I am a social scientist and strategic leader with more than two decades of professional and leadership experience across Africa, Asia, Europe, the UK. I am a strategy consultant, executive coach, facilitator and speaker in the fields of inclusive leadership development, transformation and innovation. I have worked with a range of international organisations across sectors and industries for over twenty years and supported leaders and teams globally through both in-house and consultancy roles.

I design and drive transformation journeys that serve to connect the dots between representation, inclusion, enhanced organisational performance and innovation. Through my lived and professional experience globally, I have gathered a wealth of human and organisational insights into both the painpoints that organisations experience in their inclusion transformation journeys and the opportunities that are bespoke to each organisation.

I have sector expertise in: biomedical research institutes, intergovernmental organisations and the private sector globally. I sit on a number of institutional advisory boards in Europe.

The first 10 years of my career were in academia. I then transformed my research interests and analytical skills into consultancy work. I am Honorary Associate Professor of Sociolinguistics at the University of Nottingham and draw from my academic networks to support my consultancy work with an evidence base. 

In terms of professional accreditation, I completed an Executive Programme in Organisation Leadership and Innovation at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (2023) ; an Executive Programme in Inclusive Leadership at the London School of Economics and Political Science Executive programme (2022). I also hold a CIPD Level 7 Award in Learning Design, Delivery and Evaluation (2019).

I have a PhD in Social Sciences, MA in Postcolonial Literature (Distinction) and BA in English Language and Literature (Class I) from the University of Leeds, UK.