People strategist · Founder · Author
Bukky Osifeso.
For more than two decades, the job was never the information. It was the judgment, the nerve to say the hard thing, and the warmth to be trusted while saying it.
For more than two decades, the job was never the information. It was the judgment, the nerve to say the hard thing, and the warmth to be trusted while saying it.
More than two decades inside the companies most founders are trying to become. Then she built The TAG Group.
Bukky Osifeso is the founder of The TAG Group, an AI-native HR consultancy that brings senior people leadership to founders, CEOs, and C-suite teams at the stage where running HR yourself stops working.
She spent more than two decades building People functions inside Amgen, Disney, and Netflix, the companies most founders are trying to become, and now brings that same caliber of judgment to the businesses that were priced out of it. She is the author of Rooted and Rising, and runs The TAG Group from Valencia, California, with clients across the globe.
BS, Human Resource Management, CSUN · MS, Management and Leadership, Pepperdine
The hard part was never the information. It was the judgment.
Culture is not what you say at the all hands. It is what survives a hard quarter.
You can start with AI. You don't finish with AI.
Warmth is not the opposite of a high standard. It is how the standard lasts.
What started as one walk during the pandemic became Walk With Bukky, a daily practice and a quiet movement of CEOs, mothers, and leaders. Almost three years on, the streak is unbroken, and the belief is the same every morning: you change your life, and other people's, one deliberate step at a time.
Everywhere from Tanzania to Tokyo, Reykjavík to Rio. Plenty of people say they want to see the world. She books the ticket.
Tanzania, Nigeria, Ghana, Sierra Leone, Seychelles.
England (London), France (Paris, Nice, Saint-Tropez), Monaco, Spain (Barcelona), Italy (Rome, Venice, Florence, Sicily, Sardinia), the Netherlands (Amsterdam), Denmark (Copenhagen), Norway (Oslo), Croatia (Hvar, Dubrovnik), Iceland, Malta.
Japan (Tokyo, Kyoto), South Korea (Seoul), Singapore, Vietnam (Ho Chi Minh City), Indonesia (Ubud, Seminyak), India, Maldives, the UAE (Dubai, Abu Dhabi).
Mexico (Mexico City, Cancún, Tulum, Guadalajara, Puerto Vallarta, Cozumel), Brazil (Rio de Janeiro), Jamaica, Saint Kitts, Barbados, Turks and Caicos, Curaçao.
Australia.
Next on the map: South Africa (Cape Town).
Advising and teaching for founders, leaders, and teams who want to build something that lasts.
An AI-native HR firm for founders and teams who want the human decisions handled with the same rigor as the technical ones. AI does the drafts. We do the judgment.
Visit The TAG GroupThe High Performance Culture Masterclass is the first of a growing series, teaching leaders the calls that actually move a company.
Join the next oneTwo tools that put a season of experience in a leader's hands: one for the week ahead, one for a clear look at where a company really stands.
Ask about accessBukky is drawn to smaller rooms and real conversation over big stages. These are the ways to bring her in.
A guest who brings the honest version, not the media-trained one. On judgment, culture, leadership, and building a life that holds.
A real conversation in front of a room. Warm, unscripted, and willing to go where a keynote never would.
A focused session for leaders and teams, working through the calls that actually matter.
An immersive few days on women in business, leadership, audacity, and courage. Small by design.
Bukky is building a series of small, curated dinners. A handful of seats, a real conversation, and the kind of room where people finally say the true thing.
Tables are intimate and by interest. Add your name, and you will be considered for a future evening.
Bukky will be in touch when the next table is set. Save yourself a good story to tell.
An invitation to come home to yourself, fully rooted. For the woman who has poured so much into everyone else, Rooted and Rising is a warm hand on the shoulder and a way back to her own center: grounded, whole, and rising on her own terms. It is permission to love your life and still feel overwhelmed by it, and to grow without ever leaving yourself behind.
Pre-order and updatesMother, founder, author, walker, traveler. The whole of her, not just the résumé.
The most demanding leadership role, and the one that sharpened all the others.
A member of the global movement advancing the status of women through service and advocacy.
A board member for a local nonprofit, putting the work into the community she lives in.
A member of her local business community, rooted where she builds.
Nearly a thousand mornings and counting. Consistency is not a hobby, it is a practice.
Whatever brought you here, there is a clear way in. Tell Bukky what you are building.