Onuka Ibe
Managing Partner
Associations & Federated Organizations
Education/ Youth
Social Justice/ Advocacy/ Policy
Common Cause
Communities in Schools South Carolina
Disability Rights Advocates
EarthScope Consortium
Ford Foundation
Keep America Beautiful
The Innocence Project
The Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights
The Management Center
YWCA
Meet Onuka,
our Managing Partner.
Onuka Ibe (he/him) believes that most organizations are a few hard conversations away from having impact beyond their expectations. He is passionate about helping people across the social sector create the conditions to enable people to be co-authors, and therefore co-owners, of organizational success. Central to this is a focus not just on the outcome, but how people come together to bring it about in ways that are inclusive, equitable, and lead to a healthy set of relationships. He believes that the right focus on organizational structures can free people to focus on the causes that motivate them. Onuka especially enjoys helping people realize their potential.
Prior to joining La Piana in 2017, Onuka was VP of program at College Summit, where he led the transition from a legacy programmatic model and organizational structure to the agile, streamlined PeerForward program and infrastructure for which the organization is now named. Onuka is a past board president and foundation trustee for Delta Sigma Pi, a gender-inclusive international professional business fraternity.
Learn more about Onuka in this La Piana Consulting staff interview.
🎓 Education
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University of Notre Dame, Mendoza College of Business ‒ M.B.A, Management and Consulting
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Truman State University ‒ B.A., Business Administration and Marketing
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BoardSource ‒ Certificate of Nonprofit Board Consulting
✏️ Select Publications
“I find fulfillment in working with organizations that are open to being pushed out of their traditional way of thinking. By challenging long-held conventions, opportunities may surface that otherwise would have been missed.”