Dr Rotimi Adelola was born on August 15, 1958, at Ondo City in Ondo State, Nigeria. Although he was born in Ondo City, his ancestral origin is Araromi-Obu and he is a Prince of the ancient kingdom. Dr.Aderotimi Adelola holds a 1989 Ph.D. in Organisational Psychology from the University of Ibadan. Earlier, in 1983, he obtained M.sc. in Psychology from the University of Lagos and in 1980 a B.Sc. degree (2nd class upper) in Social Sciences from the University of Ife (now Obafemi Awolowo University). He taught Psychology at the Ondo State University Ado-Ekiti between 1984 and 1990 and was an Associate Lecturer in the Post Graduate degree programme in Industrial/Organisational Psychology at the University of Ibadan between 1990 and 1991.
Dr. Adelola worked as a Personnel Psychologist with AG Leventis Plc., and was a Management Consultant with PriceWaterhouseCoopers before joining Owena Bank Plc. in 1993. At AG Leventis, he was responsible for applying psychological procedures to assess the employability and promotability of candidates into all positions in the 32 companies that constituted the Leventis conglomerate. He was also involved in designing, implementing, and evaluating manpower development programmes for all cadres of employees.
At PricewaterhouseCoopers, Dr. Adelola worked as a team member in numerous consultancy projects in strategic management, organization structure review, change integration, manpower planning and development, recruitment and selection, and performance management, among other organizational improvement solutions for clients across all sectors of the economy.
At Owena Bank (later Omegabank) he participated actively in the planning, implementing, and evaluating 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 (QIMA, O’WISE, CATCH-THEM-YOUNG) and HomeAccess, an Atlanta-based international money transfer product with outlets in many states in the USA. Dr. Adelola was the pioneer Executive Director of HomeAccess. He was later 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 served on many mission-critical committees of the bank and was Secretary of the Executive Management Committee.
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. He worked closely with the Group Managing Director on the day-to-day management of the operations of a large tank farm and 2011 retail outlets nationwide. He was a Non-Executive Director of GNI Insurance Plc when the Company was a subsidiary of Global Fleet.’ Dr.Adelola was appointed the Secretary to State Government (SSG) Ondo State in 2009 and served for 8years.
He received management training at the Lagos Business School; IDI, Dublin, Ireland; London Management School, London, and NLP International Institute, Orlando Florida, USA. and Harvard-Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University USA. He attended Mainframe Media and Film Institute Abeokuta, Nigeria in 2017, and trained as a Film Producer. He produced a feature film titled Kedere: No Hiding Place (2018); The New Patriots (2020/2021) and Rotten Potatoes (2022). He is currently at the Pre-production stage on a sequel to The New Patriots titled Majeobaje and a television drama series, Family Love.
He produced a talk show titled Ladies’ Chat in 2018 and psychotechnologyofsuccess, a lecture series on the application of psychological principles to personal success for youths in 2019. 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 Repatterning.
