by Bayo Adeyinka | Jun 27, 2025 | Inspiration, Life Lessons, Tips and Insights
The lady was perplexed. At least that was how she sounded. I had never worked in Lagos up till that point but I made a request for it. I saw the internal advert for the Lagos role and applied. I was based in Ibadan then and all my career prior to that time was...
by Bayo Adeyinka | Jun 20, 2025 | Business and Career, Inspiration, Tips and Insights
I want to share an experience I had during one of the many interviews I attended over the course of my career. I shared this piece for the first time on May 26th, 2019 and posted it on Twitter (now X) exactly a year after. This experience was so pivotal that I also...
by Bayo Adeyinka | Jun 13, 2025 | Life Lessons, Tips and Insights
A few years ago, I was in South Africa and I stayed in my mentor’s house. One day, he called me from Nigeria and gave me directions to a particular location I had to access by taking the Gautrain. He was on the phone with me almost throughout the journey which...
by Bayo Adeyinka | May 23, 2025 | Life Lessons, Marriage, Tips and Insights
I didn’t plan to write anything. I had been on sabbatical. I wanted our 20th wedding anniversary on July 20, 2022 to be a quiet one. I took my wife for a dinner date and there was a slide put up on the wall to congratulate us for our 20th anniversary. A short...
by Bayo Adeyinka | Mar 28, 2025 | Opinion, Tips and Insights
It was an afternoon that went remarkably well. The sales activation on that campus around Apata, Ibadan, got off to a fantastic start. We had a dance competition and a talent hunt, and the response was overwhelming. Students trooped out to watch the electrifying...
by Bayo Adeyinka | Feb 21, 2025 | Business and Career, Tips and Insights
In the first part of this series, I introduced ten key components that can significantly impact your success in job interviews. I also discussed the first component: your introduction. Now, let’s take a look at the second major component—your confidence level....
