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Adebola Osakwe

Adebola Osakwe

Executive Coach and Founder, Osakwe Consulting
United States

Leveraging two decades of experience in Human Resources focused on Recruiting, Learning and Development and Diversity and Inclusion, Adebola Osakwe is an expert around recruiting, developing, promoting and retaining talent. Having worked across sectors in Investment Banking, Private Equity and Hedge Funds, she has been successful at creating global strategies, driving outcomes and building sustained efforts that have positively impacted the human capital function and the bottom line.

Mostly recently, as the Global Head of Talent and Diversity and Inclusion, Adebola led Millennium Management’s talent management and diversity efforts, focusing on enhancing their recruiting efforts, establishing and executing their learning and development strategy, and building their diversity and inclusion initiatives. Prior to Millennium, as the Global Head of Diversity and Inclusion at KKR, she built and developed their diversity and inclusion strategy and advised portfolio companies. She worked closely with her learning and development colleagues to ensure a diversity and inclusion lens was integrated into the performance management, engagement, promotion, and succession planning processes. She began her career in the finance industry at Morgan Stanley, where she held roles in recruiting and diversity and inclusion and advanced engagement, development, and retention across the firm. She started her career as an Admissions counselor at Barnard College and then subsequently moved to New York University.

She holds a Master’s degree from New York University and a Bachelor of Arts from Barnard College. Additionally, she sits on the boards of the Black Hedge Fund Professional Network and the Girl Scouts of Greater New York. She resides in Connecticut with her husband and 3 children.

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