WisdomMeetsPractice
Thirty Years, Three Vantage Points
Three decades directing hospitality businesses, a doctorate in Business Administration, and a lectureship at Northumbria University — each vantage point testing what the others take for granted. The through-line is one conviction: insight is only worth what it changes.
In the Lecture Hall
Teaching Business & Management at Northumbria University. An argument that cannot survive a room of students is not finished.
In the Industry
Three decades directing hotel operations, finance and strategy, where a plan is judged by what it does on an ordinary Tuesday.
On the Page
Books that carry the method to readers who will never sit in the lecture hall or the boardroom.
On the Stage
Speaking and advisory work, where the thinking meets a decision someone actually has to make.
How the Work Was Built
19901990 – 2008
Hotel Operations and Administration
Director of Finance & Administration at Hotel Support & Management Co., and Operations Manager at International Hotel Development Company — the years that built a working knowledge of hospitality from its accounts outward.
20082008 – 2022
Executive Director, HSSL Global Ltd.
Fourteen years leading the business: strategy, consultancy, project and facilities management, and training. Responsibility for outcomes at the scale where decisions are irreversible.
The written work
Putting the Method on Paper
LIFEWIRE and SEE It, SAY It, DO It set down what three decades had produced — one book on deciding what matters, the other on carrying that decision through to something finished.
- 2023
2023 – Present
Lecturer, Northumbria University
Teaching Business & Management at the London campus, leading modules in Hospitality Management with Digital Innovation, and Communications & Content Marketing — thirty years of practice, returned to the lecture hall.
What the Years Put on Paper
Written to be read together, and to be used rather than admired.
Explore the books
Qualifications & Standing
Formal grounding for work that is otherwise argued on its results. Degrees listed most recent first.
Education
- Ph.D., Business Administration — Babcock University, Nigeria
- M.Phil., Business Administration — Babcock University, Nigeria
- MBA, Business Administration & Management — University of Nigeria
- PGD, Business Administration — University of Birmingham, UK
- HND, Business Administration & Management — Yaba College of Technology, Nigeria
Professional memberships
- Member, Chartered Institute of Directors
- Member, Chartered Institute of Bankers
- Fellow, Association of Hospitality & Tourism Consultants
- Fellow, Nigerian Hotel & Catering Institute (FNHCI)
Academic appointment
- Lecturer in Business & Management, Northumbria University, London Campus
- Module Leader — Hospitality Management with Digital Innovation
- Module Leader — Communications & Content Marketing
To every student who asked the harder question, and every colleague who refused the easy answer — thank you.
Start a Conversation
A keynote, a master class or an advisory engagement — each begins the same way, with a clear brief and an honest conversation about what you need it to change.