Call for Speakers

Zahid Mubarik is a Thought Leader on strategic Human Resource Management. He is the CEO of HR Metrics and Founder President SHRM Forum Pakistan. He has the honor of being the only HR Leader from South Asia to become a member of ISO Technical Committee 260 for Developing Global HR Standards. In view of his meritorious services, Pakistan Standards & Quality Control Authority Government of Pakistan has appointed him as Chairman Pakistan HR Standards Committee and Country representative to ISO Geneva TC 260.

Currently, he is a global Convener of HR Metrics Standards ISO TC 260 leading 31 countries. He also led Pakistan in ISO HR standards development meetings in Washington, London, Melbourne, Rotterdam, Paris, Singapore and Bali.

Zahid is an internationally acclaimed thinker, writer and speaker. His analytical papers and expert talks have been featured by international media including Microfinance Gateway World Bank Washington, CNBC, Dawn, Business Recorder, Business Plus TV and Gulf Economist.

Adora is a talented and multi skilled professional with experience spanning the IT, Telecoms and Consulting industries. She has tested competencies in the areas of Strategic HR Management, Change Management and Business Process Improvement. Adora has a Master’s degree in Management Information Systems from Cranfield University, UK, a Bachelor’s degree in Economics from the University of Reading, UK and a Diploma in Psychology from Middlesex University, also in the UK. She is a certified assessor and trainer on behavioural profiling. She is a PRINCE2 certified Project Manager and an accredited Global Professional in Human Resources (GPHR). She is also an Associate member of the Chartered Institute of Personnel Management of Nigeria.

Prior to joining Kendor, she headed HR Transformation at Transnational Corporation Plc where her primary focus was on aligning human capital with organizational strategy. She provided her expertise to the group and its subsidiaries and was actively involved in the NITEL/MTEL business transformation efforts. Prior to joining Transcorp, she headed the Human Capital Group of Interswitch Ltd, the leading transaction switching and payment processing firm in Nigeria. She was responsible for developing and executing the group’s HR strategy and embarked on several development projects, notably the design and implementation of a competency based performance management system as well as the design of a sustainable compensation and reward strategy.

Her consulting experience spans several years at Phillips Consulting where she led Process Improvement teams as part of several restructuring projects. Other areas of focus included, Strategic Alignment, Change Management, Human Capital Development and Team Building. Her telecoms experience extends several years working for Nokia UK as Design Engineer. Working extensively on a number of projects, she was responsible for the specification and design of the first Multimedia and Java supported Nokia mobile phones.

Adora has written several published articles for a number of National Newspapers. She has facilitated several workshops and training programs. She enjoys, creative writing, reading, computers, the saxophone, public speaking and counselling.

Nick Schacht is a highly experienced executive with more than three decades of experience in professional services, education, and corporate learning and development. He has a history of driving product innovation, growth and profitability and he has led organizations operating worldwide.

Nick is Chief Global Development Officer for SHRM, the world's largest HR professional society. Before joining SHRM, Nick was the founder and CEO of KnowCyber, President and Chief Operating Officer for PetroSkills, CEO and President of Learning Tree International, and President of Global Learning Systems, a start-up focused on e-Learning and digital content. He served in a variety of capacities at ESI International, culminating in his role as President when ESI was sold to the Institute for International Research (IIR) and then as Group President for the Americas for IIR. He has been a Research Fellow at the Logistics Management Institute, and began his career as a U.S. Navy Supply Officer, on the headquarters staff of the Naval Nuclear Propulsion Program.

Nick graduated with honors from the U.S. Naval Academy, and holds Master's degrees in Administration from the University of Maryland University College, and Information Systems Technology from The George Washington University.

Bolanle Austen Peters is the founder and CEO Of BAP Productions..

