Our Woman Crush this Wednesday is none other than Kemi Onadiran. Kemi is a human resource and strategic business leader with over a decade of leadership and management experience spanning oil and gas, ICT, fashion, investment banking, management consulting, advertising and manufacturing.
Kemi holds a first degree in sociology from Kogi State University and a master’s in managerial psychology from the University of Lagos. She is also an Associate of both the Chartered Institute of Personnel Management of Nigeria and the Nigerian Institute of Training and Development.
Her aim is to “help organisations improve on their 4Ps: people, performance, productivity and profits while also helping career professionals optimize their performance for career fulfilment”. Kemi, with this aim in mind, has been instrumental in the conceptualization and execution of several HR transformational projects and initiatives leading to the delivery of business goals and objectives in the different capacities she has worked in. She is extremely competent in various facets of human resources, including talent acquisition and management, strategy and execution, change management, project management, business intelligence, employee engagement, organisational culture, coaching and mentoring, corporate social responsibility, diversity management, outsourcing, and social and digital media.
Kemi is the brain behind Careers With Kemi, a career platform on Instagram for young job seekers and professionals. The platform has a niche audience of over 10,000 followers engaging with content covering job opportunities, referrals, career tips and more. Careers With Kemi has helped job seekers secure their dream jobs or get clarity and direction on their various careers. She is also a regular contributor on LinkedIn and other social media platforms. Kemi enjoys designing graphics for use on her various platforms, allowing her to express her creativity.
Kemi is extremely passionate about bridging the unemployment gap in Nigeria by making young graduates employable, and this is reflected in her book Rookie 101. In the book, Kemi exposes secrets to getting hired that were never taught is schools and couldn’t have been crammed from any textbook.
She has won several awards including Best Transformation Manager in ICT (2013) and LinkedIn Influencer Award (HR/Recruiter category) by Tech Times Africa in 2020. She was also nominated for Top 50 Personalities on LinkedIn by SalesRuby in 2020.
Kemi derives great joy in philanthropy and participates actively in several foundations and projects aimed at assisting women, children and the needy in the society.
A go-getter respected for her objectivity and fairness, integrity and ethics, we at Pride Magazine Nigeria applaud our woman crush Kemi.