Dr. Mrs.Oyawole Dolapo Dorcas Esq, was born in Osun State to the family of Deacon Taiwo Akinsola and Mrs. Sarah Adunade Ogunwuyi. She attended Omoyiola Nursery and Primary School, Ido Osun, Osun State, and had her secondary education in Our Lady & St. Francis Catholic College,Osogbo, Osun State.
She studied law and received the Bachelor of Law (LLB) Degree from the remarkable University of Ilorin, Kwara State, then Barrister at Law (B.L) at Nigerian Law School, Enugu. While serving her fatherland, she added value to herself by becoming a Certified Project Manager.
Dr. Dolapo began her legal career of thorough practice at notable Law Offices for a period of three (3) years. As a result of her insatiable curiosity and passion for Real Estate and the corporate world, she moved from being a Courtroom Advocate to venturing into the business world. She started as an ordinary Marketing Manager in a reputable Real Estate Company which is now a conglomerate –Oxford Holdings. She continued in the same organization as a Legal Officer/Company Secretary where she was promoted to the post of an Operation Manager when the Company decided to expand from a single Company to a Conglomerate.
She successfully climbed various challenging ladders such as Managing Director position, Grand Managing Director, Group Managing Director 1, 2 and currently Group Managing Director 3 and also the Head, Clients Services at Oxford Holdings.
Dr. Dolapo earned being a proud Senior Manager and Investment Consultant, consequently, in February 2021, she was promoted as GMD 1 of a new group of Companies. The newly formed group struggled for the first month as number 27th out of 30groups of Companies, which made her assembled her Team across Nigeria and sprang into action. The proceeding success of the new group made way for merger with another major group with great results that subsequently earned her GMD 2.
Apart from being GMD 3 at Oxford Holdings, a position almost next to Executive Directors of the organization, she has served as the Company Secretary of the able organization, a designation she held for years before becoming GMD 2 which was almost impossible to combine with the Company Secretary duties.
As a Group Managing Director, Dr. Dolapo Dorcas Oyawole has excellent record as a Team Lead and not a Boss. She, with the support of her team meet up monthly target, she consults and helps High Networth Individuals (HNIs) and Cooperatives/Organizations in creating and building wealth specifically in Agriculture, Real Estate, Mortgage, oil and gas and more.
She has successfully led many young leaders who are managing over 50 successful Companies across the Nigeria and still counting.
In the past she has served as the first Vice President of the Federation of Ido Osun Students Union where she made extraordinary intellectual contributions and impacted the lives of the student orphans in particular which earned her different awards. She has also led many religious organizations.
Her quest for knowledge led her into pursuing a Masters Degree, in a revered and reputable University in the United States of America. She bagged MBA in Global Management from Western Ville University, San Diego California, USA and earned herself an Honorary Doctorate Degree in Business Administration, DBA from the same University.
Her academic prowess and contribution to the academic development of the youths earned her an award from the National Association of Nigerian Students NANS, as the Icon of Educational Impact for the year 2021 and coincidentally, her second child went on to emerge as the NANS baby of the year 2021 at the age of one.
Not resting on her oars she enrolled in the revered women on Boards Mentoring Program for the 2022 session. A program that top corporate executives from A list companies, multinational corporations and government corporations attend. As a result of her excellent contributions during the sessions, she was chosen by her group as the CEO of the Board of her group’s company. She spearheaded the research for their presentation, presented excellently for the group of 10before experienced world class facilitators with outstanding result. She completed the WIMBOARD program with her certificate on the 30th July, 2022. All these she has achieved still in her early 30s.
Dr. Dolapo is a mother of two lovely children, an awesome wife, a Team Lead with rare financial integrity, a lover of God, a preacher of charity, a Counselor, and a children and Teenagers’ Tutor.
In her vote of thanks to the team of Timeless Facts Magazine she has this to say.
Before saying thanks for this rare honour of having my profile here, I must confess that coming this far hasn’t been without its challenges.
I was preparing for my wedding before joining Oxford and I continued my job after the wedding but I had to relocate to Mowe in Ogun State to move in with my husband and from there I was coming to Egbeda everyday, I must say it wasn’t easy for me at all but I kept on. Even when I took in up till when I put to bed and even for months after delivery there was no personal or official car for me then I just was not ready to quit my job. I could remember my husband told me times without number to resign – during pregnancy when the stress was so much, when I was about giving birth and even afterwards but I wasn’t just ready to be a stay-at-home wife because that wasn’t me. I remembered one of his friends told him that “you know the wife you married is a leader who has a great vision, so how do you expect her to stay at home – it would be like killing her”.
My husband saw my doggedness and resolute personality and the fact that the baby couldn’t cope, he had to sacrifice his comfort for us. We had to move from Mowe, our personal house to come to Lagos to rental apartment. For this too, I had to work hard to be so supportive as a way of appreciation.
Moving from my entering point to where I am today hasn’t been an easy journey. Climbing up the career ladder came with so much envy – people are ever so ready to pull you down at the slightest opportunity. I am so disciplined and never had to lobby for any position or promotion, rather I work harder and call on God to do the rest, at a point in early 2021 while my second child was just few months old I had to develop a serious prayer life. While breastfeeding by the inspiration of my spiritual mentor who prayer and fasting is his way of life I fasted for 90 days and since then it’s been from one prayer and fasting exercise to another with sound prayer life both night and day.
Now to the question; one of my greatest challenges is not knowing how to play office politics on time. I was so down to heart (still though), disciplined and blunt. I still exhibit this till date but I have learnt to diplomatically do it. I learnt office politics by experience – in every organization, you must earn your respect – no eye service, do your own as a child of God who is God fearing but be diplomatic in your actions.
When you get to any organization, don’t just jump at anything. Think of your passion and think of any vacuum/need of the company that goes in line with your passion, occupy that space, be relevant and work it out in all, never trade your body for anything, the same men meet somewhere to talk down ladies they found sexually cheap. You must be prayerful and ready to pay any price to protect your dignity and values. Good name they say is better than riches.
I give God all the glory for all I have enjoyed from Him. Thank you to my husband Engineer Richard Oyawole, my children, my entire family, Spiritual Mentors and everyone who has been part of my success story for their support. To everyone at Timeless Facts, I say thank you for the rare honour of having my profile here. God bless you all.
