The newly elected president and chairman of the Governing Council of the Chartered Institute of Personnel Management, CIPM, Segun Mojeed, has added a new feather to his cap by being appointed the First Deputy Secretary General of the pan African Human Resources body; African Human Resources Confederation, AHRC.
In a letter, Areff Salauroo, president of AHRC, while congratulating the new CIPM president, Mojeed, confirmed his appointment as the first ever First Deputy Secretary General of the continent’s human resources body.
Mojeed was only this month elected as the 20th president and chairman of the Governing Council of the Chartered Institute of Personnel Management.
Mojeed is also the Lead Consultant for Bezaleel Consulting Group, HR company he co-founded with his wife in 1994.
He is an alumnus of the prestigious Yale School of Management, United State of America.
A certified New World Kirkpatrick Learning Effectiveness Evaluator, Segun is a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Personnel Management, CIPM, and the Institute of Training and Development respectively.
He is a 2006 CIPM Merit Award Winner for his outstanding contributions to the development and professionalism of the HR profession.
He is a Centre for Management Development (CMD) certified trainer/consultant.
A member of the Association for Talent Development, ATD, he is on the faculty of the University of Lagos Business School (ULBS) as an Industry-Experience subject matter expert.
Segun is a thorough-bred licensed global Human Resource, Learning and Talent Development professional with over three decades of multi-sectorial experience and core competencies in Strategy, Execution and Corporate Excellence; Leadership; Extra-Legendary Customer Service; Talent Management; Personal Leadership, Self-Mastery & Emotional Intelligence; Artificial Intelligence; Change Management & Execution; Strategic Human Resource Management; etc.
He started his professional HR career as Personnel Officer/Management Trainee at BAGCO (Flour Mills Group) after his postgraduate studies and the mandatory Internship programme in 1988.
He held the Industrial Relations portfolio of the company for four years before leaving for the Banking Industry as Senior Manager (Industrial Relations), Owena Bank Plc. in 1993.
In 1995, he was appointed Senior Associate (and later COO in acting capacity), Bezaleel Consulting.
He joined Wema Bank Plc. in 2001 as Senior Manager (Human Resources) and later became the Bank’s Head of Training where he led the team that creatively initiated the first ever entry-level/Graduate Trainees’ programme in the then sixty-something year-old Bank.
In 2004, Segun joined Vmobile Nigeria (now Airtel) as GM; Talent Development & Learning where he was the HR lead for the Celtel rebranding.
He also led the multi-billion Naira Customer Care Call Centre outsourcing project involving hundreds of employees.
Segun is an author, avid reader, knowledge seeker and user.
His new book: “Growing People” is receiving rave reviews and the e-book is on Amazon Kindle.
A 1985 graduate of Political Science from the University of Lagos, he holds a M.Sc. Industrial Relations & Personnel Management from the same University.
He is married to Molara and they are blessed with beautiful Godly children.
