Happy ending stories are elixirs to our
disturbed moments on planet earth. There are those we meet in this great
journey of uncertainties called life, that pat us on our backs as we
struggled to push to the finish lines of our desired destinations. These
travellers impacted our lives in some strange ways: they added value to
our existence, redirected our minds and enhanced our spirits to live
beyond a day by powering us to stay focused, despite stressful
distractions, to our objectives and desired goals in life.
Dayo Olomu is one of the hybrid super
energy species with the gift of empowerment. He circulates London as one
of the most recognised and gifted inspirational motivators of our
generation. His breed is rare but when we are blessed with such an
endowment, the human spirit and attitude becomes beneficiary of that
element and purpose.
Olomu has been a mentor to Africans in
the Diaspora especially in the United Kingdom since 1996. He is one of
the most influential Africans in UK. He is a leading human capital
development and business transformation strategist; and an accomplished
award winning event presenter.
He is the vice chairman of Chartered
Institute of Personnel Development South London; member, Governing
Council, Davidson Primary School in Croydon, Surrey; founder, African
Professional Speakers Academy; founding president, Croydon Communicators
Toastmasters Club.
The talent and call to these selfless
services take him across Europe and America as one of Nigeria’s most
desired engagers. Olomu is raking up mileage across both continents,
seeking the weak and hopeless, encouraging them to find that pulse
within their heartbeats, pushing them to be successful citizens of the
world.
Olomu is uniquely engaging and profoundly
outstanding. He is articulate and irrepressible, addressing and
training more than 150,000 people each year on personal and professional
development, achieving peak performance, wealth creation, success,
motivation, networking, mentoring, management, relationship, personal
success, customer service and goal setting. His books are best sellers
amongst the African community in UK and America. His audience benefits
from his lectures on leadership, good governance, business growth,
relationship building, strategic positioning, decision making, workflow
management and many other diverse topics.
His candid passion, high-energy and
inspirational presentations and compelling styles, unique fusion of
Nigerian and British cultures, give his presentations a distinctive,
oratory edge and enables him to deliver his powerful messages to
audiences with warmth and substance.
He travels around the world impacting
positively on professionals and businesses, and encouraging them to
achieve extraordinary results, increase performance and profit
exponentially.
“Jebose, My passion is adding value to
lives, helping to grow people and helping organisations to increase
productivity, performance and profit. My core belief is that we are all
endowed with the seeds of greatness. My fulfillment is seeing the
results of my principles and strategies being transformed into people’s
lives. My core values which underpin everything I do revolve around 5Fs:
Faith, Family, Fitness, Fairness and Friendship. My ‘FACE’ values which
drive my businesses are: Fairness, Agility, Courage and Excellence,
while my brand value is to offer values for money and quality products
and services with an element of fun.
“My view of national development is to
make our country great; we have a role to play by doing something in the
community where we reside. My motto is if you want to obtain something
you’ve never had in your life, you must be ready to do things you’ve
never done before in your life,” he says.
The placid fanciful and privileged flight
of his new life was not built on a smooth network of roads in life.
Olomu dug deeper through the trenches and terrains of life to get to
these blazing tunnels, alongside his late brother, Wale, one of
Nigeria’s most respected entertainment journalists of the 90s.
From his London home, Olomu opens the
curtains of early life with his mother and late older brother thus:
“Wale and I would hawk candies, iced waters: that was before pure water
birth, and biscuits in the neighbourhood to support our mother. By age
10, I had acquired the thirst to achieve greatness from selling iced
water and biscuits on the streets of Lagos, to support my mother. The
best things that happened to me were growing up ‘on the other side of
the track,’ without the privilege of wealthy parents. Anything I wanted,
I had to hustle to get.
“I was born in 1965 to late Rufus
Ekundayo and Florence Olomu at Islington in North London. Our parents
came to the United Kingdom for studies in the 60s. After my father
graduated, the family moved back to Nigeria in 1967. I was raised by my
mother, a widow who had no education and no money. My mother had a big
heart. She was a wonderful woman. She trained and protected me. I
greatly benefited from the charming and loving wealth of her wisdom. She
made me believe that the keys to success are hard work and faith in
God. She was an enduring and profound influence in my life. She sold her
properties to send my late brother and me to school. Her goals were
simple; she wanted me to impact the world, go places she dreamt of but
couldn’t visit and impact and empower my society. She always encouraged
me to make a difference. When I left secondary school, I vowed to
succeed in life. That promise has been my guiding light”.
The eighties were the best of everything
entertainment in Nigeria’s social lifestyle. Music and show business
were huge. Olomu swiftly made a cross over from traditional bystander
and watcher of the trappings and swaggers of entertainment business and
graciously rolled into the scenes as one of the youngest showbiz
managers of that era, with an outstanding A list of artists on his
roasters and working for mega public relations and events managers in
the country.
“Jebose, the two most important days in
my life were the day I was born and the day I discovered the reasons why
I was born. I always wanted to be in the entertainment industry. May be
I knew what I wanted.
“The turning point in my life occurred
when I was 15. I discovered myself. I knew that I wanted to make a
career in the entertainment industry. I wanted showbiz. I also craved
fame. I wanted to be the promotions manager of one of the three biggest
record companies in Nigeria – making superstars out of stars. I started
listening to the then Radio Nigeria Channel 2, reading Punch on
Saturdays, especially its entertainment page called Saturday Highlife. I
started out by being a member of Ladi Ayodeji Fans Club. He was then
the entertainment editor of Punch. I also began hanging out with you and
late Captain Jerry Agbeyegbe at Radio Lagos to learn more about showbiz
and its practitioners.
“Author, George Bernard Shaw said: “the
people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for
the circumstances they want, and if they can’t find them, make them.”
I put this into practice by creating the
circumstances I wanted. In 1982 at 17 I gate-crashed into the launching
of Tera Kota’s album Lamentations for Sodom where I met all those who
mattered in the entertainment industry. Since then, I have been hooked
onto the entertainment business.
“I quickly excelled in the entertainment
industry because I had this drive and desire to obstruct the business.
Jebose, I felt the whole show biz concept belonged to me and I pushed
harder. Thus, I got a management gig with Jambo’s express. By the time I
approached Mr. Yemi Akeju, Chairman of Ideas communications, a
respected public relations firm that packaged the Nigeria Music Awards,
for a job in 1990; I knew I was ready because I was very vast with ideas
of the entertainment industry.
“You’ve got to start thinking of yourself
in the future and see yourself there. I remembered Mr. Akeju telling me
at the interview that though I didn’t have experience, I had ideas, so
he hired me. After winning the award of the best new staff at Ideas
Communication Limited, where I worked as the project coordinator in
charge of concert in 1989, I moved to DP Lekki, the biggest concert
promoter in Nigeria then where I was head of media relations,” he said.
Olomu has turned his worthy service of
enhancing professional lives into philanthropy; donating his time and
career in service to the less privileged in the society.
“Jebose, I feel great and fulfilled
seeing the results in people and organisations that I have helped
transform as they have choices and new strategies to help them live a
more fulfilling and empowered life, become who they had always wanted to
be. I am happy that I have been able to restore beliefs and confidence
to many who have lost them, vision to those who can no longer see and
cure many people of blindness. I am enjoying the products of my dream
and vision,” the motivational speaker stated ecstatically.
Source:punchng.com
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