Faculty

Our Faculty include leaders from all walks of life and academics who are renowned in their chosen fields. They are diverse in background and in outlook and share a common purpose of a desire to the contribution of the advancement in the life, career and leadership development of our Solaris Leaders.

In addition, we have in-situ business leaders who come along as guest tutors and presenters in our classroom sessions the purpose of which is to bring a ‘reality’ to the teaching and a practical and pragmatic example of application.

Our Programme Lead

YETUNDE HOFMANN

BA (HONS), MBA, CHARTERED COMPANION CIPD, FRSA, PCC

Yetunde is Managing Director of Synchrony Development Consulting and The Enjoyable Life Series CIC. Synchrony Development Consulting is an international leadership and change consultancy that focuses on top team effectiveness, Change, Culture and Inclusion. She is Founder of The Enjoyable Life Series CIC – a community non-profit organisation designed to have men and women at all levels in business, education and community identify practical ways in which they can live more enjoyably in all of what they do.

Yetunde has built a successful, fast‐paced career in FTSE 100 and Global companies. Her last in-company role was as Global HR Director for the commercial divisions of a FTSE 25 £30bn market cap business driving growth across 160 countries.

She is a portfolio non-executive director and currently sits on the board of FTSE 250 Cranswick Country Foods Plc where she is also the designated board director for workforce engagement.

A classically trained pianist and TEDx speaker, she is a Chartered Companion of the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (ChCCIPD) and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts (FRSA). She is also a Visiting Fellow at the University of Reading’s Henley Business School.

  • DAVE ULRICH

    Rensis Likert Professor at University of Michigan, Ross School of Business and Partner RBL Group

  • PATRICIA LUSTIG

    An internationally recognised strategic foresight and futures thinking  practitioner.  She runs LASA Insight Ltd.

  • MASSIMO PROLA

    Founder MaPs Consulting LLC; Adjunct Faculty Member at the Center for Creative Leadership

  • ADUKE ONAFOWOKAN

    Inclusion and Diversity Specialist, Principal Consultant Inclusivitii, Vice Chair IOD

  • STELLA BIDA

    Consultant, Entrepreneur, Podcast Host, Speaker, and Author

  • RAM GIDOOMAL CBE

    Chairman CottonConnect Ltd and Chairman Allia Ltd

  • NELARINE CORNELIUS

    Professor of Organisation Studies and Associate Dean People Culture and Inclusion at the Queen Mary University of London

  • RALPH LEWIS

    Co-founder and Chair, UK Centre for Servant Leadership; Programme Leader London Business School and published Author

  • ARTI HALAI

    Executive Coach, Trainer, Communication Specialist, Consultant , and Founder AH Action

  • JAMES BURROWS

    With 25 years of global experience, James helps executives unlock their health, fitness, and performance potential, seeing it as a lifelong journey.