Biography
Adetola is a Senior Lecturer in the Health Business School with management oversight of our flagship MSc Global Healthcare Management programme as Course Leader. She brings extensive experience to her role including curriculum development expertise and management of people, professional, standard and executive programmes at Higher Education level from her previous institutions.
Prior to joining academia, Adetola worked in various capacities within financial organisations in the UK and Nigeria. She is passionate about employee engagement through employee development practices and provides advisory and training support to SMEs and senior business executives to facilitate ethical change management practices. She currently represents the University forum for Human Resource Development (UFHRD) on the British Standards Institution (BSI) International Human Resource Management and Human Capital technical committee as well on the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) mirror committee. She is also the acting Treasurer and Student Engagement Lead for Essex & Ipswich Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (CIPD) branch committee and is an external advisor on inclusivity and relevance matters for an East Anglia regional theatre.
Adetola has active interest in collaborative industry knowledge transfer projects and has previously worked on UKRI Innovate UK funded projects with NHS and Local Council focused on agile mental wellbeing at work, people leadership strategy, change management and business growth support.
Her current research interests include aspects of people management such as employee wellbeing and fertility support practices at work; employee capability development, ethical leadership in entrepreneurial organisations and organisational identity and identification process constructs in SMEs.
