Executive Dossier · Corporate Relations & Stakeholder Strategy

Large ventures rarely fail on capital. They fail on consent.

Temitope Felix Sodeinde builds the stakeholder, governance, and reputation architecture that lets energy and infrastructure ventures earn their license to operate, and hold it across political cycles, regulatory shifts, and community pressure.

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Experience: 15+ years, principal level
Sectors: Energy, finance, governance
Region: West Africa, UK, US
Based: Lagos, Nigeria

Portrait of Temitope Felix Sodeinde, Corporate Relations executive

01 / Profile

A practitioner-principal at the point where ventures meet the public.

For more than fifteen years I have worked where ambitious projects meet the communities, governments, and regulators that decide whether they proceed. The remit has run across cross-border energy infrastructure, financial services, and public sector governance. The through-line never changes: translating commercial intent into legitimacy, and legitimacy into durable operating advantage.

Today I lead external relations for one of West Africa's most significant cross-border energy assets, shaping ESG strategy, stakeholder engagement, and corporate reputation across four jurisdictions. In parallel I build ventures that turn hard-won practitioner knowledge into repeatable systems, from sustainability advisory to productized conflict-diagnostic tools. The instinct is the same in the boardroom and in the build: find where consent is fragile, and engineer it into something that holds.

Consent is not given once. It is earned, governed, and defended.

Corporate Relations Executive Stakeholder Strategist Social Impact Strategist Venture Builder Author

02Core Competencies

Four disciplines, one thesis: manufacture trust, then make it operational.

Breadth here is not scatter. Each capability deepens the same conviction, that a venture's right to operate is built, not assumed.

P / 01

Corporate Relations & Reputation

External engagement and executive communications
Crisis, issues, and reputation management
Narrative strategy and brand repositioning
Board and executive advisory briefings

P / 02

Stakeholder & Government Strategy

Multi-stakeholder negotiation and alignment
Government relations and regulatory affairs
Community relations and social license
Conflict diagnostics and resolution design

P / 03

ESG & Sustainability Governance

ESG strategy and social investment programmes
GHG management and decarbonisation planning
IFRS S1 / S2 reporting readiness, SASB disclosure
Regulatory foresight and compliance mapping

P / 04

Venture Building & Digital Systems

Productizing advisory IP into digital tools
Business strategy, growth, and scaling
Content development and digital operating systems
Go-to-market and venture architecture

03Services

Engagements, plainly named.

S.01

Stakeholder & Social License Strategy

Mapping who can stop a project, why, and what it takes to move them from tolerance to support.

Advisory

S.02

Government & Regulatory Affairs

Reading regulatory direction early and positioning the organisation ahead of it, not behind it.

Advisory

S.03

ESG & Sustainability Reporting Readiness

IFRS S1 / S2 and SASB disclosure pathways, social investment design, and decarbonisation planning.

Programme

S.04

Corporate Reputation & Crisis Counsel

Protecting and rebuilding standing when a venture is contested, exposed, or under public scrutiny.

Counsel

S.05

Conflict Diagnostics & Management

Structured assessment of a project's vulnerability to community conflict, built on the ICCMS framework.

Product

S.06

Venture Architecture & Brand Repositioning

Standing up new ventures and repositioning existing ones: strategy, narrative, and digital operating systems.

Build

S.07

Board Briefings, Advisory & Keynotes

Bringing the practitioner's view of governance and stakeholder risk to boards, executives, and audiences.

Speaking

04Selected Work & Project Visuals

The work, in artefacts.

Digital Product

CCVI Diagnostic

Community Conflict Vulnerability Index: a browser-based instrument scoring project risk across seven dimensions.

Cartography

Africa Infrastructure Map

Pipeline routes, reserves, and proposed corridors rendered on an equal-area projection.

Authorship

The Book

Corporate Relations in the Oil and Gas Sector in Africa.

Compliance

IFRS S1 / S2 Roadmap

A regulatory compliance pathway mapped through 2034 against FRC Nigeria's sustainability mandate.

