Deji Abe
Career Strategy Coach | From Industry to Finance | Stanford GSB
1,695 min coached
764 followers
Studied at Stanford Graduate School of Business
Works at Zeus Global
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Starting at 7:00 PM UTC
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Deji's Offerings
Custom hourly · $425/hr
Get help with Career Planning, Cover Letters, and .
Deji also coaches for Private Equity, MBA, Investment Banking, Search Fund & ETA, and AI for Finance. View all.
Deji’s Career Coaching Qualifications
Experience level: Executive
20+ people coached for Career Coaching
I help ambitious professionals navigate high-stakes career transitions, particularly when the next move is not obvious from their résumé. My work focuses on professionals repositioning into private equity, investing, finance, entrepreneurship, or other high-leverage paths who need more than generic career advice. I help clients clarify what they are actually optimizing for, evaluate realistic paths and trade-offs, reposition their experience, build a differentiated narrative, and develop an execution plan for making the transition. My own career has involved several significant pivots. I began as an engineer at Schlumberger, GE, and ExxonMobil before moving into investing through the Africa Finance Corporation, LeapFrog Investments, and a $5B family office. I later founded Zeus Global, where I lead acquisitions of software and technology-enabled businesses, and I earned my MBA from Stanford GSB along the way. Having moved across engineering, investing, and entrepreneurship myself, I bring an investor’s analytical mindset to career decisions — helping clients assess their options rigorously, identify where they have a genuine edge, and turn an unconventional background into a credible path forward.
Deji can help with:
Career Planning
Cover Letters
General Exploration
Interview Prep
Job Search Strategies
Leadership
Networking Strategy
Personal Branding
Professional Networking
Resume Review
Salary Negotiation
Skill Building
Deji also coaches for Private Equity, MBA, Investment Banking, Search Fund & ETA, and AI for Finance. View all.
About Deji
I started my career as an engineer and eventually found my way into investing, private equity, and entrepreneurship. It was not a straight line. Along the way, I worked at Schlumberger, GE, ExxonMobil, the Africa Finance Corporation, Leapfrog Investments and the George Kaiser Family Foundation before founding Zeus Global, where I now invest in and acquire software and technology-enabled businesses. I also earned my MBA from Stanford GSB and graduated summa cum laude with a degree in mechanical engineering. What ties all of those experiences together is curiosity. I have always enjoyed understanding how businesses work, why people make the decisions they do, and what separates a good opportunity from a great one. I also know what it feels like to have a background that does not fit neatly into one box. Sometimes the challenge is not whether you are qualified. It is helping other people understand the value of what you have done and where you are trying to go. That is one of the things I enjoy most about coaching: helping someone step back, see the pattern in their own story, and communicate it with more clarity and confidence.
Why do I coach?
I coach because I know how easy it is for talented people to underestimate themselves or to struggle to explain why their experience matters. My own path required a lot of reinvention. I moved from engineering into investing, applied to business school, navigated competitive recruiting processes, and eventually built my own investment firm. At several points, I had to learn how to make an unconventional background feel coherent and credible to someone seeing it for the first time. That experience shapes how I coach. I try to create the kind of support I would have wanted earlier in my career: honest, practical, thoughtful, and direct. I will help you see what is already strong, identify what is not yet working, and build the substance behind your story. That may mean sharpening your narrative, strengthening an essay, pressure-testing an investment thesis, improving your technical preparation, or helping you approach interviews with more confidence. My goal is for you to leave our work together with more than a better answer. I want you to understand your own value more clearly and know how to communicate it when the stakes are high.
Work Experience
Founder & Managing Partner
Zeus Global
2025 - Present
Technology investment firm targeting global middle market control and strategic growth investment opportunities.
Principal
George Kaiser Family Foundation
2021 - 2024
Head of Growth & Middle-Market Private Equity for $5B Family Office
Private Equity
Leapfrog Investments
2020 - 2020
Growth Equity
FullCycle Climate Partners
2020 - 2020
Private Equity
Africa Finance Corporation
2018 - 2019
Asset Manager
ExxonMobil
2013 - 2018
Associate
General Electric
2012 - 2013
Associate
Schlumberger
2010 - 2012
Education
Stanford Graduate School of Business
Master of Business Administration (MBA)
2021
Covenant University
Bachelor's degree, Mechanical Engineering
2010
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