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I talk about what eight years of building has actually taught me.

No frameworks I have not used. No advice I would not give to a friend. The talks land because the examples are mine, and the audience can tell.

Topics

Topics I speak on

Business As A Plant

The keynote. Why every business is a living thing, what the eight layers are, and how to walk into your own company on Monday morning and see it again as the plant it is. Best for founder gatherings and operator conferences.

How a Lagos service business actually scales

The unglamorous mechanics. Pricing without flinching, scheduling like a grown-up, keeping the quality where the customer last saw it. Drawn from eight years building SmartFix in a city that does not give you credit for trying.

Property the operator's way

How Foreal grew from a single client referral to a ₦3bn+ portfolio, bootstrapped entirely from cashflow and partnership equity. The unglamorous mechanics: how trust compounds across services, why patient capital beats fast capital in property, what the operating layer looks like when you build it before you have to. For real-estate audiences and capital allocators.

The work nobody claps for

A talk on operating as a craft. Why the most important hour in your week is the one nobody can see. For leadership offsites, university programmes, and any room of operators who suspect they are doing it harder than they need to.

Past Audiences

Where I've spoken

Speaking fee starts at $5,000 for international engagements and travels from there with scope, travel and format. Local Nigerian rates apply for Lagos and Abuja audiences. I will tell you the fee in the first email reply. No agencies, no decks, no song and dance.
Enquiry

Speaking enquiry

The more you can tell me about the audience and the moment, the better the talk will be when it lands. I read every enquiry personally.