About Us

Audacious About Change

We are an organisational change consultancy that stimulates brilliance in individuals, teams and organisations. We work with you to disrupt your current norms and create exceptional ideas that impact businesses, communities, and wider society. Our bespoke solutions consider your unique needs, and our fun and unconventional approach stimulates new thinking vital for transformation.

For over 15 years our global clients have trusted us to support them through important changes.
We enable you to remain relevant in rapidly changing times, and to optimise the skills and resources of their people. We believe fairness, justice, and strong leadership can build positively infectious organisations, and a fairer society.

OUR APPROACH

Be Pioneers of Your Future

RELATIONAL – Investing in meaningful relationships over transactional exchanges. Our change specialists are genuinely interested in understanding what brilliance means for your people and your organisation. We want to get to know you and laugh with you.

MADE-TO-MEASURE – We are experienced at designing bespoke solutions that consider the unique strengths and challenges of our clients. This process excites us. One day we are designing a learning map, another we are developing a 12 month leadership programme, or leading an extensive research project.

DISRUPTIVE – We take the unconventional approach to learning and explore how to do things differently. The expectation is to talk at you, but we co-create with you, fusing your knowledge, expertise and aspirations, with our experience and creative methodologies.

FUN – We believe in creating change and having fun in the process. Playfulness prompts adaptability, leads to new discoveries, enhances team connection, and fosters creative problem solving. Our experiential solutions offer an opportunity to be both active and reflective, creating an energetic flow of ideas and conversations.

CONVERSATIONAL – Change requires communication, and communication hinges on conversations. We skilfully facilitate necessary and often uncomfortable conversations, helping you challenge previous modes of thinking and stimulating new ones.

OUR STORY

I had an epiphany moment where I knew that what I was doing wasn’t necessarily what I wanted to do for the rest of my life. I knew fundamentally there was so much more for me to offer the world. What drove me was absolute faith.

Akin Thomas, founder of AKD Solutions

AKD Solutions was originally founded in 2008 as a small black owned and London based change consultancy. Our audaciousness and excellent reputation has today positioned us as a distinct business with international reach.

It is a delight that most of our clients come from word-of-mouth referrals. We are passionate about connecting people to their greater potential, helping customers fall in love with you, and making equality, diversity and inclusion part of your DNA.

Hence our ethos is ‘Stimulating Brilliance’. AKD is made up of a diverse team of employees, change specialists, and associates. We are dynamic individuals brought together by a shared purpose, and we are evolving into a multinational, multi-lingual organisation with global partners.

Some of our highlights include working with DB Schenker to implement the “We are Schenker” cultural change programme being used by 72,000 employees across the world. We also journeyed with Holiday Inn for over 10 months on the “Making Guests Smile” project to enhance their customer experience. Another moment of pride is the #TellYourStory report we produced, commissioned by UK Sport, Sport Wales, Sport Northern Ireland, Sport England, and Sport Scotland. The report was part of the5 Councils project Tackling Racism and Racial Inequality in Sport (TRARIIS), and it harnessed the power of storytelling and lived experiences. This work supports their goal to develop a collective plan to help build sporting communities that reflect the societies they represent.

As an organisational change consultancy our goal for the next 15 years is to ‘paint the world orange’. This means creatively activating brilliance in people, organisations, and societies, challenging difficult conversations that lead to positive changes that will light up the world.

Meet Team AKD

Akin Thomas

CEO & Founder

Ladi Ajayi

Head of Sport

Phil Newman

Head of EDI

Tola Orija

Head of Operations

Simon Varley

Senior Associate

Omali Mbasani

Associate

Khembe Clarke

Senior Associate

June Hampton

Senior Associate

Louis Annan

Associate

Rula Al Abdulrazak

Senior Associate

Rubi Gubara-Sannie

Senior Associate

Reyss Wheeler

Lead Researcher

Nathifa Douet

Senior Associate

Nana Marfo

Associate

Melissa Shervington

Senior Associate

Monique Carayol

Senior Associate

Johnny Craike

Senior Associate

Karmah Boothe

Senior Associate

Dr Jenny Gordon

Senior Associate

Marshah Dixon-Terry

Senior Associate

Bola Oginni

Senior Associate

Christopher Murray

Senior Associate

Catharina Abiola-James

Senior Associate

Cashain David

Senior Associate

Join Team AKD

Looking for a career in change management?

Stimulating Brilliance must begin with the Team. Therefore we place a lot of emphasis on developing a great team of Employees and Associates. So there are a lot of development opportunities including our half yearly bootcamps, when we bring the whole team together for a residential weekend of networking, development and gauging our progress.

When we ask colleagues why AKD, many say it’s because of the culture, an amazing energy and belief in what’s possible. AKD is a place where we encourage you to develop your authentic thoughts and we want to be a platform where your ideas can be shared.

Those who want to disrupt organisational design will find AKD a place where they can thrive. But we recognise that structure is important too, so equally those who are more systematic and process driven will find they can complete the more creative and innovative colleagues. What’s important is that you feel that our Credo aligns with you and your values.

At our organisation, we are dedicated to enhancing the well-being and satisfaction of our valued employees and staff members. As such, we are committed to regularly exploring and implementing new perks and advantages to enrich both their professional and personal lives. Currently they include hybrid working and employee discount schemes.

We laugh a lot, challenge a lot, eat a lot. But we are collectively focused on delivering brilliant services to our clients. Ready to join Team AKD? Contact us today.

 
 

Hear what our Organisational Change Associates & Employees have to say at our boot camp

Here at AKD, it is important that our associates and employees are passionate and committed to what they are doing. It’s not enough to have just highly experienced associates, we believe in addition to this they must first love what they do! At our boot camp, we asked our associates why they love AKD and what they do – It was beautiful to hear about their passion and to see why they love helping our clients. Listen to what they had to say…

AKD Solutions (AKD) is an international organisational change consultancy whose purpose is to stimulate brilliance.

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Phone: +44 (0)345 034 1105

Email: contact@akdsolutions.com

Address: Unit 4, Daisy Business Park, 19-35 Sylvan Grove, London SE15 1PD

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