Ini Abimbola is an accomplished business leader with over 22 years of experience working in various capacities within the management consulting/international development space with extensive expertise
in Sustainability, Reporting, Capacity building on corporate sustainability, CSR, ESG performance, sustainable corporate governance, people and change management, strategic policy formulation, development communications, strategy formulation & evaluation, projects & innovations management.
Ini is the Founder and former Lead Consultant/CEO of Thistle Praxis Consulting Limited (TPC), a management consulting, sustainability, strategy, and business advisory firm she founded in 2010. TPC provides strategy development, CSR/Sustainability management, process improvement, organisational transformation, risk governance, performance management, programme management, and advisory services.
Ini served as Executive Director
of Women in Management & Business (WIMBIZ), where she revitalised the organisation and moved membership from about 100 to over 300 members.
Ini also created the mentoring program,
the corporate governance program for SMEs, and ensuring the organisation joined global platforms such as the Vital Voices and the African Women Business Network, receiving over $200,000 in grants to enhance its operations in Nigeria. Ini is a 2008 Draper Hills Fellow on Democracy, Development & Rule of Law at Stanford University California, and an alumnus of the Harvard Business School Executive Education Program, Ini holds a Bachelor and a Master’s in Business Administration from Nexford University, a Bachelor in English Language & Literary Studies, and a Postgraduate Diploma in Management from the University of Calabar