CLINICAL PRACTICE & INDEPENDENT PRESCRIBING

Adult ADHD | Mental Health | Common Clinical Conditions

Dr Amadi is a GPhC-registered Pharmacist Independent Prescriber, with clinical interests spanning Adult ADHD, mental health and Common Clinical Conditions.

His recent professional development has placed particular emphasis on Adult ADHD. He has undertaken specialist training in the assessment and diagnosis of Adult ADHD and its pharmacological treatment, strengthening his capability in structured clinical assessment, treatment considerations, medication monitoring and ongoing patient care.

His Independent Prescribing education at the University of Strathclyde included extensive supervised clinical practice within primary care, where he gained experience working with patients across several GP practices.

His prescribing development included Common Clinical Conditions, clinical assessment, medicines optimisation, monitoring, clinical reasoning and person-centred decision-making.

His wider clinical experience includes mental-health medication review and monitoring, alongside experience relating to weight-management pharmacotherapy.

For Dr Amadi, prescribing is more than selecting a medicine. It requires clinical judgement, understanding the individual patient, evaluating benefit and risk, monitoring outcomes and knowing when a different intervention—or referral—is required.

ADULT ADHD & MENTAL HEALTH

A Growing Area of Specialist Clinical Practice

Adult ADHD has become a particular focus of Dr Amadi's contemporary clinical practice.

He completed his specialist professional development in Adult ADHD assessment and Diagnosis, and the Pharmacological treatment of adults with ADHD, with the UK Adult ADHD Network (UKAAN) - London, including structured approaches to clinical assessment and the principles underpinning safe medication treatment and monitoring.

His clinical interests extend beyond medication.

ADHD can affect education, employment, relationships, daily functioning and wider wellbeing. Effective care, therefore, requires an appreciation of both the clinical presentation and the individual circumstances of the person seeking support.

This area of practice has also strengthened Dr Amadi's interest in neurodiversity within professional and organisational environments—particularly how managers and organisations understand, support and develop people whose ways of thinking and working may differ.

FROM PHARMACIST TO ENTREPRENEUR & CHIEF EXECUTIVE

Dr Amadi's understanding of business leadership was developed not only through formal management education, but through building and leading businesses himself.

In 2011, during the latter stages of his Executive MBA, he established E E Amadi Ltd and subsequently developed Drugs4U Pharmacy & Pharmaceutical Wholesale.

The enterprise combined an NHS distance-selling pharmacy with regulated pharmaceutical wholesaling.

As Founder, Chief Executive and Superintendent Pharmacist Director, Dr Amadi held responsibility across business strategy, clinical and regulatory governance, people, operations, finance, organisational development and growth.

The business achieved turnover exceeding SIX Figures within approximately 18 months and grew to employ more than 50 people during its development. He exited the business in August 2018.

That experience continues to influence his teaching.

Business decisions look very different when you are personally accountable for the employees, customers, regulators, cash flow and consequences behind the numbers.

HEALTHCARE & CLINICAL LEADERSHIP

Dr Amadi has spent more than two decades within pharmacy and healthcare, progressing through frontline professional practice, pharmacy management, business ownership and clinical leadership.

His experience has involved responsibility for patient care, professional standards, medicines, people, operations and performance within highly regulated environments.

Working across both healthcare and business has given him a particular appreciation of the tensions leaders frequently have to manage: quality and productivity, professional judgement and commercial reality, innovation and regulation, autonomy and accountability.

These experiences inform his approach to Executive Education, particularly in people management, strategic thinking, leadership, governance and decision-making.

NANOTOXICOLOGIST & SCIENTIFIC RESEARCHER

From the Laboratory to Evidence-Informed Decision-Making

Dr Amadi is also a Nanotoxicologist, with doctoral research in Medical Sciences focused on nanotoxicology and genetic toxicology.

His PhD research at the University of Bradford investigated the biological and genotoxic effects associated with nanomaterials, including research involving graphene oxide and DNA damage.

His research experience included advanced laboratory investigation of genotoxicity and work involving human biological samples, contributing to a deeper understanding of how emerging materials may interact with biological systems.

His scientific work has been disseminated through academic and professional channels in the UK and internationally.

But the influence of scientific research on his work extends beyond nanotoxicology.

Research teaches disciplines that are equally valuable in leadership:

• Ask the right question.

• Examine the evidence.

