EXECUTIVE PROFILE
A. Olu Oyinlade, BSc., MSc., PhD.
President and Principal Consultant
olu@crownbusinessconsulting.com
About me and Consulting
Please call me Olu. I am a business organizational sociologist. I apply the analytical tools of structural analysis of sociology and organizational science to analyze human behavior in organizations to facilitate the transition of managers to leaders, and to help managers become diversity inclusion leaders. Through their leadership competencies, I help corporate executives learn to apply structural solutions to issues of employee and total organizational performance. I apply the mantra that anything that is worth doing should be done well to my consulting work. I give only the best consulting work. I give my clients the best service they will ever get on the projects I do for them. Unless I can deliver the best possible service, I do not take a contract. You can count on me for your leadership development / improvement and your diversity inclusion management worskhops.
Education
I obtained my Bachelor of Science degree in Agricultural Economics with a specialization in Credit and Financial Management from the University of Kentucky. My Master’s degree in Industrial Management from Central Missouri State University [University of Central Missouri] emphasized Industrial Organizational Management and Production Management, and my PhD in Sociology from South Dakota State University emphasized Complex Organizations, Industrial Management, Applied Demography, and Theories of Human Behavior. I am well versed in advanced knowledge of structural analysis of leadership effectiveness, diversity inclusion management, and employee performance.
University Professorship
I have worked as a university professor and taught courses in organizations for over thirty years in Massachusetts, South Dakota, and Nebraska. I have taught senior and graduate level courses in Complex Organizations, Applied Formal Organizations, Organizational Human Relations, Social Aspects of Industry, Applied Organizational Sociology, Organizational Diversity and Inclusion, and Race-Ethnic Relations. I have also developed a degree curriculum in organizational sociology, and I have conducted and published many research studies in organizational leadership.
Research in Organizations & Leadership
I enjoy learning and conducting research in in the areas of organizational leadership effectiveness, diversity, and employee performance. I have published many scientific articles in regional, national and international scientific journals. Among my publications is my leadership effectiveness assessment tool, the “Essential Behavioral Leadership Qualities” [EBLQ] method of assessing leadership effectiveness. Unlike most other assessment tools and methods, my EBLQ method uses a standards-based approach to determine leadership effectiveness. The EBLQ is also very effective in leadership coaching because it allows a leader to know where he/she is very effective or less effective based on what are essential for effectiveness in his/her particular position. The EBLQ is now being widely used by leadership researchers in the US and around the world.
Leadership
I have held a few leadership positions in my career as a professional sociologist. Among them are my election and service as the Vice President, and President, of the Great Plains Sociological Association, and as a national councilman on the national council of Alpha Kappa Delta, the international sociology honor society. I have also served as chapter representative for Alpha Kappa Delta for over 20 years. In addition, I have served on the governing board of directors of the Midwest Sociological Society (MSS), and I have served as the chairman of the Minority Scholars Committee for the MSS. I was also, once, the director of a university academic honors program. I have curriculum development expertise, and I have supervised both undergraduate and graduate thesis research. In 2009, my biographical record was published into the 63rd edition of the prestigious Marquis’ "Who’s Who in America" publication.