FELA DUROTOYE
He is a Computer Scientist and an Economist who has acquired financial and management consulting experience with VENTURES & TRUSTS LIMITED, the sole investment consultants in Nigeria to the European Investment Bank, between 1992 and 1995. As a venture capital and project finance analyst, he was involved in the set up and management of several venture capital projects including Academy Press Business Forms Limited and Stark Nigeria Limited. Fela has a Masters degree in Business Administration from “Great Ife”, the prestigious Obafemi Awolowo University, during which he understudied the Management of Change in Complex Organisations. In 1998, he brought his experience to bear in the area of Business Process Re-engineering for some major Total Quality Management (TQM) implementation projects in PHILLIPS CONSULTING where he excelled to head the Customer Service Group.
As Head of the Customer Service Group, Fela designed and facilitated several customer service and personal mastery training programmes and retreats. Based on his unconventional approach to facilitating, Fela Durotoye has become a “household” name in the many organisations, including Guaranty Trust Bank, Diamondbank, IBTC Chartered Bank, Societe Generale Bank of Nigeria, where he has managed streams of Customer Service Management training programmes and retreat on behalf of Phillips Consulting. Fela co-led the Diagnostic Review Team on the Culture Change programme in First Bank Nigeria plc. He later led the Diagnostic Review Team on the Bank Transformation project in Inland Bank plc during which he was also given the responsibility of preparing the Organisation Diagnostic Report on Inland Bank.
Fela Durotoye was also responsible for the programme design and logistic management for the first-ever series of Management Retreats facilitated by Phillips Consulting for the Central Bank of Nigeria. In 2001, Mr. Durotoye established V.I.P CONSULTING Limited, (now VISIBLE IMPACT), and soon gained the reputation as the one of the leading experts in the fields of Customer Management and Workforce Activation particularly in the banking sector. Having honoured over 120 invitations to speak at various meetings and public gatherings, in just 2004 alone and over 350 in 2007, the name Fela Durotoye now rings across Nigeria, the United States of America and the United Kingdom as one of our nation’s most sought after business strategists and motivational speakers. Ask Fela what he lives for and he will answer “My mission is to build God’s kingdom as well as build institutions, the future generations and our nation”.
Fela Durotoye builds institutions through the platform of V.I.P CONSULTING (now VISIBLE IMPACT), one of the nation’s leading business consulting and human resource management firms focused on assisting its clients achieve competitive leverage. “Our business is clearly to help our clients become NUMBER ONE in their markets or a particular area of their business operations by assisting them become IRRESISTIBLE to their target markets and INDISPENSABLE to their customers. The natural result is that our clients become highly sought after by their target markets.” Putting the natural gifts of Fela Durotoye to inspire the workforce of several organisations to commit themselves to be their professional best and achieve outstanding career goals, V.I.P CONSULTING (now VISIBLE IMPACT) has been able to successfully activate in many corporations, the passion for life, career, organisation, tasks, leadership, colleagues and as a natural result a passion for customers. Today, the prowess of V.I.P CONSULTING (now VISIBLE IMPACT) in the specialized area of workforce activation has earned Fela Durotoye the name “MR. PASSION” in business circles including Guaranty Trust Bank, Standard Trust Bank (now UBA), First Bank, Oceanic Bank, First Inland Bank, Bank PHB, Fidelity Bank, First City Monument Bank, Skye Bank, Diamond Bank and Access Bank, IBTC Stanbic Bank just to mention of few of his clients.
In just 36 years of existence, Fela Durotoye has positively impacted millions of lives and our nation as a whole. At an exclusive event in the United Kingdom in September 2004, Fela Durotoye was “personally nominated for the Nobel prize” by His Excellency, Otunba Gbenga Daniel, the Executive Governor of Ogun State. In a goodwill message sent to Fela Durotoye in April 2005, the Honourable Minister of Information and National Orientation, Chief Emeka Chikelu, described Fela as “an ICON to our generation.” In recognition of his contributions to the field of Human Resource Consulting, Fela was recently honoured with the “Excellence in Human Resource Consulting Award” by NIPRO, a body of Nigerian Professionals based in the United Kingdom and the United States of America, at their global convention in Miami Florida in December 2004. Other award recipients include the world renowned IT expert, Phillip Emagwali and management guru Professor Pat Utomi. Fela was also a guest speaker at the 2006 Global Bankers’ Conference held in the UK. In 2007, he was awarded with the Heart of Africa plaque in recognition of his nation building projects.
Fela was recently appointed the founding President of the Motivational Speakers Network of Nigeria (MSN) and a Director of the Association of Change Empowerment Speakers (ACES) of Nigeria. He is also the Chief Executive of the GEMSTONE Project (www.gemstone2025.org), a movement with an assignment to build Nigeria into the world’s most desirable nation to live in by December 31 2025. Fela Durotoye’s accomplishments have regularly commanded the frequent attention of the media and he has often been profiled and interviewed by This Day, The Guardian, Financial Standard, Punch, The Sun, Business Day and Vanguard as well as the Nigerian Television Authority (NTA), Channels TV, MITV, Superscreen TV and Eko FM. Fela has also been featured on international television stations such as BEN TV in the United Kingdom as well as cable television stations including MCTV and TITV.
