I used to examine eyes. Now I examine businesses.
These days I help businesses get real value out of AI and help people get hired when they’re starting over. Different clients, same job: find what’s stuck and get it moving.
Mid-keynote. Barry was fine.I started my career as an optometrist and university lecturer in Nigeria. Then I moved to Canada for a postgraduate degree and started again from zero.
Starting over teaches you things a job title never will.
I rebuilt my career in project management, then AI governance, and kept seeing the same thing: good ideas don’t fail because they’re bad. They fail because nobody turns them into a plan people actually follow.
So I built three companies to fix that. Ciniji Group helps organizations pick the right AI, set it up, put guardrails around it and get their teams using it for real. AdaEmma teaches practical interview strategies that get people hired, especially when they’re starting over. Leeorum is death to the résumé: video work profiles that show the projects people have actually delivered, so employers hire for real work.
Find what’s stuck.
Figure out why.
Get it moving.
Different rooms. Same problem.
Whether it’s a company or a career, the work usually stalls in the same place: between knowing what should happen and actually making it happen.
Sometimes that’s a company that bought AI tools nobody opens. Sometimes it’s a team with a big initiative and no clear owner. Sometimes it’s a professional with ten years of experience and no idea how to explain it in an interview. The rooms change. The problem rarely does.
And yes, I’ll tell you if you don’t need AI.