Our Team

Uju Onwuzulike is one of Africa’s foremost voices in systems thinking, recognized for equipping leaders, CEOs, and policymakers with the clarity and capability to solve systemic challenges and drive lasting transformation.

He is the founder of Mentoring Consult Ltd (MCL), a firm committed to becoming Africa’s premier reference point for solving systemic challenges through systems thinking. Since pioneering corporate systems thinking programs for executives in Nigeria in 2011, Uju has become a trusted advisor to boards, senior executives, and national institutions—helping them navigate complexity, align strategy with execution, and achieve sustainable impact. He has also held a strategic role in the Corporate Strategy Office of a financial institution, where he sharpened his skills in driving execution and enterprise-wide transformation.

Trained and mentored by the late Steve Haines, founder of the Haines Centre for Strategic Management (California, USA), Uju went on to serve as the Centre’s Global Partner for Africa. He is among a select group of Africans to attain Gold Mastery status in Strategic Management and Systems Thinking in collaboration with the University of San Diego.

He serves as faculty at the Rome Business School, teaching Global Leadership, Strategic Management, Corporate Strategy, and Sustainable Innovation, and at Docenti Global Business School, where he lectures in Strategic Management and Business Strategy.

Uju’s academic background includes a Master’s in Technology Governance and Digital Transformation from Tallinn University of Technology, Estonia, an MBA, and a Bachelor’s degree in Mathematics. He is also certified as a Digital Business Transformation Manager, Transformation Program Manager, and holds credentials in Digitalization and Smart, Sustainable City Governance. In 2007, he became the first African trained as an Optimal Thinking Assessment Facilitator by the World Academy of Personal Development (USA).

Over nearly two decades, Uju has advised and facilitated programs for leading organizations including the Nigerian Navy, IoD Centre for Corporate Governance, IIHT, Eko Electricity Distribution Company, Pyramids Plc, Simba Group, United Bank for Africa, Nigerian Ports Authority, First City Monument Bank, MRS Oil Plc, NOVA Bank, Avon HMO, and many others.

As a former columnist for Business Day and Vanguard, Uju authored over 250 articles on systems thinking, innovation, adaptability, and strategy. His writing has helped shape conversations on organizational and national transformation across Africa. Though he currently resides in Estonia, Uju continues to influence transformation across Africa and beyond—reinforcing his role as an increasingly recognized voice in systems thinking, with growing global influence.

He is deeply passionate about shaping a new generation of African leaders—leaders who will rise above the short-term, quick-fix approach that has long defined the continent, and instead embrace systems leadership as the foundation for a truly new Africa.

His mission is to equip and inspire a new generation of leaders—CEOs, policymakers, presidents, and governors—to become systems leaders: bold visionaries who see the whole, connect the dots, and design enduring solutions that will transform Africa into the innovative, sustainable, and prosperous continent it is destined to be.

He can be reached directly at uju.onwuzulike@mclgroup.net or via his mobile +234 9091142093

Ini Urua is a trained economist and consultant. He holds a B.Sc. and M.Sc. Economics from the University of Nigeria, Nsukka and University of Lagos, Nigeria (1992) respectively.

Over a period spanning two decades, he has worked as a Senior Researcher, Planner and Strategist with various Financial Institutions and the Petroleum Sector in Nigeria. He has also been consulted by Public Office Holders as an Independent Consultant.

He has vast experience in Public and Private Sectors policies analysis with emphasis on strategic opportunities. He has attended many Seminars and Courses over the years.

Ini can be reached at ini.urua@mclgroup.net

Josh as he is fondly called by friends and associates is a senior consultant in Mentoring Consult Limited.

He has over 16 years post graduate cognate experience in process reengineering, business development, strategy & organizational development, resource requirement planning, human capital management and Capacity Building. He is a certified trainer and has passion for facilitating, coaching and mentoring.

He facilitated restructuring of several companies actively operating in the banking, mortgage, insurance, capital, securities and registrar services sectors of the economy. He’s areas of competence include business development, customer relationship management, organization structure and culture development.

His work experience covers banking, outsourcing and consulting sectors of the economy. He’s a certified trainer and member of Nigeria Institute of Training and Development. A graduate of Mathematics, an avid reader with very strong desire for corporate excellence, he is married with three children.

Josh can be reached at joshua.okorie@mclgroup.net

Barrie Atuona has been providing strategic business solutions to corporate executives in private and public sector organizations as well as entrepreneurship skills trainings for small business owners.

An honours graduate in economics of the University of Nigeria Nsukka, Barrie is the author of an upcoming book “The Road to Riches: The 12 Questions that starts you up to entrepreneurship success and business wealth creation which develops his entrepreneurship skills and experiences into a book for undergraduate curriculum trainings in Nigeria’s tertiary education institutions.

He comes loaded as he has significant professional experiences in banking, oil and gas marketing, facility management, and business consulting and training.

Mr. Barrie Atuona has professional passions and focus for business research, innovation, strategic brand management, and organizational change management.

Barrie can be reached at barrie.atuona@mclgroup.net

Chinwe is a goal oriented and performance driven marketing professional with years of experience in business development within the banking, oil & gas and real estate business environment.

Her responsibility includes partnering with the executive management to develop structures for the sales team and identifying new approaches and techniques, ensuring the business development team is efficiently and effectively managed to deliver on the company’s sales targets, strengthening customer relationships and customer retention, drive account growth and further penetration to meet and exceed targets.

Asides trainings attended in sales, project management and HSE, Chinwe holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Accounting, Masters of Business Administration from Hult International Business School Boston and a member of association of certified chartered accountant (ACCA).

Chinwe can be reached at chinwe.okocha@mclgroup.net