With the creation of Bolanle Austen-Peters Productions, The theater industry bar has been raised with the production of SARO the Musical in 2013, a production which enjoyed numerous accolades and reviews from international media houses including the BBC and SKY News and has since produced five additional plays despite the lack of infrastructure to support such. Responding to wonderful reviews from the press and theater experts, in December 2014 and April 2015, BAP productions produced SARO THE MUSICAL 2 at the MUSON Center.

Bolanle Austen-Peters has facilitated, organized, managed and attended numerous workshops and seminars both within and outside the United Nations system on various issues.

She attended the International School Ibadan and the University of Lagos for her undergraduate studies and earned a Master's degree in International Law from the London School of Economics and Political Science.

Michael Ikopki

CEO, Africa-Context Consulting.

Michael is one of the Africa’s finest business leaders with experience in leading large corporations as CEO where employee numbers occur in the thousands. A much sought after speaker he brings in a wealth of insight & perspectives in the value HR delivers to the business. He spoke on “Future Ready HR: What The CEO Wishes HR Knows and Does.“ Michael is now the CEO of Africa-Context, an advisory services company specializing in market level strategy focussed on Africa.

Howard A. Wallack

Global Market Executive.

Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM)

Howard A. Wallack, MA, MSc, SHRM-SCP, is currently an executive under the HR & Administrative Office, aat Jhpiego—an affiliate of Johns Hopkins University Prior to that he was the Global Markets Executive at the Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM), where he shared responsibility for SHRM’s internationalization strategy and global business development; identifying, creating, and sustaining partnerships outside the US to grow SHRM’s delivery network; servicing the nearly 10,000 SHRM members outside the US; and bringing worldwide global HRM best practices back to SHRM’s US members.

As SHRM has gone global, Howard was deeply involved in the creation of 12 ‘SHRM Forums’ for member engagement outside the US as well as a network of more than 40 business partner organizations (training companies, HR associations, and universities) covering 52 countries that have been licensed to deliver SHRM’s HR certification preparation programs and HR seminars. Additionally, he represented SHRM in both domestic US and international HR standards development efforts.

A cum laude graduate of Hamilton College with degrees in Anthropology and Spanish, he has an MA in International Affairs from the Norman Paterson School of International Affairs at Carleton University (Canada), and an MSc in International HR and Globalization from the University of Leicester (UK). Prior to joining SHRM, working in the HR space he was responsible for the adaptation, design, and roll-out of an executive leadership training program in more than 25 countries on 4 continents. He currently is certified as a SHRM Senior Certified Professional (SHRM-SCP) and has been certified as both a Global Professional in Human Resources (GPHR) and Human Resources Management Professional (HRMP) by the HR Certification Institute.

Brad Boyson

Managing Director & CEO, SHRM Middle East

Prior to becoming Managing Director for SHRM MEA, Mr. Boyson spent 15 years holding senior HR roles in globally diverse organizations like Mitsubishi Corporation (Tokyo), Royal Caribbean International (Miami) and for the past five years Hamptons/Emaar based in Dubai. Mr. Boyson holds the rare distinction of having practiced embedded HR on every inhabited continent including work experience in almost every major industrial sector. He was one of the first people in the world to have earned professional HR certification in two international jurisdictions (USA & Canada) and has first-hand HR experience leading employees from over 120 different nationalities. Mr. Boyson holds three academic business accreditations specializing in finance, industrial relations and HR respectively.

Mr. Boyson's affiliation with SHRM, the world’s largest HR association, began in 1999. His volunteer activism with SHRM began in 2006 as delegate to China. In 2007 he joined the HRCI GPHR exam development team. From 2008 to 2011 he served on SHRM’s Global Special Expertise Panel. In 2009 he set up and lead one the first SHRM Members Forum (UAE) and joined the SHRM-ANSI task-force to develop HR standards. In 2010 he began teaching the S/PHR Learning System. In 2011 he attended the first ISO TC 260 meeting in Washington DC and in March 2012 he was a special representative for Canada at the second meeting held in Paris. An accomplished athlete, Mr. Boyson has completed two Ironman triathlons, including the world championship in Hawaii. He also completed the Sea2Summit adventure race in Whistler British Columbia, the alpine venue of the 2010 Olympic Games and as a teenager he held records in competitive swimming and represented Canada in international ice hockey.

