
Fun Fact
Frank used to be called Morpheus from the Matrix series by young people at a Summer retreat he used to help run
Frank Bolaji Irawo
Coach Hub Poet in Residence
Frank is an Executive Coach, Consultant and Published Poet in Residence with over 30 years' experience in Retail, Entertainment, Financial Services, Criminal Justice and Not-For-Profit sectors. He has coached Entrepreneurs, Vice Presidents, C-Suite Executives and Senior Managers in companies like Morgan Stanley, Sainsburys and Warner Bros Discovery Inc.Frank brings the best of human psychology, neuroscience, and mindfulness as well as his myriad of experiences to the service of his clients in a truly shared learning environment creating an effective working alliance. He does this by holding expansive thinking spaces guided by powerful questions to help his clients unravel complex challenges. He Inspires powerful and incisive reflections supported with tools, and exercises to drive sustainable transformative change through mastery of new perspectives and practices.
He designs and delivers bespoke leadership programmes incorporating creative mediums such as poetry into his coaching to invoke powerful and incisive reflections, helping his clients join the dots between apparently disjointed concepts and define new strategies to move forward. This all translates to greater performance and enhanced wellbeing for the leader and the organisation.
The typical outcome of this approach includes raised self-awareness, demonstrated emotional intelligence, enhanced clarity in decision making, greater executive presence, effective execution of strategic goals, creative freedom, improved organisational citizenship and greater team cohesion.
Frank is passionate about gender and racial equity as well as giving back, all the proceeds from his book 'DREAM - Manifest Your path To Joy, Peace And Contentment'(2012), which showcases his unique coaching approach using poetry as part of powerful transformative conversations goes to charities providing education, business opportunities, education, housing, and mental health support to those less privileged in society