About Dr Glory Enyinnaya
An entrepreneurial scholar of institutional growth in Africa.
Dr Glory Enyinnaya is a Senior Lecturer in Strategy, Innovation and Entrepreneurship at Pan-Atlantic University. Her work examines how entrepreneurs build legitimacy, trust and durable growth in institutionally complex environments—and translates those insights into teaching, institutional leadership and practice.
Current Appointments
Scholar, teacher and institution builder
Senior Lecturer
Strategy, Innovation and Entrepreneurship, School of Management and Social Sciences.
Academic Director
Institutional Growth Initiative, advancing research and practice around institution-building and sustainable growth.
Research Associate
Global Alliance on Ethics and Impact of Artificial Intelligence.
Editorial Advisory Board Member
Editorial advisory service to JSBED, an international journal advancing research on small business and enterprise development.
Research Identity
From complex environments to durable institutions
Her research integrates entrepreneurship, institutional theory, organisational change and business ethics. African and Global South contexts are treated not as peripheral applications of existing theory, but as sources of theory in their own right.
Entrepreneurial Change Readiness
The readiness disposition that enables entrepreneurs to recognise socially valuable opportunities, build legitimacy and reshape fragmented systems.
Seven Institutional Practices
A practical and theoretical architecture for opportunity recognition, trusted products, credible marketing, due process, teams, partnerships and conscientious growth.
Research first. Teaching translates it. Practice proves it. Public writing broadcasts it.
Education
A record of academic excellence
- PhD, Management (Strategy and Entrepreneurship), Pan-Atlantic University, 2023 — Valedictorian.
- Executive MBA, General Management, Pan-Atlantic University, 2018 — Valedictorian and Global MBA Student of the Year finalist.
- BSc, Accounting, University of Nigeria, 2007 — Valedictorian.
Career and Practice
Scholarship grounded in the world of practice
Before entering academia, Dr Enyinnaya worked in strategy and change management at Accenture and Ernst & Young. She later founded Kleos Advisory Africa, where she has designed and led entrepreneurship programmes reaching more than 40,000 SMEs and worked with financial institutions, development organisations and donor-supported initiatives.
Founder and CEO, Kleos Advisory Africa
Research-led advisory on entrepreneurial growth, institutional strategy and change readiness.
Strategy and Change Consultant, Accenture
Experience managing complex organisational change across industries and geographies.