Olu Adedeji

Founder

Prelo

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On Deck

Founder Fellow (ODF14)

Consilience Ventures

I was invited by Kevin Monserrat to join the Consilience Ventures ecosystem in 2019 to support the business across its mission in helping to redefine startup acceleration. 

I'll be working with the Consilience Ventures Review committee, performing due diligence on Startups prior to investment as well as mentoring other Startups already in the Consilience Ventures ecosystem.

Consilience Ventures is a data driven venture capital ecosystem, using it's own digital currency (not a cryptocurrency) to invest in high growth b2b start-ups from pre-seed to Series A. 

It uses a combination of data and human-driven decision making to raise the probability of selecting the best start-ups to which Consilience Ventures offers unparalleled support to achieve massive growth

Expert | Advisory | Management Consultant

StayHired

Deep relationships are formed from meaningful conversations with the right people. Join StayHired 

We help Startups connect with awesome talent through conversations📞

StayHired is an ecosystem that provides a radically different hiring experience for Startups and Jobseekers!

📽 Video Interviews  
📞 Private Chats 
📈 Data Insights 
🤝 Relationship Building
🕥 Talent Sourcing 24 by 7 
✅ Zero Barriers

Snr. Project Manager - Analytics & Global Markets

Oneshoo

Oneshoo is an online, social marketplace designed to freely connect you with qualified trainers and health professionals.

With our platform, you will be able to access a dynamic community of trainers who specialise in weight loss, meal plans and other fitness programmes.

We have developed this solution to help you and your trainer(s) effectively manage your  appointments, fitness goals and progress.

Oneshoo is an all-encompassing health and wellness startup, enhancing your fitness experience by giving you the opportunity to meet and work with qualified health professionals.

Co Founder

Deutsche Bank

Snr. Project Manager - Global Transaction Banking (MiFiD II/MiFiR)

Barclays Investment Bank

Programme Lead responsible for the agile delivery of a risk aggregation regulatory project.
BCBS239, Credit Risk, Counterparty Risk, Capital and Impairment Reporting

I am a confident communicator working as a programme lead, responsible for the agile delivery of a global risk aggregation project. I manage a team of business analysts and developers and I am involved in mobilizing the Business Intelligence solution required to meet the challenges of a BCBS239 risk data aggregation.

Other skills include:
PRINCE2 Practitioner Qualified
Professional Scrum Master (PSM) certified
Certified Scrum Master
ISEB(BCS) Certification in Business Analysis 
ISEB(BCS) Requirements Engineering
CISI Derivatives Certification

Programme Lead (Risk Aggregation)

Technical PM/BA, Delivered Optimized Applications & Database Models & Architectecture in the Cross Product Business Area

Technical PM/BA (Cross Product Technology)

Royal Bank of Scotland Business

Worked in the Equity Derivatives business area as a Technical BA/database architect and an application developer.

Architect and Technical BA (Equity Derivatives)

More coming soon . . . 

Join the venture podcast, where I talk to early-stage VCs about how challenging it is to get good quality deal flow.

😓 Tired of selling to companies with $0

💡 Discover 100 "ready customers" every week

🚀 Built in 3 weeks | Beta Tested in 4 weeks | Revenue Generating 4 weeks post launch

👉 Learn more @ https://www.prelo.io

Accelerando 

⭐ I enable trainers, coaches and owners of training businesses to grow their businesses through 3 different routes, depending on the nature of their business ....

⭐ The Training Business Accelerator programme helps trainers and coaches to sell, manage and grow long-term training partnerships. I help them to find the best clients, position themselves as premium providers and reduce their working hours. 

⭐ The Training Business Mastermind is a forum for owners of successful 6-figure training businesses to problem-solve, collaborate, and hold themselves accountable amongst their peers.

⭐ The Training Business Intensive helps established training businesses to expand further by securing and delivering larger programmes and hiring and managing a quality associate team.

Grizzled Veteran of the Training World - helping trainers and coaches to be more successful

SalesCoachr ™

A profit-share partnership with SalesCoachr to help the owner create, market, sell and deliver sales coaching programmes bigger than anything he had done before. My role was to provide marketing consultancy, and operational direction for the hiring of associates and the management and delivery of programmes, and act as personal coach and mentor to the business owner.

