
Leading Forward
2024
Buy →About · The institute & its founder

Origin & Authority
Irene Agunbiade is an organisational change and leadership consultant — an innovator shaped by senior tenure across UK banking, business, technology and financial services, with a track record of delivering measurable results.
A sought-after speaker on productivity, leadership and strategy — and a core-values advocate — she is the author of several titles, most notably The Road to Value, a guide to discovering and living one's values with purpose, impact and usefulness. She convenes the Increase Your Value conference and co-founded the Future Leaders Engagement Programme (FLEP), preparing the next generation for leadership by design rather than default. She has authored numerous articles, chaired working groups on financial and leadership projects, and led a critically acclaimed study on market disruption.
Her thinking extends into a proprietary wealth-building app, available in major app stores, that helps professionals build scalable income systems aligned with their skills and goals — addressing a quiet but persistent problem: most high earners stand on a single stream, one point of failure. What is advised here is lived.
B.Sc. Engineering · MBA (International). Engagements are deliberately limited — twelve each year — to protect the depth, discretion and judgment the work requires.
Advising senior leaders
Published titles
Concurrent engagements
Principal-led, end to end
To serve leaders who have outgrown generic advice. To create a private space for the kind of thinking that consequential decisions actually require — slower, deeper, more honest than the modern environment typically allows.
The cost of leadership is no longer measured in effort. It is measured in the quality of judgment under pressure. Most leaders are not short of information — they are short of the clarity needed to act on it well.
Chase value — not success. Clarity over noise. Wisdom over reaction. Substance over performance. We work with the inner architecture of leadership: discernment, judgment, alignment and purpose — the disciplines that compound across a career.
Founded by Irene Agunbiade — author of thirteen titles, mentor and strategic advisor — the practice is shaped by two decades of applied work across enterprise, media and emerging markets, and a body of frameworks tested in the field rather than theorised at distance.
Published Works · Featured
Five featured titles from Irene's thirteen-book body of work on leadership, value and reinvention.
View All Selected Works →Speaking & Convening
Keynotes, conferences, working groups and closed-door sessions for executives, boards and emerging leaders.
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Speaking Topics
Notable Engagements
Convener · annual leadership conference
Co-founder · next-generation leadership
Lead researcher · critically acclaimed
Chair · cross-industry
Keynotes across UK banking & business
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