Governance · Risk · Transformation
About · Dr. Orlando Olumide Odejide
Governance is not a document. It is a decision made well, repeatedly.
For twenty-four years, Dr. Orlando Olumide Odejide has worked alongside boards, executives and regulators to turn governance, risk, compliance and sustainability requirements into frameworks people actually use. Now based in Ontario, Canada, he brings two decades of implementation across Nigeria, Ghana and international institutions.
The work, in his words
I sit on the side of the table where the hard questions get asked.
Most organizations do not fail because they lacked a policy. They fail because the policy never reached the decision.
My practice closes that distance. I advise boards, executive leadership and institutions on governance, enterprise risk, compliance and sustainability, not as separate compliance exercises, but as one connected discipline that shapes how an organization decides, delegates and answers for itself.
The work is deliberately unglamorous: defining who decides what, and on what evidence. Mapping obligations to the people who own them. Building risk registers that inform strategy rather than sit beside it. Making assurance something leadership relies on instead of endures.
I work to international standards because they carry weight with regulators, investors and partners. But a standard is a starting point, not an answer. Every framework is shaped to the organization in front of me: its market, its maturity, its constraints, and the people who will have to live with it after I leave.
The route in
He came to governance through delivery, not theory.
Dr. Orlando Olumide Odejide led each of these disciplines at scale before advising on how they should be governed. That order matters. It is why the frameworks he builds survive contact with the people who have to operate them.
- 01
Programme & project management
- 02
Organizational change
- 03
Enterprise architecture
- 04
Information security
- 05
IT service management
- 06
IT assurance
- 07
System integration
Delivered at scaleThen governed
Where he has worked
Four sectors. Two decades of implementation.
Regulated industries take up most of the practice: environments where the cost of a weak control is measured by a regulator rather than a report.
200+
Client engagements, the largest concentration of the work
Banking, insurance, pension, capital markets and fintech.
Government & public sector
Education, health, transportation, aviation, natural resources, water and financial crimes control.
Telecommunications & internet services
Operators and service providers carrying continuity, security and service-management obligations at national scale.
Manufacturing & FMCG
Quality, environment, occupational health and supply-chain governance across production and distribution.
Ontario, Canada · baseNigeriaGhanaInternational institutions
How I work
Three commitments that shape every engagement.
01
Counsel
Board-level, not back-office
Governance only holds if it starts where authority sits. I engage directly with boards and executive teams on oversight, decision rights and accountability, then push the framework down through the organization, not the other way around.
02
Translation
Standards into working practice
A clause is not a control. I translate requirements and regulatory obligations into registers, procedures, roles and reporting lines that people can operate under pressure, and that stand up under audit.
03
Fit
Context over template
What works in a tier-one bank rarely transfers unedited to a ministry or a manufacturer. Every framework is built for the maturity, market and constraints it will actually operate in.
Qualifications
The credential wall.
- ISO standardISO 9001QualityLead Implementer & Lead Auditor
- ISO standardISO 14001EnvironmentLead Implementer & Lead Auditor
- ISO standardISO 20000Service managementLead Implementer & Lead Auditor
- ISO standardISO 22000Food safetyCertified
- ISO standardISO 22301Business continuityLead Implementer & Lead Auditor
- ISO standardISO 26000Social responsibilityCertified
- ISO standardISO 27001Information securityLead Implementer & Lead Auditor
- ISO standardISO 27005Infosec riskLead Risk Manager
- ISO standardISO 27032CybersecurityLead Cybersecurity Manager
- ISO standardISO 27035Incident managementLead Incident Manager
- ISO standardISO 27037Digital forensicsLead Auditor
- ISO standardISO 27701PrivacyLead Auditor
- ISO standardISO 31000Risk managementLead Risk Manager
- ISO standardISO 37301ComplianceAuditor
- ISO standardISO 37500OutsourcingLead Certified Outsourcing Manager
- ISO standardISO 38500IT governanceIT Governance Manager
- ISO standardISO 45001Health & safetyLead Implementer & Lead Auditor
- ISO standardISO MSManagement systemsCertified Auditor & Certified Trainer
- AcademicPhD, Business Strategy & IT Alignment — San Juan, Costa Rica
- AcademicMBA Cybersecurity — PECB University
- AcademicLagos Business School Senior Management Programme
- ProfessionalISACA — CISA, CISM, CRISC, CGEIT
- ProfessionalISC2 — CISSP
- ProfessionalCOBIT Implementer, Assessor & Design Expert
- ProfessionalThe Open Group — TOGAF Certified
- ProfessionalEC-Council — CEH, ECSA, CHFI, CASE.Net, LPT & Trainer
- ProfessionalProject Management Professional (PMP)
- ProfessionalPRINCE2 Practitioner
- ProfessionalManaging Successful Programmes (MSP)
- ProfessionalManagement of Risk (MoR) Practitioner
- ProfessionalLean Six Sigma Black Belt
- ProfessionalCertified Balanced Scorecard Professional
- ProfessionalCertified Business Analysis Professional
- ProfessionalGlobal Knowledge Business Architect
- ProfessionalCIML Chartered Business Manager & Fellow
- ProfessionalFellow, Institute of Leadership & Management (ILM), UK
- ProfessionalCompanion (Fellow), Institute of Customer Service (ICS), UK
- ProfessionalCMD Certified Management Trainer & CompTIA CTT+
- AcademicAdvanced Diploma in Management Systems
- AcademicDiploma in Digital Disruption & Digital Leadership
No credential matches that search. Try a standard number or a body such as ISACA.
Accreditations & affiliations
- ISACA
- EC-Council
- The Open Group
- MSECB
- Computer Professionals Registration Council of Nigeria
- PECB
- IOSH
- CPIM
- Institute of Directors Nigeria
- ILA
Books
I have written four books on how organizations actually change.
The DNA of Every Business
The universal objectives every enterprise exists to achieve.
R.U.D.E.
Random, Unpredictable, Dynamic and Entropic: an enterprise risk management framework.
Tenets of Transformation
Fifty principles for life and leadership.
The SMARTER Manager
A compact MBA for working managers.
Consult with me
If the question is hard enough to need a board's attention, it is worth a conversation.
I came to governance through delivery, and I still measure a framework by one test: does it hold up when the people who have to run it are under pressure?
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