Partner (Operations/Faculty)

Chilli 

A profit-share partnership with Chilli to deliver the largest sales training programme that the company has ever delivered. My role was to recruit, train, manage and coach an associate team, design & manage the programme and liaise with the client for ongoing business development & client services.

Partner

Customer Care First Training 

A profit-share partnership with Customer Care First to recruit, train, coach and manage an associate team, and to develop & grow the business by enabling the delivery of larger programmes across a wider range of subjects. Provided coaching and consultancy to the company's founder.

Natural Training

Natural Training is a leading provider of sales training to the tech sector, and has trained over 18,000 sales people from 89 technology companies in 35 countries. 

My role on a 2-year retainer was to lead the Faculty of 30+ trainers and training designers to design and deliver world-class blended learning programmes. I also worked with the Client Services team to help them to deliver a high-quality service to Natural's customers every time. 

Another aspect to my role was providing direction, training and coaching to the sales team to enable them to connect with more customers and rapidly identify the value-add that Natural can offer, and to assist with the closing of more complex and higher value 6-figure deals.

I was also responsible for bringing Natural’s industry-leading Level 3 IT Technical Sales Apprenticeship to market, which involved re-designing the programme from scratch, activating the sales team, forging strong relationships with partners, and training and coaching trainers to deliver the programme.

Solutions Director

Inbox Income

I founded Inbox Income to provide SMEs with the tools and skills that they needed to run effective email marketing campaigns. This involved providing email software, an outsourced managed service and a blended learning programme in Email Marketing Mastery.

Responsible for Specialist Case Management, Employee Relations Policy and Workforce Strategy.

Senior Employee Relations Advisor

Whitbread Plc

As Learning and Development Manager at Whitbread, I was privileged to be a part of the team that delivered award-winning training to 100 new managers & assistant managers each year and 3,500 house staff. 

I also line managed of a team of 60 Trainee Managers, helping them to develop the skills and behaviours they needed to succeed as Retail House Managers, and to develop marketing plans for pubs for which they were applying.

Learning and Development Manager

Here's why it is so important to me to be of service to trainers and facilitators who want to grow their business. It's an unusual story ...

In my youth I was considered to be a bit of an underachiever. Everybody thought I had great potential, so why did I do so badly in my exams? Why couldn't I get to University?  Why couldn't I follow the pathway into a profession as I was expected to? The answers are surprising ...

There are 2 reasons. One was my attitude. I didn’t take learning seriously. I thought that I could get by on my wits & innate abilities. I was wrong.

The other reason lies in the nature of the brain. I was taught to believe, based on the science of the time, that once you hit your 20s, learning was fixed for life.

Adults were incapable of learning, I was told. I believed that it would be progressively harder to learn new skills. But that didn't seem to be true. I found my interest in learning increased as I got older.

Now, thanks to brain research, we know why. It's not true that adults find learning harder. All of us can continue to learn, throughout our lives. We just need the determination & motivation to do so.

The more I've understood how easy it is to keep upgrading your knowledge, understanding, skills & habits, the more passionate I've become about learning.

I became a lifelong learner, always asking what's new, how can I think & behave differently, what else can I learn?

That's why, throughout my life, whatever my job has been, I've always gravitated towards learning & development. The key to success in every domain, it seems to me, is the ability to continue to learn & develop throughout your life.

This no doubt explains why I have spent the last 26 years immersed in the world of corporate training. both as a trainer myself, & as a guide & mentor to other freelance trainers & owners of training businesses.
 
My calling in life is to help other people to be more successful through helping them to gain new skills, new behaviours, & new ways of thinking.

Today, I am thrilled to be able to to spend my time working with trainers who are serious about growing their businesses, & helping them to flourish & thrive in an overcrowded, noisy market. 

I also delight in partnering with people in my network to deliver the very highest quality training programs to their clients & mine.

When I'm not helping other people to reach their goals, you'll find me cooking up something amazing in the kitchen, making music badly but with incredible enthusiasm, or at a gig or a festival with a bunch of mates.

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