Cerebral, focused, and result-oriented, this humble intellectual who sits atop one of the leading educational institutions in Lagos, The Foreshore School, Ikoyi is one-of-a-kind. Oyindamola Egbeyemi, the Executive Director, Operations is a well-grounded school administrator. Schooled at Corona Secondary School, Imperial College, London, the graduate of Chemical Engineering completed it all with the prestigious School of Etiquette in Switzerland and Language School in France.
“Honestly, retracing my steps back to the classrooms isn’t accidental because I come from a family of educationists. My mum, Mrs. Bunmi Egbeyemi is an educator. She is the owner and director of The Foreshore School even though it is a family run business. She worked with her own mother for 10 years. Her mother is the late Mrs. Badmus and founder of Mayday School in Isolo which still exists till today. And then my maternal grandfather, Mr. Bayo Badmus retired as permanent secretary for education.
Today, she is addressed as an engineer but she didn’t set out to be an engineer. She had wanted to be a banker and then an architect because she was very good at technical drawing. It was a subject she loved because of her love for precision and creativity. But there was a twist of fate- the only available option was to embrace chemical engineering.
As she forges ahead in her career, she keeps evolving, seeing things in different perspectives which often lead to self-discovery. Working with Accenture taught her to help organisations to be the best while PwC provided an avenue to help the public sector in strategy. When the opportunity came, she joined The Foreshore School, first as a consultant and now a director.
“Honestly, it helped tremendously, especially working in consulting firms. Even from my engineering experience. Teamwork was one thing I learnt at Imperial College. From Chevron I learnt a lot about leadership. Then at Accenture and PwC, I was exposed to structure, operations and strategy. Those two consulting companies taught me how to set a vision and to put in place the strategy and the resources towards meeting that vision.