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About Me

Author, Speaker, Life Success & Leadership Coach
Babs Olugbemi

Babs is a fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Nigeria and the Association of Chartered and Certified Accountants of the United Kingdom. He was experienced finance and banking professional for twenty years before yielding to his passion for helping individuals and organisations be at their best through coaching, mentoring, writing, speaking, and consulting on business continuity, legacy creation, finance, and institutional development.

He is the author of the five highly motivating books: Transform Yourself (the secrets for unleashing and maximising your potential), The Students’ Fortress (ten practical rules for passing your exams), The Teachers’ Fortress (a simple guide to becoming a teacher of influence and impact), Take the Lead (how to live, energise, activate and develop your strength zone) and The Value Chain Banking. 

Babs Olugbemi’s primary goal is to make individuals and organisations focus on the right thing. Focusing on the right thing will turn nations into great nations, organisations into institutions, make people think and act like the owners of whatever they do, help others, and derive maximum fulfilment in life. He is a believer in one Nigeria where justice and equity reign.

In 2016, Babs, the founder of Positive Growth Africa, convened the largest gathering of students and teachers in Lagos using one of his books to engage five thousand public secondary school students from ninety-nine schools in three local government councils. He founded and unveiled the Students’ Fortress Club (SFC) at the conference. SFC is an academic club in ninety-nine public schools where students teach one another thereby developing their Leadership, Organisation, Resilience, Initiative and Communication skills. Within 12months of the conference, the pass rate of the Lagos State Education District I improved from 39 per cent to 71 per cent in external examination (WAEC).

He was a lead speaker and panellist at the Nigerian Bar Association Annual General Conference in 2021 and a renowned resource person at various Federal Inland Revenue Service retreats and for other top institutions.  He is a lead columnist (Leadership Shepherd with Babs) in Businessday newspaper, focusing on leadership and organisation development.

Read Babs’s weekly column in the BusinessDay newspaper: Leadership Shepherd with Babs

Babs, the Chief Vision Officer of Mentoras Leadership Limited, a Lagos based leadership consulting firm with an office in the United Kingdom and with experience in business analysis, & consulting, accounts & finance, products development & management, succession and leadership development, process improvements, audit, sales, negotiations, and employee engagement & development. He has influenced and championed changes in organisations by developing protégés and leaders through training, mentoring and various self-development articles like ‘Think like the Owner,’ ‘The Best Place to Work,’ ‘Transformational Leadership for Business Leaders & Teachers’ among others.

Mentoras Limited and Positive Growth Africa have consulted for many notable organisations in Nigeria and the United Kingdom.You can contact him to institutionalise your business and invest in your employees and processes.