"The confusion for us was -- Every time we ran trainings, people would say to us, "This is the best thing we have ever experienced in our lives." We were that good; we just felt the world needs to hear us, but we were not getting jobs with the world." - Bankole Williams, Founder & Principal Consultant, LYD Consulting; Founder, Live Your Dreams Africa Foundation.  

On this episode, the concluding part of our chat with Bankole Williams, we explore Bankole, in pursuit of his dream, leaving Guaranty Trust Bank to start his consulting career at Visible Impact, moving on from there to start Edgeecution with Steve Harris, and then, moving on to birth LYD Consulting. We also talk about his lessons, challenges, habits and practices.

Today, Bankole Williams is a Management Consultant, Peak Performance Expert, Author, Speaker, Therapist, and Entrepreneur.

He is the Founder & Principal Consultant at LYD Consulting, and has delivered consulting interventions for banks and different organizations including The Nigerian Communication Commission (NCC), the World Bank, Guaranty Trust Bank (now GTCO), Access Bank, Diamond (now Access Diamond) Bank, Skye (now Polaris) Bank, Union Bank, Heritage Bank, Stanbic IBTC Bank, First Bank, Fidelity Bank, Oando, NLNG, Google, UTC, and the Nigerian Stock Exchange. 

Bankole Williams is also a Social Reformer with a goal to solve the problems of unemployment and underemployment through his foundation – Live Your Dreams Africa Foundation.

He is often regarded as the mind surgeon.

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