All you need is Love!

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Wednesday 22^nd October 2025 @ 18:00 BST

All you need is Love!

Yetunde Hofmann

It was Heather Benjamin who introduced me to the remarkable Yetunde Hofmann. She is an inspirational speaker and presenter and following a discussion it seemed absolutely appropriate that I should ask her to present her views to us.

I asked her for her theme and this is what she said

Love can transform a workforce – the opportunity to genuinely deliver results comes not from the focus on productivity and performance.   The opportunity to genuinely deliver results that make a lasting difference, will come instead from the demonstration of love. 

So let’s learn more

Biography

Yetunde is the Founder and Programme Director of Solaris, a pioneering global executive leadership development academy targeted at the black professional and executive woman in organisations.

Yetunde built a successful career in a variety of HR leadership roles in FTSE 100 Global companies including Imperial Brands, Unilever, Allied Domecq, and Northern Foods.

Recognised as HR’s 12^th Most Influential Thinkers by leading UK national magazine HR Magazine in 2021 Yetunde has also been named one of the top 100 women to watch in the UK by the Cranfield University Female FTSE 100 Board Report. In 2020, she won the Dress for Success London Award for Women’s Empowerment and in 2021 was made a Chartered Companion of the CIPD in recognition of her contribution to the achievement of the institute’s global ambitions and service to the HR profession.

In 2025 she has been recognised by the African Business Chamber UK as one of the top 100 African Entrepreneurs and Business Leaders in the UK.

Yetunde is a Non-Executive Director on the Board of Cranswick Plc a FTSE 250 leading UK food producer where she is the designated Board Director for Workforce Engagement and also sits. On the Audit, Remuneration and ESG Committees. She is a former Board Director and Chair of the Remuneration Committee of Treatt Plc, a global ingredients manufacturer with operations in the UK, USA, and China and a former Board Trustee and Chair of the People, Culture and Remuneration committee of The Education Development Trust.

Until March 2023 Yetunde was a Board Trustee of the Institute of Business Ethics (IBE). She has also been a Non-Executive Director of the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (CIPD) where she chaired the People, Culture and Remuneration Committee, was the Board Race Champion and the Board Champion for the Middle East where she played a business mentoring role for the Middle East Leadership Team based out of Dubai. The CIPD is the Governance Body for the People Profession in the UK.

Yetunde has contributed to the development of business leaders at the University of Cambridge Institute of Sustainability Leadership, is a Visiting Fellow at Henley Business School, a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts (FRSA) a TEDx Speaker and a classically trained pianist.

She is a Board Mentor with Criticaleye – the CEO and Leadership Community where she mentors senior executives at Board and/or C-Suite level.

Yetunde is the Managing Director of Synchrony Development Consulting an international leadership and change advisory practice and The Enjoyable Life Series CIC where their annual storytelling conferences are run to raise money for the currently disadvantaged in community.

She has written several articles and blogs all with a theme of Love which she believes is the most critical leadership and organisational capability needed in the world today

Yetunde is the author of Beyond Engagement, The Value of Love-Based Leadership in Organisations, which providespractical insights from over 30 senior business leaders across a variety of industry sectors into how love-based leadership can transform organisations.

She is a classically trained pianist, loves travel, the British Museum, and is in the process of writing her second book.

https://www.linkedin.com/in/yetundehofmann/