Strategic Programme Leader · Transformation · Founder

Tayo Otubusin

I turn strategy into change that actually gets adopted.

An operations & transformation leader with 12+ years delivering complex change in regulated, technically demanding environments, across organisations from SMEs to large enterprises. I help organisations turn strategic intent into measurable operational outcomes. Grounded in aerospace engineering, sharpened by an Executive MBA. Founder of the Tayorski Fellowship.

My story At a glance

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A method, not a guess.

How I turn strategic intent into lasting change, in four repeatable steps.

Design

the operating model around process, performance and capability.

Deliver

the programme as complex, cross-functional change, end to end.

Measure

what matters through governance, KPIs and data-led performance.

Align

the stakeholders so the change is embedded and sustained.

At a glance

Years across operations, transformation and capability

Industries delivered into, from aerospace and energy to medical devices

MEng

Aerospace Engineering (Hons), University of Liverpool

MBA

Executive MBA, Warwick Business School

The sectors

AerospaceEnergy & PowerAdvanced ManufacturingMedical DevicesAcademia & ResearchPublic Sector

How I work

Strategy is easy to write and hard to land. The real work is in what gets built, adopted, and sustained, long after the plan is filed.

My story

From engineer to transformation leader.

A career that began at the engineering coalface and grew into leading complex, cross-functional change across engineering, quality and operations. The through-line: a structured, analytical approach to making complex things work, and embedding change that lasts, without disrupting the operations it depends on.

Foundation · Liverpool

An engineer's grounding

MEng (Hons) in Aerospace Engineering at the University of Liverpool, the technical bedrock beneath everything that followed.

2014–2015 · Sheffield

Precision engineering

Design Engineer at IIDEA Limited, with hands-on component design, manufacture and inspection across CAD, CNC and multi-axis machining, working to ISO 9001 and UKAS quality standards.

2015–2018 · Advanced Manufacturing

Engineering at the frontier

Advanced Manufacturing Engineer at Florida Turbine Technologies, leading the end-to-end delivery of a £250k+ Innovate UK co-funded programme, followed by applied additive-manufacturing research and a peer-reviewed paper at ASME Turbo Expo 2018.

2018–Present · AddQual, Derby

Operations & Transformation Lead

Progressing from technical delivery into leadership of metrology operations and broader transformation. Accountable for delivery, quality and operational efficiency across engineering, quality and operations.

Recent · Warwick & beyond

Sharpening the strategy, giving back

An Executive MBA at Warwick Business School, alongside serving as a school governor in Derby and founding the Tayorski Fellowship.

What I do

Where I create value.

I bring a structured, analytical approach to complex problems, particularly where delivery reliability, quality and operational performance are critical, and change must land without disrupting core operations. Four capabilities sit at the centre of my work.

Design

Operating Model Design

Shaping how work is structured, delivered and measured, aligning process, performance and capability so an organisation can deliver reliably and scale.

Deliver

Programme & Transformation Delivery

Translating strategic intent into measurable operational outcomes, leading complex, cross-functional change from definition through to delivery and sustained adoption.

Measure

Data-led Performance & Governance

Establishing governance frameworks, KPIs and reporting cadence that improve visibility, accountability and decision-making, turning data into better performance.

Align

Cross-functional Stakeholder Alignment

Bringing engineering, quality and operations together to deliver coordinated outcomes, with the influence to move teams who do not report to me.

Underpinning it all

Capability Building

Developing high-performing teams through recruitment, training and coaching, and building the internal capability for change to outlast any single programme. The people are what make transformation stick.

Experience rooted in aerospace and advanced manufacturing, with principles that travel to any regulated, complex sector.

A cause close to me

The Tayorski Fellowship.

In 2026 I founded a fellowship to celebrate Nigerian students who embody curiosity, excellence, and the drive to apply their learning to real problems. It begins as a single annual prize, built to grow into a scholarship, and one day, a living community of Fellows.

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Writing & thinking

Ideas worth sharing.

Occasional essays on transformation, leadership, engineering, and giving back. (Even one a quarter builds real authority.)

Giving back

Why applied thinking beats grades

The conviction behind the Tayorski Fellowship, and why the students who change the world are rarely the ones who memorise the most.

All writing

Beyond work

Away from the day job.

The same curiosity that drives my work tends to show up everywhere else too. When I am not leading change programmes, you will usually find me behind a camera or supporting young people closer to home.

Photography

A long-standing creative pursuit, and a separate venture of its own. A different way of paying attention to the world, and of seeing what others walk past.

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Community & governance

Serving as a school governor in Derby, helping shape the education and opportunities of the next generation of young people in my own community.

Let's build something.

Whether it is a transformation programme, a board or governance role, a speaking invitation, or a Fellowship partnership, I would welcome the conversation.

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