Who is Nakel Nikiema
Nakel Nikiema is the President of B.I.M CORPORATION.
Nakel leads a talented, results-driven team known for its reputation for providing comprehensive Business Consulting, Integrated Marketing and Strategic Communications and Business Intelligence counsel that drives real business results. The tech-savvy specialists at B.I.M CORPORATION are collaborative and dedicated to growing our clients' businesses with flawless execution and a practical approach.
Nakel also founded BIIM LLC in 2018, a New York-based Graduate School and co-founded SEEDD-Experts a non-profit dedicated to supporting Climate Change Innovations and Research Worldwide, with emphasis on developing countries.
He presents himself as a global citizen born in Burkina Faso (the land of integrity), where he spent most of his active life.
Having worked in multicultural settings, he has a cross-cultural approach to Management and to Leadership as a whole; thanks to Extensive Experience working for, or with International Organizations and in cross-cultural settings.
He is a Program Management Expert with over 20 years of experience. He lectured in Psychology and Business Intelligence in many Universities in Burkina Faso before becoming a practitioner in Project Management. His career began with a Civil Society Organization (Vie Positive Wake Up) as a Psychosocial advisor. He continued his career in the same field as Director of Programs with another CSO, the African Youth Network for Health & Development in Burkina Faso. Later on, he held the position of Country Manager for AIDSETI Burkina, before holding the position of Director of Research Programs at the Center for Studies, Research and Training for Economic and Social Development (CERFODES).
His international career began with the United Nations Millennium Campaigns (UNMC) as Advocacy Campaigns Coordinator, then with the National Opinion and Research Center at the University of Chicago (NORC) as Local Associate for international programs. The last position he held before launching his own business was with the ORBIS Charitable Trust as Country Representative.
Having pursued undergraduate and graduate studies in Psychology respectively at the University of Ouagadougou and at the University of Roehampton, an MBA at the African Institute of Management Studies, and the Master of Arts in Leading Innovation and Change (MALIC) at the York St. John University, he has developed an empirical, analytical and continuous learning habit and his Motto is: "Everyday is a Learning, until the Ultimate Exit".
In 2013, he formed the first business, a Consulting Firm, in Burkina Faso, then in 2016 the second business, a Continuing Education and English Learning Center, known as Business Intelligence Academy in Burkina Faso, which later evolved into becoming a College. For over a decade, he has been promoting the development of the Human Capital within Organizations and Businesses through Professional Support in Global Management as well as in Project and Program Evaluation.
Subsequently, In October 2017 he formed Business Intelligence Management Corporation, a Business Consultants Firm in New York, with the vision of sharing the Expertise allover the World. Institutional development being key to business success, he formed Business Intelligence Institute of Management LLC in February 2018 and Wiseside Incorporated in August. 2020.