Our consultants have considerable consulting and line management experience in human resources management and development, performance management, organization development and design, team building, and strategic change management. Some of us have consulted for, and within, leading organizations in the African region. This strategic mix of line management and top level human resources and organization development consulting experience enables us to effectively and efficiently understand and satisfy the operational and strategic needs of client organizations. Thus, while we are able to quickly gain insight on the strategic or operational situation of client organizations, we have the cerebral and technical depth to explore and collaborate with each client organization to develop specific solutions and options that address its unique situation. This way, as human resources and organization development consultants in Africa, we can uniquely and imaginatively assist many organizations operating in Africa to achieve sustainable high performance and breakthroughs.

Leading Total Poise Associates, a professional firm of human resources and organization development consultants in Africa is Dr. O. Akin-Ogundeji. A versatile, first-class human resources and organization development consultant, Akin holds PhD of the University of London at Britain's pioneer Department of Occupational Psychology of Birkbeck College. He has over 25 years human resources and organization development consulting experience in Nigeria and the West Coast of Africa. He has consulted for over 100 organizations in diverse industries and in the public sector. He led many organization development consultants as head of Organization Development practice of KPMG in Nigeria and parts of West Africa for several years. Before then, he led some human resources consultants as head of the Human Capital practice of Ernst & Young in Nigeria. He has taught Industrial Psychology, Social Psychology, Human Resources Management/Personnel Psychology, and Organizational Behavior at both undergraduate and graduate levels in two top rated Universities in Nigeria. Since leaving KPMG in 1998, he has consulted independently in the areas of strategic organization development, performance management, general management, human resources systems review and human capital management,team building. Thus, he has for many years led a good number of human resources and organization development consultants in Africa. He also leads the Lagos based Psychology Associates. His forte is the renewal and re-energizing of organizational, managerial, and human resource systems, policies, and processes. The main thrust of his professional approach is strategic management of organizational, managerial and human resource systems and processes for sustainable high performance, corporate growth and excellence. His personal philosophy is ‘the pursuit of excellence,’ which influences his personal and professional style. He has published academic and professional articles in such international journals as International Journal of Manpower, Managerial Psychology, Industrial and Commercial Training, Journal of European Industrial Training, and The Psychologist (British).

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Our total organization development framework is a framework for transformation interventions, activities and programs for sustainable high performance and a vision of ultimate corporate excellence.

The framework incorporates a five-phase approach called the FEDAR ^TM system, consisting of:

• Focusing through diagnosing and defining the critical organizational and people elements and attributes.
• Enabling actions that help identify and assess the level of corporate awareness and understanding of the organization’s current weaknesses and strengths viz -a -viz critical requirements, standards, or components for sustainable high performance, and assess current level of people and organizational commitment.
• Designing collaboratively and insightfully people's actualizing attributes and organizational integrating factors for sustainable high performance.
• Aligning the organization’s people actualizing attributes with interdependent organizational elements while working on enhanced level of synergy in the organization.
• Reviewing the renewed strength and synergy for sustainable high performance.