About
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.
Across Sectors. Across Continents.
Builder of People & Platforms
A pan-African career accelerator she has built from the ground up since 2019, now operating across 15 countries.
Boards · Reviews · Service
Evaluating some of the world's most promising innovations by young people
Innovation hackathon by the Young Pharmacists Group, Lagos
Pfizer-sponsored, recognizing female healthcare leaders across Africa
Co-created strategies to empower 50+ girls in the Teens Leadership Council
Recognition
Vanderbilt's highest graduate student honor, awarded across the entire graduate community for outstanding service, mentorship, student advocacy, departmental leadership, and research.
Young Pharmacists Group Lagos
Young Pharmacists Group Lagos
Faith & Belief at Work Case Competition · BYU Marriott School of Business
Top performer from 150+ global teams
Healthcare Financial Management Association
Ashoka Changemaker Scholar with Distinction
Certificate in Social Intrapreneurship for Innovation in Health and Wellness
Beyond the Work
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.