Taiwo Ojo, PhD.

Professor of Leadership & Strategy
taiwo.ojo@jhu.edu.ng

Dr. Taiwo Ojo earned his doctorate degree in Strategic Leadership from the School of Business & Leadership, Regent University, Virginia Beach, Virginia, USA. He has an MBA from OAU Ile Ife, Nigeria, and he graduated from the Computer Science Department of the Federal University of Technology, Akure, Ondo State, Nigeria, with a second- class upper division.

Dr. Ojo is a leadership consultant, teacher, author, researcher, political strategist and an emerging market specialist. He has attended several executive education programmes and global seminars: Leading Product Innovation (Harvard Business School), Ideas & Public Policy (LSE), Computing Laboratory (Oxford), Turning Strategy into Action (LBS), Global Leadership (Willow Creek Association) and Leadership Development (Daystar Leadership Academy).

He has 23 years of experience, with over 13 years in consulting, cutting across the financial, IT, non-profit, telecommunications, energy and the public sectors, having worked in GTBank, Globacom, Mobitel, Powergies Inc. and Chams Plc.

Dr. Ojo is a distinguished author who has published widely in professional and academic journals. Since 2017, He has assisted and supervised over 40 master’s and 10 doctoral students with their dissertations and projects at universities in the UK, the US, Canada, Ireland, Ghana, South Africa and Netherlands.

Dr Ojo is the CEO of Kish Global Consultants, which has a global presence in Lagos, London, New York, and Johannesburg. He currently sits on the board of four global NGOs and a creative advertising global firm.