Oluwafunke Amobi.

Head, Human Capital, Stabic-IBTC Bank.

Oluwafunke Amobi is a vibrant strategic HR practitioner, with deep experience in linking business strategy, people and corporate performance. Funke’s career pedigree is a product of over 20 years exposure in all aspects of HR; enabling Organizations win the war for talent and manage their people for strategic advantage. She has consistently demonstrated a strong passion and competence for Human Resource effectiveness and participated in organizational projects focused on business process improvement and corporate performance management.

She presently the Head, Human Capital, Stabic-IBTC Bank. Prior to that she was General Manager Organisation & Talent Development MTN Nigeria Communications Limited, a multinational market leader in the African Telecommunications industry, before which she was Group Head Human Capital Management in NNB International Bank (Now a member of Unity Bank Plc) and was also responsible for Corporate Communications. In this role, she served as a member of the Executive Committee of the Bank responsible for the strategic and operational running of the Bank. Funke holds a First Degree in Economics from the University of Lagos (1990), Akoka where she graduated with a Second Class Honours Upper Division and an MBA from The University of Lancaster, UK where she graduated with a Distinction and was awarded the prestigious Dean’s Award.

She is a multiple award winner and British Chevening Scholar, an excellent writer, trainer, facilitator and speaker on varied HR issues at Conferences and workshops. Her career and research interests lie in the areas of people management and the integration of customer focus into Human Resource Practices She serves on the Advisory Board of AGDC (After Graduate Development Centre), a youth empowerment and career development initiative and on the advisory board of WISCAR (Women in Successful Careers) a women empowerment NGO as Special Adviser. Funke is happily married to Fred, a Lagos based Finance Executive and serves the Lord with her gifting as a Deaconess in The Redeemed Evangelical Mission (TREM Head Quarters).

Hans Jakob Walhovd

Executive Vice President, Talent Solutions & Education Services at John Wiley & Sons, Inc

Since 2004 Mr Walhovd has held the position of Managing Director for Inscape Partners International ApS, a HR Solutions company currently operating in over 60 countries worldwide, through the world’s largest network of independent distribution partners in the professional HR industry . He is currently serving as a Board member for six independent companies and since 1993 has created, run, merged and sold several companies within the industries of Management Consulting and IT Solutions. Mr Walhovd holds an Executive MBA from the Copenhagen Business School, and specializes in the areas of business and strategy development.

Previous work experience includes Executive Management Consultancy within the areas of Leadership, Strategy and Business Development and Human Resource Management and Development. Between 1988 -97 Mr Walhovd served as an Operational Naval Officer with the Royal Danish Naval Academy.

Mr Walhovd is married with two daughters and speaks fluent English, German, Danish, Swedish and Norwegian.

“People are the core of any business, and people are my passion. Building and leading teams is and remains my primary interest, regardless of the industry, the company and the situation.” 

Ayodele O. Jaiyesimi

then Group Head, Human Capital First Bank Nigeria Limited

Ayodele Jaiyesimi, is a Global and Senior Practitioner Human Resources (GPHR/ SPHR), a member of the Chartered Institute of Personnel Management, Nigeria, the Nigerian Institute of Management. She is a PROSCI Certified Change Management Professional and a Certified Customer Service Trainer (Service Quality Institute USA). She holds a Higher National Diploma in Accounting and is a Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Nigeria and an Honorary Member of the Chartered Institute of Bankers.

