Ayo Sokale

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Getting chartered and building a foundation of delivering incredible projects that made a positive difference to communities by reducing their risk of flooding. This allowed me the freedom to grow in other ways as a Cbeebies presenter on Get Set Galactic, as a supervising civil engineer supporting the development of graduates, as a coach and tech start up founder. I was inspired to become a civil engineer after witnessing engineering in developing nations, which resulted in transformed communities. As a young, impressionable person, I marvelled at things that, in more developed countries, we sometimes take for granted – like opening a tap and getting fresh water and being able to travel down the motorway. Observing first-hand how these feats of civil engineering improved society inspired me to pursue a career in the industry to shape the world around me.