Dr. Toye Sobande is a strategic leadership expert, lawyer, public speaker, and trainer. He earned a Doctorate of Strategic Leadership from Regent University, Virginia Beach, USA, and he is the author of “The Leadership Myth: Why Leadership Principles Do Not Work in Sub-Saharan Africa.”
He is the Lead Consultant and President of Stephens Leadership Consultancy LLC, a strategy and management consulting firm offering creative insight and solutions to businesses and leaders. With over 24 years of service in various followership and leadership endeavours, He has advocated for followers, transformational leadership, organizational culture and leadership development in political governance.
Sobande is also the Publisher and Executive Director of the African Leadership Journal, an intellectual platform that engages scholars and practitioners who advance leadership and followership development across the globe.
He is a member of the Association of Leadership Educators (ALE) and a Certified Management Consultant and a Fellow of the Institute of Management Consultants. A member of the International Leadership Association (ILA), the Society of International Economic Law, and the Nigerian Bar Association.
He is also a weekly columnist and author with BusinessDay Newspapers where he writes weekly on strategic leadership development principles and organizational culture. Some of his other thought-leadership articles have featured in other National Newspapers such as Guardian Newspapers, Punch Newspapers, Vanguard Newspapers, The Nation, and Leadership Newspapers, where he has written extensively about Leadership Practices and Development in Organizations. He has also featured in other media outlets such as Channels Television, Silverbird Television, Arise News TV, Nigerian Television Authority (NTA), Nigerian Info 95.1 FM, Inspiration FM 92.3FM, Eko FM 89.75 FM, Lagos Traffic Radio 96.1FM, where he has made significant contributions to critical leadership issues.
His manuscript, Leadership and Organizational Politics: How to Win Office Politics and Thrive in a Competitive Environment, was published on December 1, 2022.