A foremost organisational psychologist and former Secretary to Ondo State Government, Dr. Rotimi Adelola, will on Tuesday, May 14, deliver the keynote address at the symposium on Value Creation organised to commemorate the fifth anniversary of The Podium International Magazine. The theme of the symposium is “Value Creation as a Platform for National Development”.
The event, which will also feature the official launch of a book – Value Creation: Your Enduring Pathway to Business and Career Success, written by Oloye Ademola Akinbola, Publisher of The Podium International Magazine, will be held from 10.00 am at the Akin Dania Event Centre, CLAM Apostolic Complex, Omole, Lagos.
Dr Rotimi Adelola worked as a Personnel Psychologist with AG Leventis Plc., and was a Management Consultant with PricewaterhouseCoopers before joining Owena Bank Plc. in 1993. He was involved in implementing manpower development programmes for all cadres of employees. At PricewaterhouseCoopers, Dr. Adelola worked as a team member in numerous consultancy projects in strategic management and change integration, among other organisational improvement solutions for clients across all sectors of the economy.
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At Owena Bank (later Omegabank) he participated actively in the planning and implementation of the bank’s transformation agenda as the Chairman of the Strategic Planning Committee. He later worked as the vice president of Treasury and International Banking and superintended the development and promotion of several liability-generating financial products. He was redeployed as Group Head, Strategic Management with responsibility for bank-wide performance monitoring, branch development, reputation management, innovation management, and manpower development.
Dr. Adelola championed the introduction and implementation of QUALITY IS MONEY (a TQM initiative) as well as ERROR-FREE BANKING… OR WE PAY (a customer service guarantee scheme) at Owena Bank. These initiatives contributed immensely to the repositioning of the then-weak financial institution and were case studies at the prestigious Lagos Business School.
He joined Global Fleet Oil & Gas Ltd. in August 2004 as the pioneer General Manager and was once the Chief Operating Officer of the Oil Company and later Chief Executive Officer. Dr. Adelola was appointed the Secretary to the State Government (SSG), Ondo State in 2009 and served for eight years. He received management training at the Lagos Business School; IDI, Dublin, Ireland; London Management School, London, The Society of Neuro-linguistic Programming, San Francisco, California, USA, and Harvard-Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University USA.
Dr. Adelola has facilitated numerous seminars and workshops on Creativity, Organisational Change, Strategic Thinking, Corporate Turnaround, Performance Improvement Planning & Execution, and Team Building. Leading and Motivating, Business Process Improvement, Customer Service Excellence, Business Writing, Personal Enhancement, and Work Attitude Re-patterning.
The Podium is a general interest international magazine that started with an online edition in 2019 via www.thepodiummedia.live-website.com. The print edition was unveiled in 2021 in major American cities such as Houston, Indianapolis, Maryland, and New York. The magazine has also been unveiled in Ibadan, Lagos, Abuja, London, and Belgium.
The Podium Magazine’s focus is to celebrate the success stories of Nigerians all over the world, provide a credible platform for positively projecting Nigeria and Nigerians, and serve as a change agent in enthroning a new value system among youths.
A statement released in Lagos on Friday by Brand Stewards Limited, Publishers of the new book, disclosed that the book, the sixth by the author, is focused on precipitating a national value re-orientation revolution in the private and public sectors of the Nigerian economy. “In this book, the author identifies the lack of appreciation of the need for value creation and addition in Nigeria, while enumerating strategic steps that should be taken by career individuals, entrepreneurs, corporate bodies, and public sector organisations to become valuable to their stakeholders”, the statement added.
Value Creation: Your Pathway to Enduring Career and Business Success is a book specially written as a handbook for individuals who aspire to become people of influence and impact in their careers and enterprises. It is also for organisations desiring to build strong corporate brands that can stand the current intense competition in the market and global economic challenges. Branding is about value creation, and the book presents a detailed strategic roadmap on how organisations can deliver value to their customers and other stakeholders.
Ademola is a renowned author, journalist, brand management, and communication specialist with considerable experience in the private and public sectors in Nigeria, Ireland, the USA, and the United Kingdom. He has three decades of active experience in the areas of Journalism, branding, corporate communication, corporate reputation management, business development, organisational change management, and digital marketing.
