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An Indigenous African Church Leader Who Makes World Class Talking Automobiles (Incl. Engines!) From Scratch, Using Local Materials in Ghana: Meet Apostle Dr. Kwadwo Safo

I’ve been studying and researching him for some time now and have downloaded articles, videos and audios by reporters from BBC, Al Jazeera, AFP, CNN etc, based on visits they made to his facility in Ghana, to see his amazing locally made talking SUVs and other tech products like TVs that go off when you clap, and doors that speak when you knock and open ONLY if someone is in.

Over 2 decades ago, Ghana’s Apostle Dr. Kwadwo Safo began producing hand-built SUVs made using over 80% locally fabricated parts, including branded engine blocks molded in his foundry, using an ingenious process involving crushed palm kernel shells. Today, his Made-in-Ghana cars are gaining international attention.

kantanka-engine

Image credit/source: http://africarm.org/an-insight-into-the-world-of-kantanka-automobiles-the-history-present-and-the-future-2824/

The-hope-of-Africa

Above: Apostle Dr. Safo (Photo credit: http://africarm.org/november-edition-vnovember-edition-apostle-dr-kwadwo-safo-the-hero-of-our-time-ideos-and-pictures-of-some-kantanka-products-1374/the-hope-of-africa/)

Click here to see search results done today, on Google.com using the string “Kantanka motors”

A true Man Of God!

The best thing about this man is that he continues to train thousands of Ghanaian youths in his hands-on training school, regardless of their religious beliefs or preference.

Note also that this Apostle’s church, with branches across Ghana is 100% indigenous and self funding via a chain of businesses from which he finances the motor manufacturing arm, and also give out scholarships and free homes to citizens in need.

Would you believe the dashboard, bumpers and other parts of the cars he and his team build are made from locally crafted wood and formica with superb finishing that mimics plastic used in imported cars but is much much cheaper?

In fact only the tires (and I think the radiators) used in his cars are imported. When he began years ago, he worked with a small team over 6 months to build one single SUV by hand.

I have watched one of the training videos. It is amazing.

If Nigeria’s Innoson – which mostly assembles imported cars – can adopt a similar strategy, he won’t be affected by lack of government patronage.

Apostle Safo was ignored by Government and private sector investors in his country for decades. Only in the last 3 years or so has he begun to get major attention from them.

Before then he refused to be discouraged and simply channeled funds from his multiple businesses into the car making.

Note that he does not hold a university degree in engineering!

Today, his son who is a licensed pilot runs the company and is now leading a move to export their unique range of cars, which now enjoy patronage from local celebrities and others.

Below: Links to the videos and audio interviews I found on the web in my search late last year (2015)

http://africarm.org/an-insight-into-the-world-of-kantanka-automobiles-the-history-present-and-the-future-2824/

http://www.aljazeera.com/news/africa/2014/08/ghana-talented-but-ignored-inventors-2014823191921173432.html

http://www.hulkshare.com/africarmorg/bbc-and-apostle-safo (BBC World Report – Audio Podcast)

http://africarm.org/apostle-dr-kwadwo-safo-creativity-184/

http://africarm.org/report-by-aljazeera-after-their-visit-to-apostle-dr-kwadwo-safo-in-ghana-2630/

http://www.ghbase.com/get-ready-kantanka-care-series-hit-roads-soon/

http://africarm.org/bbc-overwhelmed-by-apostle-dr-safos-creativity-348/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D9D9bD_DX5k&feature=player_embedded&list=PLgGkzD1gCVOg4hXEHCD15ZMGVxf6paQHQ (Kantanka Inventions exhibitions)

It’s amazing that Nigerians and Africans are not celebrating this guy, and sending people to learn from him!!!

CEO Spotlight Interview VIDEO: With Efe Ohwofasa, UK Based Nigerian born Speaker, Biz Coach & Consultant

Watch the video version of the 3rd edition of Tayo Solagbade’s CEO Spotlight Interview Series below

 

Click here to download the full PDF version which contains the text based version of the interview.

 

Click the link/image below to download the PDF version of my interview with Efe. I’m sure you’ll find it useful reading.

No. 227: CEO Spotlight Interview With Efe Ohwofasa, UK Based Nigerian born Professional Speaker, Business Growth Coach and Marketing Consultant [FREE PDF – VIDEO COMING SOON]

[UPDATE: VIDEO NOW LIVE – CLICK HERE]

In the second issue of this interview series, my guest was Burt Dubin, US based veteran mentor of some of the world’s highest paid speakers.

