Foluso phillips biography of abraham

Foluso Olajide Phillips has a lot to celebrate.

He’s just turned 60, and recently celebrated the 20th anniversary of his firm, Phillips Consulting. The avid bow tie collector (he has over !) shares highlights of his personal and professional journey, starting with how he cut his teeth in the consulting business in London.

Q&A with Foluso Phillips

FP: “I was quite young compared to my corporate peers and must confess was on quite a fast track professionally.

I left Coopers (Coopers & Lybrand) to return to Nigeria because I had hit a glass ceiling in the firm. A promotion at that time would have moved me into a space of incompetence simply because business development would become a major part of my remit and quite honestly, management consulting in the UK in the mid eighties was the preserve of extremely connected stiff upper lipped English gentlemen.

I just did not have the “old boy” network to bring in ‘the bacon’ to the firm. I was thereafte