Love Odih Kumuyi

Love Odih Kumuyi is an advisor to boards, executives, and teams on organizational culture, systems, and change. Her work focuses on how breakdowns in decision-making, accountability, and conflict affect performance in complex institutions. She supports leaders in restoring clarity, strengthening alignment, and sustaining impact and inclusive environments under pressure.

An alum of New York University’s Center for Global Affairs, Love brings over 15 years of experience across multilateral institutions, academia, philanthropy, and the private sector. She has worked within the United Nations system and at Cornell University, and has been engaged by organizations including UNOPS, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, Environmental Defense Fund, Open Society Foundations, and the World Health Organization, as well as multinational companies such as Google and Sony.

She is the founder of Unsiloed, where she leads leadership and organizational effectiveness initiatives across more than 20 countries. Her work includes the design and delivery of large-scale programs in leadership development, psychological safety, and culture transformation, reaching over 10,000 leaders and employees globally.

At Cornell University, Love served as Associate Dean and Director of Conflict Transformation Services. She designed and implemented a university-wide conflict resolution and governance system serving more than 20,000 students, faculty, and staff. This system contributed to a reduction in formal grievance escalation of more than 80 percent by strengthening early-intervention and informal-resolution pathways.

Love serves as Vice President and Head of Strategic Planning for the New York State Dispute Resolution Association, where she leads statewide strategic initiatives to strengthen access to community-based conflict resolution services and improve coordination across mediation centers.

A trained mediator, executive coach, and design thinking facilitator, she integrates organizational behavior, conflict resolution, and systems thinking into her work, with a focus on psychological safety, inclusion, and decision-making in complex environments. She has provided over 750 hours of executive coaching and facilitated leadership and conflict resolution initiatives across diverse institutional and cultural contexts, including UNDP, UNOPS, and Search for Common Ground.

Love serves as an Adjunct Professor at New York University, where she teaches graduate-level courses in mediation, negotiation, and conflict resolution. Her teaching emphasizes the practical application of theory to real-world institutional challenges, equipping students to navigate complexity, engage conflict constructively, and lead with clarity across sectors.

Her research and publications focus on psychological safety, conflict resolution, and leadership in complex systems. She is a contributing member of the Forbes Coaches Council and has published on workplace conflict, inclusive leadership, and organizational culture. Her peer-reviewed work includes research on gender integration in peacebuilding frameworks published in the Journal of Peacebuilding and Development. She is also a TEDx speaker, where she examines the unintended consequences of humanitarian work and the conditions required to create more effective impact systems.

Her work focuses on how organizations sustain impact and inclusive environments under pressure, and what breaks when alignment, authority, and decision-making systems fail.