that people build businesses and his excellent skills in people management and HR Consulting, he has acquired astute skills in Recruitment and Placement. He has within the past few years interviewed over 600 business executives for various senior management positions in diverse industrial sectors, and has also led a team of recruitment specialists to assess hundreds of candidates for mid-level and entry positions for many organisations. As a Certified Professional Trainer, Olatoye has over the past 10 years organized, managed and facilitated several executive trainings, conferences and workshops of varying scopes – teaching Strategy, Culture, Leadership and Finance. He has authored 3 landmark books on Leadership and Strategy, and as a hobby produced several poetries published by international poetry blogs.
