Kehinde Bademosi (Kenny) is a brand storyteller, strategist, and designer who researches how we communicate with empathy. He advises brands, health institutions, tech companies, and public systems on how their messages can lead to action across Africa, the United States, and Europe.
Through conversations with the storytellers who worked on COVID-19 campaigns across six countries, Design in Public Health Crises: The Power of Empathy in Visual Storytelling (Bloomsbury Visual Arts, 2026) examines the role of empathy and visual storytelling when governments and science struggle to communicate during crises.
Kehinde Bademosi (Kenny) is a brand storyteller, strategist, and designer who researches how we communicate with empathy. He is the author of Design in Public Health Crises (Bloomsbury Visual Arts, 2026) and the founder of Orange Academy and Humans in Conversation (HuCon). He is based in southern Italy.
He advises brands, health institutions, tech companies, and public systems on how their messages can lead to action across Africa, the United States, and Europe. His work covers healthcare messaging, science and advocacy storytelling, personal branding for the C-suite, and hands-on storytelling workshops.
Design in Public Health Crises: The Power of Empathy in Visual Storytelling is Kehinde Bademosi's book, published by Bloomsbury Visual Arts on December 10, 2026 (ISBN 9781350547216). Through conversations with the storytellers who worked on COVID-19 campaigns across six countries, it examines the role of empathy and visual storytelling when governments and science struggle to communicate during crises.
Yes. He is available as a consultant and for project work with brands, agencies, health institutions, tech companies, and public systems. He works from southern Italy with clients across Africa, Europe, and the United States.
Yes. Creative, communications, and brand agencies can bring him in as a storytelling and messaging consultant, or as a creative partner on specific campaigns and projects.
Advisory, craft, and design
Messages that patients, communities, and clinicians recognize themselves in.
Learn more →Complex evidence turned into stories that move people to act.
Learn more →Executive storytelling and thought leadership that sounds like the leader, not the press office.
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Based on Design in Public Health Crises. For scientists, public health communicators, and the teams who speak for them.
Learn more →For doers, builders, and makers whose work speaks for itself everywhere except out loud.
Learn more →For CEOs, founders, and executives. Taught since 2009.
Learn more →For creatives and agencies. When machines can make endless content, your voice is what people remember.
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Africa’s first practical school of Integrated Brand Experience and storytelling.
Founded by Kehinde in Lagos, Orange Academy has trained storytellers, strategists, and makers for nearly two decades, with more than 8,000 alumni. It is now growing with online programs and global partnerships.
Where cities and institutions pause, listen, and design with empathy.
Guided listening tables where strangers answer one question about well-being. Consenting participants’ stories are audio-recorded and published on the HuCon Spotify archive, a living document of urban well-being and human experience.
A global initiative that honors champions improving health outcomes for pregnant individuals and children affected by infectious diseases worldwide. The award recognizes the vital role of local, community-led work in advancing maternal and child health and in making science accessible and equitable at the grassroots level.
Penta is one of the world's leading scientific organizations dedicated to pediatric infectious disease research, advancing prevention and care across pregnancy, infancy, childhood, and adolescence.
“I’ve had the pleasure of working with Kehinde both as a program partner and workshop participant. In both cases, Kehinde’s instruction was engaging, intuitive, and produced great results in a very short window of time. He helped my organization improve how we tell our brand story, which gave me new insights into our work. He made a potentially difficult challenge pretty simple, effective, and fun. I’d hire him again in a heartbeat!”
“Kehinde and I worked together in 2009 on a USAID/ AI.COM project to stop the epidemic of Avian Influenza in Nigeria. I was the Senior Communications Consultant for AI.COMM on the project, and Kehinde was the Creative Director on the communications agency side, FCB, Lagos. I thoroughly enjoyed my time working with Kehinde and came to know him as someone who brought insights and innovation to the team. Kehinde led the creative team that delivered the campaign materials for the major countries in West Africa.”
“Thanks for presenting, I heard great things. One design team told me their nonprofit participant had a complete transformation after your workshop. He came back able to articulate his story much better and suddenly seemed to understand how to work with a designer. A great testament to your work!”
“Kenny was introduced to me by one of my sales managers. He said he was attending Orange Academy, a brand building school in Lagos, and he met a teacher named Kenny who happens to be the owner too. He assures me that I would be dazzled by Kenny’s creative prowess. We met, and I was dazzled indeed. We have also created several creative campaigns that have helped our brands significantly. One of our brands, So Klin Detergent, became the Number One Brand by Nielsen ratings.
I would say Kenny is a creative wizard. I can never forget what he always told me: The client gives the logic, and Orange Academy (he meant him) provides the magic! And behold, it always came out that way. I simply provided the business sense of our campaign, and he interpreted it and created the consumer-friendly sense of it.
Kenny is one of the best creative minds in my work life. I miss him so much, miss working with him.”
“In recognition of your years of dedicated service to the Baltimore City Health Department, Bureau of HIV/STD Services. You are to be commended for your long-time commitment to excellence and improving the lives of our residents.”
Brandon M. Scott, Mayor of Baltimore
City of Baltimore Certificate of Recognition, January 15, 2021
Kehinde Bademosi