Adaku Oliver-Nnona is the Founder and Director of PhoenixRize Consulting, specialising in organisational culture, inclusive leadership and professional standards. She has over 15 years' experience in DEI strategy, training and advisory work, with a dedicated focus on the Irish screen sector since 2019.
Her screen sector work includes DEI strategy consultation and leadership training for Screen Ireland; DEI training for established and emerging producers with Screen Producers Ireland; bespoke ethnic diversity and inclusion training for producers and directors with Northern Ireland Screen; inclusive leadership and DEI strategy awareness training for TG4; strategy design for the X-Pollinator programme; and delivery of anti-racism training for Gate Theatre Dublin, Safe to Create and IADT. She has led diversity audits and research-driven reviews for the Writers Guild of Ireland and IADT, and contributed to EDI policy and strategy development for organisations including the Irish Film Institute, Abbey Theatre, Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland and STAND. She previously served as a DEI Advisor on Screen Ireland's Gender Equality & Diversity Industry Stakeholders Group.
She also delivers producer advisory sessions for independent production companies on inclusive production culture and culture risk.
Adaku is a PhD researcher focused on ethnic diversity in the Irish film and television sector.
PhoenixRize Consulting is an independent culture risk and inclusion consultancy specialising in organisational culture, inclusive leadership and professional standards. Founded and led by Adaku Oliver-Nnona, PhoenixRize has over a decade of experience helping organisations build workplaces where people are treated fairly, held to clear standards, and supported to do their best work. The consultancy's approach is direct, warm and grounded in professional standards, translating policy into day-to-day practice for organisations that need specialist support to act on what they already know.