Financial modeling consultancy & trainer focused on the investment banking industry. 20Yrs -Trained 50K+ in 30 countries.
Lagos, Nigeria
Joined January 2016
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The @dbctraining Financial Modeling Academy Africa Scholarship is here again.
The new cohort starts soon so jump in and register to start your journey to earning a living building real world financial models for a global clientele.
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“𝘐 𝘩𝘢𝘷𝘦 𝘵𝘳𝘢𝘷𝘦𝘭𝘭𝘦𝘥 𝘵𝘰 𝘴𝘦𝘷𝘦𝘳𝘢𝘭 𝘤𝘰𝘶𝘯𝘵𝘳𝘪𝘦𝘴, 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘐 𝘩𝘢𝘷𝘦 𝘯𝘦𝘷𝘦𝘳 𝘩𝘢𝘥 𝘴𝘶𝘤𝘩 𝘢 𝘸𝘢𝘳𝘮 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘴𝘱𝘦𝘤𝘪𝘢𝘭 𝘳𝘦𝘤𝘦𝘱𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯.” - Executive Director, (FMI)
Well that's what happens when DBC is in charge of the welcome!
#AFMS2026
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We are now counting down the hours to the first ever financial modeling summit in Africa brought to you by dbrownconsulting and the Financial Modeling Institute (FMI)!
The summit holds tomorrow by 9AM and you can register to join us here: bit.ly/AFMSUMMIT
See you there!
#AFMS2026
Amazing Summit today in Lagos.
Topic: she models she leads - Power moves for women thriving in finance.
@dbctraining @FMI_Institute
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We are bringing Ian Schnoor, closer to the finance community in Lagos, Nigeria! 🤩
REGISTER HERE 👉 forms.cloud.microsoft/r/6DHg…
#FinancialModeling #FinancialModelingInstitute #FMI #AFMS2026 #dbrownconsulting
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A 25-year-old housewife in Chennai, India, earns ₹250/hour ($3) just by doing her normal housework. These first-person videos get sent to AI companies.
She's part of a growing economy where thousands are filming everyday life to train the robots of tomorrow.
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"There are two kinds of thoughts: those that think 'AI is going to take my job,' and those that think 'AI is going to create plenty of work, business, and opportunities.' Yes, it may take part of my role, but I’m going to add five more roles because I can do ten more things."
Speaking at the Learning and Development Network International 2026 @CtdConference, David Brown, LDM, President of LDNI, highlighted the organisation’s efforts to build a stronger foundation for a more connected and innovative professional network
Watch full Highlight: youtu.be/AM1ngg2r_mM
#CTD2026 is live and already creating relationships of change.
Our keynote speaker Dr Emomotimi Agama the DG of SEC speaking on the Future of L&D: High-Tech without losing High-Touch
Governance = Humility and Service captured in a song by the Thailand Prime Minister with his Solo Guitarist, the Prime Minister of Singapore!!
Meanwhile, in Bangkok, Thailand’s prime minister sang “Let It Be” and “Blowin’ in the Wind” as Singapore’s prime minister played guitar.
#Thailand #Singapore
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in 11days join some of Africa’s leading experts on talent development in Lagos. @dbrownAnalyst @ldni_nigeria @ColEdebiri @banjo_victor @chizzywhizzy @enmichael @atd @cipmnigeria
#talentdevelopment
#TalentManagement
#TalentNow
#CTD2026
#LDNINigeria
#HumanCenteredLearning
Will AI Stop your Kids from Learning?
"Limited evidence, points one way: AI can boost learning productivity, but only for those who use the technology intelligently; byt resisting the temptation to reach for an AI-generated answer before thinking things through for themselves"
A FREE Half Day Session to Clarify your Capabilities in growing Talent!
learn about the 23 Capabilities every Leader of teams L&D or Talent Professional needs to be aware of to grow teams, orgs & the Community. 11am WAT Wed, Aug 26. absolutely FREE.
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10 years of experience? Or 1 year of experience repeated 10 times?
Expertise becomes dangerous when experience turns into authority and authority kills curiosity.
The data changed. Did your thinking?
You Have a Thinking Problem.
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🤖 Made with AI
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Anthropic hired this engineer at $250K-$750K/year because he can build knowledge graphs for multi-agent systems
In this 15-minute workshop, he shows exactly how to build one with loops from scratch
step 1 → start with the Claude Agent SDK - loop, context, and sandbox are already handled
step 2 → split the brain from the hands - reasoning in one place, tools in a sandbox, ~60% faster to first token
step 3 → run it server-side and log every step - close your laptop and it keeps going, crashes resume from the log
step 4 → make failure cheap - retry dead sandboxes and replay lost context instead of starting over
step 5 → turn yesterday's logs into new memory and skills - it wakes up smarter
Anthropic calls this "dreaming"
Most people spend weeks wiring this by hand
You don't have to
Watch it, bookmark it, then read the full graph guide below ↓
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Downstream oil and gas for instance runs on very low margins 10% ish, so $50m, $35m reinvested, $15m ditrubuted amongst shareholders in dividends yearly.
But then the shareholder that gets $1.5m goes to buy a second hand accidented Rolls Royce from America gets mobile police, gets one small flat in Banana Island and is christened as a Nigerian billionaire.
Even before the GREAT devaluation of 2015, Nigeria had only about 40 companies generating more than $500m in annual revenue.
After years of currency devaluation, that number is probably about 20 in dollar terms.
So when people casually talk about Nigeria having hundreds of “secret” or “invisible” billionaires, I genuinely wonder where these fortunes are supposed to be coming from.
Remember the SI unit of billionaire is US dollar,
More Education = Lower Financial Outcomes Comparatively speaking!! What does this tell us?
I think this is illustrative of a broader blindspot in policymaking. Education policy is key to economic growth as a country moves from low to high income, but after a certain point the opposite force becomes stronger: *the economy drives educational outcomes*.
The UK outperforms most of its peers on education, whether measured in international school assessments, university attendance or measures of adult skills.
But for the past two decades it has done very badly on the economy: weak productivity growth, stagnant wages and continued loss of skilled manufacturing jobs.
So rather than strong education performance making everyone happy or better-off, it has made everyone angry that they put in the work, acquire the skills, but end up with crap outcomes, often worse than their parents.
Full piece: ft.com/content/1c4a641c-42f4…
Work hard and you will succeed! lies!
You succeed by first being mentally tough! That is the only thing that allows you to work hard and kill procrastination. 🚀😀
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Hey You 👀
Registrations are OPEN!
Enroll now into the Financial Modeling Academy and take the next step in building your financial modelling skills.
Click here 👉🏼 bit.ly/FMARoutes OR Hit the link in our bio to get started!
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