Faculty

Our Faculty for the Solaris Academy are experienced professionals and leaders from diverse backgrounds who have significant expertise in working with leaders across a variety of levels and functions in diverse industries. They understand the polarity of self and us; the balance of the commercial with the humane and the significant difference that Love as a value and a leadership and organisational capability can make in the world of work, leadership and life.

  • YETUNDE HOFMANN

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

    Academy Programme Director; Programme Lead - Solaris Women’s Executive Leadership Development Programme

    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.

  • ANIKE WARIEBI

    Programme Lead, Solaris Rising Stars, Marketing Consultant, Executive Coach, Board Member and Author 

     

  • DAVE ULRICH

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

  • NELARINE CORNELIUS

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

  • SARAH ROXBOROUGH

    MD Coaching Culture and Change, PCIC-Henley Business School, Career and Leadership development specialist, Solaris Academy Lead Coach

  • RALPH LEWIS

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

  • NNENNA ILOMECHINA

    COO, Thought Leader, Business Strategy and Change Adviser

  • DR. MIKE BAXTER

    Psychologist, Author of The Strategy Manual, Founder and Director of Goal Atlas, Education and Business strategist, Change expert

  • ADUKE ONAFOWOKAN

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

  • MASSIMO PROLA

    Founder Ma Ps Consulting LLC, Adjunct Faculty Member at the Center for Creative Leadership

  • PATRICIA LUSTIG

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

  • RAM GIDOOMAL CBE

    Chairman CottonConnect Ltd and Chairman Allia Ltd

  • STELLA BIDA

    Consultant, Entrepreneur, Podcast Host, Speaker, and Author

  • JAMES BURROWS

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

  • SARAY KHUMALO

    Guinness world record holder 2020, Speaker, Transformational Coach, Trekand Mountain Leader

  • ARTI HALAI

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