Why I Mentor, and How I Actually Do It
Mentorship
Every week someone asks me to mentor them. For years I had no good way to say yes. This is what changed, how my mentorship actually works, and the honest truth about who it is for and who it is not.
Insights on AI strategy, digital marketing, business leadership and technology adoption across Africa and emerging markets.
Mentorship
Every week someone asks me to mentor them. For years I had no good way to say yes. This is what changed, how my mentorship actually works, and the honest truth about who it is for and who it is not.
Digital Sales
People ask me whether selling technology is different from selling anything else. After more than two decades of doing both, my honest answer is yes and no. And the space between those two answers is exactly where most sales careers stall.
AI Strategy
Nigerian companies are racing to adopt AI. But most are doing it wrong in ways that expose them to serious risk. Stanislaus Martins introduces BROAI, Bring Your Own AI, and why it should be keeping boardrooms up at night.
Digital Sales
Africa's digital economy is growing faster than the people trained to sell it. After more than two decades of selling technology on the agency side, the client side and the platform side, I kept meeting the same gap in every market. This is the story of why I finally decided to close it.
AI Strategy
In the boardrooms of Lagos, Nairobi, and Johannesburg, "AI" is often treated as a futuristic buzzword. But for those of us who have spent two decades navigating the complexities of Sub-Saharan...
AI Strategy
The question CFOs ask most is not whether AI is working — it is how they would even know if it were.
Technology
What actually happened when I built and shipped a production application using AI-native development tools.
AI Strategy
The people who will make your AI strategy succeed are probably already on your payroll.
AI Strategy
AI does not respond to mandates. It responds to curiosity and genuine individual conviction.
Technology
How much leverage can a single person with the right AI tools generate? More than anyone expected.
AI Strategy
AI strategy starting with tools instead of problems always fails. Here is what the companies getting it right are doing differently.
Leadership
I did not set out to work three sides of every table. At each stage, something essential was missing.