Jo Ogunleye is a multi-award winning PR & communications strategist and careers coach whose expertise is sought after as a regular keynote speaker and panelist, podcast guest, and creative and inclusive industry awards judge, including PRmoment, Purpose Awards, BME PR Pros Awards and OutBritain’s very first OutConnect awards in 2024.

Her crisis management know-how landed her in one of the creative industry’s leading magazine publications, PRWeek’s 30 under 30 2018 list, and her influential writing and wide-ranging network were key to her making history as the first ever Black guest editor of PRWeek in 2020, an opportunity she used to platform over 50 industry professionals from racially diverse backgrounds. Her thirst for creative innovation had her ranked as one of the top 25 innovators in PR across Europe, Middle East and Africa in 2022 and most recently, and for the third year in a row, she continues to be recognised as one of the brightest and most influential PR professionals in Britain.

Jo has a decade of experience working with businesses, politicians and executives across healthcare, retail, travel, local government, financial services, property, transport, sports industries and at the world’s largest tech, media and entertainment companies – Google and YouTube.
As a dedicated career coach, Jo has been supercharging careers for years through leadership profiling, mentoring and CV consulting, professional development retreats, and as a Trustee of the Taylor Bennett Foundation, which exists to support talent from racially diverse backgrounds
into the communications industry. She has long advocated for better representation in corporate spaces. Over the years she has launched, managed and supported networking organisations and groups in the communications, professional services, government and tech industries with the focus of building, inspiring and celebrating diverse racial, gender, youth and LGBT+ communities in the workplace.

Jo lives by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s motto “never admire people quietly”. She founded Not Another Panel Event Ltd, in order to help underrepresented people and businesses to re-think strategy around 1. their point of difference, 2. how they’re inspiring others to work with them 3. their approach to bringing customers and/or communities together.