Ambassador Adebusuyi Olutayo Olumadewa is a social transformer, sustainability advocate, and Founder of DoTheDream Youth Development Initiative (DoTheDream YDI), an organization in Special Consultative Status with the United Nations Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC), with representation in New York, Geneva, and Vienna.
Founded in 2005, DoTheDream YDI operates within the social development space, advancing Education, Gender Equality, Environment, Health, Energy, and Climate Action. The organization designs and implements programs that model inclusion, innovation, and inspiration to accelerate the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Since inception, the initiative has impacted over 199,600 individuals through structured leadership development, skills empowerment, and sustainability-driven interventions.
Ambassador Olumadewa spearheaded the establishment of the Leadership Library, which serves as the SDGs Resource Center for government schools across Africa. The inaugural library was launched at Ayedeere Ajibola Senior High School in Lagos, Nigeria. The initiative provides underserved students with access to quality educational resources and promotes a transformational developmental cycle of Skill → Service → Solution → Sustainability, converting knowledge into measurable impact.
Recognizing the transformative role of girls in development, he initiated the Girls Are Asset Project, including the flagship Girls in Energy.
Since 2013, these initiatives have empowered over 8,100 girls with leadership capacity, entrepreneurship exposure, and technical skills in Agriculture, Energy, Technology, and related sectors. In 2023, he formally expanded the Girls in Energy Project to promote structured career pathways in renewable energy and the circular economy. The project is designed to bridge the Gender Gap in the Energy Industry and is strategically positioned to operate through career (linear and non-linear) competitions, conferences, camps, and community development platforms, enabling the development of 10MW renewable energy mini-grids for communities across the Global South.
He is also the visionary behind Women’s Role in Africa of Our Dreams, a consortium of professionals investing their expertise toward sustainable continental growth.
Ambassador Olumadewa has convened over 179 leadership summits and seminars for schools, governments, and private sector actors, integrating Entrepreneurship, Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts, and Mathematics (ESTEAM) into development strategies. His international engagements include speaking at high-level sessions at the United Nations Headquarters in New York and organizing high-level side events within sustainability conferences, Financing for Development processes, and the
Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD), as well as engagements connected to the World Bank CSPF, United Nations Industrial Development Organisation, UNESCO, WTO, and related global platforms.
In 2025, he led his team to host the organization’s first meeting at the World Bank Group Civil Society Policy Forum titled “From Classroom to Career: Scaling the Girls in Energy Project for Industry Entry and Retention.” The session featured World Bank Representatives to the United Nations as speakers, alongside Vint Cerf (widely recognized as the Father of the Internet), Dr. Blessin Ayemhere (CEO of Evaac Energy), and Claudia Segre (President of Global Thinking Foundation) as key contributors.
In 2025, DoTheDream YDI was elected to the Board of the 78-year-old Conference of NGOs in Consultative Relationship with the United Nations, where he serves as Lead Representative for the Regional Committee in Africa and Co-Chair of the Committee on Dignity.
A strategic visionary with keen sight in making every impossible a walkover widely recognized for his uncommon ability to translate complex challenges into practical, executable pathways for transformation. His leadership philosophy is rooted in clarity of purpose, disciplined execution, structured innovation, and measurable impact.
He serves as a consultant to individuals, companies, countries, and institutions—providing strategic guidance that bridges vision with governance structures and ambition with sustainable systems. As a global speaker, he teaches practical steps toward actualization, guiding leaders and emerging change-makers from dreams to dynasty. His engagements focus not merely on inspiration, but on implementation frameworks that transform potential into performance and ideas into institutions.
A catalyst for greatness and a seed for greatness, Ambassador Olumadewa operates as a dynamic and strategic solution provider for governments, missions, and businesses across the globe. His advisory work integrates policy intelligence, enterprise development, leadership cultivation, financial structuring, and sustainable systems design to ensure long-term prosperity rather than short-term success.
He is championing the Social Transformer Industry as a structured pathway for nation-building and global advancement. Through this emerging field, he promotes intersectionality as the economy for evidence-based impact—where policy, people, product, and presence converge to drive measurable outcomes for people, peace, and planet. His approach positions intersectionality not merely as a social concept, but as an economic and governance framework capable of accelerating inclusive growth, institutional resilience, and sustainable societies.
Ambassador Olumadewa’s work consistently demonstrates that sustainable transformation requires intentional leadership, strategic collaboration, institutional discipline, and measurable execution. Through his vision and practice, he continues to redefine what is possible—turning impossibility into structured progress and aspiration into generational legacy.
He is the President of the Alliance of Social Transformers for Sustainable Development, a policy and innovation think tank driving national growth and inclusive systems reform. He also serves as CEO of Waohlife Media International Limited and Certainty Global Services Limited.
Ambassador Olumadewa is the author of several inspirational books, including You Can Be The Dream, Stay With It, We Are The Change, Real Investment, Use What You Have to Get What You Want, If Nobody Will Give You a Chance, Give Yourself One, and Guardians of the Environment.
He is widely recognized as a sustainability expert and champion of evidence-based, results-driven global action. He is the brain behind FINFODE — a strategic advisory platform dedicated to raising Finance and Financing for Nations, Governments, and Businesses for Solution and Sustainability.