Chapter President
DEJI JEMIYO is a Digital Transformation and Agile Business leader with over 23 years of progressive experience, focused on portfolio, program, change and product management. He is widely regarded as an agent of transformation and performance turnaround for individuals, projects, businesses, and government agencies. He is a sought-after trainer / consultant and has authored best-selling books on Project Management, Productivity, Business and Career. He deploys his CAFE (Clarity, Alignment, Focus, Execution) model to enable breakthrough results. Over the past five years, Deji has been helping organizations accomplish even more ambitious goals, enabling them become an agile, digital business.
Deji is currently serving as the President of Project Management Institute (PMI) Nigeria Chapter, the global leading project management professional association. He is the co-founder and Managing Partner of Agile Digital College, a Capacity Building Company, operating through its integrated subsidiary units (Academy, Consulting and Software). He leads a team of consultants and trainers and has trained over 50,000 professionals, setup over 150 Project / transformation Offices in organizations and supported the project / product delivery in government institutions and private sector. Earlier in Deji’s career, he worked as a Project Engineer with the project department of Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) working on several Joint-Venture Projects with other International Oil Companies (IOCs), acting as lead Project Engineer in JV Projects. Deji also worked in Lagos Business School (LBS) and Access Bank Plc (Nigeria).
Deji is a masters scholar in Digital Transformation from the University of Hull and holds a B.Sc in Civil Engineering from University of Ibadan, Nigeria, attended Executive Education, Judges Business School, University of Cambridge, UK and has a number of professional certifications – including but not limited to SAFe Program Consultants (SPCs), SAFe Agilist, SAFe Scrum Master, Certified Digital Leader, Agile Analysis Certification (AAC), Certified Management Consultant (CMC), Project management Professional (PMP), Prince2 Practitioner, Certified Business Analyst Professional (CBAP), Agile Analysis Certification (AAC), Certified Change Management Professional (CCMP).