Leadership

Building care around dignity, continuity and trust.

Mary Ajewole is a professional nurse, healthcare entrepreneur and founder working at the intersection of specialist community provision, responsible innovation and institution-building.

Portrait of Mary Ajewole

Mary Ajewole

Professional Nurse
Founder & Executive Director, Rhymacare Group

Founder’s mandate

From frontline need to system design.

Mary is a professional nurse whose first degree was in Accountancy. This distinctive foundation brings clinical understanding together with financial discipline, governance and organisational stewardship.

Mary founded Rhymacare around a conviction: people with complex needs should not have to choose between highly specialised care and the familiarity of home and community.

Her leadership agenda is to create the clinical, operational and digital infrastructure that makes joined-up community care safer, more visible and more accountable. This means bringing together workforce capability, care coordination, medicines, safeguarding, family participation, data and outcomes in one coherent operating model.

Her public work focuses on practical reform—what commissioners, providers, clinicians, families and technology leaders must do to translate policy ambition into dependable local delivery.

Leadership principles

Human before institutional

Begin with the life a person wants to live, then organise services around that goal.

Evidence before expansion

Grow from demonstrable safety, outcomes and learning—not ambition alone.

Technology with accountability

Use digital tools to strengthen judgement, coordination and transparency.

Partnership over fragmentation

Design with the NHS, local government, families, communities and the workforce.

Wider leadership & community service

Leadership expressed across enterprise, faith and community.

Enterprise leadership

JE KOYO

Mary also serves on the board of JE KOYO, contributing to its governance, operational development and long-term institutional growth.

Faith & youth ministry

Hope Connections

Hope Connections is an RCCG church in Huddersfield. Mary is actively involved in its ministry and oversees the church’s youth activities, supporting young people’s spiritual development, participation and community life.