Our mission is clear

At OakHeed, we support the quest to build resilient organizations by providing human capital consulting and coaching services. Our services are strategically integrated and facilitate long-term competitive advantage by ensuring alignment between organizational culture, strategic business objectives and people strategy.

How We Work
Who We Are
What We Believe
We offer fact-based solutions that start with a thorough diagnostic of current state, gap analysis and practical recommendations for achieving desired outcomes. Thereafter, we design solutions that entrench organizational culture and improve organizational effectiveness, all reflecting the unique frame of your organization. We understand that successful organizational change requires a change in individual and team attitude, as such we provide coaching to improve personal effectiveness.

Expertise - With a team of seasoned HR Professionals and coaching experts, we bring our unique experiences to bear in understanding your situation and partnering with you to achieve your goals of building a resilient organization. We have a wealth of knowledge and expertise in the fields of human resources, organizational psychology, leadership development, analytics and business management. Our extensive international network, combined with an understanding of international and local markets, gives Oakheed an unrivalled ability to identify the best business solutions. Our Process is thorough, efficient and tailored to the specific needs of each organization.

Passion - We are true to our heritage, authentic in our dealings and love to navigate uncharted territories. Our diverse and multigenerational team has worked across industries, sectors and geographies yet we have one thing in common – a passion for excellence. This explains our unbridled commitment to organizations in emerging markets as they actualize their potential to become indomitable players in the global marketplace.

Focus - It starts and ends with people and organizational culture. Therefore, we help you maintain laser focus on what matters most by placing people and culture at the center of it all.

At Oakheed, we believe that great organizations are built by regular but engaged employees making extraordinary contributions. We believe that engagement can be driven with the right corporate culture and impossibilities can become possibilities.

We believe that employee productivity has a linear relationship with organizational culture. Therefore, a resilient organization can only be built by laying a foundation of a strong organization culture.

We believe that organizational culture and business strategy should be integrated into every aspect of people management – talent acquisition, performance management, competency management, succession planning, promotions, learning, reward, etc.
Lastly, we believe that HR solutions must be people centric. Therefore, we incorporate design thinking principles into all our solutions, keeping your most prized asset at the fore.

Our Founders

CO-FOUNDER

Toyosi Adekoya

I am passionate about providing pragmatic solutions to solve complex people and business challenges.
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With over two decades of global and domestic experience, Toyosi (Ty) Adekoya serves as Managing Partner of OakHeed LLC. She is a multidimensional and highly accomplished human resources leader with extensive experience across management consulting, energy, multilateral and financial services industries. In several roles over her expansive career, Ty has provided strategic integrated solutions to support the execution of initiatives for business and people management.

Ty’s key areas of expertise, demonstrated across global organizations include culture transformation, organization development, diversity, equity & inclusion, strategic planning, business process improvement, talent attraction, talent acquisition, talent management, competency management, Succession Planning, HR technology, learning & development, executive performance management and employee experience.

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CO-FOUNDER

Derin Otegbola

I am passionate about building people-centric global organizations.

Derin serves as Partner focused on talent acquisition, talent management and Executive coaching with clients in the Technology, Media, Banking, Insurance, Financial Services, Oil & Gas, Consulting, Telecommunications, Public Sector and Not-for-Profit sectors as well as Private Equity clients with diverse portfolios in various industries and markets. Derin’s clients include high growth mid-cap, privately held, private equity group and venture capital-backed firms in emerging markets with focus on Board members; C level; Divisional President and General Management; Vice President and Director Level responsibilities.
Prior to Co-founding Oakheed, Derin worked as a Group Head, Human Resources & Corporate Services at Tangerine Financial. Prior to that, she was the Head of People & Culture at Andela, which she helped move the employee size from single digits to about 2000+ employees.

She led a unique Diversity Strategy that led to previously unseen results in the African Tech Space: a 60/40 gender balance, as well as significant representation of women in the African Tech Space. Until recently, it was common for African Tech insiders to say technology startups could not build for real diversity and thoughtful People Operations.

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