About

Strategist. Builder. Coach.

Taiwo Olawehinmi is a strategy professional and career success coach with experience spanning Fortune 500 consumer goods, international health institutions, strategic advisory, and high-growth ventures across Africa and the United States.

With a background in pharmacy, she holds an MBA from Vanderbilt University, with a focus in healthcare, strategy and entrepreneurship.

Her career has been built deliberately at the intersection of strategy, systems, and people, moving across organizations of dramatically different shapes and scales, and letting each environment sharpen a different edge of how she thinks about growth, complexity, and execution.

From commercial strategy inside one of the world's most recognizable consumer brands, to scaling community-rooted programs across 15 African countries, to strategic advisory inside high-growth ventures, the through-line is the same: cross-pollinated thinking, grounded in real operations, delivered with the kind of clarity that makes action possible.

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Across Sectors. Across Continents.

A career trajectory built across the worlds that rarely talk to each other.

2024 to Now
Strategy & Business Advisory
Shore Capital Partners · MBA at Vanderbilt Owen
2021 to 2022
Brand & Commercial Strategy
Mattel Inc. · Fortune 500 Consumer Goods
2019 to 2021
Health Systems & Programs
Clinton Health Access Initiative · Advantage Health Africa
2019 to Present
Co-founder & Executive Director
Pharma Incubation Hub · Pan-African accelerator (15 countries)
Taiwo Olawehinmi

Builder of People & Platforms

Beyond her professional roles, Taiwo is the Co-founder of Pharma Incubation Hub.

A pan-African career accelerator she has built from the ground up since 2019, now operating across 15 countries.

  • Mentored 250+ pharmacy students and early-career professionals across 15 countries
  • Built a fellowship programme with a community that collectively impacts 18,000+ people annually
  • 91% of fellows discovered new career opportunities · 76% accessed a mentor for the first time · 32% have gone on to co-found startups
  • Strategic partnerships with international pharmaceutical and healthcare organizations including IPSF-AfRO
  • Curriculum focused on leadership, research, and professional excellence, fellows publishing in peer-reviewed journals

Boards · Reviews · Service

Where else the work has shown up.

2023 Reviewer · MIT Solve Global Challenges

Evaluating some of the world's most promising innovations by young people

Lead Judge · thinkPharm

Innovation hackathon by the Young Pharmacists Group, Lagos

Advisory Board · EWAH Awards Nigeria

Pfizer-sponsored, recognizing female healthcare leaders across Africa

Board Fellow · Girl Scouts of Middle Tennessee

Co-created strategies to empower 50+ girls in the Teens Leadership Council

Recognition

Honored across academic, professional, and social impact spheres.

2026 Anchor Award · Best Overall Category

Vanderbilt's highest graduate student honor, awarded across the entire graduate community for outstanding service, mentorship, student advocacy, departmental leadership, and research.

Pharmacy Innovation of the Year (Winner) · 2022

Young Pharmacists Group Lagos

Young Pharmacist of the Year (Nominee) · 2021

Young Pharmacists Group Lagos

Best Presenter

Faith & Belief at Work Case Competition · BYU Marriott School of Business

ThinkCell Global Case Competition · Regional Awardee

Top performer from 150+ global teams

Forte Fellow · HFMA Awardee

Healthcare Financial Management Association

WayLead Fellow (2020) · Millennium Fellow (2018)

Ashoka Changemaker Scholar with Distinction

CommonPurpose Leader (2017)

Certificate in Social Intrapreneurship for Innovation in Health and Wellness

Taiwo Olawehinmi

Beyond the Work

Hosts, moderates, and brings "exquisite texture" to every event she leads.

Taiwo is an experienced event emcee and panel moderator, having hosted high-level conferences and summits across Africa and the United States. She is also a seasoned Model United Nations professional with over six years of experience officiating MUN conferences across Africa and beyond.

She is an emerging voice in healthcare and leadership, and a passionate advocate for African professionals on the global stage.

I am a disruptive thinker, an initiator, and a firm executor. I believe in clarity as a strategy, and in building things that outlast the moment.

Let's get to work.

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