One of the points I noted in the introductory notes was that despite that fact that he is 91 years old, he remains as active as ever, especially as a mentor to speakers. In that regard, I pointed out that Efe Ohwofasa was/is being mentored by Burt Dubin himself!

Efe Ohwofasa is a UK Based Nigerian born Professional Speaker, Business Growth Coach and Marketing Consultant with an amazing rag to riches story.

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1 of 2: PUBLIC SPEAKING – CEO Spotlight Interview With Efe Ohwofasa, UK Based Nigerian born Professional Speaker, Business Growth Coach and Marketing Consultant [FREE PDF – VIDEO NOW LIVE – CLICK HERE]

In the second issue of this interview series, my guest was Burt Dubin, US based veteran mentor of some of the world’s highest paid speakers.

One of the points I noted in the introductory notes was that despite that fact that he is 91 years old, he remains as active as ever, especially as a mentor to speakers. In that regard, I pointed out that Efe Ohwofasa was/is being mentored by Burt Dubin himself!

Efe Ohwofasa is a UK Based Nigerian born Professional Speaker, Business Growth Coach and Marketing Consultant with an amazing rag to riches story.

Recently, in November 2015, Efe hosted UK based CEOs and Independent Consultants to a business seminar sponsored by Bournemouth Chamber of Trade & Commerce (1st of its kind in its over 100 year history).

For a guy whose journey in life began with the daily routine of hawking groceries for daily survival on the streets back home in his native Nigeria, this is no mean achievement!
He has indeed come a long way, and it goes without saying that is it NO ACCIDENT that he’s gotten where he is today.

Little wonder that Efe enjoys the recognition, admiration and respect of CEOs and business decision makers within and outside the UK, who depend on him to help the develop and implement strategues to achieve their valued goals in life.

Efe is my 3rd CEO Spotlight Interview Guest…and like I mentioned earlier, it so happens that he is currently undergoing mentoring with Burt Dubin.

Click below to read a recent piece I did on Efe:

No. 218: Meet a Nigerian Expert Who Speaks to – and Coaches – British CEOs to Succeed

Click the link/image below to download the PDF version of my interview with Efe. I’m sure you’ll find it useful reading.

Click the link/image below to download the PDF version of my interview with Efe. I’m sure you’ll find it useful reading.

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Burt helps those he mentors (experts-who-speak) to Position, Package, Promote, and Present* themselves successfully to clients (*He calls

them the 4Ps). That’s why it’s no surprise that on Burt’s website, considerable space capital is devoted to useful business marketing articles as well as products.

It might also interest you to know that MANY years back, Burt established himself as one of the best marketing minds in the world. To really put this FACT in

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That’s ample proof that (in addition to Public Speaking), Burt would be a great resource to learn business marketing from!

Full Disclosure: I represent Burt as Sole Agent for his products/services, which means if YOU buy from him, I get paid.

But that’s NOT the main reason I represent and recommend him. I have benefited in many ways by learning from Burt. Through his writing, his audio recordings,

and from directly relating with him.

Before we teamed up in 2011, I’d been studying his work and adapting it to succeed in my work from way back in 2002. It does not matter what part of the world

you’re in. If you know how to adapt them to suit your peculiar local needs, Burt’s ideas and strategies WILL work for you. I am living proof of it!

That’s why I never tire of CONFIDENTLY recommending him to others.

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*Sole Agent For Burt Dubin’s Speaker Mentoring Service In Africa

Mobile: +234-803-302-1263 (in Nigeria) or +229-66-122-136 (in Benin Republic)

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Tayo K. Solagbade is a Location Independent Performance Improvement

Specialist and Multipreneur (i.e. a highly versatile/multi-skilled entrepreneur), with a bias for delivering Best Practice solutions to

Farm Businesses and others.

Since 2002, he has earned multiple streams of income providing individuals and organizations with personal development training and coaching, custom MS Excel-VB solutions, web marketing systems/web hosting,

freelance writing services, and best practice extension support services (for farm business owners).

Tayo is the author of the Self-Development (SD) Bible™ and the

popular Livestock Feed Formulation Handbook. He is also the developer of its accompanying Excel-VB driven Ration Formulator™ and the Poultry Farm

Manager™ software.

