Organizational Development Team Leader
Based on over 40 years organizational development research and consulting in Africa

Technical Lead for Total Organizational Development

The ODSynergy.com team leadership champions imaginative approaches, insights and reflexive consultative partnerships that foster total organization development, and organizational leadership, transformation and high-performance in a sustainable way

Dr. Oladele Akin-Ogundeji, the technical lead of ODSynergy.Com, is a strategic organizational development specialist and top HR consultant based in Lagos, Nigeria. He holds Ph.D. from the University of London at United Kingdom's pioneer Department of Occupational Psychology, the Department of Occupational Psychology at Birkbeck College. He has over 40 years organizational development research and consulting experience in Nigeria and the West Coast of Africa. He has consulted for over 500 organizations in diverse industries and organizations in the private sector—and served as lead consultant and development specialist on public service management, governance and service delivery in the public sector.

Teaching, Research, and Consulting Practice

Organization Research, Organizational Development and Governance Consulting

As Head of Organizational Development and HR Consulting Services at Ernst and Young Nigeria, and for several years as Head of Organizational Development Services at KPMG Nigeria, he led many organizational development consultants and HR consultants on organizational development and human resource projects and programs in Nigeria and some countries in West Africa. He taught undergraduate and post-graduate courses—and conducted applied research—in Organizational Behaviour, Industrial/Organizational Psychology, Social Psychology, General Management, Human Resource Management, and Personnel Psychology.

Since leaving KPMG in 2001, he has been consulting independently in strategic organizational development: organization research and design, culture building, team building, organizational change management, succession planning and talent management, human resource systems review, business process review and re-engineering, workforce performance management, public service management and governance, state government service delivery and strategy, general management and visioning, human resources strategy, and performance management.

High-Performance total organization development

OD Forte

The main thrust of his professional approach is strategic management and development of organizational, managerial and human resource systems and processes for high performance, corporate growth, and transformation. He emphasizes holistic organization development. His forte is total organization development, involving fostering effective synergy of people's actualizing attributes and excellence of business and organization structures, systems, technologies, policies and processes—to sustain high performance, organizational leadership and transformation.

Delivering excellence

Professional and Personal Philosophy

His personal and professional philosophy is the pursuit and delivery of excellence, and building the capacity to sustain it—which influences his personal and professional style. It underlies OD Synergy team's thrust in the organizational development insights, solutions and tools provided on ODSynergy.com. He is passionate about sharing his knowledge, experience and insights on total organization development—a reason he recently re-designed ODSynergy.com.

Advancing OD Practice

A Commitment to Strategic Partnerships

We appreciate and welcome professional and business partneships that are based on the core values and principles regarding total organization development and insights we present on ODSynergy.com.

Proactive collaboration and productive engagement.

Technical Assistance and Partnership

Need our technical assistance or partnership on transformational organizational development, change, leadership, and culture? Get Help:info@odsynergy.com

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