Shegun believes, in life, it's not what happens to you but how you deal with it. With his wife, they had to deal with childlessness for about ten years. They decided to deal with the situation through adoption. They got involved in the process in 2002 and adopted a son in November 2005.

 

Shegun is a passionate public speaker - especially concerning fostered and underprivileged children. In November 2006, Shegun spoke at BAAF’s (British Association for Adoption and Fostering) annual awareness raising campaign - during the 2006 National Adoption week. He regularly speaks at adoption preparation training groups for the Borough of Merton and Sutton.

 

To hone his literary skills he completed a Bachelor of Arts in English and literary studies at the University of Ife, Nigeria. He was a student of the 1986 Noble laureate in Literature – Wole Soyinka. He obtained a Law degree from the University of London and sharpened his advocacy and negotiating skills at the Nottingham Law School.

Shegun is a Past  President of the Croydon Communicators Toastmasters Club in Croydon. During his tenure the club achieved the President's Distinguished Club Status. Shegun is the present Area Governor of UK Toastmaster International Area 35.

 

As an IT Consultant, he has worked on Infrastructure implementation and ITIL projects in Deutsche Bank, EMC, NHS and London Stock. He now works as an ITIL Service Management Consultant and has work on projects in Halifax Bank of Scotland, Bank of America, British Telecom and Thomson Reuters.

Shegun completed 2004 Flora London Marathon and 2003 Hyde Park 10k run collecting hundreds of pounds for two Charities - Save the Children and Help the London Child.

 

Shegun aims to raise awareness about Adoption especially within the Afro-Caribbean community by convincingly persuading members of the community that Adoption rather than fostering is necessary for the children in this unfortunate situation. His ultimate ambition is to feed, cloth, shelter and educate 1000 underprivileged children in the next five years. This he plans to do through two orphanages – details can be found on the areas of interest and favourite links page of this website.

 

Shegun lives in Surrey with his wife Seyi, adopted son and 5 month old birth daughter.