Strategy & Management Consulting

Strategy, madeto execute.

I work with founders and executives who are done with strategy that dies in a deck. Diagnosis, strategy, brand, operations: I stay for the part most consultants skip, turning the plan into a shipped, measured outcome.

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8+Years of experience
100+Businesses served
10+Industries
50+Projects, 100% on time
Temidayo Adetunji
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In engineered revenue across client engagements
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Three-year cumulative revenue growth engineered for Adorn Emporium, in two months
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Above revenue projections delivered at Ace Africa
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Businesses served across Africa, Europe, and North America

Selected work

Seven engagements. Seven outcomes.

Strategy, brand, growth, operations, and commercial deals, across Africa, Europe, and North America. Each one diagnosed, built, and shipped.

GLI Consults · Multi-sector consulting practice

GLI Consults

Role: Senior Consultant — business strategy and management consulting

What I did
  • Mapped where founder dependency created bottlenecks across decision-making, sales, and operations
  • Redesigned roles, decision rights, and accountability structures so the business runs without its founder in the room
  • Installed management rhythms and delegation frameworks to sustain the change
The result
Scalableoperating model Reducedfounder dependency
What I did
  • Conducted market analysis, competitive positioning, and operating model assessments across multiple sectors
  • Designed strategy and operating plans that carry through to execution, not just a deck
  • Identified and sized addressable market opportunities before committing resources
The result
Evidence-ledmarket entry Clearcompetitive positioning
What I did
  • Built investor-ready business plans with full financial models and defensible projections
  • Prepared founders for investor pitches: narrative, deck, objection handling, and term sheet negotiation
  • Managed deal execution through due diligence to close
The result
$10Bengineered revenue Closedinvestment rounds
What I did
  • Defined the leadership and specialist roles the business needed to scale
  • Designed hiring processes and managed executive search for critical positions
  • Coached new hires through onboarding and first-quarter integration
The result
Key rolesfilled and performing Teamsbuilt for growth
Business strategyManagement consultingOrganisational designFintechReal EstateSaaSEnergyEducationCurrent

Trajectory

Strategy firms, ventures, and institutions.

Boardrooms and the ground, in equal measure. The path across consulting, high-growth startups, and large organisations that produced this practice.

Senior Consultant · GLI Consults NOW

Business strategy and management consulting for founders and executives — diagnosis, strategy, and the operating design to execute it.

Lead Consultant · Edaakson Brands

Brand strategy and management advisory. 50+ client projects delivered to 100% on-time completion, with C-suite relationships across Fintech, Real Estate, SaaS, and Energy.

Strategy & Management Consultant · Geodecimals

Commercial model, negotiation strategy, and governance for a landmark spatial-intelligence B2B partnership.

Strategy & Growth · Pagesence

Growth and go-to-market strategy for a digital product, sharpening positioning and the conversion funnel.

Marketing Strategist · Helicode

Rebuilt the growth engine and influencer programme — 100% subscription growth, 250% programme performance lift.

Strategy & Product Designer · Vokabl (Poland)

Product and conversion strategy that lifted conversion 150%.

Managing Director / COO · Ace Africa

Founded and scaled a multi-subsidiary holding company across Tech, Education, and Real Estate — 30%+ above growth targets.

Process Redesign · Access Bank

Cut in-branch service time by 50% and earned a 5-star branch performance rating.

MBA, Management — Miva Open University (2026) Product Management — Certified Africa · Europe · North America

How I work

The thinking and the doing.

Most consultants hand you a deck and leave. I stay for the part that separates strategy from change: making it happen, measuring whether it did, and fixing what didn't.

First

Diagnosis before prescription

I find the real problem before anyone reaches for a solution. Most failed strategies solved the wrong thing beautifully. The diagnostic comes first, always.

Then

Boots before billions

The market is not in the boardroom. It is on the ground. I go and see before I advise. Pan-African market knowledge, international execution standards, no distance between the two.

Always

Execution is the only moat

Ideas are cheap. AI made them cheaper. What competitors cannot copy is a shipped, measured outcome. That is the work I do, and the only work that compounds.

Publications

Original frameworks and writing.

Practice turned into methodology. Proprietary tools that make the consulting measurable and repeatable, not just advisory.

FRAMEWORK & DIAGNOSTIC TOOL

The Identity Fidelity Framework

A diagnostic that locates where your brand identity is breaking and directs the fix. Run the free twenty-item instrument, get your primary break, and download a full report.

Explore the tool
Brand strategyDiagnosticFree to run
BOOK

Gracefully

A practical guide to human resources management. People operations grounded in what actually works, written for leaders who manage humans, not headcount.

Coming soon
HRPeople opsLeadership

Blog

From the field.

Strategy, brand, growth, and the lessons from doing the work. Written for founders and executives who build, not just plan.

BRAND STRATEGY

The Missing Piece in Every Brand Strategy

Most businesses know what they are and who they are for. What they skip is the channel in between, and that is where identity breaks.

October 20265 min read
BRAND STRATEGY

A U.S. Bank SVP Just Described My Entire Strategy Framework in Four Words

At the Forbes CMO Summit, a senior banker reduced a year of my framework-building to a single sentence. Here is what she said, and why it matters.

October 20266 min read
OPERATIONS

Why Execution Beats Ideas, Every Time

Strategy decks gather dust. Shipped outcomes compound. On the gap between knowing what to do and actually doing it.

Coming soon
GROWTH

Consulting in Africa, Building for the World

Pan-African knowledge, international standards. What building across three continents teaches you about strategy.

Coming soon
Temidayo Adetunji
Senior Consultant, GLI Consults Lead Consultant, Edaakson Brands

About

I sit at the intersection of strategy, brand, operations, and people, and I bring both halves: the thinking and the doing. Whether you are a founder finding product-market fit, an executive rebuilding how the company runs, or a team that needs someone who will stay until the outcome is shipped, the job is the same: measurable change, not a deliverable that gathers dust.

Temidayo Adetunji, MBA

  • MBA, Management — Miva Open University (2026)
  • 100+ brands served across Africa, Europe & North America
  • Strategy · Brand · Product · Operations — the full span

Let's talk

Bring me the hard problem.

Tell me where you are trying to get to and what is in the way. No deck required to start. I will tell you honestly whether I can help, and if I can, what the work looks like.

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