Mrs. Janet Iyabo Jolaoso is a uniquely industrious woman. She is a star in corporate management and she has recorded a lot of career and business accomplishments.

Mrs. Janet Iyabo Jolaoso is a Fellow and the incumbent President/Chairman of Governing Council of the Nigerian Institute of Training and Development (NITAD), the professional body that regulates the practice of Learning, Training and Development in the country. She is also the Managing Director/C.E.O. of Jaybok Nigeria Limited and Managing Partner of Blue Life Nigeria Limited—a Quality Services Improvement Company.

Janet is an alumnus of both University of Ife (now Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife) and Lagos State University, Ojo, Lagos where she bagged Bachelors and Masters degrees in Microbiology and MBA in Human Resource Management respectively. She is a product of the famous Mayflower School, Ikene—a reputable secondary school in Nigeria, where hard work, dedication and commitment are second to nothing.

Mrs. Jolaoso has over three decades of post-graduation experience and has worked successfully in both manufacturing and service sectors of the economy. As a microbiologist, due to a dint of professionalism and commitment to work, she had a meteoric rise from Laboratory Analyst to Laboratory Manager, and then to Productivity and Planning Manager and eventually, Training Manager. She voluntarily retired as Human Resources Manager in 2003 after a meritorious service and an accomplished career in the corporate world, in order to fulfill her entrepreneurial dream which propelled her to establish Jaybok Nigeria Ltd.

Her international consultancy experience has been with the Operational Improvement Management (OIM) International, a South Africa based company whose clientele includes international companies in Nigeria. Janet is the Nigerian Representative of System Application & Products Incentives—an American based company.

Apart from NITAD, she belongs to a number of professional bodies such as Chartered Institute of Personnel Management, (CIPM), Nigerian Institute of Management, (NIM) Nigerian Society for Microbiology and Food Science and Technology and National Association of Proprietors of Private Schools, (NAPPS).

Mrs. Jolaoso, being a trainer par excellence, has facilitated a number of high profile Vision and Strategic Planning/Leadership programmes in a number of blue-chip companies in Nigeria.

She is also a versatile mindset change agent. As an educationist, she established and runs a successful school where future leaders are developed.

She is happily married with children.

It is in recognition of her contribution to national development in the area of Training & Manpower Development that Mrs. Janet Iyabo Jaolaoso is deemed worthy to be conferred with the Woman of Merit Gold Award which is part of the 2017 PSR National Awards.