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W. Amolegbe Consulting
Advisory · Consulting · Project management

We help leadersturn vision intoinstitutions.

A Nigerian advisory firm working with state governments, fashion houses, broadcasters, publishers, foundations and founders to design, fund and run what lasts.

Founder & Principal
Wadami Amolegbe
  • Kwara State Government
  • Kwara Education Futures Summit
  • KwaraLEARN
  • Lagos Fashion & Design Week
  • Style House Files
  • BellaNaija
  • Africa’s Next Top Model
  • Genevieve Magazine
  • St. Genevieve
  • Persianas Retail
  • TEN
  • Asa’s Dreamer Girl Foundation
Who we are

W. Amolegbe Consulting works with leaders at the moment an idea needs to become real. We help write the agenda, pass the law, secure the funding, produce the show and run the operation, so that what we build together outlasts all of us.

Development funding facilitated
$50m
Clients across six sectors
30+
State law passed, and the agency it created
1
Years building with clients
10+
Our story

From the runway to the statute book.

Four chapters, one through-line: knowing how culture moves people, and using it to build things that last.

01Culture & media

We started where culture is made.

The firm grew up inside Nigeria’s creative industries: fashion weeks, designer labels, magazines and television. That’s where we learned to deliver under pressure, in public, on deadline.

FashionLagos Fashion & Design Week, Style House Files, Lanre Da Silva, St. Genevieve, Odio Mimonet, Persianas Retail
Film & TVAfrica’s Next Top Model, HiTV, TEN, 37th State, Haute Fashion Africa TV
PublishingBellaNaija, Genevieve Magazine, TW Magazine, Hi Magazine, Ibiene, GIANT, Content Nigeria
02Kwara State · from 2021

Then we took that craft into government.

In Kwara State, the same skills (convening people, shaping a narrative, running a complex production) became the engine of an education reform.

2021Led the team behind Kwara’s inaugural Education Futures Summit
AgendaThe summit became KWETA, the Kwara State Education Transformation Agenda
ProgrammeKwaraLEARN: a four-year digitalisation of public primary schools
LawThe Education Trust Fund Bill, championed into law, creating a standing agency
03Development finance

And brought the funding to match.

Reform needs capital. We worked hand in hand with the Governor’s office to secure development finance for the girls the agenda was built to serve.

$50mWorld Bank-backed KwaraAGILE grant for adolescent girls, approved for the Ministry of Education and Human Capital Development
2023Our founder appointed Executive Secretary of the Kwara State Education Trust Fund
04The global stage · since 2025

Now we connect the creative economy to public outcomes.

Today the firm sits where few others do: at the table with development partners, governments and the entertainment industry, designing how culture can move human capital.

2025Entertaining Change: World Bank forum on media partnerships for social impact
2026Advancing Nigeria’s Early Years Agenda: World Bank partnerships panel
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Selected work

Outcomes you can point to.

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What we do

From the first idea to the thing that runs.

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How an engagement works
Clear steps, from the first call to handover.
01
Conversation

A confidential first call to understand where you are and what should exist next.

02
Proposal

Scope, team, timeline and fees, agreed in writing within two weeks.

03
Build

We embed with your team and deliver: approvals, funding, people and launch.

04
Handover

A trained team, clear systems, and we stay on call as it grows.

Wadami Amolegbe
Founder &
Principal
Leadership

Oluwadamilola Fatima “Wadami” Amolegbe

Entrepreneur, programme producer and editorial director, working across fashion, culture and institutional development. Since 2023 she has served as Executive Secretary of the Kwara State Education Trust Fund, the agency created by the law she championed.

Education
Manhattan College, New York
Vivian Fowler Memorial College, Lagos
Boards
Dar Al-Awqaf
Okeya Community Development Association
Okeya-Ipo 100
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