Bereola, a graduate of Florida A&M University, has taken the classic concept of manners and made it beautiful, again! He penned the award winning + bestselling books: BEREOLAESQUE, GENTLEWOMAN and THE GRAY.

As CEO of The Bereolaesque Group, Enitan has advised and partnered with clients like 20th Century Fox, Apple, Facebook, Salesforce, McDonald’s, Visa, LINKEDIN, Yahoo, Jack Daniels, Crown Royal XO, I.W. Harper, Anheuser-Busch, BEVEL, Bergdorf Goodman and Goorin Bros. He was selected as BLACK ENTERPRISE’s Young & Bold Business Leader. Bereola paired up with Beats By Dre’s “Show Your Color” campaign as well as Jay-Z and Steve Stoute’s Translation, LLC marketing Co. President Barack Obama & the First Family, Oprah Winfrey and Mark Zuckerberg are owners of his work.

Enitan gives back. He partnered with Usher Raymond’s New Look Foundation as well as the Alice E. Foster Scholarship Program. He paired with Autism Speaks and adopted his former high school to contribute 20% of Bay Area Barnes & Noble book sales to help fund student programs. He supports The Bay Area After-School All-Stars and joined forces with the Crohn’s and Colitis Foundation of America to help their mission to fund research.

TELL US ABOUT YOUR CHILDHOOD AND WHAT GROWING UP WAS LIKE FOR YOU?

Enitan: I’m from San Jose, California – Silicon Valley. Growing up, I used to think that I had a Huxtable-like family. I have 1 brother and 2 sisters and was the youngest til’ my little sister came around. We had a really good life. My mom let me be creative. I was an eccentric little kid. 

I questioned a lot of things as a kid, but didn’t speak about them. I didn’t understand the idea of going to a job, earning a salary and no matter how hard you work, that’s all you got paid. A lot of things didn’t make sense to me.

I didn’t really understand the concept of when you turn a light switch on somebody paid for that utility bill. I thought you just turn a light switch on anywhere in the world and it comes on. For a while I believed something was wrong with my thinking but those things that I question propel me today. Those questions allowed me to solve those problems.

WHAT COLLEGE DID YOU GO TO?

Enitan: FAMU. I studied Computer information systems with a minor in business administration and a concentration of marketing. When I was 16 I interned at Hewlett Packard, I was like the only high school kid in there.