Irene Titilola Olumese is an Author, Inspirational Speaker, Bible Study Teacher, and a Certified Faith-informed Professional Transformational Trauma Coach. She is also the Founder of the Feet of Grace Foundation.

Irene’s mission is to inspire hope and enrich lives, and facilitate restoration to wholesomeness. Irene is a Certified Professional Transformational Coach (Advanced Practitioner). She is a Trauma-Informed Care Specialist and Integrated Family/Couples Therapeutic Counsellor with training in Dialectic Behavioural Therapy and Trauma-Focussed CBT.

As a Coach, Irene helps her clients to overcome adversity, heal from trauma, and go beyond their painful experiences using faith and trauma-informed principles. She promotes restoration to wholesomeness and achieves positive change, using deep reflective thinking to facilitate awareness and clarity. Irene works with her clients to transform their past and recent painful experiences into Purpose, Power and Profit.

Irene is a Lung-Transplant Survivor and Bilateral Amputee. She lost both legs due to the complications of a Lungs transplant after living for twenty years with chronic respiratory disease (Bronchestasis) and a debilitating neurological-muscular disorder (Myasthenia Gravis). She uses her story of multi-dimensional and life-threatening traumatic experiences to inspire hope for people going through life challenges and adversities.

As the Founder and Executive Director of the Feet of Grace Foundation, a charity organization that provides prosthetic rehabilitation services for amputees in Nigeria, Irene facilitates amputees’ emotional well-being and empowerment.

Irene is the author of Grace In The Storms – A Living Proof. Irene is driven by a desire to help people live victorious lives irrespective of the storms they face in their lives and make their pain count as a gain for others. Her new book, 55 Chapters of God’s Grace, is a compendium of God-inspired lessons that Christians must imbibe to take full delivery of God’s promises and manifest His purpose here on earth.

She is the Creative Director of Hands of Grace Gifts and Services, a black-owned, Swiss-based, handmade business providing curated gifts and services.

Irene holds a PhD in Nutritional Sciences and previously worked with UNICEF for 15 years in three countries (Nigeria, Ghana and Egypt).

Irene Olumese splits her time between Geneva, Switzerland, where she lives with her husband and two adult sons, and Nigeria, where she facilitates the Foundation’s work.