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Obi James is a Finnish-Nigerian Leadership Expert committed to creating inclusive cultures of shared leadership and empowered relationships, where every individual can thrive. She is the author of #1 Amazon Bestselling book: Let Go Leadership, how inclusive leaders share power to drive high performance.
With extensive experience of successfully developing leaders and teams across large multinational organisations including Morgan Stanley, Deloitte, Bank of America and Northern Trust, she left corporate employment in 2012 to set up Obi James Consultancy.
Obi has since successfully trained, mentored and coached leaders, partnerships, teams and organisations globally with clients ranging from public to private sector businesses including Barclays, Bloomberg, BlackRock, Visa, Lloyds, Co-Op, Sony Music, FARFETCH, Save the Children and the NHS.
With a well-loved combination of challenge, straight talking, humour and full audience engagement, Obi has built an extensive following and has won global industry awards for her challenging approach to harnessing diversity and creating inclusive leadership, relationships, teams and organisations. She is a sought-after facilitator and speaker and has spoken at international corporate events such as the Global Finance Transformation Summit, Women in Banking & Finance (WIBF) Strategy Day, Bloomberg’s Multicultural and Senior Women’s Forums.
