By Olatunde Dodondawa
…As Nigerian Becomes African Human Resources (HR) Deputy Secretary General
The newly elected President and Chairman of the Governing Council of the Chartered Institute of Personnel Management (CIPM), Segun Mojeed has added a new feather to his cap by being appointed the First Deputy Secretary General of the pan African Human Resources body; African Human Resources Confederation (AHRC).
In a letter by Areff Salauroo, President of AHRC to the CIPM President, while congratulating the new CIPM President, he also confirmed his appointment as the first ever First Deputy Secretary General of the continent’s human resources body.
Olusegen Mojeed was only this month elected as the 20th President and Chairman of the Governing Council of the Chartered Institute of Personnel Management. Segun Mojeed is also the Lead Consultant for Bezaleel Consulting Group.
Who Is New CIPM President, Olusegun Mojeed, FCIPM, HRPL, FITD?
Olusegun Mojeed, Executive Consultant/Head of Practice, Bezaleel Consulting Group, the HR Company he co-founded with his wife in 1994. He is an alumnus of the prestigious Yale School of Management, United State of America.
A certified New World Kirkpatrick Learning Effectiveness Evaluator, Segun is a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Personnel Management (CIPM) and the Institute of Training & Development respectively. He is a 2006 CIPM Merit Award Winner for his outstanding contributions to the development and professionalism of the HR profession.
He is a Centre for Management Development (CMD) certified trainer/consultant. A member of the Association for Talent Development (ATD), he is on the faculty of the University of Lagos Business School (ULBS) as an Industry-Experience subject matter expert.
Segun is a thorough-bred licensed global Human Resource, Learning & Talent Development professional with over three decades of multi-sectorial experience and core competencies in Strategy, Execution & Corporate Excellence; Leadership; Extra-Legendary Customer Service; Talent Management; Personal Leadership, Self-Mastery & Emotional Intelligence; Artificial Intelligence; Change Management & Execution; Strategic Human Resource Management; etc.
He started his professional HR career as Personnel Officer/Management Trainee at BAGCO (Flour Mills Group) after his postgraduate studies and the mandatory Internship programme in 1988. He held the Industrial Relations portfolio of the company for four years before leaving for the Banking Industry as Senior Manager (Industrial Relations), Owena Bank Plc. in 1993. In 1995, he was appointed Senior Associate (and later COO in acting capacity), BezaleelConsulting. He joined Wema Bank Plc. in 2001 as Senior Manager (Human Resources) and later became the Bank’s Head of Training where he led the team that creatively initiated the first ever entry-level/Graduate Trainees’ programme in the then sixty-something year-old Bank. In 2004, Segun joined Vmobile Nigeria (now Airtel) as GM; Talent Development & Learning where he was the HR lead for the Celtel rebranding. He also led the multi-billion Naira Customer Care Call Centre outsourcing project involving hundreds of employees.
Segun is an author, avid reader, knowledge seeker and user. His new book: “Growing People” is receiving rave reviews and the e-book is on Amazon Kindle. A 1985 graduate of Political Science from the University of Lagos, he holds a M.Sc. Industrial Relations & Personnel Management from the same University. He is married to Molara and they are blessed with beautiful Godly children.
CIPM In Brief
The Chartered Institute of Personnel Management of Nigeria was established as an umbrella Association for Practitioners of Personnel Management in 1968 as the Personnel Management Association of Nigeria. In 1973, it was renamed as Institute of Personnel Management of Nigeria. Finally, Act No 58 of 1992 chartered the Institute.
Vision To be the foremost People Management and Organizational Development Institute in Africa, respected across the World.
Mission: We promote Excellence and Regulate the Ecosystem for People Management to Deliver Value for Sustainable Growth of Individuals, Organizations and Nations.
Core Values
S – Service
C – Creativity
R – Result
I – Integrity
P – Professionalism
T – Teamwork
Objectives of the Institute
To promote and develop the science and practice of personnel management in all its ramifications;
To foster and maintain investigations and research into the best means, and method of applying the science and art of Personnel Management and to encourage, extend, increase, disseminate and promote knowledge and the exchange of information and ideas with regard to all questions relating thereto or connect therewith;
To develop and maintain high standard of professional competence and ensure that the management of human resource in Nigeria, both in public and private sectors, conforms with the best professional standards;
To conduct research into and publish materials relating to the discipline of Human Resource Management.
