Adora Ikwuemesi

Adora is a talented and multi skilled professional with experience spanning the IT, Telecoms and Consulting industries.  She has tested competencies in the areas of Strategic HR Management, Change Management and Business Process Improvement.  Adora has a Master's degree in Management Information Systems from Cranfield University, UK, a Bachelor’s degree in Economics from the University of Reading, UK and a Diploma in Psychology from Middlesex University, also in the UK.  She is a certified assessor and trainer on behavioural profiling.  She is an active member of the Society for Human Resources Management (USA), co-ordinating the Lagos Forum.  She is also a member of the Chartered Institute of Personnel Management of Nigeria. 

Prior to joining Kendor, she headed HR Transformation at Transnational Corporation Plc where her primary focus was on aligning human capital with organizational strategy. She provided her expertise to the group and its subsidiaries and was actively involved in the NITEL/MTEL business transformation efforts.  Prior to joining Transcorp, she headed the Human Capital Group of Interswitch Ltd, the leading transaction switching and payment processing firm in Nigeria.  She was responsible for developing and executing the group’s HR strategy and embarked on several development projects, notably the design and implementation of a competency based performance management system as well as the design of a sustainable compensation and reward strategy.   

Her consulting experience spans several years at Phillips Consulting where she led Process Improvement teams as part of several restructuring projects. Other areas of focus included, Strategic Alignment, Change Management, Human Capital Development and Team Building.  Her telecoms experience extends several years working for Nokia UK as Design Engineer. Working extensively on a number of projects, she was responsible for the specification and design of the first Multimedia and Java supported Nokia mobile phones.

She is a result-oriented, multi-focused professional who continuously improves herself by extensive research in diverse fields.   She is currently researching on ‘the impact of HR practices on employee commitment’.  She plans to use her findings to help organizations better align their people efforts.

Adora has written several published articles for a number of National Newspapers. She has facilitated several workshops and training programs.  She enjoys, creative writing, reading, computers, the saxophone, public speaking and counselling.

Victoria Idiegbe

Victoria is an experienced IT and Project Management Consultant with work experience spanning the Education, Retail, Financial and Legal sectors. She graduated with a BA in languages and Literature from Bendel State University Ekpoma.  She is a registered vocational trainer with Protocol National UK, providing business computing training to adult learners.  Victoria has worked for one of the largest Intellectual Property firms in London, providing quality assurance for a £12 million pound business change project.

She is a Prince 2 certified Project Management practitioner as well as ISEB and ITIL (green badge) qualified.  Her skill set covers Customer Service, Project Governance, Quality Assurance, IT Service Delivery, IT and Business Change and Business Process Improvement.  Her Project achievements include implementing IT and Business Change to over 500 UK users and 2600 UK advisers.  She co-ordinated the transition from legacy systems to new applications installed on new infrastructure, ensuring that business acceptance criteria were satisfied during the project.  She also co-ordinates staff training and inductions during IT Change projects.

Victoria believes in giving back to the local community and supports charitable groups and organisations.  She is involved in mentoring and has a special interest in mentoring teenagers and business colleagues.  She adopts an ‘openly enthusiastic’ approach to all challenges that come her way.  Her hobbies include travelling, a passion for jazz, broadcasting her own radio show on podomatic.com, exercise and reading.

Ngozi Okafor

Ngozi is a graduate psychologist who obtained her honours degree at Brunel University in the United Kingdom. She began working with businesses focusing on their Marketing and Communication Strategy working specifically in the areas of Branding, Public Relations, Marketing Communications, Event Planning, Advertising, Corporate Social Responsibility, Media Relations and Crisis Management. 

She was conferred ‘preferred supplier’ status by the Business Link for London.  Over the years, she successfully bid for and delivered on several contracts sponsored by the European Social Fund, the London Development Agency, the European Regional Development Fund, the Princes Trust and Business Link for London.  Ngozi frequently delivered training to businesses on Marketing, Public Relations, Business Planning, Web Architecture as a marketing tool, Copywriting, Pitching Your Business, Customer Care, Time Management and Change Management amongst others.

She has designed training courses for multinational organizations such as Shell, Mobil, the Central Bank of Nigeria and small businesses in the UK, US and Nigeria. She is a member of the Chartered Institute of Marketing, Institute of Business Advisers, Institute of Business Consultants and is a Project Management certificate holder from the Project Management Institute (PMI).

Ngozi is interested in charitable endeavours and holds a Cambridge Certificate in teaching English to speakers of other languages (CELTA). For over 10 years, she has also worked as a youth mentor, helping young people into gainful employment through career and business skills training. For her efforts with young and minority ethnic groups in the community, she was nominated to attend a dinner at 10 Downing street to meet the then Prime Minister of London Mr. Tony Blair through an ‘INNER CITY’ initiative designed to recognize and support 100 young business people in London making a difference.  In her spare time, she enjoys meeting new people, singing and writing. She has written 4 children’s books and enjoys using her son as sample audience.

Wilson N C Omordia

Wilson is a seasoned professional with experience ranging from Alternative and Sustainable Energy Supply, Telecoms to Securitised Financial Consultancy.  He has key competencies in Corporate Financial Consultancy, Regulated Mortgage Advice and Finance.  With a background degree in Financial Accounting, Wilson is a member of the Chartered Institute of Management Accountants (CIMA) UK; Certified UK Mortgage Advice Practitioner and a member of UK Association of Finance Brokers and UK Association of Mortgage Intermediaries.

Wilson’s experience extends several years as an Executive Director overseeing Corporate Development of S.I.T.L Nigeria.  Prior to this role, he was the Principal Consultant at WM Associates UK where he supervised regulated mortgage and finance advice; managed established synergies with clients in sub-Saharan Africa in the area of promoting non-fossil fuel as a viable business proposition; as well as initiated and deployed one of the first online debt to income management services.  Wilson also consulted for Nationwide Building Society (UK's largest building society) to build market share in the industry by focusing on its P.R.I.D.E. core principles.  Wilson also worked as a consultant for General Portfolio Financial Planning Services, Docklands, UK where he was responsible for compliant data management, identifying and advice on wealth and private investment portfolio management.

Wilson is an accomplished solutions facilitator with a passion for excellence in customer service.  Equally at home in Nigeria, Europe or the USA, he has a proven result-oriented commitment to grass root solutions and continues to strive to maintain strong inter-personal relationships whilst drawing on top-class decision making skills.

Wilson contributes to different trade journals and media publications.  He enjoys music, counselling, creative solutions, most outdoor games and sports, reading, writing, chess and political commentaries.