In the past years, James worked with top employers to establish more than 125 new jobs aimed at minority youth with a combined salary of £1.2M. As an organisation, we have supported more than 10,000 young people with mentoring, training, learning and networking programmes.
I am James Adeleke
I'm James Adeleke and my area of expertise is social mobility and on removing the different social mobility factors that impact under represented groups at different stages of their careers. I founded Generation Success which now has a network of more than 10,000 young people and partnered with more than 70 employers.
My vision is to empower the young generation to excel and create a network that advances social mobility by empowering people of diversity to reach their career aspirations. I aim to achieve these goals by making it easier for businesses and people of diversity to connect, thus creating equal access to more opportunities and building a fairer world for everyone.
I am passionate about creating a world where we all have equal access and equal opportunities to achieve our career aspirations, improve wellbeing for people from disadvantaged backgrounds and to build a country that is fair for all.
I wanted to be part of the change rather than the noise. As a young man with dyslexia and dyspraxia from a single-parent household from South London, I have spent the last 10 years navigating the social enterprise space, to become a respected figure in social mobility and employability.
The legacy that I’m building is not just impacting one’s life but it's having a butterfly effect on those who they know today and will meet tomorrow. I can't wait to see where the journey will take them to and celebrate their success every step of the way."
REPORTS & PUBLICATIONS
2015
In 2015 he served as a commissionaire on an independent cross party supported commission tasked to explore opportunities, challenges and support needs for young people setting up a businesses across the UK.
The final report was titled “Commission into young people and Enterprise”
He served on the commission alongside people like Chloe Smith MP, Baroness Oona King, Lord Mike Storey and Seyi Obakin, Centrepoint, Chief Executive and UKCES skills commissioner.
2015
April 2015: Served as an expert on the Kenny Report 3 providing guidance and advice to the young people aged 18-25 who were brought together to pull together a report. The report focused on 8 policy areas that are the biggest concern for young people, such as education, housing, health and employment & enterprise. The report explains how issues in these policy areas directly affect young people. Lastly, this report shows that young people will campaign on issues they care about, if they are provided with genuine opportunities and resources. The coauthors of this report are perfect examples of this.
2019
Expert contributor on the social mobility section of a book titled “The Real Deal. It was written by former Chairman of Eversheds Paul Smith. It I s a forthright book providing practical insights into the challenges and opportunities for law firm leaders at a time of unprecedented change and uncertainty in the legal market. Published by Sweet and Maxwell in Oct 2019. - https://www.sweetandmaxwell.co.uk/Product/Legal-Profession/The-Real-Deal-Law-Firm-Leadership-That-Works/Paperback/42647487
January →
- EurWeb: Ten Years Later and the Equality Awards – A Generation Success Story
March ↙
- Speaker at the Social Procurement Festival
- Pioneers Post article piece on diverse supply chains
- Certified social business and obtained Supply Change - Trusted Supplier badge
August →
- Article in Countryside jobs “Race For Nature’s Recovery