He has delivered talks/papers to audiences in

various groups and organizations, including the Centre for Management Development, University of Lagos, Christ Baptist Church, Volunteer Corps, Tantalisers Fast Foods

and others.

In May 2012 he was the Guest Speaker at the Centre for Entrepreneurship Development’s Annual Semester Entrepreneurial Lecture at Yaba College of Technology in Lagos.

On 1st April 2013, Tayo (who reads, write and speaks the French language) relocated to Cotonou, Benin Republic to begin slowly

traveling across the West African region.

His key purpose is to deliver talks, seminars

and workshops on his key areas of focus and interest to interested audiences (Email tayo at tksola dot com for details).

In a previous life, before leaving to become self-employed, Tayo served for seven years (October 1994 to December 2001) as a high performing manager in Guinness Nigeria. He rose from Shift Brewer to Training & Technical DevelopmentManager, and later acted in senior roles as Production Manager and Technical
Manager.

In addition to constantly challenging the status quo and influencing positive work changes, he built a reputation for using self-taught spreadsheet programming skills (starting with Lotus 1-2-3, and later moving to Excel Visual Basic) – in his spare time – to develop Automated Spreadsheet Applications to computerise manual report generation processes in the departments he worked. Over four(4) of his applications were adopted for brewery level reporting.

Tayo holds a B.Sc degree in Agricultural Extension Services from the University of Ibadan, Nigeria, having graduated top of his class – with Second Class Upper Division honors – in 1992. He is an Associate Member of the UK Institute & Guild of Brewing, a 1997 National Finalist of the Nigerian Institute of Management’s(NIM) Young Managers’

competition, a Certified Psychometric Test Administrator for Psytech UK, innovator of Spontaneous Coaching for Self-Development™ (SCfS-D™), and Founder of the Self-Development Academy.

When he’s not amazing clients with his superhuman skills (wink), Tayo works as the creative force behind his Daily Self-Development Nuggets blog – on which he also publishes his Weekly Public Speaking IDEAS

newsletter(which he uses to promote Burt Dubin’s Public Speaking Mentoring service to experts working across the African

continent).

You can connect with him on Twitter @tksola.com and Facebook.

Visit Tayo Solagbade Dot Com, to download over over 10 performance improvement resources to boost your

personal and work related productivity.

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On 4th May 2014, Tayo’s 9 year old domain (Spontaneousdevelopment dot com), which hosted his website, was taken over by Aplus.net.

Within a few days however, Tayo used his advanced self-taught web development skills to build a SUPERIOR “reincarnation” of it the website http://www.tayosolagbade.com.

But updates are still ongoing to URLs bearing the old domain name in most of the over 1,000 web pages, and blog posts

he’s published.

If you experience any difficulties finding a page or document, email Tayo at tksola dot com.

Click “Tayo, What Happened to

SpontaneousDevelopmentDotCom ?” to read a detailed narrative about how the above event occurred :-))

Here’s an article Tayo wrote, to inspire others to defy adversity, and bounce back to even greater reckoning at what they do EVERY time:

Succeed by Emerging from Adversity Like a Phoenix

(TayoSolagbade.com launches extra Hosting plan with FREE Web Marketing!)

And he wrote the one below, to explain why losing a domain name, no matter how old NO LONGER determines your online success or otherwise:

A Proven Strategy to Find Profitable Buyers Regardless of Your Domain Name
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Are You a CEO/Expert With Practical, Experience Based Knowledge & Insights to Share? [Hint: CEO Spotlight Interview Invitation]

My name is Tayo Solagbade, and I am your host on the CEO Spotlight Interview (CSI) Series.

I believe that it is important to capture the knowledge, insights, and wisdom of people who have been able to excel in their chosen vocations or professions, so as to inform, educate and empower others who aspire to do the same, or better.

That is my ultimate purpose for conducting this CSI series.This is a public service, and I hope you will find it useful.

Tayo Solagbade's CEO Spotlight Interview

The CSI Will Feature ONLY Authentic Achievers Willing to Share Useful WISDOM to Empower Others

Now, if you are familiar with me, and what I do via www.tayosolagbade.com, you most likely know that I do my due diligent research and background checks before I choose to showcase anyone as a model of what is possible in terms of personal achievement in ANY area of endeavour.

For every guest, I will be asking twelve (12) questions. However, the questions, for the most part will be personalized for each person, based on his/her unique area of expertise, as well as experience, achievements etc.

