Our Pastors
Sean Olabode Badiru
He is a multifaceted soldier of the cross deeply engaged in various aspects of Christian ministry. An ordained Pastor in the Redeemed Christian Church of God, Sean is characterized by his fervent devotion to worship and his diligent study of God’s Word, through which he adeptly imparts the truths he has gleaned to those he encounters. The insights he shares are not merely theoretical but are rooted in his personal application, yielding tangible results in his life.
Within the RCCG, Sean assumes the role of the Assistant Pastor in charge of Youth Province 7, Lagos. He bears the solemn duty of reconciling people to God, transcending mere evangelism to facilitate a deeper, more intimate connection between individuals and their Creator. Sean is deeply committed to equipping the saints for the imminent challenges and opportunities of the end times.
Professionally, Sean is an Enterprise Transformation Architect and organisational strategist who helps boards, executives and institutions diagnose the constraints limiting performance, redesign the systems that matter, and build organisations capable of sustained performance, resilience and future readiness.
His work is grounded in a simple conviction that meaningful transformation does not come from isolated interventions. It requires the deliberate alignment of strategy, governance, leadership, people, performance, culture, technology and execution. Sean works across these interconnected dimensions to help organisations move from strategic intent to measurable institutional performance.
As Chief Executive Officer of Africa Tech Hub, he leads an enterprise transformation advisory and executive education firm working with organisations across Africa to strengthen institutional effectiveness, improve organisational performance, build leadership and workforce capability, and navigate technology-led change. His work increasingly addresses the implications of artificial intelligence, digital transformation and the future of work, with particular emphasis on how organisations can adopt new technologies without weakening governance, human capability or sustainable value creation.
Over more than two decades, Sean has worked across corporate, professional and public-sector environments on corporate governance, organisational redesign, strategy execution, performance management, competency architecture, leadership development, culture transformation, digital transformation and institutional capacity building. His approach begins with diagnosis: identifying the real organisational constraint before prescribing an intervention. From there, he designs integrated responses that address the wider enterprise system rather than treating symptoms in isolation.
He is a Fellow of the Nigerian Institute of Training and Development, a Life Member of the Chartered Institute of Directors of Nigeria, and serves on the Governing Council of the Chartered Institute of Personnel Management of Nigeria. These roles complement a professional career spanning board governance, organisational performance, people strategy and institutional development.
Executive education is an important part of his work. Sean designs and facilitates programmes for boards, executives, HR leaders and senior professionals on enterprise transformation, strategy execution, governance, organisational performance, leadership, artificial intelligence and the future of work. His teaching focuses on translating research, emerging practice and organisational experience into practical frameworks leaders can use to make better decisions and lead change more effectively.
He is also the Founder of SkillUp, a workforce-readiness and professional-development initiative focused on equipping emerging professionals with the capabilities required to navigate changing careers, workplaces and economies. This reflects a broader dimension of his work: helping organisations become stronger while developing the professionals who will lead, sustain and extend that transformation.
A Chartered Engineer by formation and enterprise strategist by practice, Sean brings a systems orientation to organisational problems. His approach is shaped by diagnosis, architecture, interdependence, evidence and execution — recognising that durable organisational outcomes rarely come from improving one component while ignoring the wider system.
He holds a Master of Business Administration and a Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering, with executive education in Strategic Leadership and Management at the University of Illinois, Intellectual Property Law at the University of Pennsylvania, and American Contract Law at Yale University. His wider professional development spans business analysis, project management, human resource management, digital transformation and related areas of organisational and technology capability.
Beyond his advisory work, Sean is an author, educator, mentor and Christian pastor. Across these roles runs the same underlying commitment: to help organisations become more effective and to help people develop the capability, judgement and resilience required to lead meaningful change.