Olubunmi Biu
Dr. Bunmi Biu is a global strategic HR and organizational development consultant with extensive international experience.
Her career has taken her to North America, Africa, Europe, and Asia, where she has honed her skills in consulting, teaching, and practicing strategic human resources and organizational development.
Her approach to consulting is unique, as she brings significant experience from working with for-profit, non-profit, and Multinational Organizations, Governments, and NGOs. Her professional background has endowed her with deep expertise in aligning and integrating organization processes, roles, structures, and culture with the business vision and strategic agenda.
She is known for her collaborative approach, identifying critical gaps and using data-informed insights to drive her work and develop evidence-based organizational solutions. Her passion for positively impacting people and organizations is evident in her work, one interaction at a time.
Her consulting career started in the People and Change Management Competency Group at Accenture, from where she progressively moved into Executive Leadership roles as the Head of Human Resources in financial services for-profit organizations.
Bunmi consults on medium- to large-size projects in Europe, North America, Asia, and Africa, and she has led transformation-type human resources and organizational development assignments. She has collaborated with international agencies such as DAI and Crown Agents UK to design and execute Strategic Human Resources Management and Organizational Development projects and to design and deliver executive and management training programs.
She is the Practice Lead of VR Consulting, a management consulting practice that designs, creates, and executes Strategic Human Resources and Organizational Development solutions. She is also a Senior Organization Development Specialist supporting OD interventions on the USAID Bureau for Humanitarian Assistance Support Contract (BHASC).
She taught Industrial Economics, Marketing, Strategic Human Resources Management, and Leadership programs as a resource person and adjunct faculty at Warwick Business School and Coventry University, UK, as well as Pan Atlantic University, Lagos Business School) in Nigeria.
Dr Biu holds a first-class degree in Insurance from the University of Lagos, an MBA in Finance from Bayes Business School, City University London, and a Doctorate in Industrial and Business Studies from the University of Warwick, Coventry.