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Bodé Aboderin

Unlock conversations on leadership, reinvention, and modern masculinity with Bodé Aboderin, keynote speaker and Penguin Random House author. Bodé works with organisations to challenge inherited narratives, build psychologically safe cultures, and lead with intention, drawing on a decade of experience in senior commercial roles.

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Milton Keynes, United Kingdom

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  • Business leader operating across media, talent, and brand
  • Author of Fatherhood by Papa B
  • Speaker on leadership, masculinity, and reinvention
Bodé Aboderin is a Nigerian-born British business leader, author, and creative entrepreneur who helps organisations rethink leadership, identity, reinvention, and workplace culture. After more than a decade managing multi-million-pound Tier 1 construction portfolios, Bodé left corporate leadership to build ventures spanning publishing, talent management, media, and production. He is co-founder of Undeniable Productions, the company behind Conversations with Candice, and author of Fatherhood by Papa B, published by DK and Penguin Random House in 2022. Bodé's work bridges corporate leadership, entrepreneurship, and family life, helping organisations navigate conversations around modern masculinity, identity, and inclusion. He combines commercial discipline with cultural insight, offering practical perspectives on leadership beyond traditional corporate structures. Audiences leave his sessions with clearer thinking around intentional career development, healthier communication around masculinity, identity, and presence at work, and practical tools for building cultures where people perform at their best. Book Bodé for practical insight shaped by real commercial and personal transformation.

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Supporting Working Parents
This session, led by Bodé Aboderin, is grounded in the latest scientific research and a compassionate perspective. Bodé explores the challenges of being a working parent today, helping participants identify their struggles and areas for change. The session then offers practical tips and tools to help parents excel both at work and at home. Attendees will learn how to create a virtual barrier between work and home, feel like amazing parents, communicate effectively to balance responsibilities, and keep their cool under pressure. Bodé shares stories with humility, humor, and compassion, leaving attendees empowered and equipped with valuable tools.
Reinvention: From Corporate Ladder To Creative Entrepreneur
Bodé Aboderin did not fall into reinvention. He chose it. After more than a decade managing multi-million pound portfolios in construction, he walked away from a senior corporate career to build something entirely on his own terms. This session unpacks that decision honestly, covering the commercial logic, the personal cost, and the practical framework that made it work. For audiences navigating change, whether by choice or circumstance, it offers something more useful than inspiration: a repeatable way of thinking.
Leadership, Identity, And Showing Up In The Workplace
What does it actually cost to show up fully at work when the culture was not built with you in mind? Bodé Aboderin explores the relationship between identity and leadership through the lens of his own experience as a Black British man navigating corporate Britain, entrepreneurship, and public life simultaneously. The session moves beyond surface-level inclusion conversations to examine what genuine belonging requires of leaders, and what it unlocks in the people they lead.
Black British Fatherhood: Beyond The Stereotypes
The dominant narratives around Black British fatherhood remain narrow, and Bodé Aboderin has spent the better part of a decade challenging them. Drawing on Fatherhood by Papa B and his own experience raising a family in the public eye, this session examines where those narratives come from, why they persist, and what a more honest, more complete picture looks like. It is a session as relevant to HR and DEI leaders as it is to the men in the room it speaks to most directly.
Building A Family Business With Your Partner
Bodé Aboderin and Candice Brathwaite are business partners, creative collaborators, and parents to three children. This session draws on that reality without romanticising it, covering the structures, boundaries, and communication habits that make a shared professional and personal life sustainable. For audiences interested in partnership, entrepreneurship, and the practical mechanics of building something together, Bodé offers a perspective shaped entirely by doing it, not studying it.

Why we recommend booking Bodé

Bodé brings an honest perspective on masculinity, fatherhood, and identity in the workplace that resonates across audiences. He speaks with warmth and credibility, opening up conversations that last long after the event ends.

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