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ASSOCIATES

Please find below the associates that Arribada consulting are working with.

Keith Watson

Head of Consulting Services, 360 HR Solutions

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LL.M, Chartered FCIPD, FCMI, FLPI, FITOL, Member of SHRM, Master Member EMCC, Member Employment Tribunal (Scotland) and Reinstatement Committee (Reserve Forces). Equality Act Assessor in the Sheriff CourtsAccredited to use Magerison - McCann Team Management Profile and TMSDI Leadership Behaviours ProfileSpecialities: Employment Law, Employee Relations, Resourcing, Reward, Policy, Coaching, Mentoring, Change Management, Inclusion, and Training

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Dr. Wilson Wong

Director, Insight & Futures & WongonWork

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An economic psychologist, data scientist and futurist, Wilson has over 30 years of experience of applied research into organisations – their leadership, values/ culture, futures strategy, and the evaluation, management, and development of human capital for policy & practice, investors and in academia. His research consulting and futures clients include the Metropolitan Police, Logica, Standard Chartered Bank, Nottingham County Council, Cambridgeshire County Council, DWP. MoD, Human Capital Development Corporation, HCLI, and RBS. He is Visiting Professor at Nottingham Business School, Adjunct Professor at HK Baptist University, National Chair of the HRM & Human Capital Standards Committee at BSI, and sits on several academic research strategy boards, including the board of the journal, IJHRDPPR. 

 

He chairs the strategic business planning committee of ISO/TC 260 HRM Standards and was for over a decade the Head of Insight & Futures, and Head of Research at the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (CIPD, UK) developing the base for evidence-based practice. He helmed the research at the European Association of People Management (EAPM) and the World Federation of People Management Associations (WFPMA). In 2020, he was recognised with the President’s Medal by the British Academy of Management for his contribution to evidence-based management practice, and the Standards Maker Award by BSI for his work on a BSI safe working guide for organizations during a pandemic. A UK human capital metrics expert to ISO, he co-edited Human capital management standards: A complete guide, published by Kogan Page.  He has led on and continues to develop measures of sustainable HC. He is a member of the UN Millennium Project global futures experts’ network and has led the futures research on national talent ecosystems for policy development in Singapore and Malaysia. A human capital strategist taking the long view, he continues to advise organisations on their people and is a regular speaker/ lecturer in human capital management and development.

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Ibironke Tolu Ogunpolu

Strategic Human Capital, Change & Organizational Development Consultant 

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Ibironke combines a high strategic focus, with her deep cross-industry and multi-disciplinary experience to deliver change, efficiency and growth across diverse organisational contexts. Known for her strategic insight and collaborative style, she helps organisations and leaders to thrive through complexity and change, with a focus on impact, inclusion, and innovation. 

She has deep expertise in leading HR strategy, driving HR function effectiveness projects, designing and driving the delivery of engagement and communications strategies, building and implementing performance management and succession frameworks, strategic reward and incentive schemes, and establishing HR Metrics and People Analytics models. 

 

For over 25 years, Ibironke has led and delivered projects focused on helping clients to address the organisation design, change management, capability, culture, HR, learning, leadership, workforce planning, reward and people risk aspects of a broad range of change initiatives including strategic transformation, restructuring, complex M&A and other deals, and value creation programmes. Her multi-industry experience covers a diverse range of client organizations from small-medium non-profits and professional bodies to matrixed multi-geography, global organizations. 

 

Ibironke set up, built and coached multi-location teams to deliver ‘award-wining’ human capital functional support, in her prior roles as Head of Human Capital for PwC in two countries and the Chief Operating Officer for the People In M&A business at EY. 

 

She is passionate about professional development and the membership organizations that support professionals in various disciplines. Her work for professional bodies has included designing new membership routes and frameworks for progression, as well as a framework for evaluating internal academic qualifications from non-UK jurisdictions. She was also previously a volunteer mentor for the HR Certification Institute (USA) and a volunteer Code of Conduct Disciplinary Panel member with the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (CIPD). 

 

Ibironke is a Chartered Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development, UK and a Lean Six Sigma Green Belt enabling her to bring a strong focus on quality to her people, strategy and organisational development practice. 

 

She holds two Masters’ degrees in Strategy, Change and Leadership and in Human Resources Management. She is a certified Executive and Leadership Coach from the Institute of Leadership and Management, with a postgraduate qualification in Executive Coaching from the University of the West of England. 

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