Human before institutional
Begin with the life a person wants to live, then organise services around that goal.
Leadership
Mary Ajewole is a professional nurse, healthcare entrepreneur and founder working at the intersection of specialist community provision, responsible innovation and institution-building.

Mary Ajewole
Professional Nurse
Founder & Executive Director, Rhymacare Group
Founder’s mandate
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
Begin with the life a person wants to live, then organise services around that goal.
Grow from demonstrable safety, outcomes and learning—not ambition alone.
Use digital tools to strengthen judgement, coordination and transparency.
Design with the NHS, local government, families, communities and the workforce.
Wider leadership & community service
Enterprise leadership
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 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.