As Head of the Customer Service Group, Fela designed and facilitated several customer service and personal mastery training programmes and retreats. Based on his unconventional approach to facilitating, Fela Durotoye has become a “household” name in the many organisations, including Guaranty Trust Bank, Diamondbank, IBTC Chartered Bank, Societe Generale Bank of Nigeria, where he has managed streams of Customer Service Management training programmes and retreat on behalf of Phillips Consulting. Fela co-led the Diagnostic Review Team on the Culture Change programme in First Bank Nigeria plc. He later led the Diagnostic Review Team on the Bank Transformation project in Inland Bank plc during which he was also given the responsibility of preparing the Organisation Diagnostic Report on Inland Bank.
Fela Durotoye was also responsible for the programme design and logistic management for the first-ever series of Management Retreats facilitated by Phillips Consulting for the Central Bank of Nigeria. In 2001, Mr. Durotoye established V.I.P CONSULTING Limited, (now VISIBLE IMPACT), and soon gained the reputation as the one of the leading experts in the fields of Customer Management and Workforce Activation particularly in the banking sector. Having honoured over 120 invitations to speak at various meetings and public gatherings, in just 2004 alone and over 350 in 2007, the name Fela Durotoye now rings across Nigeria, the United States of America and the United Kingdom as one of our nation’s most sought after business strategists and motivational speakers. Ask Fela what he lives for and he will answer “My mission is to build God’s kingdom as well as build institutions, the future generations and our nation”.
Fela Durotoye builds institutions through the platform of V.I.P CONSULTING (now VISIBLE IMPACT), one of the nation’s leading business consulting and human resource management firms focused on assisting its clients achieve competitive leverage. “Our business is clearly to help our clients become NUMBER ONE in their markets or a particular area of their business operations by assisting them become IRRESISTIBLE to their target markets and INDISPENSABLE to their customers. The natural result is that our clients become highly sought after by their target markets.” Putting the natural gifts of Fela Durotoye to inspire the workforce of several organisations to commit themselves to be their professional best and achieve outstanding career goals, V.I.P CONSULTING (now VISIBLE IMPACT) has been able to successfully activate in many corporations, the passion for life, career, organisation, tasks, leadership, colleagues and as a natural result a passion for customers. Today, the prowess of V.I.P CONSULTING (now VISIBLE IMPACT) in the specialized area of workforce activation has earned Fela Durotoye the name “MR. PASSION” in business circles including Guaranty Trust Bank, Standard Trust Bank (now UBA), First Bank, Oceanic Bank, First Inland Bank, Bank PHB, Fidelity Bank, First City Monument Bank, Skye Bank, Diamond Bank and Access Bank, IBTC Stanbic Bank just to mention of few of his clients.
In just 36 years of existence, Fela Durotoye has positively impacted millions of lives and our nation as a whole. At an exclusive event in the United Kingdom in September 2004, Fela Durotoye was “personally nominated for the Nobel prize” by His Excellency, Otunba Gbenga Daniel, the Executive Governor of Ogun State. In a goodwill message sent to Fela Durotoye in April 2005, the Honourable Minister of Information and National Orientation, Chief Emeka Chikelu, described Fela as “an ICON to our generation.” In recognition of his contributions to the field of Human Resource Consulting, Fela was recently honoured with the “Excellence in Human Resource Consulting Award” by NIPRO, a body of Nigerian Professionals based in the United Kingdom and the United States of America, at their global convention in Miami Florida in December 2004. Other award recipients include the world renowned IT expert, Phillip Emagwali and management guru Professor Pat Utomi. Fela was also a guest speaker at the 2006 Global Bankers’ Conference held in the UK. In 2007, he was awarded with the Heart of Africa plaque in recognition of his nation building projects.
Fela was recently appointed the founding President of the Motivational Speakers Network of Nigeria (MSN) and a Director of the Association of Change Empowerment Speakers (ACES) of Nigeria. He is also the Chief Executive of the GEMSTONE Project (www.gemstone2025.org), a movement with an assignment to build Nigeria into the world’s most desirable nation to live in by December 31 2025. Fela Durotoye’s accomplishments have regularly commanded the frequent attention of the media and he has often been profiled and interviewed by This Day, The Guardian, Financial Standard, Punch, The Sun, Business Day and Vanguard as well as the Nigerian Television Authority (NTA), Channels TV, MITV, Superscreen TV and Eko FM. Fela has also been featured on international television stations such as BEN TV in the United Kingdom as well as cable television stations including MCTV and TITV.
Fela is a man like us, if he could achieve all these, you too can.
The long and short of it is this: Success STARTS with a strong BELIEF in your ability to meet or exceed expectations.
Believe you can and you will.
Believe you can't and you won't.
If you believe you CAN...Or believe you CAN'T...You're RIGHT!
Believe you can and you will.
Believe you can't and you won't.
If you believe you CAN...Or believe you CAN'T...You're RIGHT!
All things are Possible!
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