Titilope Oguntuga, Director, Sustainability, IHS Towers

Titilope Oguntuga is a management professional with experience across sustainable development, corporate governance, stakeholder relations, and strategic partnerships, communications and reputation management, creating a positive impact in human and environmental circles. She efficiently positions African-profit and non-profit brands for global recognition by advocating for social sustainability policies that are instrumental for growth in developed and emerging economies.

Her goal is to engineer methods that balance socioeconomic performance with international growth opportunities through the design, implementation, and measurement of environmental, social, and governance policies. Titilope guarantees businesses of the future by ensuring that all products, investments, relationships, and interactions are run with the purpose of achieving a more sustainable future.

Having spent the last two decades taking action for social and environmental impact across Africa and MEA regions, reaching over a million direct beneficiaries, Titilope has successfully positioned Lafarge as a valued organisation that takes steps for national and global development. Through her advocacy actions, she has facilitated several partnerships with the private, public, and social sectors and ensured the organisation’s social license to operate.

In her bid for excellence, she was inspired to create a blog to leave a lasting legacy of who she is, a visionary and catalyst for turning inadequacies in personal, social, and business strategies into opportunities for sustainable growth. She encourages personal development for sociable actions that positively impact our world.

Her key achievements include: orchestrating the signing of Lafarge’s first-ever CSR MoU after 55 years of corporate existence, facilitated government relations engagements and key stakeholders to achieve organisational targets. These actions prompted a 100% CSR implementation year on year (prior was 50-60%).

Also, in 2021, through the facilitation of a waste management circular economy model, Lafarge Africa achieved a 25% increase in waste processing, while offering a remedy to the employment crisis by creating 3,000 jobs.

Titilope’s view on articulating a social impact strategy is quite insightful. She says it can be much more than seeking opportunities for improvement. According to her, it must be deliberate, well thought out, intended to be far reaching and must be measurable and future driven.

She says in her years of work developing and implementing social impact strategy for various communities, articulating a strategy should indeed be centred around four core areas, summarised as the four pillars for social Impact. 1. People, because every social impact strategy is motivated, driven and centred around people. 2, Purpose, because the purpose for developing the social impact strategy must be visible and tangible. 3, Place, because the goal is to design a strategy that meets the actual needs of people in that location in a manner that meets their most vital issues and 4, Priorities, because human needs are definitely insatiable and cannot be completely met.