Adeniyi Ogunsua: Empowering People and Organizations at Microsoft

By Luke Lightning

May 11, 2022

In this week's episode of the Future Construct Podcast (30 min interview), we are excited to feature Adeniyi Ogunsua (@kogunsua), Senior Director and Industry Digital Strategist at Microsoft (@microsoft), and your host Amy Peck(@AmyPeckXR). In his role, Adeniyi helps design and create the intelligent future by igniting and enabling innovation via strategic partnership, industry-transforming initiatives, and innovative market platforms that leverage intelligent clouds. He leads teams to design and build the future of organizations facing Digital Transformation and transitioning to the Cloud. Lately, his focus has been on Sustainability (ESG) programs, Embedded Finance, RegTech, AI (Intelligent Bots, Cognitive Services, ML), Intelligent Buildings/Cities/Infrastructure (Digital Twins, IoT, Analytics), and Mixed Reality (HoloLens) for customers using 3 Horizons (core, emerging, disruptive business) growth model.

Click to listen to our interview with Adeniyi on Apple, Spotify, Audible, or Google, or watch on our Facebook or YouTube channels.

In addition to his role at Microsoft, Adeniyi has attained extensive Big Four consulting and Fortune 500 experience within the financial services, healthcare, AEC, and retail industries. He holds PMP, CISA, and CSM designations. He has also received two Circle of Excellence awards for innovative sales and service Mobile applications that increase revenue and interest profit, improves customer loyalty, and increases customer acquisitions.

Adeniyi is actively involved in major sectors of Microsoft, expanding his impact within the company in areas including:

• Sustainability - His role is to lead, assess, & improve Environment, Social, Governance (ESG) programs related to Sustainable Finance, GHG (Scope 1, 2, & 3), PCAF, UN SDG, TCDF, Digital & Financial Inclusion, Sustainable & Intelligent Buildings, Cities, and Infrastructure.

• Innovative Design and Build - He creates visions, designs journeys, builds solutions and digital capabilities where speed to market is critical leveraging Inclusive Design Thinking, Agile, DevOps, System Inventive Thinking, Breakthrough Innovation, 3-Box Strategy, and Cloud Adoption Frameworks.

• Secure and Comply - He prepares organizations facing daunting transition to Cloud (IaaS, PaaS, SaaS). His proven cloud audit, risk, and executive assessment experience include the design and operating effectiveness of controls (preventive, detective, and corrective). He develops IP frameworks, audit programs, and recommendations on FFIEC, NIST CSF, PII, HITRUST/HIPAA, SOX, SOC, GHG, and PCAF standards.

• Digital Transformation - He engages customers, optimizes operations, and reinvents business models to increase revenue & cash flows (EBITDA), generates economic profits/economic value add (EVA) and market value add (MVA), improve customer and employee experiences, realize merger synergies, and take out costs by converting Capex to Opex.

At Microsoft, the mission is to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more. Microsoft enables digital transformation for the era of an intelligent cloud and an intelligent edge. Microsoft operates in 190 countries and is made up of 181,000 passionate employees worldwide.

Highlights of Adeniyi’s interview with host Amy Peck (@AmyPeckXR) include:

• His suggested strategies to companies to help them overcome fear as an organization in the adoption of new technology

• His key tactics, including BIM, that companies can utilize to make their buildings more responsive

• Overcoming the economics and expense involved with introducing and integrating new technology

• Exciting new developments in the world of technology and his ideal product for the future

Click to listen to our interview with Adeniyi on Apple, Spotify, Audible or Google, or watch on our Facebook or YouTube channels.

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