Yemisi Iyilade, M.Eng, PMP

Leadership Coach | Millennial Leadership Strategist | New Leader Program Lead

Yemisi Iyilade is a leadership development consultant and millennial leadership coach with over 15 years of experience guiding transformation through people, systems, and performance strategy. As AVP of Leadership Development Consulting at Pivotal Growth Inc., she is a key champion of the Pivotal Growth’s Future of Leadership Program—a modern, data-powered solution designed to unlock the full potential of emerging and first-time leaders, especially within millennial and Gen Z cohorts.

Yemisi combines an engineering mindset with certifications in project management and leadership coaching, allowing her to bring clarity, structure, and a scalable approach to leadership capacity-building. She specializes in translating leadership assessments and diagnostics into actionable, results-driven development plans that accelerate business performance.

Through her work at Pivotal Growth, Yemisi has coached and guided over 56 corporate millennial leaders, decoding what motivates, sustains, and occasionally constrains performance in this rising generation. Her insights come from hands-on coaching, cross-industry experience, and deep familiarity with leadership analytics, allowing her to help organizations align talent strategy with generational dynamics.

She is often called upon to help organizations:

• Mobilize and retain high-potential millennial talent

• Build high-performing, inclusive teams through co-designed solutions

• Translate leadership diagnostics into measurable impact

• Address confidence, communication, and skill gaps in early-stage leaders

Yemisi’s approach blends qualitative coaching insight with quantitative data analysis, creating a clear line of sight between leadership development and business impact. She is trusted by senior HR leaders and leaders to shape modern leadership pipelines that are agile, diverse, and future-ready.