In the Spotlight around the world - Ayomikun Akintayo

Ayomikun Akintayo is the Founder and Executive Director of Wake-Up Call Africa, a Non-Governmental Organization that has consistently been involved in the grooming of a productive African workforce for the past 4 years. He is also the CEO and principal Consultant at Start-Up Guide a firm focused on Guiding ideas form inception to fulfilment and this is the platform where he fully practice as a Business and Organization Development Consultant. He has being actively involved in the building and development of large organizations since 2011. He was once the National President of a reputable Fellowship in Nigeria, a position that necessitated him to also coordinate the fellowship across West Africa. He is certified in Science research, Workplace Management, Change management, Psychology, Data Science, Entrepreneurship and Innovation. He is an alumnus of Ladoke Akintola University of Technology and Beni American University.

His Ventures

Ayomikun is a young serial entrepreneurs with a keen interest in startups and he is devoted to building for himself and others. He is currently most actively involved in his Social Entrepreneur efforts through Wake-Up Call Africa. But he is also building some start-up businesses of his own which includes Start-Up Guide and AIP farms.

Wake-Up Call Africa is a Non-Governmental Organization that focuses on 3 target population; Secondary school students, Undergraduates and the SMEs. They deliver their vision of building a productive workforce through a 4-wheel vehicle: Secondary School Rally, Community Solutions Generation, Tertiary Institution Conferences and Business Clinics

The Startup Guide produces monthly publications of educative information that could give budding entrepreneurs access to directives and information that could guide them to build global brands. Beyond the monthly publications he also offers premium services to subscribers, the services include Business Diagnosis, Business registration, Business plan and model development, Organization structuring, Lean startup guide, Business Funding, Human Capacity development, Research and development and other business and organization development services.

AIP Farm is the production arm of Fresh Farm Output (FFO) which is established simply to make fresh food accessible to the low and middle class at a price below luxury cost.

Aspiration

A serial entrepreneur usually has numerous vision of the future but the numerous visions are branches coming out of a larger trunk. The Trunk vision of Ayomikun Akintayo is to significantly contribute to the building of a highly productive Africa, with a robust economy and consistently leading global growth. In terms of his role in this future, he aspires to be on the forefront of Business (SMEs and IDEs) and Organization Development globally constantly pushing the frontiers of possibilities.

Impacts and Achievements

Though his journey has just began, but he has left a few trails behind on his path. He has organized and convened over a score of notable events through various organization during his roles as the leader of such organization. Such events includes, Global Student Congress, Leadership Summits, Series of Trainings, University Conferences, Business clinics, Product exhibitions, secondary school events and many more. These events have hosted notably personals such as the Vice-President Electric (as at then), Leaders of industry and top professionals in various fields

He prides in his capability to achieve record breaking growth rates in any organization he leads and he has demonstrated this in his previous organizations.

His NGO was awarded the best performing NGO run by a Corp member for the Batch B 2015 set by Rivers Kopaz. He also bags some other recognition awards from previous organizations he has worked with in recognition for his immerse recognition to the organization growth.

Some Other notable Points in his life

He was once regarded by his teachers and peers as a dullard without any capacity for retention, he repeated his first year in Senior class Science and he turned around to be an Outperformer, out shining most of his pairs from that point onward.

He is an Introvert. He constantly struggled on the inside to take up the spotlight or facing large audience. He has now worked on himself that people now perceived him to be an extrovert and he regularly address large audience. He recently addressed over 20,000 people at a National convention.

He is from Nigeria and a Spotlight in all spheres of life