Ayodele has had over 28 years varied work experience in the Public Service, Consulting and the Financial Services Industry. She joined First Bank of Nigeria Plc. in 2007 and is currently the Group Head of Human Capital Management and Development. Ayo is passionate about change and transformation and is also actively involved in a number of youth mentorship/development initiatives and community projects.

She is passionate about change and believes in the tremendous potential that people, when motivated, empowered and challenged, bring into lives, their workplaces and communities. This, she believes triggers genuine, sustainable change.

Ayodele has attended several courses in Ivy League universities such the London Business School, Stanford University.

Ima Ofulue

Chief Human Resources Officer for Oando Plc

Ima Ofulue is the Chief Human Resources Officer for Oando Plc. She has over 12 years hands-on experience in the various aspects of the HR field for several reputable companies. Prior to joining the company, she worked for FMC Technologies, a leading Oil and Gas Service company with specialty in subsea technologies where she managed the company’s global mobility program in addition to having direct responsibility for the delivery of domestic human resources function for the subsea division in Houston, Texas.

Ifeoma Mafeni

Human Resources Director, Africa Regional Markets- Diageo.

Ifeoma Mafeni graduated with a law degree from the University of Nigeria Nsukka in 1989 and was called to the Nigerian bar in 1990. Her Human Resources Career started in the erstwhile Smithkline Beecham where she was recruited as a graduate management trainee in Human resources. Subsequently she held diverse roles in legal and human resources, the last of which was the Company Secretary/Head of Legal role. She resigned in June 2002 and joined Accenture in July 2002 as Human Resources Lead spearheading the implementation of People Programmes and Initiatives until July 2005 when she joined Guinness Nigeria as Talent Manager, a role she held until her appointment in May 2008 as the Human Resources Director.

Ifeoma's background demonstrates outstanding management level experience in legal matters and HR Issues. She is an avid reader and enjoys cooking and entertaining. She is married to Norbert and together they are blessed with four children.

Ngozi Adebiyi.

Lead Consultant & CEO, Outside-In HR

Ngozi has over 12 years experience in Human Resources & consulting . She has a BSc in Estate Management from the University of Lagos, MBA from Mercer University, Atlanta and a Global Professional in HR (GPHR) certification from the Society of Human Resources Management (SHRM), USA.

She’s held diverse roles in the HR functions at multinationals, spanning business partnering, talent management, training and organisational development.

Before joining Reckitt Benckiser as HR Director, Central Africa, she was Head, HR at KPMG Professional Services and HR Manager at Guinness Nigeria Plc.

In her spare time she’s involved in charity work for underprivileged kids and enjoys swimming and reading.

Enife Atobiloye

Managing Consultant, HUMAN LEADERSHIP RESOURCES.

Enife Atobiloye is an experienced and versatile HR professional with over 20 years of practice and consulting in sub Saharan Africa.

Enife has designed and implemented human resources strategies for various Organizations spanning People selection, Performance Management Systems, Work Force Development Issues, Human Resources Strategic perspectives, people policy formulation, Structure Design as well as Compensation & Rewards.

Enife holds a Masters in Managing Organizational performance (MOP) from the Cranfield school of management. She obtained a Certificate of Competence for occupational testing from the British Psychological Society (Level A&B intermediate). Enife is the first African to be certified as a Global Practitioner in Human Resources (GPHR).

Chioma Nwabuoku.

then, Head Group-Wide HCM, Diamond Bank Plc

Chioma is a Human Resources Professional with specialist skills in Change Management. Education includes a Bachelor’s Degree in History and a Post-Graduate Degree in Public Administration, University of Benin, Nigeria). Prior to Diamond Bank, Chioma was GlaxoSmithKline’s (GSK)Human Resources Director for West and Central Africa. She’d previously help General Manager, Human Resources and Administration at Air-Liquide (Cote D’ivoire) and UTC Plc.

BRIAN J. GLADE

MANAGING DIRECTOR, AMERICAS
Association of Executive Search and Leadership Consultants

Brian is a global strategist and human resources specialist, who leads the membership team for the Americas region. His role at the AESC also includes serving as Secretary to the AESC Board of Directors.

