Tope Fajingbesi FCA CPA

founder/president

Tope Fajingbesi is a social impact entrepreneur, a published author, and an educator. She is the founding president of She-EO – a global platform for women of African descent to have important conversations that matter. In addition to being the founder and coordinating trustee of United for Kids Foundation, Tope created and hosted the Impact Africa radio show to inspire Africans and Africans in the diaspora to participate consciously and actively in African development from 2013 to 2015.

Tope frequently speaks to global audiences with a mission to inspire. She delivered a powerful address at Hillary Clinton’s final presidential campaign rally in Michigan in November 2016, the keynote speech at Grand Rapids City High School’s commencement ceremony in June 2017, and one of the two keynote speeches at the Future Harvest Conference in January 2021. Prior to becoming a full-time social impact entrepreneur, Tope worked for 2 of the Big 4 Accounting Firms, a Fortune 100 energy company, and notable nonprofit organizations in Washington D.C. She also taught agricultural business courses at the University of Maryland, College Park.

Tope is set to commence a Doctoral degree program in Human and Organizational Learning at The George Washington University in the Fall of 2022. She is an alumnus of the University of Lagos in Nigeria, Emory University, Salzburg Global Seminar in Austria, and the University of Oxford. She is a Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Nigeria, and a United States of America Certified Public Accountant.

Tope is married to Niyi Balogun, who manages their joint venture, Dodo Farms, a Certified Naturally Grown (CNG) produce farm in Brookeville, Maryland.