Dr. Yemisi Adeyeye is the Co-Founder and Managing Director of Lifefount Hospital.
In a country where access to quality healthcare often remains a privilege, she has redefined what it means to blend medicine, management, and mission and has carved out a space where compassion meets innovation.
Her journey, spanning the worlds of healthcare, entrepreneurship, and social impact, captures the essence of a new generation of Nigerian women determined to heal not just bodies, but communities.
Dr. Yemisi Adeyeye’s story is not one of happenstance, it’s been intentional.
Trained as a physician, she realized very quickly that saving lives was definitely beyond the walls of a consulting room.
She moved into creating sustainable systems that support patient care, nurture health professionals, and strengthen community well-being.
Her desire to excel led her to further her education at the University of Washington, where she obtained postgraduate certification in Leadership and Management in Health—a foundation that would later inform her visionary approach to healthcare administration in Nigeria.
Lifefount Hospital, the institution she co-founded, stands today as one of Ibadan’s leading healthcare centers, known for its excellence in surgery, endoscopy, and cancer care. But beyond the clinical achievements is it’s vision to prioritize structure, innovation, and people.
Adeyeye built Lifefount not as a business for profit, but as a model for sustainable healthcare delivery. When the COVID-19 pandemic struck, instead of retreating, she expanded her reach.
Lifefount Hospital became a digital training hub for over 1,000 medical professionals across Nigeria and neighboring countries, while also providing free cancer-awareness screenings to more than 1,500 women.
In the midst of uncertainty, she turned crisis into opportunity, empowering others to adapt and lead.
Her entrepreneurial journey runs parallel to her medical one as she is also the author of Entrepreneurship Is a Beautiful Thing.
Dr. Adeyeye has built a platform that inspires aspiring business owners to start small, build strong foundations, and grow sustainably.
Through her foundation and training programs, she has equipped more than 1,100 youths and women entrepreneurs with the tools to start, manage, and scale businesses profitably.
Her approach to leadership is deeply human-centered. She believes that no business can thrive without a network of people who share its vision. “A network can consist of many different people,” she once said, “but the common thread is that they are all people who know you and can help promote your personal or professional goals.”
This belief, over the years has reflected in the Lifefount Foundation, where she leads multiple community initiatives addressing social issues such as drug abuse prevention, genotype education, and emotional intelligence among secondary-school students.
Her work extends beyond hospitals and boardrooms—it reaches into classrooms, marketplaces, and homes, wherever human potential waits to be nurtured.
For Dr. Adeyeye, empowerment is not an abstract ideal. It is an act of service that starts with equipping others to rise.
She has built cooperatives that provide peer-to-peer business funding for women, ensuring that access to capital does not remain a privilege of the few.
Her initiatives highlight the role of women not just as participants in Nigeria’s development story, but as builders of its future.
Through her mentoring and public speaking, she challenges the narrative that women must choose between compassion and ambition. Her life proves that one can lead with both.
Yet, her path has not been without obstacles. Building a healthcare institution in Nigeria demands resilience—navigating regulations, funding gaps, and infrastructural limitations requires grit.
But Adeyeye’s philosophy is simple: start with what you have, build with what you know, and never compromise on excellence. Her leadership at Lifefount reflects this ethos.
Rather than outsourcing expertise, she invests in training local staff, empowering them to take ownership of the hospital’s vision. It is a model rooted in trust, growth, and sustainability.
Her story is more than an individual triumph—it is a case study in how women can transform entire sectors when given the opportunity.
Yemisi Adeyeye’s journey is one of purpose lived out loud. She embodies the convergence of intellect and empathy, structure and soul.
From the wards of Lifefount to the various platforms where she mentors young entrepreneurs, she represents the new face of African leadership—one that heals, builds, and empowers.
Her story is a reminder that change begins when you decide to act, even with limited means and is proof that business can be beautiful when it is driven by service as true leadership begins with the courage to build what others only dream possible.
