Building better pathways to learning, work and opportunity.
I am an educator, technology builder and social innovation practitioner. I have built education technology in Nigeria, contributed to national digital skills work, and now lead academic teams in UK higher education. One aim runs through all of it: helping more people reach learning and opportunity that would otherwise pass them by.
- Co-founded Steamledge, 2017
- Academic Team Lead, Fairfield School of Business
- Microsoft #BuildFor2030 winner, 2022
- Fellow of Advance HE
- Consultant, Nigeria's national digital skills work
What I work on
It looks varied on paper. Underneath it is the same problem examined from different sides: how do you design learning, technology and institutions so that opportunity reaches the people it usually misses?
Education and academic leadership
Leading academic teams, coordinating programmes and supporting student success across three UK university partnerships.
EdTech and product building
Building learning platforms at Steamledge, from accelerated learning for out of school children to live technology classes.
Digital skills and public innovation
Consulting on Nigeria's national digital literacy and skills strategies, and on state level digital transformation.
Social innovation and capital
Learning how patient, well placed investment can help useful social innovations grow without losing their purpose.
Why this work matters to me
I was born and raised in Northern Nigeria, a region with one of the largest populations of out of school children in the world. Growing up, educational inequality was not a statistic to me. It was visible on ordinary streets, in the lives of children the system had simply never reached.
I was fortunate. School worked for me, and it carried me to an engineering degree in the UK. The question that has shaped my career since is a simple one: what would it take for learning to work that well for everyone else?
Everything I have built since, from learning platforms to national skills frameworks to academic teams, is a different attempt at answering it.
Selected work
- Allon Fasaha An accelerated learning platform for children out of school in Northern Nigeria. Winner of the Empowering Communities category in Microsoft's #BuildFor2030 Hackathon.
- TechXplorer Live technology classes, coding and AI learning for school age students, delivered in partnership with schools across Nigeria.
- National digital skills Consulting contributions to Nigeria's National Digital Literacy Framework, the National Digital Skills Strategy and the Smart Katsina digital transformation strategy.
- Higher education leadership Academic team leadership at Fairfield School of Business in Leicester, supporting quality, engagement and student success across three university partnerships.
What I am working towards
Today I lead an academic team in UK higher education, where widening participation is daily, practical work rather than a slogan. Alongside that, I am deliberately learning the craft of early stage investment.
I am increasingly interested in how patient, well placed capital can help useful social innovations grow without losing sight of the people they are meant to serve.
Building products taught me what founders need. Teaching taught me how people actually learn and change. The next chapter is about helping good ideas find the backing they deserve.
Pathways, weekly
A short email pointing to UK rooms worth being in across technology, EdTech, social innovation and impact investment, plus practical guides on building in Nigeria. Readers write back, and that exchange is the point.
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