Ogechi Adeola

She started her career at Citibank Nigeria and spent approximately 14 years in the nation’s financial sector during which she garnered experience in strategy, product development, sales and marketing,customer serviceand customer relationship management, cultural change management, amongst others.

Adeola holds a doctorate in Business Administration (DBA) from Manchester Business School, an MBA from the same institution and a law degree from University of Nigeria. She attended management and teaching courses at Cranfield School of Management, UK; the Flexcube Centre of Learning, Mumbai, India; Gordon School of Business Science, University of Pretoria, South Africa; Phoenix Educational Institute, Dubai and International Faculty Programme (IFP), IESE, Barcelona, Spain. She also holds a Certificate in Internet Marketing from the University of Cape Town and Merit Award from the Institute for Financial Management, Bangor, Wales. She is a certified Sales and Marketing Manager (American Institute of Management Studies), and a Visiting International Fellow at the Open University Business School, Milton Keynes, United Kingdom (2016). Her academic interests include sales force management, new product development, digital marketing, branding strategy and customer service leadership.

She has been a guest speaker and discussant at local and international conferences featuring top-rated companies and organisations, including the Lagos Chamber of Commerce and Industry (LCCI) business clinic, the West African Power Industry Convention (WAPIC) and Yale Africa-China Conference held in Lagos. She has taught in the Women Entrepreneurship & Leadership for Africa (WELA) programme of China Europe International Business School (CEIBS), held in Lagos. She served as an expert-in-residence in a business advisory clinic for Goldman Sachs scholars on completion of a Certificate in Entrepreneurial Management (CEM) programme at Pan-Atlantic University, Lagos. She was a part of the Alpha team of the Centre for Global Enterprise (CGE), engaged as virtual consultants for the London Taxi Company in 2015, and was awarded a Certificate of Achievement in Applied Business Collaboration with Distinction in Leadership Excellence.

She has published academic papers in top scholarly journals. In April 2016, her research work (co-authored) won Best Paper Award at the Australia-Middle East Conference on Business and Social Sciences (AMECBSS)/Journal of Developing Areas held in Dubai.

Adeola currently serves as Associate Dean of Business Administration at the California-based University of the People, an accredited online tuition-free institution. She is a Fellow of the Institute of Strategic Management, Nigeria and the National Institute of Marketing of Nigeria. ​