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Fela DUROTOYE is an executive coach, leadership expert, global speaker & and nation Builder. He is the founder/CEO of The GEMSTONE Group, a Leadership Development Institution comprising The GEMSTONE Leadership Institute, The GEMSTONE Leadership Network, and The GEMSTONE Nation Builders Foundation.
Fela is highly regarded as one of Africa's leading executive coaches. He is an official member of the Forbes Coaches Council (an invitation-only community for senior-level executives in the global coaching industry). He is also an alumnus of the Berkeley Executive Coaching Institute (BECI).
Through the course of his coaching & consulting career spanning over 29 years, Fela has developed & deployed his proprietary coaching framework - C.A.S.P.E.R - to deliver Clarity, Alignment, Strategy, Planning, Execution & Results to his clients that span across diverse sectors of the economy from Banking & Financial Services to Telecoms, Oil & Gas, FMCG as well as the Multilateral & Public Sector.
In the financial services industry, his clientele includes Access Bank, GTBank, First Bank, Zenith Bank, First City Monument Bank, Fidelity Bank, United Bank for Africa Stanbic IBTC Bank and Standard Chartered Bank. His clientele in the oil & gas sector includes Shell Petroleum Development Corporation, Oando, Total, Addax Petroleum, Masters Energy, Bell Oil & Gas, and Nigerian Liquefied Natural Gas Company.
In the Telecommunications sector, his clientele includes Airtel, MTN, 9Mobile formerly Etisalat), and Multichoice Nigeria In the Manufacturing & FMCG space, his clientele includes Lafarge, Procter & Gamble, Unilever, Nestle, Sanofi Aventis, and Pfizer.
Perhaps his greatest contribution to Leadership Development & National Transformation is his Values Infusion Program through which he has been able to get over a million people to commit to living an exemplary lifestyle of Leadership & Excellence as defined by a set of 10 Values Statements framed in The GEMSTONE Personal Creed that is now being widely adopted by families, corporate organizations, schools & educational institutions, professional associations and state governments in Nigeria and across the globe.
He is an alumnus of the Kennedy School of Government Executive Education program of the prestigious Harvard University. Fela has also attended the High Impact Leadership for a Better Society program at the prestigious Yale University. He is also a certified leadership coach of the John Maxwell Team. He is happily married to Tara Fela-Durotoye, a renowned Beauty Entrepreneur and Chief Executive Officer of the House of Tara International. Together, they have 3 sons.