In other words, the questions will be designed to help us extract useful learnings that can be had from his/her experiences and achievements in life.

Do You Have Unique Experience Based Insights That Can Help Others Excel, Like YOU?

If YES, then I’d like to interview YOU on the CSI platform.

This post is designed to be an open invitation to ANY interested CEOs or experts who may wish to feature on the CEO Spotlight Interview.

From what I’ve said above, and the content of the interviews already available here, the requirements are easy to discern.

You simply need to have useful information and education, based on YOUR personal experiences and achievements, to share.

Most importantly, I am always on the lookout for new, original or innovative ideas, methods, strategies and techniques discovered, developed or adapted by the CEO or expert to achieve perfromance improvement in his/her personal or work life.

Click here to fill and submit a web contact form, to send me your message.

CEO Spotlight Interview VIDEO [Parts 1 to 4 ]: With Burt Dubin, Creator of the Speaking Success System and Veteran Mentor to Some of the World’s Highest Paid Speakers

[UPDATE – Wednesday, 2nd December 2020: I am publishing, this morning, two digital flyers on Best Practice Schooling, as a follow up to my latest video titled “Why I Do Not Want My Kids to Have the Kind of Education I Got“. One of the Digital Flyers features a message Burt posted on my Facebook wall, last year on my 49th birthday (6th July 2019) which I found relevant to the theme of my the message in my flyers, You can view/download the digital flyers on Best Practice Schooling here (Click now).

For those who may not know be aware, Burt Dubin is now 96 years old(in 2020). He is a veteran mentor of some of the World’s Highest Paid Speakers and Creator of the Highly Acclaimed Speaking Success System sold for decades to professional speakers across 5 continents. I was Burt’s Sole Agent promoting his solutions to Africa based experts for several years.

However, what makes his achievements most impressive and compelling is the fact that he dropped out of high school as a teen, to take up paid employment in order to support his mother and siblings. Then he returned to the SAME high school to graduate with a set of students who were 4 years behind him when he dropped out!

And THAT was all he needed to go on to mentor professionals across the world – some PhD holders! – to achieve the highest levels of success in their fields. Watch Video Part 1 of 4 of my interview with him (scroll down) to hear him respond to my question about how he found the courage to return to complete his High School education.

TIP: See some of Burt’s Audio Records and Testimonials on an archive of his blog at http://burtdubin-blog.com/tools/burtdubinrecordings.html]

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Watch parts 1 to 4 of this video version of the 2nd edition of Tayo Solagbade’s CEO Spotlight Interview Series below…

This 2nd edition of the CEO Spotlight Interview Series featured responses (with photos and audio excerpts) from Burt Dubin [www.speakingbizsuccess.com] renowned USA based Creator of the Speaking Success System, and veteran mentor of some of the world’s highest paid speakers.

Part 1 of 4

Part 2 of 4

Part 3 of 4

Part 4 of 4

Click here to download the full PDF version which contains the text based version of the interview.

 

PDF Cover page - CEO Spotlight Interview With Burt Dubin, 91 Year Old Creator of the Speaking Success System™, and Mentor to Some of the World’s Highest Paid Speakers

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In this issue No: 221 of my Speaking/Web Marketing IDEAS newsletter…

NB: This CSI series is a public service to give CEOs, & those aspiring, ready-to-use experience-based information & education. The purpose is to promote experience-sharing amongst CEOs, about Indigenous Knowledge Systems.

Indigenous Knowledge Systems (IKS) are tried and tested practical techniques/methods developed by active players in a venture to get improved results, often through application of creativity and innovation.

No. 221: CEO Spotlight Interview With Burt Dubin, USA Based 91 Year Old Creator of the Speaking Success System™, and Mentor to Some of the World’s Highest Paid Speakers [FREE PDF & VIDEO]

UPDATE (15TH DEC. 2015 @ 2100): Click here to watch the 4 part video version of this interview.

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Tayo: Hi Burt. Thank you for accepting to respond to questions on my CEO Spotlight Interview. I feel truly honoured. Can you give us an introduction of yourself?

Burt: Thank you for investing a few moments of your life with me. I am Burt Dubin, long-time student of the human condition. My special focus in the human mind and its potential. Brain-mind science is the name I coined for the object of my study.

Most people are ordinary mortals. They dwell in a shrouded world. They are unaware, and evidently do not want to know, the higher truths of human existence.

