Lamide Isijola

About

HR/People partner with hands-on experience supporting large-scale restructures and coaching senior leaders through change, using employee-experience-first approaches. Leverages qualitative and quantitative people data (stay interviews, pulse/engagement surveys, retention/promotion/exit insights) to drive interventions like onboarding improvements and team mission/role realignment. Trusted to run sensitive ER investigations involving regulatory/compliance escalation and to present systemic findings to senior business heads.

Key Strengths

• Partnered with senior leaders on cost-cutting restructure; mapped current/future state and managed people impacts
• Uses stay interviews and pulse surveys to monitor sentiment and guide post-change interventions
• Applies systems thinking to diagnose root causes (e.g., misalignment on mission/purpose) and improve team dynamics
• Coaches senior leaders to improve communication and trust via structured two-way channels (town halls, office hours, informal check-ins)
• Data-driven people strategy using engagement, exit, retention and promotion metrics to drive initiatives (e.g., onboarding improvements for 1–3 year/Gen Z attrition)
• Conducted objective HR investigation in high-stakes incident; challenged initial blame narrative and reframed as systemic issue while maintaining confidentiality

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