Bodé Aboderin
Transform workplace culture with Bodé Aboderin, speaker on modern masculinity and inclusive leadership. Bodé helps organisations redefine fatherhood and diversity through motivational insights, delivering powerful perspectives as featured at Pregnant Then Screwed festival and Motherkind podcast.
Milton Keynes, United Kingdom
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Having excelled in his career as a client relationship manager while becoming a father of three, Papa B is living proof that black fatherhood is compatible with ambition and can inspire, nourish, and amplify it. By dispelling the negative stereotypes of being a black dad in Britain, he utilises his natural flair for motivational speech to share the joyful and transformative journey of starting a family without avoiding the inherent challenges and lessons to be learned.
In addition to managing school schedules, feeding the family, and staying on top of a mountain of laundry, Bodé, originally from Nigeria, now runs a growing media business with his wife, Candice Brathwaite, supporting and championing her plans for world domination. Bodé is eager to share this transformation's extraordinary and enlightening impact on his fundamental beliefs and values through the content he shares on social media, speaking engagements, and his writing.
Recently, Bode was also honoured as the only male speaker at Pregnant Then Screwed, a festival celebrating mothers with careers. Bode also appeared on Zoe Blaskey's Motherkind podcast, where he passionately discussed fatherhood, acceptance, and purpose. As the Pillow Talk podcast host with his wife, Bode articulately tackles thought-provoking topical issues every week.
Topics, Sessions And Talks
This session, led by Bodé Aboderin, is grounded in the latest scientific research and a compassionate perspective. Bodé explores the challenges of being a working parent today, helping participants identify their struggles and areas for change. The session then offers practical tips and tools to help parents excel both at work and at home. Attendees will learn how to create a virtual barrier between work and home, feel like amazing parents, communicate effectively to balance responsibilities, and keep their cool under pressure. Bodé shares stories with humility, humor, and compassion, leaving attendees empowered and equipped with valuable tools.
How shifting models of fatherhood and masculinity change what "good leadership" looks like inside organisations. This talk connects involved, emotionally literate fatherhood with better decision-making, empathy, and team performance. For leadership and HR team building father-inclusive cultures.
Grounded in Fatherhood By Papa B, this talk explores how unlearning inherited patterns around discipline, silence, and "providing" can transform how men show up at work and in organisations. It links personal change to brand behaviour, showing how healthier male leadership strengthens trust, retention, and external brand credibility. Ideal for organisations serious about culture change and authentic leadership.
Drawing Fatherhood By Papa B, this keynote challenges how organisations think about leadership, ambition, and care. Using stories and principles from the book—breaking generational cycles, shifting narratives around race and masculinity, and redefining what it means to be a present, ambitious leader—it shows how the same mindset shifts that transform families can also transform teams, brand behaviour, and culture. Designed for senior leaders, HR and DEI teams, and high-profile talent, the session offers a practical, human framework for leadership that is emotionally literate, commercially sharp, and built for sustainable performance rather than burnout.
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