Social Investment

ICrisp Outreach

Medical outreach and community programmes delivered through the advisory practice.

Governance

Board Pack & Dossiers

Decision-grade briefings prepared for board and executive audiences.

05Case Record

Four mandates, told straight.

Context, mandate, approach, outcome. Where a figure belongs and is not yet verified, the slot is left open rather than filled with a number that cannot be stood behind.

Cross-Border Energy Infrastructure

Holding external license across four jurisdictions on a regional gas asset.

Context

A cross-border pipeline system spanning four West African states, exposed to divergent regulators, host communities, and political timelines, each able to disrupt operations.

Mandate

Lead external relations end to end: ESG strategy, stakeholder management, government engagement, and corporate reputation across the full footprint.

Approach

Built a single stakeholder architecture across jurisdictions, aligned ESG positioning to emerging disclosure standards, and ran engagement as a continuous governance function rather than reactive firefighting.

Outcome

Sustained operating license and a coherent, defensible reputation posture across the asset's host countries, with stakeholder risk managed as a board-visible discipline.

Jurisdictions aligned

Communities engaged

ESG & Regulatory Foresight

Turning a new sustainability-reporting mandate into a compliance roadmap to 2034.

Context

FRC Nigeria's adoption of IFRS S1 and S2 created binding sustainability-disclosure obligations, with classification triggers and timelines that many midstream operators had not yet decoded.

Mandate

Map the regulation against the organisation's specific obligations and build a phased compliance pathway leadership could act on.

Approach

Analysed PIE classification triggers, aligned disclosures to SASB Oil & Gas Midstream requirements, and sequenced obligations into a multi-year roadmap with clear ownership.

Outcome

A board-ready compliance roadmap extending through 2034 that converted regulatory uncertainty into a planned, staged programme of work.

2034

Roadmap horizon

S1 / S2

Standards mapped

Productized Expertise

Encoding conflict-management judgement into a digital diagnostic.

Context

Community conflict is the single most underpriced risk in infrastructure delivery, and the expertise to assess it usually lives in a few heads, unevenly and unrepeatably.

Mandate

Build the Infrastructure-Community Conflict Management System (ICCMS) and ship its first tool: a vulnerability index any project team could run.

Approach

Defined seven scoring dimensions, designed a browser-based diagnostic with radar visualisation and board-ready PDF export, and built it toward a live deployment pipeline.

Outcome

A commercial digital product that turns scarce practitioner judgement into a repeatable diagnostic, the first instrument in a broader conflict-management system.

Scoring dimensions

CCVI

First tool shipped

Pilots run

Venture Building

Standing up a sustainability advisory practice from the ground.

Context

Organisations across oil and gas, manufacturing, government, and the non-profit sector face rising sustainability demands without the in-house capability to meet them.

Mandate

Found and build ICrisp Consult Limited as an advisory firm spanning GHG management, social investment, and medical outreach.

Approach

Defined the service architecture, targeted high-need sectors, and combined technical sustainability work with on-the-ground social investment delivery.

Outcome

An operating advisory practice with a delivery footprint across multiple sectors and a roadmap toward broader African expansion.

06Record & Standing

The credentials behind the counsel.

Corporate Relations in the Oil & Gas Sector in Africa

Author

Corporate Relations in the Oil and Gas Sector in Africa

Deconstructing Failures, Forging Integration. A practitioner's account of the governance gaps and stakeholder misalignment that quietly decide which African extractive ventures endure.

CurrentCountry Head, External Relations
FounderICrisp Consult Limited
Public SectorFormer Special Assistant to a State Governor
FinanceSenior roles, Stanbic IBTC
LanguagesEnglish · French · Yoruba
ReachWest Africa · UK · US

07 / Engage

If consent is the constraint, let's talk.

Advisory engagements, board briefings, speaking, and venture partnerships. Tell me what is contested, and where.

Write to me →

tfs@icrispconsult.com linkedin.com/in/temitope-sodeinde → icrispconsult.com → Download CV (PDF) →