The chairman of the Phillips Consulting group, Mr. Foluso Phillips, presented to the Business Community the new Managing Director of the firm, Mr. Robert Taiwo, who has been overseeing its affairs since the beginning of the year. This was at the October edition of the Nigeria South Africa Chambers of Commerce breakfast which held in Lagos recently.
Rob Taiwo is a qualified lawyer with an MBA in Strategy and Change Management from Warwick Business School. He started his career in Investment Banking spending 7 years atCommerzbank AG in the City of London. Thereafter, Robert moved to Capgemini
Consulting to help build their Financial Services business in the UK. As a consultant, he led numerous high-profile assignments for FTSE 100 companies, leading multinationals and the British Government. Robert Taiwo has consulted for HSBC, Bank of Ireland, British Petroleum, SAB Miller, British American Tobacco, Her Majesty’s Revenue & Customs, Department for Works & Pensions, The UK Cabinet Office, The Lagos State Government, The Commonwealth Secretariat, Diageo (Guiness Nigeria) amongst others.
Phillips Consulting is a 26 years old indigenous management consulting firm, founded by Foluso Phillips during the era of the new generation banks. He launched and propagated thephilosophy and concept of Total Quality Management to the Nigerian Business community. It was also during this period that Foluso Phillips led the first delegation and a series thereafter of business and corporate leaders to South Africa on various business, education
and executive missions. Phillip Consulting was one of the first Nigerian companies to set up shop in South Africa, after the country’s free elections in 1994. Since then, the firm has been
involved in numerous initiatives between the two countries.
Robert, since taking the reign of leadership, has designed and managed the transformation initiatives taking place at Phillips Consulting and revised the firm’s strategy for the future. As
part of this transformation, the firm has changed its brand identity. Whilst Mr. Foluso Phillips, the firm’s Group Chairman and one-time Chairman of the
Nigerian Economic Summit Group and current Chairman of the Nigeria South Africa Chamber of Commerce, has stepped down from the operational activities of the firm, he will continue to see to the internal development of the firm’s consultants and focus on executive capacity building and mentoring. Mr. Phillips commented that “we are quite excited at this new phase in the life of our 26 year old firm. It is personally refreshing for me, to see my
vision of building a sustainable institution to outlive us all, becoming a reality. With Rob at the helm of affairs and his redefinition of the firm as personified by a simple but refreshed
brand image, I feel that a new generation is being truly born at Phillips Consulting. I believe there are exciting times ahead for us and our innumerable clients” Mr. Robert Taiwo explained the new definition of the firm, where its major service offerings will be in Strategy and Operations Transformation, Digital and Technology Consulting and People Transformation. Taiwo reiterated that “At Phillips Consulting, we are inspired by the challenge of transformation and passionate about the power of people. We have a people focused approach to driving organisational transformation and have been doing this since the inception of the firm. Now we are going to take it to another level”.
About the new brand identity, Robert commented that “we wanted to refresh our brand, whilst not taking it away from the strong name reputation we have built over the years. Mr. Phillips also wanted to create an identity that would begin to separate him from the institution he has built by de-emphasising his name and changing the name to PCL, which also created the flexibility to do more exciting things beyond the label of consulting”.
