Who Is Ẹnitan?
Ẹnitan Kẹhinde is a public relations and communications consultant who is currently the General Manager and Lead Consultant at BHM UK.
Ẹnitan, who is a member of the CIPR and PRCA, is a proficient professional with over eight years experience, working in the PR industry in the UK and across Africa.
Ẹnitan began her Media & Communications career when she was just 21 with an undergraduate degree in Mass Communication from the Redeemer’s University, Nigeria.
After completing a Masters Degree in public relations from Sheffield Hallam University, at 22, Ẹnitan joined Volkswagen’s crisis communications team in the UK before moving to Nigeria at 23 to join BHM in 2016, as a graduate intern and quickly rose to become a lead consultant in one of the firm’s more rapid growths.
She worked on Pan-African ICT brands, supporting Interswitch and MTN, before moving to lead the FMCG portfolio which houses Coca-Cola, Shoprite and Heineken spearheading hugely successful campaigns with over 85% earned media across over 20 brands.
Ẹnitan co-authored the BHM Guide to Public Relations in 2016, worked on The Concept of Virality in 2020 and has worked as lead coordinator for Nigeria PR Report for four years. The report is being expanded for 2022 to cover the African continent.Ẹnitan is also the lead coordinator for key projects like World PR Day and Global Day of Influence. Enitan has played integral roles in BHM’s first expansion out of Nigeria, leading its first out-of-Africa operations in the UK (in London and Edinburgh) since 2021 as well as supporting the company’s Pan-African expansion in East and West Africa (Kenya and Ghana) via its ID Africa imprint.
Ẹnitan is passionate about helping women and young people in the marketing communications industry.
From training new entrants in the industry, touring universities across the UK, to mentoring and speaking at events, Ẹnitan in 2020 at the peak of the COVID-19 lockdown, kick started an initiative called WIM Connect to help and support young women in Marketing Communications.
The close knit community presented a safe virtual space for young African women between the ages of 21-35 to share and get support on the many challenges faced in the workplace during the pandemic.
With over six years of leading teams in BHM, Ẹnitan has groomed over 20 Consultants from student and graduate interns who have gone on to leadership positions within BHM, in establishments in the UK like the NHS and other companies across Africa.
Ẹnitan prides herself in her leadership style ensuring humane treatment, an open-door culture and a personal touch that ensures comfort and full-scale support no matter the circumstance.
This leadership style has influenced how Ẹnitan has shaped the culture at BHM UK with Ẹnitan going on to speak at gatherings like the ICCO Global Summit on the measures companies need to take to recruit and retain talents in the workplace.
Enitan is now leading the BHM UK team to build a digital resource intervention for students, workers, and organisations in the comms industry and related areas called Qomms.
In less than a decade, Ẹnitan has achieved significant feats across Africa and the UK building people, platforms, reports, resources and initiatives that not only educate, upskill and develop new industry entrants, young consultants and leaders but also shape the future of the global PR and communications industry.
With world-renowned initiatives like the World PR Day and Global Day of Influence as well as a successful streak, producing Africa’s only PR Report for five years; PR workbooks and resources, BHM’s Guide to PR and The Concept of Virality; producing a research report to help Governments and organisations in the UK better understand the impact of the cost of living crisis on immigrants and the significant change Qomms plans to achieve, Enitan hopes to continue to, with her team, develop and deliver problem-solving products and services to students, professionals, companies, and governments across the world.
At 31, Ẹnitan Kẹhinde is an emerging Public Relations powerhouse popularly known for her brilliance, hard work, dedication and resilience.