Faculty Member

Yemi Adewale

Growth & Evidence Facilitator

Facilitation Narrative Practice Growth Portfolios

About

Yemi came to facilitation accidentally. A trained journalist and writer, he was working on a long-form piece about adult learning when he stumbled into his first personal development workshop and found himself, mid-session, genuinely changed by an exercise he had expected to find gimmicky. That experience — of being surprised by the depth of something he had dismissed — became both a personal turning point and a professional obsession. He has since retrained in facilitation, narrative practice, and coaching, building a distinctive style that blends the storyteller's craft with the evidence-builder's rigour. His particular gift is helping people find the words for experiences they have had but never articulated — and in that articulation, discover both the significance of what they have been through and the direction it points them toward. Yemi has facilitated over 300 workshops across corporate, community, educational, and public sector contexts. He writes a widely-read newsletter on growth, evidence, and the practice of conscious living. He is the youngest member of the ReTAIE faculty and brings an energy and cultural fluency that makes his sessions consistently among the most highly rated in the programme.

Philosophy & Approach

Everyone has a story of genuine growth. Most people have just never been asked to tell it properly. My work is about creating the conditions in which people can excavate that story, understand it, and use it — not as something that happened to them in the past, but as a resource they carry into everything they do next.