Ideas
Ideas help us understand the world — and imagine how it might be different
I write and conduct research at the intersection of storytelling, leadership, technology, institutions, and human development. What kind of leadership does an age of complexity require? How do stories shape what societies remember and value? What happens when technological capability advances faster than institutional wisdom?
Themes
What role does storytelling play in preserving human dignity?
Storytelling and human flourishing
Narrative as social infrastructure — how stories shape democracy, development, identity, and belonging, and what is lost when people are left out of the stories societies tell about themselves.
What kind of leader does our era require?
Leadership in an age of complexity
Leadership beyond strategy and management — emotional intelligence, moral courage, judgment, and the capacity to help people make meaning amid uncertainty and declining trust.
Can a society grow more capable while becoming less wise?
The civilization of competence
Modern institutions reward expertise, efficiency, and performance. Those matter — and they cannot substitute for character, responsibility, or moral imagination.
Essays
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Leadership, institutions, and the human dimensions of change
My doctoral study examined emotional intelligence and effective leadership during the COVID-19 pandemic among managers at multilateral development institutions. It explored how leaders used self-awareness, self-regulation, motivation, empathy, and social skills while navigating uncertainty, remote work, organizational disruption, and competing stakeholder demands.
The findings reinforced my conviction that leadership effectiveness depends not only on technical competence or authority, but on how leaders understand themselves, relate to others, exercise judgment, and build trust. My wider interests span crisis leadership, organizational resilience, institutional legitimacy, organizational culture and change, strategic communication, digital transformation, the future of work, and practitioner-scholarship.
Books & creative work
My creative work examines how people encounter technology in their ordinary lives — in work, relationships, identities, ambitions, disappointments, and decisions. Alongside the books, I'm developing civic simulations: interactive projects that put participants inside the trade-offs of governance, economic policy, and public decision-making, where competing priorities and imperfect information stop being abstractions.
Forthcoming
Terms & Conditions
Short stories exploring Africans’ experiences with digital technologies.
Forthcoming
i write to you
A memoir about places, people, positions, and power.
World Bank Group Youth Summit · Washington, DC
Talks and public engagement
Drawing on professional practice, academic research, nonprofit leadership, and creative inquiry — making complex ideas accessible without making them simplistic.
Communicating development so people act on it
Why institutional messaging fails the people it is written for, and what to do instead.
AI, the algorithm, and who arbitrates truth
Who decides what is true once recommendation systems became the editors.
Emotional intelligence and leadership in a crisis
From doctoral research on managers at multilateral development institutions through the pandemic.
Education access as economic infrastructure
Lessons from mobilizing $5 million in scholarships and grants across Nigeria and the United States.