• Challenge assumptions.

• Understand uncertainty.

• Do not confuse correlation with explanation.

• Make conclusions proportionate to the evidence available.

These principles underpin Dr Amadi's approach to strategic thinking and executive decision-making.

LEADERSHIP & GOVERNANCE

Dr Amadi's experience extends beyond executive management into organisational governance.

He has served as a Non-Executive Director and Trustee within a multi-academy trust, contributing to organisational oversight, safeguarding governance, executive accountability and the stewardship of organisational resources.

He has also served as an elected Parent Governor within primary education.

These experiences reinforced an important distinction that informs his teaching:

Management delivers. Leadership creates direction and mobilises people. Governance provides oversight, challenge and accountability.

Senior professionals increasingly need to understand all three.

ACADEMIC & EXECUTIVE EDUCATION

Science | Healthcare | Business | Leadership

Dr Amadi's educational journey reflects the multidisciplinary nature of his professional career.

His qualifications include:

• PhD in Medical Sciences
  University of Bradford, England, UK.

• Executive MBA
  Lancaster University Management School, England, UK.

• MSc in Analytical & Pharmaceutical Sciences
  Loughborough University, England, UK.

• Bachelor of Pharmacy, UNN.

• Practice Certificate in Independent Prescribing
  University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, Scotland, UK.

His wider professional and executive development has included Strategic Leadership at Harvard University Extension School, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA; International business study at Guanghua School of Management, Peking University, Beijing, China; and Non-Executive Director (NED) development at Cass Business School, now Bayes Business School, City, University of London.

More recently, his specialist clinical development has included professional training in Adult ADHD assessment, diagnosis and pharmacological treatment.

Rather than viewing these disciplines separately, Dr Amadi brings them together around a common theme:

How do professionals make better decisions when the stakes, responsibilities and complexity increase?

AUTHOR, EDUCATOR & THOUGHT LEADERSHIP

Dr Amadi is an author and educator with interests spanning leadership, professional development, entrepreneurship, healthcare and organisational performance.

He is also the creator and host of The Dr. Amadi Leadership Exchange, a Podcast platform exploring leadership, business and the experiences and decisions that shape organisations and careers.

Through The Amadi Global Institute, these interests are translated into structured professional learning through the TAGi Mini Executive MBA Programme.

His approach to teaching combines established management principles with professional experience, business cases, practical exercises and discussion.

The objective is not simply to transfer information.

It is to strengthen capability, judgement and application.

FOUNDER, PROGRAMME DIRECTOR & LEAD FACULTY

As Founder, Programme Director and Lead Faculty, Dr Amadi provides academic and strategic leadership for TAGi's Executive Education portfolio.

He leads the development of the TAGi Mini Executive MBA Programme, bringing together professional development across management, strategy, leadership, emotional intelligence, entrepreneurship and financial decision-making.

His multidisciplinary background allows participants to encounter these subjects through several lenses: as a healthcare professional, clinician, entrepreneur, former Chief Executive, scientist, governor and educator.

The common thread is practical decision-making.

WHY I TEACH

Throughout my career, I have moved between roles that required very different things from me.

I have been a pharmacist, manager, entrepreneur, Chief Executive, clinician, researcher and organisational leader.

Each transition taught me that the knowledge that makes you successful at one level does not automatically prepare you for the responsibilities of the next.

When you become responsible for people, you need to understand people differently. When you become responsible for a business, finance and strategy take on a different meaning. When you enter governance, accountability changes again.

That experience is one of the reasons I established The Amadi Global Institute.

I want our participants to encounter important management and business ideas before—or while—they are dealing with the situations that make those ideas real.

“Education should not simply increase what you know. It should improve what you are capable of doing.”

— Dr Emmanuel Amadi, PhD, MBA

LEARN WITH DR AMADI

Practical Executive Education. Real Professional Experience.

Dr Amadi serves as Programme Director and Lead Faculty for the TAGi Mini Executive MBA Programme, an Executive Professional Development Programme designed for professionals, managers, leaders, entrepreneurs and organisations.e, bringing together six areas of professional and executive development:

• People Management.

• Strategic Thinking & Executive Decision-Making.

• Executive Leadership.

• Emotional Intelligence for High-Performance Leadership.

• Entrepreneurship & Business Growth.

• Financial Intelligence & Strategic Decision-Making.

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