With over three decades of governance, leadership, strategy and brand architecture experience in the US and around the world, Laura Machaba Selepe Abiodun, is an expert governance, a brand builder, creative thinker, leadership architect, enterprise strategist and truly global. She has worked in some of the world’s leading brands in developed and emerging markets, been a valued partner to Clients, and built winning teams, boards and cohorts to drive the enterprise agenda forward. She relentlessly values talent at all levels and unapologetically demands excellence. A President of Swamp Corps Mission Alliance (S.C.M.A.) global board
She is anchored in the UBUNTU principle of “Humanity, I am Because We Are” and is committed to forge an environment that gives a voice to all. Laura, a retired Senior Partner with Ernst & Young (EY) where she led the development of African IBM/EY Alliance and led the executive design and launch of SAP/EY Alliance in Africa is the founder and chairman of a management consultancy firm, AMC International Group that operates globally.
She builds leadership architecture and provides coaching for leaders and teams, strategic global partner at bioss that focuses on leadership journeys and AI protocol, CEO and founder of Ubuntu ILUSTUN2030 STEM Foundation launching STEM Institutes and STEAM Institutes and runs apprenticeships for Underrepresented Minorities in the Diaspora continuing the work that her father started, Peter Kaya (Kgabo) Selepe. Former SALGA, SARS & AVUSA (Times Media Group) Independent Non-Executive Director
She helps boards, senior leaders and their organizations turn aspirations into strategy and strategy into reality and winning in the market. A graduate of University of the North, Bachelor of Commerce & Law, MBA & MA from Chicago, USA and Organizational Change Leadership from Harvard University. Married to Christopher Abiodun for 30 years and has two children Sade Maria Abiodun and Omi Tsebe Abiodun