Ibiwunmi Akinnola is an early year’s educator and lead consultant with over 21 years of cognate experience in early years education running Child Centre Preschool and Afterschool, and Child Centre Limited, Ikoyi, Lagos. She conducted several training programmes involving youths and the private sector development.
With a vast wealth of knowledge, resources, expertise and care in developing good practice in administrative and executive business functions, enterprise development and having carved out a niche as an executive administrator, Akinnola served as the interim administrative coordinator for Yale-Harvard Leadership Enterprise for African Development.
In October 2006, she participated in the Federal Ministry of Education Vision 2020 held in Abuja, also as one of the consultants in the Oyo State Education Summit organised in 2012 and 3rd Lagos State Education Summit in May 2013 as a member of the technical committee, as well as a rapporteur and presenter at the plenary session of the summit. She is currently the coordinating consultant for early years, primary and Yoruba resuscitation in the Oyo State Ministry of Education.
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She serves as an executive director of Industrial Mercantile & Investment Limited (IMI), IMI Limited is an investment company with interests in hospitality, real estate, engineering and agriculture with a focus of management consultancy.
From 2002 to 2010, Akinnola established Child Centre, a vibrant preschool and after school centre graduating 465 students who now hold the top ten positions in their various school across Lagos State. Child Centre was awarded the PEEL (Partners for Excellence in Education and Learning).
Akinnola continues to consult and assist in establishing preschool to primary schools from the business plan to recruiting, curriculum planning and training of their staff. She conducts seminars on phonics, quality assurance and various teacher training programmes.
Her ultimate goal is to enable the teacher and student experience the joy of learning and teaching.
In November 2012, Child Centre and Oyo State TESCOM trained 300 principals, vice principals, administrators and teachers in a three day workshop on leadership development and 21st century instructional practices and tools.
In February 2015, Ibiwunmi Akinnola was appointed as the Educational Consultant for Ajapaworld Financial literacy Club. She is mandated to operate the Club in all the private schools as well as provide training to the club facilitators for the public schools.
Ajapaworld in partnership with UNICEF, with the approval of Lagos State Government Universal Basic Education Board (SUBEB), have started the Ajapaworld Financial Literacy Club in all the public schools in Lagos state.
