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... Read more
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.
In addition to her engineering prowess, Ayo Sokale is a multifaceted talent. She is a prominent BBC Broadcaster, notably co-presenting on CBeebies’ Get Set Galactic, a captivating science-based gameshow for children. Her love of working with young minds shines through as she explores themes ranging from gravity to the Solar System, pollination, and energy.
Ayo’s broadcasting portfolio extends to BBC Reel, BBC Bitesize, and acclaimed documentary work for renowned networks like Smithsonian, National Geographic, Discovery Channel, Yesterday TV, and Channel 5. Her presenting skills have also been sought after by other commercial clients, including ITN and Trimble.
Ayo actively contributes to the STEM field, producing engaging content for corporate clients and creating the Wednesday Wisdoms Series/Podcast and Everyday Science Series and Esoteric Stories for Modern Lives. Notably, Ayo is a former Councillor and Deputy Mayor of Reading, where she founded Plastic Free Caversham, earning single plastic-free accreditation for the area in 2022.
As an Executive Coach, Ayo works with successful professionals navigating crossroads in their careers, helping them align with their values and leverage their unique strengths and interests. She brings her empathetic approach and inspirational insights to her keynote speeches on neurodiversity and mental health, drawing from her own diagnosis of Asperger’s syndrome.
Ayo is also an accomplished author, with her book ‘Othered: How to Thrive & Disrupt in Spaces Not Created for You’. The rights to this are handled by the BKS Agency. Ayo is also featured in Dr Shini Somara’s Book ‘Engineers Making a Difference: Inventors, Technicians, Scientists and Tech Entrepreneurs Changing the World, and How You Can Join Them’ and in Daniel Tammet’s book ‘9 minds’.
Beyond her professional achievements, Ayo is a non-linear thinker with diverse interests and a track record of success, from pageantry where she held titles such as Miss Plymouth, Miss Sussex, and Miss East Sussex, to her advocacy and active work for social enterprises and charity. She is also an animated superhero named Eco Angel, reflecting her dedication to flood risk management and community protection. Ayo is a Trustee for the Autistic Girl Network Charity.
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.
We have heard it all before, we are facing a climate change challenge. An existential crisis. What does it mean for modern day professionals? How do we all go about contextualising this and as a result taking suitable actions.
Ayo talks about the sustainability triad – The environment, Social...
There has been a historical fight for equality. Today in the modern world the fight has drifted to the fight for equal representation of women in tech, construction, and wider STEM.
Ayo talks about the value of this. Values such as: women in the room where the build environment...
What does Diversity Utopia look like?
Commonly we think of diversity as diverse peoples in a space. But is that truly diverse?
The evolutionary case for in group vs Out group mentality.
How does diversity and assimilation come together?
How does diversity work in our current...
The world needs diversity of thought. As a black autistic woman in STEM, Ayo often was advised to be XYZ. Because XYZ was valued more and viewed more favourable. That is not diversity, that is external difference and internal assimilation.
That is not inclusion, that is a form of...
It is estimated that 30-40% of the world is neurodiverse. So, why is the conversation just getting started? Furthermore, are we having the right conversations?
Ayo chats through famous neurodiverse people to bring the message home that there are so many people that are unknown to us, that are neurodiverse....
Beep – Beep – Urgent Response Required
Beep – Beep – Political constraint identified.
Beep – Beep – Conflicting stakeholders needs Identified.
Does this sound like your daily radar? Picking up the valid constraints in the world around you yet wanting to achieve tangible, long-lasting useful change.
Some many of us feel different and a little disruptive in the spaces, places we find ourselves. In this informative talk, Ayo uses personal and researched case-studies to explore the idea of being different, the genetic and evolutionary reason we pay attention to our difference and how this can cause...
Ayo takes a holistic approach to development and career, and I share that in this highly personal talk. She shares her lesson on leveraging growth across the various facets of our lives and cross pollinating to accelerate growth.
She found this brought more sugar to my life and she...
How do you describe yourself? You tell a story, right? Stories are fundamental – they are how we see the world; we perceive ourselves and the way forward.
Telling a compelling story leads to a compelling life. A hero’s life even? Joseph Campbell’s Hero’s journey model explains how each...
Social mobility is often the missing piece in the EDI conversation. This is so critical in the UK, where class and class issues are woven into every thread of the tapestry of British Culture.
But we don’t often want to acknowledge and address it. But we are witnessing the...