About 2400 years ago, Plato was the disciple of Socrates. He wrote the words and observations Socrates shared with him. His observations regarding the human condition are in the sixth book of his Magnum Opus, The Republic.

If you choose to Google Plato’s Cave, you can see for yourself dozens of views of the life of ordinary mortals as perceived by Socrates and related by Plato.

Tayo (Q 1a): Why did you write BUST LOOSE? Why now and not before?

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1 of 2: PUBLIC SPEAKING – CEO Spotlight Interview With Burt Dubin, 91 Year Old Creator of the Speaking Success System™, and Mentor to Some of the World’s Highest Paid Speakers [FREE PDF & VIDEO]

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Tayo: Hi Burt. Thank you for accepting to respond to questions on my CEO Spotlight Interview. I feel truly honoured. Can you give us an introduction of yourself?

Burt: Thank you for investing a few moments of your life with me. I am Burt Dubin, long-time student of the human condition. My special focus in the human mind and its potential. Brain-mind science is the name I coined for the object of my study.

Most people are ordinary mortals. They dwell in a shrouded world.  They are unaware, and evidently do not want to know, the higher truths of human existence.

About 2400 years ago, Plato was the disciple of Socrates. He wrote the words and observations Socrates shared with him.  His observations regarding the human condition are in the sixth book of his Magnum Opus, The Republic.

If you choose to google Plato’s Cave, you can see for yourself dozens of views of the life of ordinary mortals as perceived by Socrates and related by Plato.

Tayo (Q 1a): Why did you write BUST LOOSE?  Why now and not before?

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In this issue No: 221 of my Speaking/Web Marketing IDEAS newsletter, I publish my 2nd CEO Spotlight Interview, this time with Burt Dubin, Creator of the Speaking Success System.

He shares inspiring insights from his wealth of wisdom, in response to my questions about success/personal achievement, dealing with adversity, his new book titled “Bust Loose”, as well as age/aging as it relates to living a purpose-driven life.

Click here to download the PDF and continue reading…

NB: A video trailer version of this interview, with Burt Dubin answering EACH question in his own voice is currently being put together.

Once it is ready, I will publish it in my Youtube channel, and post the update on my website, this blog and other channels (Facebook etc).

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Question: But who is Burt Dubin, and why do I (Tayo K. Solagbade) think you should you learn from

him?

Answer: Burt is a 3 decade veteran in the professional speaking business. After achieving top level cross continental success as an

expert-speaker, he has established a reputation for mentoring some of the highest paid speakers in the world. He owns SpeakingBizSuccess.com, SpeakingSuccess.com and BurtDubin.com.

Burt helps those he mentors (experts-who-speak) to Position, Package, Promote, and Present* themselves successfully to clients (*He calls

them the 4Ps). That’s why it’s no surprise that on Burt’s website, considerable space capital is devoted to useful business marketing articles as well as products.

It might also interest you to know that MANY years back, Burt established himself as one of the best marketing minds in the world. To really put this FACT in

proper perspective, I’ll provide more specific details in form of an example.

A few years ago, Burt contributed an article to a powerful publication titled “The Most Effective Articles Ever – By The World’s Top Marketers“. That 574 page ebook features timeless marketing advice from 71 of the world’s top marketers – including Jack

Trout, Joe Vitale, Yanik Silver…and Burt Dubin.

That’s ample proof that (in addition to Public Speaking), Burt would be a great resource to learn business marketing from!

Full Disclosure: I represent Burt as Sole Agent for his products/services, which means if YOU buy from him, I get paid.

But that’s NOT the main reason I represent and recommend him. I have benefited in many ways by learning from Burt. Through his writing, his audio recordings,

and from directly relating with him.

Before we teamed up in 2011, I’d been studying his work and adapting it to succeed in my work from way back in 2002. It does not matter what part of the world

you’re in. If you know how to adapt them to suit your peculiar local needs, Burt’s ideas and strategies WILL work for you. I am living proof of it!

That’s why I never tire of CONFIDENTLY recommending him to others.

If you need help putting the ideas shared above to use, let me know HERE.

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Have a great week :-))

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So, with diligent persistent application of what you learn you’ll start (as Burt says)…”bringing home high speaking fees”…whether you speak or not…in

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The best part is: every cent of your fee to purchase this product counts toward your membership in Burt’s Inner Circle.

