Yemisi Ogunlade

Yemisi Ogunlade is a process driven Business Management and Education Consultant with an outstanding track record of developing solutions, creating organisational structure and helping parents find the right educational fit for their children. She is the Principal Consultant at Plumptre Advisory, a consultancy focused on HR Solutions, Operational Excellence and UK School Placements.

With a background in administration and leadership spanning over 20 years, Yemisi’s career expands over several industries including foreign missions, education and healthcare. During this period, she provided leadership in a variety of functional areas including Administration, Human Resources, School Admissions, School Administration, Client Engagement and Business Development.

A trained lawyer with cross-cultural professional experience, Yemisi’s greatest motivations are the constant pursuit of operational excellence and a desire to bring out the best in people. Yemisi’s underpinning value system revolves around a solid work ethic, integrity, and professionalism. She believes that it is okay not only to challenge the norm, but to define it.

Having worked as a Senior Leader in a leading educational institution, Yemisi is skilled at providing a high level of support to parents and caring for their children. Her client engagement, school administration and admissions activities are rated as outstanding.

Yemisi is a lawyer by training and holds an MBA from the Bradford University School of Management, United Kingdom. She is a member of the Chartered Institute of Personnel Development (CIPD), the British Educational Leadership, Management and Administration Society (BELMAS), the Commonwealth Council for Educational Administration & Management (CCEAM and the Employment, Labour & Industrial Relations Committee of the Nigerian Bar Association Section on Business Law.

An avid bargain junkie and enthusiastic K-Drama convert, Yemisi is a not-so-typical wife to her husband of many years and is a mum to two children who often imagine they are the ‘parents’ (only for very brief moments in time).