femi speaks

with almost 20 years in leadership roles, building businesses and leading dynamic teams, Femi offers a wealth of experience to organizations that aspire to build high-performance cultures and take their team performance to the next level. 

In his last corporate role as Head of Investment Consulting within the Momentum Group, Femi and his team grew the assets under advice from just over R750,000 to over R5 Billion in under 24 months, while quadrupling their client base in the process. 

This phenomenal growth was achieved by applying the tried and tested principles that underpin the performance of every high-performance team, and by focusing on key success factors such as leadership, customer service excellence, a winning culture, a strong sales focus and above all, maintaining a highly motivated and engaged team. 

As a sough-after business motivational speaker and strategist, Femi now shares these very same insights and strategies with organisations in South Africa and internationally, to equip them in building resilient and winning cultures, so that they can thrive and maintain their competitive edge in a dynamic and disruptive world. 

He has had the privilege of being invited to speak at local and international conferences for clients such as Mercedes Benz, 3M, Hewlett Packard, International Centre for Parliamentary Studies, Vodacom, Office of the Presidency, Barclays Africa, Tiger Brands, Unilever, FNB, SARS, The University of Cape Town, Standard Bank, Old Mutual, Nedbank, and many more. 

As a business motivational speaker and peak performance strategist, Femi has also been featured and interviewed in leading media publications such as the Business Day, the Entrepreneur Magazine and Wealth Magazine. 

He was also recently invited to feature on the global TEDx platform, where he shared insights on how organisations can successfully build, nurture and sustain high-impact and resilient cultures. 

Femi holds a Master’s Degree in Financial Economics.

His conference talks focus on Customer Service, Leadership, Sales, Adapting in a World of Change and Motivation

Prior to his professional speaking career, Femi was formerly an investment strategist and asset consultant. He was an investment strategy consultant with the Liberty Group and then went on to head up the Corporate Intermediary Sales Team in Old Mutual. 

Thereafter, as the divisional head of investment strategy within the Momentum Group, Femi and his team grew client assets under advice from R1 billion to just over R5 billion within 2 years; while quadrupling their client base in the process.  During this period, he consulted on strategy issues to premier clients such as BHP Billiton, Rand Merchant Bank and Discovery.

Femi has over 15 years experience in building successful businesses - both within the corporate space and as an entrepreneur - leading diverse teams and working with businesses to unlock their performance potential. 

He now shares his insights with corporates and organizations all over South Africa and abroad, on how to design and develop high-performance customer-focused cultures, motivate their employees to deliver better services experiences and ultimately unleash business greatness! Femi holds a Master’s Degree in Financial Economics and a Post-Graduate degree in Economics.