About
Built from a pattern
that kept repeating.
Beata Okosun, PHRI
HR and Business Practitioner · Founder, FormWork
"Programme after programme, I watched founders show up with big visions, solid plans, and real determination. But when the conversation turned to HR, there was always that moment. A smile, a pause, a 'we are just a small team... still figuring that out.' Nobody was careless. They were just busy building, and HR never feels urgent enough until the day it does. FormWork was built for that gap, so the foundation catches up with the vision."
Beata Okosun is an HR and business practitioner and the founder of FormWork. As part of a consortium delivering capacity building programmes for small and growing businesses across West and Central Africa, she observed a pattern that kept recurring: founders building genuinely good businesses with little to no HR documentation in place.
It was not a lack of awareness. It was a lack of something practical, affordable, and built specifically for them. FormWork was built to fill that gap. A complete HR toolkit designed from Nigerian law upward, grounded in the real challenges these founders face.