Expert Profile
Strategic Advisor and Coach
Trusted executive business advisor who guides leaders through ambiguity and complex business challenges, while equipping them with the right tools and confidence to proactively anticipate and plan for change.
Corporate Innovation Program Management
Expert at bringing together diverse stakeholders (C-Suite, Functional business leaders, and employee innovators) to align strategy, funding, customer experience, and technology to generate new ideas and enable systematic change.
Organizational Design and Development
Design and facilitate organizational structure redesign, workforce job architecture, upskilling, talent management, and HR platform technology systems required to operationalize human capital solutions.
Operations and Project Management
Strategic systems thinker and operations leader who collaborates with leaders to assess, map, and modernize core operational workflows, resulting in improved methods of working, efficiencies, and resource management.
Workforce and Talent Intelligence
Link skills mapping to jobs, training, and career paths by collaborating with organizations to match talent with evolving business, customer, and future workflow strategies.
Private, Public, Non-Profit Sector Strategy and Planning
Focused on growth, partnerships, technology innovation, sustainability, and workforce development across private, public, and non-profit sectors.
Human Capital Management
Full-cycle human capital processes including designing, implementing, and measuring the effectiveness of global recruitment, hiring, learning and development, mobility programs, mental health and wellness initiatives, and reward and recognition efforts.
Business and Technology Transformation
Align emerging industry, product, and technology trends (e.g., Artificial Intelligence) with long-term business strategy and revenue targets to drive growth. Develop ways to leverage AI and automation to enhance, not replace, human potential and impact.
Adetola is a pioneering senior executive in innovation, human resources, and business transformation, with over 20 years of experience turning the impossible into the inevitable. Throughout her career, she has been recruited by Fortune 500 companies and startups not just to fill positions but to help organizations and C-suite leaders create and build business functions from the ground up, execute with limited resources, and deliver results where others see only obstacles. Her background includes experience in high-growth startups, mid-sized companies, and Fortune 500 corporations, with leadership roles at J.P. Morgan, Bank of New York Mellon, Merrill Lynch, Brown University Health (formerly Care New England Healthcare Systems), State Street Bank, the U.S. Federal Government, and non-profits.
Innovation and business strategy aren’t just her profession—they’re her calling. She believes that businesses, individuals, and communities can thrive when provided with the right conditions, strong leadership, and the courage to embrace change. Her work is grounded in a simple truth: growth is never a straight line, and the most meaningful transformations happen in the messy, complex spaces where others are afraid to go. One of her greatest strengths is her ability to thrive in ambiguity while maintaining a steady focus on business fundamentals. She doesn’t just talk about transformation—she rolls up her sleeves and works alongside leaders at all levels to do the unglamorous, hard work that drives lasting change.
She is passionate about partnering with leaders to amplify human voices at every level of an organization, because everyone is a stakeholder in shared success. This philosophy has guided her through enterprise-wide transformations, from restructuring Fortune 500 operations to establishing over 90 new cross-functional (business and digital) product teams and integrating 1,235 technology teams. When she led recruitment campaigns that expanded candidate pipelines by more than 50%, it wasn’t just about numbers—it was about opening doors and creating opportunities for people to bring their best work.
If you are looking for a practical leader who is eager to learn about your business and help solve the right problems, she welcomes the opportunity to work with you.
