PROFILE – DR. OLUBUNMI AJAYI, PhD, FRSA, FCMI

Olu Ajayi is a critical-reflective thinker and solutions architect, who influences key decision-makers in government and industry globally by using practical corporate governance to effect transformational change – institutionally and nationally. With over 30 years’ experience of working with boards and upper echelons of government and industry, she uniquely applies a combination of political astuteness, academic rigour, and practical experience to address institutional, business, and strategic issues whilst optimising performance and good governance. A Big-4 trained Management Consultant, she is renowned for deconstructing the theory of corporate governance and working with leaders to establish a clear, measurable correlation between governance and organisational performance.

She is the CEO of Maddison Pine Africa Ltd, a niche corporate governance and institutional transformation firm. She is also the Founder/CEO of Révélo, a tech-based DRCM and Integrity Advisory Firm. Her expertise and no-nonsense practical advice have helped many leaders to enhance the effectiveness of their organisations and to achieve strategic outcomes and growth. She is politically astute with the ability to secure results through negotiation and influence and at all levels of the organisation.

She has extensive and impressive experience of consulting across Europe and Africa and in Ghana, she has worked with boards of all major government agencies and SOEs and the major banks. Her company, Maddison Pine, developed the Corporate Governance Toolkit for Enhancing Banking Supervision for the Bank of Ghana.

Her current area of research and practice is in exploring how Artificial Intelligence can re-configurate anti- corruption systems and strengthen them through predictive insight and ethical governance. She is the creator of TACA™, the Transformation and Change Adoption Methodology. She is the author of Leading Change (Wiley). She is a Fellow of the Chartered Management Institute (CMI), Fellow of the Royal Society for the encouragement of Arts, Manufacturing & Commerce (RSA), and a former lecturer at University of Canterbury, Kent, England, teaching on the MSc in Organisational Change Management, Collaborative Practice & Leadership