Founder, Career Strategist, Product Leader & Retreat Facilitator
Akunna Opadisi
Akunna is the Founder of Exodust and a Career Strategist with more than a decade of experience advising professionals on career strategy.
Her work has served organisations and clients across the United Kingdom, Nigeria, the United States and continental Europe, spanning healthtech, fintech, edtech and commercial hardware solutions, including digital payments, lending, digital currencies and point-of-sale systems. She helps people recognise the value of their experience, assess opportunities and establish a practical direction for career transitions and progression.
She leads Exodust’s advisory work across product, business and career strategy, bringing together an understanding of individual ambitions, commercial priorities, technology and execution. This breadth allows her to examine both where an opportunity could lead and what it takes to pursue it.
Akunna is also a Product Leader and Solutions Architect whose experience spans product strategy, digital products, business operations, AI and automation. Her product leadership experience includes shaping strategic direction, identifying customer and business needs, setting priorities and guiding teams from ideas into delivery. She also develops and trains product professionals, helping them translate product knowledge into practical professional capability.
At the retreat, Akunna will draw on her experience across countries and industries to lead practical sessions on professional progression, communication, tech, AI and opportunities through business and consulting.
She holds a Master’s degree in Project Management and Operations Management from the University of Huddersfield, is an AWS Certified Solutions Architect and holds a Product Leader Certificate from Product School.