Prior to joining the AESC in May 2011, Brian led global member programs for the Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM); the world’s largest association devoted to human resource management. Brian was responsible for educating the Society’s constituents on global human resource management issues; providing guidance in the globalization of SHRM members, products, and services; and representing the Society and the profession abroad. Brian established the SHRM offices in Beijing, PRC, and Mumbai, India.

Preceding his role at SHRM, Brian worked at the United States Council for International Business, where he served as Vice President for International Labor Affairs, responsible for negotiating labor standards with trade unions and governments. He was also active in shaping social affairs policy before the European Commission in Brussels and the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) in Paris. Brian also worked at Texaco, Inc.’s corporate headquarters in New York for five years in a variety of positions, including International Human Resources Advisor, Coordinator for Total Quality Management (TQM) in an operating division and as a Project Developer responsible for introducing a Texaco-licensed clean energy technology in European markets.

Brian earned his M.A. in International Affairs from the Paul Nitze School of Advanced International Studies of the Johns Hopkins University. As part of that program, he studied in Bologna, Italy for one year. His B.A. in Government is from the University of Notre Dame. Brian’s language training includes French, Italian, Spanish, German, and Latin.

Bayo Adekambi

Author, Data & Insights Strategist
Executive at MTN Nigeria.

Olubayo Adekanmbi is an award-winning business executive in Strategy, Analytics and Marketing, with 17 years of varied experience in Africa’s two largest economies, Nigeria and South Africa. He is a Chartered Marketer (CMSA) with doctoral-level Research and Development capacity and broad research interest in Sharing Economy, Data Science and Strategic Innovations for business transformation and social development.

Between July 2015 and September 2016, he took a 15-month academic sabbatical from his role as Chief Marketing and Strategy Officer at MTN Telecommunication Nigeria. Bayo has had an outstanding career at MTN, rising through the ranks from Senior Manager to General Manager in 2013, and finally being promoted to Chief marketing and Strategy Officer in 2014. Bayo has also been awarded the prestigious MTN Yello Star award for his conceptualization of a customer value/risk management framework, which led to multi-billion Naira revenue growth.

Bayo is on a combined PhD programme at the City University London and TIAS Business School, the Netherlands, where he is using data science algorithms to study the effect of customer networks on consumption behaviour in luxury and telecoms industries, with bias for low – income segments in emerging markets.

Bayo graduated with Distinction from the University of Reading Postgraduate Business School, United Kingdom, and has also had both full-time and executive education in many leading institutions, including Columbia Business School, New York; The University of Chicago Booth School of Business, Chicago; INSEAD Business School, France; Telecoms Training Institute, London; ETH Zurich, Switzerland; and Gatton College of Business and Economics at the University of Kentucky, Kentucky. He considers himself a privileged beneficiary of the grace of God, who is under a mandate to serve God’s purpose in his generation.

Olusola Adewole

Director, People and Organization
PwC Nigeria.

Olusola is a strategic HR management consultant and enterprise transformation executive. He has a track record of exceptional experience consulting for leading organizations and multinationals in Nigeria, United Kingdom and the United States.

He is a respected leadership coach and C-Suite relationship manager with a keen business sense. He has proven expertise in the design and implementation of talent management strategies, leadership development programmes and organizational effectiveness projects. Recent consulting engagements include organization effectiveness projects for businesses in consumer packaged goods, oil & gas, banking, government and education.

Over the last 20 years, he has mentored scores of HR and line executives in the public and private sectors of the Nigeria economy.

Dele Aloko

Head, Human Resources & Business Services
South Atlantic Petroleum Ltd..

