Yemi Faseun

Yemi Faseun is business leader with 30 years multi-sector, multi-function experience. He currently works with clients in his role as Chief Talent Officer to drive the talent and business transformation agenda.

Given that what brought individuals and organisations to where we are today will not take us farther, Yemi works with business leaders to focus on end-to-end people management, culture and leadership initiatives to meet the demands of the Now of Work.

Yemi was a two-term Elected Council Member of the Chartered Institute of Personnel Management (CIPM) and has received a number of global recognitions such as Top 501 Most Fabulous Global HR Leader, Top 150 Global HR Influencer, Top 8 HR Thought Leader in Africa, Top 50 Personality on LinkedIn, Top 3 Africa HR Influencer, Top 200 2021 Global Thought Leader, Top 10 2021 Global Leadership Development Thought Leader, Top 122 CHRO in 2022, 2022 Top 200 Voice in Leadership and 2022 Top 200 Global Thought Leader.

He is the Founder of The YF Network (TYFN). TYFN is a personal, leadership and business development forum of about 200 professionals and entrepreneurs with members across 9 countries and 3 continents. He is also the Founder of The YF Academy (TYFA), with the sole aim of lighting candles behind us, so others can easily find their paths to success and purpose.

An advocate of great workplaces, Yemi provides executive mentoring to mid-career and business leaders, who are looking to excel in their career journey and become pivotal in the transformation of their unit, department, function and/or organisation.

Nexford University recently appointed Yemi as a Mentor, The Global Grid.

Yemi is an author of 2 books and he loves Mondays!