Grace Oyeniyi

Human Resources Manager, Public Speaker, and Project Manager in Lagos, Nigeria

Grace Oyeniyi

Human Resources Manager, Public Speaker, and Project Manager in Lagos, Nigeria

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Grace Oyeniyi is a well-versed HR Professional, an accomplished scholar, and a public speaker with several years of specialized experience growing and managing businesses.

Grace possesses interdisciplinary experience, having worked in the educational, information, technology, finance, and non-profit sectors.

She is reputed for providing last-mile solutions in the world of human resources, business operations and public events. She is a venture builder and a pioneer of several ideas in a number of organizations.

Over her multi-year career, Grace has worked with a broad range of organisations from start-ups to enterprises and even multinationals,ascending from grassroots levels to strategic positions.

She is a thoroughbred professional, who spends her spare time mentoring women-led enterprises, promoting economic advancement for women and youth during her time with a non-profit organisation.

As a woman, she has faced several challenges, being a female top executive in sectors dominated by men, but she remains undaunted.

She holds an MBA from Rome Business School (where she graduated in the top 5%) and is a recipient of the Rising Star Award at the PAWENPreneur Women in Professions Award in Africa last November as well as the Girlity Recognition Award in Abuja. For her bachelors, she bagged a first-class honors degree from the University of Lagos, Akoka at the young age of 22, emerging the best graduating student in her department.

Before working with a multinational, after her National Youth Service, She served with AIESEC Global as a volunteer in India, where she received recognition in Indian Newspapers.

Grace is an Associate Fellow of the Royal Commonwealth Society (United Kingdom), an award-winning public speaker, and an International Sign Language Interpreter. She was also awarded a President Bill Clinton Certificate of Service courtesy of the Hultz Prize Programme in 2016.
As a Project Management Professional and a committed self and professional development devotee, she has won several awards and recognitions locally and internationally before the age of 23. She has also gone on several courses and programmes including but not limited to Basic Banking School, and Citizenship and Leadership Training Programme among others.

  • Education
    • Rome Business School
    • University of Lagos