by Tony Akiwumi | Nov 11, 2025 | Leadership & Strategy
A few years ago, I was in a strategy meeting that should have been electric. Smart people. Big ambitions. The sort of agenda that promised “transformation”. Except no one was talking. The most senior leader in the room laid out a complex plan and asked, “Thoughts?”...
by Tony Akiwumi | Nov 11, 2025 | Leadership & Strategy
Two days ago, I wrote about a situation that made me both laugh and wince. When I, yes it was me, sent a message to a hiring manager about a senior role application. My note was polite, thoughtful, and full of strategic insights and ideas for the role. The hiring...
by Tony Akiwumi | Nov 10, 2025 | Leadership & Strategy
A friend of mine, and I want to be clear that it was definitely not me, recently applied for a senior executive role. The job description asked for someone innovative, strategic, and proactive. They might as well have printed my friend’s name in the margin. True to...
by Tony Akiwumi | Sep 27, 2025 | Leadership & Strategy
In every successful career and groundbreaking innovation, there’s often an unseen force quietly shaping the journey—a mentor. Mentorship is more than guidance; it’s a powerful relationship that shapes careers, fuels innovation, and builds the leaders of tomorrow. As...
by Tony Akiwumi | Sep 27, 2025 | Leadership & Strategy
Let me take you back a few years (a safe, distancing statement—clearly signalling that I’m referring to past events, not recent ones 😊), I was in a meeting with a manager who, in a moment of pure confidence (or was it hubris?), said, “My team is really smart, if there...