Dele is a lawyer and Human Resources professional with 23 years’ experience in the oil and gas industry and currently works with South Atlantic Petroleum (SAPETRO) as the Head of HR and Business Support. Prior to joining SAPETRO, he worked with the Shell Petroleum Development Company of Nigeria (SPDC), where he held various positions predominantly in the Human Resources function.

Dele holds a Bachelor of Law degree from the University of Nigeria, Nsukka and was called to the Nigerian Bar in 1985. He is a member of various professional bodies including the Nigerian Bar Association (NBA), Chartered Institute of Personnel Management of Nigeria (CIPMN), Society for Human Resources Management (SHRM), Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (CIPD) as well as the Nigerian Institute of Management (NIM).

In his spare time, Dele volunteers as a lecturer for candidates taking the SHRM certification examinations in Nigeria and has represented Nigeria as a member of the National Mirror Committee on the International Standards Organisation's ISO TC-260 project for the development of global standards in the field of human resource management.

Dele is married with children and enjoys travelling, reading and adventure

Yetunde Kanu

Partner
KPMG Nigeria.

Yetunde is a Partner in the Management Consulting Practice of KPMG Nigeria, and leads the People and Change practice of KPMG in Nigeria.

Yetunde has over 15 years management consulting experience, and has advised clients across sectors including oil and gas, telecoms, consumer and industrial markets and public sector. Prior to her career in consulting, Yetunde had a stint in banking.

She has extensive HR advisory experience covering Organization Design for Performance, Talent Management; Leadership Development; HR Function Optimisation; Behavioural Change Management and Culture transformation, and Recruitment & Selection.

She has an MBA from INSEAD, France. She is a Certified Senior Professional in Human Resources (SPHR), a Senior Certified Professional of the Society for Human Resources Management (SHRM-SCP), and a member of the Society for Human Resource Management, USA.

Winifred’Mena-Ajakpovi

Conference Lead & Director
SHRM Nigeria.

Winifred is a Lawyer, a seasoned HRM (Human Resource Management) professional with a passion for achieving organizational performance through people. She has multi sector HRM experience spanning the Financial Sector, Telecommunications and Manufacturing Industry.

Her key HRM strength is in deriving and aligning HR strategy to business strategy, making the link between HRM and organizational performance real. Winifred has served in diverse HRM roles in different multinational organizations and countries on different projects, with the last role as HRM lead for Heineken South Africa. She currently provides consultancy HRM services for a pharmaceutical as the Lead HRM consultant. As a result of her multi cultural experience, Winifred understands the importance of cultural bias in managing people across different nationalities.

Winifred has an LLM from the University of Lagos and an MSC from Cranfield University, UK, majoring in International Human Resource Management with focus on expatriation, globalization and impact on labor mobility/availability. She has won several awards for exceptional performance and change management and is a member of both the Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM), which is the regulatory body for HRM practices in the United States and the Chartered Institute of Personnel Management in Nigeria (CIPM).

Winifred is a proud mother of 3 and when she is not speaking HRM, she is fanning her interest in the performing and creative arts. This supports her belief that there can be several expressions of one talent! She is best known as a driver for result, a change agent, one with strong execution Skills and a distinct sense of integrity / commitment.

Tominiyi Oni

Human Resources Director
FrieslandCampina WAMCO.

Securities & Exchange Commission (2010 – 2013)
Adviser to the Director General

Shell (2006 – 2010)
Shell – Sub Sahara Africa: HRBP (SC/Finance/Legal) Shell International UK/Hague: Global Process Manager Shell Norway: Satellite Recruitment Manager Shell – Sub Sahara Africa: Team Lead XP Recruitment

PricewaterhouseCoopers (1992 – 1998 / 2005 – 2006)
Snr. Manager - HR/Process Improvement Consulting

Guinness Nigeria Plc. (2002 – 2005)
Organization Development Manager (Last role)

British Council (2001 – 2002)
Country HR Manager

Air Liquide Nigeria Plc. (1998 – 2001)
Personnel/Industrial Relations Manager

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