Solomon Oluwatobi Ayodele is a crusader of a new culture, new dynasty, new set of ideals to liberate the black man not from colonialism or white supremacy, but from his own limiting thoughts and stupid culture of laziness, lack of timing, satisfaction with being consumers and lack of capacity to govern himself because he cannot think beyond what to eat.

He is an experienced Technology and Product Innovation Manager with over a decade experience across Business Analysis, Strategy, Corporate Transformation, Data Analysis, Executive Management, IT Project Management & Product Management. He is the Founder of Boy Child Transformation Movement - a Global Boy Child Advocacy movement and he greatly contributed to this cause as a Gender-Based Violence Expert, through Pan African Projects like Project SABI - mobilizing thousands of Men as allies in ending violence against women and girls.

As an impact investor, he sits on the Board of 3 Organizations, spanning across Health, Education and Financial Services, and he uses his over 10 years experience in shaping culture, raising new breeds of Disruptors and galvanizing change makers across Africa.

He holds a degree in Political Science & Public Administration and an MBA, from Heriot Watt University, Edinburgh Business School, United Kingdom.

He is the Founder/Lead Execution Officer of Boys’ Quarters Africa [Registered as Boy-Child Reformation Initiative], one of the foremost boy child transformation movements in Africa, and he leads a team of over 163 volunteers across five cities in Africa, in driving the strategic pillars of the organization – leadership, empowerment, education and advocacy. He is deeply passionate about helping boys deliberately transit from boyhood to manhood. Hence, his desire in seeing Men fixed and Boys built.

Armed with the Unique Value Proposition (UVP) of telling the untold and seemingly relegated stories of the boy child, Solomon through his works at Boys Quarters Africa has been able to position itself as Africa’s foremost Boy Child Storyteller, driven by real time data simultaneously collected during field engagements with several boys daring the norm to share their victory tales. Boys Quarters Africa has consistently curated unique conversations that borders on the tenets of Boyhood, Masculinity, Sexuality and most importantly, the Sexual Abuse of both boys and men.

Solomon is the convener of the Boys Too Project, a continent-wide campaign on the sexual abuse of the Boy Child. He is also the host of the yearly Exchange Project and Academy held at a different Special Correctional Centre for Boys. He recently hosted Africa’s first International Boy-Child Summit, with over 1,700 viewership across the world, and he is the curator of the men-themed conversation called: Guyversations. Guyversation is a mental and emotional safe space for men to talk, to be heard and to find healing.

Solomon published his first book in 2022, titled Work In Progress. In this unusually riveting and humor-laden memoir, Solomon was able to bare the pages of his life for everyone to see how important it is to celebrate the beauty of an ordinary life. With a disruptive insight on how a memoir should look like, he wittingly positioned how to embrace our most embarrassing  moment and how to avoid letting our huge wins color how we see life.

He is the Author of Boyfession – a very short insightful and transformational e-book for Boys and those who love them. The book is a compendium of healthy confessions and is an answer to the varying questions across the sexual abuse of boys, how parents can see through, if their boys are being abused and how they can respond immediately. Since its release, there’s been almost a thousand (1,000) downloads across the world.

He recently released a book called A.B.C [Actions, Boys and Choice], a comprehensive compendium of what Boys and children needs to know about Sexual and Gender-Base violence, and he’s gone ahead to distribute this into the hands of over 1,000 Students across 12 Cities in Africa.
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Solomon is the Head, Innovation [Corporate Transformation] at WEMA Bank & ALATByWEMA [Nigeria’s first fully digital bank]. Solomon is a results-driven manager, well-versed in leading teams and driving business transformation, leveraging expertise in building customer-centric technology products.  He is one of the primary change agents, the - “Chief Conductor."- providing leadership around innovation analysis and synthesis, including the development of frameworks, positioning innovation insights and clear principles for the enterprise. He is responsible for leading the strategic growth and innovation initiatives across the Bank, as well as being accountable for innovation development, execution coordination and progress tracking.

Solomon was an Analyst, Innovation Digital Enablement and Analytics at Stanbic IBTC Bank [a member of Standard Bank Group], where he drove digital strategy execution by managing product development from conceptualization to delivery to customers; leading design thinking training and workshops; driving partnership engagements with the technology ecosystem and facilitating digital immersion sessions to boost the digital knowledge quotient within the organization.

Prior to working at Stanbic IBTC, Solomon worked as the Business Transformation Lead with an EDTech outfit and managed the Project Management and Change Management arm of the business. Solomon joined Stanbic IBTC in 2015 and worked in diverse roles across personal and business banking, IT Project management, Data Analysis and Executive Management. 

In 2020, Solomon curated Africa’s first grassroot mobilization movement, for the galvanization of Boys and Men as allies to end all forms of violence against women and girls - called Project SABI. As part of the revolutionary initiative, he led the team in the creation of the First Boys Club Against Gender-Based Violence and also a social construct platform that helps in unearthing all iota of misogyny within 2 minutes.

He has gone ahead in raising thousands of SABI Ambassadors. Through an effective mobilization and stakeholders engagement approach, this movement would ensure an increasingly growing number of men who will acknowledge and understand how sexism, male dominance, and male privilege lay the foundation for all forms of violence against women and girls, and also create an avenue for Men (Boys) to reflect on their powers and privileges, and understand that real and sustainable change won’t be possible until these Men become full allies and partners on this journey.

Solomon is the curator of Guyversations -a men-themed safe space to instill vulnerability in the fabric of every male man. He has hosted over 10 editions of this conversation, with over 200 Participants.

Beyond my regular work duties, I initiated the Design Thinking Rumble Workshop, a Bank-agnostic program, mentoring over 275 individuals across 8 Nigerian states in 2022 alone. This workshop and other projects, designed to accelerate tech enthusiasts and innovators, saw one of the largest programs in Nigeria, targeting young Nigerians to apply coding, product curation, and pitching skills to solve real-world problems. Additionally, I co-mentored at the African MasterClass Series II, a five-week virtual interview-style series featuring 12 social innovators from across Africa. Through their impactful journeys, learnings, and insights, we empowered them to be changemakers addressing diverse challenges on the continent

Solomon is a Multiple TEDx Speaker and he's spoken across different platforms across Africa. He's spoken at Ibom Tech Week, YEC Conference, Africa Tech Summit, Digital Africa Summit, BudgIT Human Right Advocacy, Future Point Africa, Walure Human Resource Conference, Art of Technology Lagos, CCHUB Catalyst MeetUp, Africa Tech Festival Capetown, Digi-Bank Summit Nairobi, Development Dialogue 2020