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work since I’ve been here – you will be sorely missed. I don’t need to wish you good luck, you have the ability to make your own luck. – Andy”(R. Jones)*

*Operations Manager, Guinness Nigeria Plc Benin Brewery, December 2001 (Handwritten comments in farewell/xmas cards sent to Tayo Solagbade following his resignation to

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Mobile: +234-803-302-1263 (in Nigeria) or +229-66-122-136 (in Benin Republic)

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Tayo K. Solagbade is a Location Independent Performance Improvement

Specialist and Multipreneur (i.e. a highly versatile/multi-skilled entrepreneur), with a bias for delivering Best Practice solutions to

Farm Businesses and others.

Since 2002, he has earned multiple streams of income providing individuals and organizations with personal development training and coaching, custom MS Excel-VB solutions, web marketing systems/web hosting,

freelance writing services, and best practice extension support services (for farm business owners).

Tayo is the author of the Self-Development (SD) Bible™ and the

popular Livestock Feed Formulation Handbook. He is also the developer of its accompanying Excel-VB driven Ration Formulator™ and the Poultry Farm

Manager™ software.

He has delivered talks/papers to audiences in

various groups and organizations, including the Centre for Management Development, University of Lagos, Christ Baptist Church, Volunteer Corps, Tantalisers Fast Foods

and others.

In May 2012 he was the Guest Speaker at the Centre for Entrepreneurship Development’s Annual Semester Entrepreneurial Lecture at Yaba College of Technology in Lagos.

On 1st April 2013, Tayo (who reads, write and speaks the French language) relocated to Cotonou, Benin Republic to begin slowly

traveling across the West African region.

His key purpose is to deliver talks, seminars

and workshops on his key areas of focus and interest to interested audiences (Email tayo at tksola dot com for details).

In a previous life, before leaving to become self-employed, Tayo served for seven years as a high performing manager in Guinness Nigeria. He rose from Shift Brewer, to Training

& Technical Development Manager, and then later acted in senior management roles as Production Manager and Technical Manager.

He is an Associate Member of the UK Institute & Guild of Brewing, a 1997 National Finalist of the Nigerian Institute of Management’s(NIM) Young Managers’

competition, a Certified Psychometric Test Administrator for Psytech UK, innovator of Spontaneous Coaching for Self-Development™ (SCfS-D™), and Founder of the Self-Development Academy Limited.

When he’s not amazing clients with his superhuman skills (wink), Tayo works as the creative force behind his Daily Self-Development Nuggets blog – on which he also publishes his Weekly Public Speaking IDEAS

newsletter(which he uses to promote Burt Dubin’s Public Speaking Mentoring service to experts working across the African

continent).

You can connect with him on Twitter @tksola.com and Facebook.

Visit Tayo Solagbade Dot Com, to download over over 10 performance improvement resources to boost your

personal and work related productivity.

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On 4th May 2014, Tayo’s 9 year old domain (Spontaneousdevelopment dot com), which hosted his website, was taken over by Aplus.net.

Within a few days however, Tayo used his advanced self-taught web development skills to build a SUPERIOR “reincarnation” of it the website http://www.tayosolagbade.com.

But updates are still ongoing to URLs bearing the old domain name in most of the over 1,000 web pages, and blog posts

he’s published.

If you experience any difficulties finding a page or document, email Tayo at tksola dot com.

Click “Tayo, What Happened to

SpontaneousDevelopmentDotCom ?” to read a detailed narrative about how the above event occurred :-))

Here’s an article Tayo wrote, to inspire others to defy adversity, and bounce back to even greater reckoning at what they do EVERY time:

Succeed by Emerging from Adversity Like a Phoenix

(TayoSolagbade.com launches extra Hosting plan with FREE Web Marketing!)

And he wrote the one below, to explain why losing a domain name, no matter how old NO LONGER determines your online success or otherwise:

A Proven Strategy to Find Profitable Buyers Regardless of Your Domain Name

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CEO Spotlight Interview with Burt Dubin, Renowned USA based 91 Year Old Mentor of Some of the World’s Highest Paid Speakers [Coming Mon 30th November 2015]

When a 91 year old with over a half century track record of exceptional self-made success in sales, sales management, public speaking and international speaker mentoring, publishes a book on Personal Achievement, wise others pay serious attention!

Tomorrow Monday, 30th November 2015, in Issue No: 221 of my Speaking/Web Marketing IDEAS newsletter, I will publish the full unedited text of my 2nd CEO Spotlight Interview, this time with Burt Dubin, Creator of the Speaking Success System.

