From Failure to Human-Centred Innovation — A Conversation With Faith Sodipe

🎙From Failure to Human-Centred Innovation — A Conversation With Faith Sodipe Faith Sodipe From Failure to Human-Centred Innovation: The Story Behind Faith Sodipe In his Legacy Bench conversation, Faith Sodipe shares a story shaped by curiosity, reinvention, and a relentless commitment to building things that create genuine human impact. A software engineer, speaker, and community builder, Faith operates at the intersection of artificial intelligence, resilient systems, and technology leadership. But his story is not simply about engineering. It is about what happens when something you believed in fails, and what you choose to build next. In 2020, Faith launched Peppy Cleaners , a digital platform designed to connect people with cleaning services during the pandemic. As an engineer, he did what engineers do best: he built the technology. The platform worked. The software was strong. The business did not survive. Looking back, Faith realised that technology alone was never enough. The real challenge lay beyond the code. In logistics, operations, customer behaviour, and understanding the complexities of human needs in the real world. He had built an impressive solution without fully