Debola Deji-Kurunmi is a best-selling author, keynote speaker, ministry gift, public policy advisor, and transformational coach for visionary leaders.

Through her work of coaching, consulting, and capacity building, Debola deploys her extraordinary gift of unlocking potential in people, institutions, and nations.

She is the Executive Director at Ideation Hub Africa (a public policy and impact advisory firm), Founder of IMMERSE Coaching Company (a professional coaching practice), and President at Kingdom Leaders Global Alliance (a non-denominational Christian Ministry).

Through Ideation Hub Africa, she runs Africa’s leading public policy and impact advisory firm, working with changemakers, social innovators, social entrepreneurs, CSO actors, development practitioners, nonprofit professionals, nation-building enthusiasts, policy shapers, and governments in providing executive education, collaborative platforms, funding opportunities and advisory.

Ideation Hub Africa also equips and empowers social entrepreneurs, changemakers, social innovators, development practitioners, and nonprofit professionals with experiential education, enterprise incubation, growth advisory, and collaborative platforms to start, scale, and sustain their big ideas for changing Africa. IHA has a strong ecosystem of 29,000+ African Changemakers, Social Entrepreneurs and Social Innovators across 46+ countries.

Debola Deji-Kurunmi sits on the Board of several organizations, including the Mandela Washington Fellowship Alumni Association, Sickle Cell Advocacy and Management Initiative, and the Mindset Transformation and Aid Organization, where she provides strategic advisory on organizational design, senior leadership development, policy analysis, and implementation as well as program execution.

Debola has been severally recognized for her outstanding leadership impact, with her transformational work featured on TV, international news and media. She has received several awards including 2014 New Leader for Tomorrow of the Crans Montana Forum, Geneva. 2018 Mandela Washington Fellow by US Government, one of 100 Most Inspiring Nigerian Women 2019, Nigeria’s Leading Coach in 2021, 50 Most Inspiring Women in 2022, Nigeria’s 50 Most Inspiring Authors 2023, ABCD Africa’s 50 Most Impactful Voices 2023, and one of 100 Women Shaping a Better Africa, 2023.

DDK, as she is fondly called, is an author of 25 books to date and has spoken across three continents to emerging and established leaders. Over the last decade, she has worked with corporate leaders, C-Suite Executives, ministry gifts, high-growth visionaries and purpose-driven individuals, who are serious about building institutions, amplifying influence and scaling impact – without compromising their integrity and faith.