He shares inspiring insights from his wealth of wisdom, in response to my questions about success/personal achievement, dealing with adversity, his new book titled “Bust Loose”, as well as age/aging as it relates to living a purpose-driven life.

For now I leave you some background information and links to give you an idea of who Burt is:

1. Last year, to commemorate his 90th birthday, the Las Vegas chapter of the National Speakers Association in the USA, organized an event in his honor.

The link below features highlights from a humour based presentation made on that day by a good friend, and professional colleague of Burt Dubin.

http://www.humorpower.com/blog/2014/07/observational-humor-case-study-121/

2. Burt Dubin Quick Facts:
 

Author of the Speaking Success System, a 3 volume, 800+  page collection of tools, keys and techniques that yield success in the business of speaking.

Mentor, coach, consultant to hundreds of fellow professional speakers on 4 continents. 

Burt Dubin works with people who want to be paid speakers and with speakers who want to be masters.    

Those who know him consider him to be a master of the craft of speaking for money.

He is recognized as a master educator. His Speaking Success System, in use on 4 continents and in 2 island nations,is now the world standard against which all others are evaluated

Click here to read more quick facts on Burt on his SelfGrowth.com profile.

Visit Burt’s website:

http://www.SpeakingBizSuccess.com

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Full Disclosure

I must not fail to add, in the interest of full disclosure, that Burt Dubin is my mentor, and several years ago, we teamed up so I could promote his speaker mentoring solutions to experts-who-speak, and those aspiring.

PS: By way of interest, Burt Dubin is mentor to Efe Ohwofasa

Efe is a UK Based Nigerian born Professional Speaker, Business Growth Coach and Marketing Consultant with an amazing rags to riches story.

Just this past week, Efe hosted UK based CEOs and Independent Consultants to a business seminar sponsored by Bournemouth Chamber of Trade & Commerce (1st of its kind in its over 100 year history).

Efe will be my 3rd CEO Spotlight Interview Guest.

Click below to read a recent piece I did on Efe:

No. 218: Meet a Nigerian Expert Who Speaks to – and Coaches – British CEOs to Succeed

Farm CEO Spotlight Interview 01: Roseline Imoudu, Owner of Recirculating Aquaculture System Catfish Biz [Watch Video, Download PDF]

The Farm CEO Spotlight Interview (FCSI) series is designed as a public service to give other Farm CEOs access to ready-to-use experience-based information and education from fellow farmers who make discoveries or develop unique solutions/ideas they believe can help others.

The purpose is to promote experience-sharing amongst farmers, about Indigenous Knowledge Systems (aka IKS) they develop, to boost performance.

Indigenous Knowledge Systems (IKS) are tried and tested practical techniques/methods developed by individual (or groups of) farmers, to get improved results, often through innovative modification of existing procedures.

This maiden edition of the FCSI features (questions/answers, with photos and audio excerpts) Roseline Imoudu – owner of a Recirculating Aquaculture System (aka RAS) based Seed Catfish Production Farm Business in Ibadan-Nigeria.

This maiden edition of the FCSI features (questions/answers, with photos and audio excerpts) Roseline Imoudu - owner of a Recirculating Aquaculture System (aka RAS) based Seed Catfish Production Farm Business in Ibadan-Nigeria.

She shares insights from her first run of a newly installed RAS system, mainly from a diligent record keeping and best practice perspective.

Especially noteworthy is her true story about how good management helped her record surprisingly minimal losses, when her RAS experienced severe water shortage due to a prolonged borehole pump fault.

She also offers tips to aspiring Farm Business Owners, which existing farm owners may also find useful.

 

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1. The Farm CEO™: What kind of Commercial Catfish Farming System do you operate?

Roseline Imoudu: The Fish Farming System I am operating for production of seed catfish is the Recirculatory Aquaculture System; also known or referred to as RAS. And I am using plastic chemical tanks for it.

2. The Farm CEO™: What informed your choice of this system and how long have you been running it?

Roseline Imoudu: Well, I started with the flow-through system about November  2014 after an internship with a farm at Moniya Ibadan. I was making an average sales of about 3,500 to 5,500 seed catfish in a production. I happened to pay a visit to the poultry farm of one of my husband’s friends and I got introduced to RAS and its basic flow operation and privileges.

I witnessed one production run and saw:

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