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Niyi Adesanya
Niyi Adesanya is a leadership and business advisor who helps CEOs and other C- Suite executives reinvent themselves as they navigate their business re-engineering process.
He is an unrivalled and renowned Performance Strategist and the speaker with the most expensive business and life coaching platform in Nigeria whose strong business acumen has helped business owners across various sectors cut through the complexities of today’s rapidly changing business environment using his innovative MACE procedure template that he developed from his years of leadership management practice. An offshoot of these engagements with the business owners has yielded between 63% – 313% increase in their bottom line.
In just the first quarter of 2022, he consulted for organisations within the Finance, Real estate, Power, and Engineering servicing sectors, with a workforce of close to 120,000 staff in both full-time and contract employment.
With an average of 100 speaking engagements yearly, he is an eloquent speaker who has stayed relevant for over 2 decades and remarkably the first speaker in Nigeria to be signed and endorsed by a multinational company for 7 years. He is a leading voice on leadership transformation in Africa. He is also the founder of the Speaker Academy; an institution for Public and Corporate Presentation birthed from his decade of experience in the Art of Public Speaking.
Since commencing his professional career in 2005, he has spoken to a combined audience of about 3 million people, coached more than 1,000 executives, and trained over 37,000 corporate professionals including mid-level and senior and managers, CEOs, and public servants. He has also reached more than 357,500 young people in over 120 tertiary institutions in Nigeria, 80 of which were sponsored by a telecoms company.
He sets the pace in and for his industry, as the convener of the highest-ticket knowledge-based events in Nigeria, an annual leadership event (since 2018) that welcomes hundreds of business and industry leaders all over the globe, presenting them with hands-on tools and opportunities to dig deeper into their leadership skills and become the change agents needed in the society.
He also developed and executed a competitiveness upgrade concept that helped a telecoms company strengthen its connection to their target consumers leading to a massive sustainable boost in their income within a 5-year period.
Niyi Adesanya is the CEO of FifthGear Plus, a Consulting, Recruiting, and Publishing firm with clients including at least one of the top three organisations in major sectors of the economy. With much insight and depth, Niyi provides expertise consultancy while chairing strategic sessions aimed at helping these organisations optimise their corporate potential.
He was awarded Nigerian’s foremost Performance Strategist (Middle East Africa Business Award), Leadership Coach of the year by Top 10 Magazine and awarded the African Prize for Leadership Excellence. He is also the author of six dynamic books on Public Speaking, Leadership, and Peak Performance.
Niyi is a game-changer who is passionate about personal and corporate effectiveness and believes people don’t build successful businesses. Systems build successful businesses nevertheless; people must work on and through the systems to build and sustain businesses.
