Ayo Sokale is a renowned Chartered Civil engineer, a distinguished keynote speaker, motivational speaker, STEM speaker, and sustainability speaker. She is widely recognised as one of the fastest engineers to achieve Chartered status. With an extensive background in delivering flood risk management projects, managing teams, supervising engineers, and influencing policy through key committees, Ayo is a dedicated advocate for engineering and sustainability. She works as a Major Project and Programme Delivery Business Manager for The Environment Agency.
Ayo is a pioneer, and, in that spirit, she founded Tessellated Future Technology a tech start-up in 2023. Her company launched an AI powered Coaching App – Get Coached in 2024. Get Coached is a mobile app that uses AI technology to provide 247 access to coaching. The app is already set on revolutionising the coaching industry by bringing bespoke, high-quality coaching to everyone at an affordable price, enabling you to win your game. Coaching helps individuals understand and achieve their goals, aid their reflections, and gain clarity. Get coached combines Ayo’s passion for self-development and coaching with technology and her desire for a more equitable society where everyone has access to the tools they need. Tools such as coaching.
A sought-after presenter and keynote speaker, Ayo shares her expertise on technology, sustainability, engineering, innovation, self development and more. Her captivating presentations inspire and educate audiences on critical topics.
Ayo has presented for BBC Reel and BBC Bitesize, where she’s covered the first principles on an array of scientific subjects from the Physics to Design. She also works as TV expert on STEM issues - including documentaries for the likes of the Smithsonian, National Geographic, Discovery Channel, Yesterday TV and Channel 5 - and counts Shell, Heineken, Blue Yonder, the NHS and Thames Water among the leading clients she has worked with as a keynote speaker.
Ayo is a Chartered Civil Engineer and Project Team Manager for the Environment Agency in Eastern England and is a popular Keynote Speaker on the environment and sustainability. She was previously a project manager and BIM lead, pushing for innovative, efficient and sustainable delivery of flood and coastal risk management schemes.
Ayo was selected as one of Professor Lord Robert Mair’s Future Leaders for his year as President of the ICE. Recognised among the ICE President’s Top 24 Role Models for 2024, Ayo Sokale is a true force of positive change and innovation across a range of sectors.
In recent years, Ayo has felt more able to talk about being on the autism spectrum. She has a diagnosis of Asperger’s syndrome and is an empathetic and inspirational keynote speaker on neurodiversity, mental health challenges and how to overcome them.
TESTIMONIALS
The session with Ayo was fantastic. I have to say she was phenomenal, really inspiring, we had great feedback!
Colt Technology Services
Ayo was fantastic and the session went down really well. Please extend my thanks to her for such a well presented and well-rounded session, not only touching on race but also neurodiversity a topic we have also presented on earlier in the year.
Senior Risk Manager at ClearBank
Ayo was an excellent speaker for DVERSTY's Intentional Engineering series, we were humbled to have her. She represented her experiences as a Chartered Civil Engineer and Councillor extremely well. Delivering her presentation so eloquently, Ayo gave our guests an insight into the DNA of Civil Engineering. We'd like to thank Ayo for encouraging everybody to use their 'voice' to challenge injustices seen in their environment.
Development Director- DVERSTY
Very interesting - such a positive force of nature…People often say that change happens because people 'stand on the shoulders of giants'. Today, I think we've all just met a giant!
NHS Network members