Builder of businesses.
Writer of what they teach.
I have spent two decades starting companies in Accra, losing some, and rebuilding better. The books carry what the buildings taught me.
Author · Entrepreneur · Career Architect
Replaceable is out.
You don’t have a career. You have a single point of failure you’ve mistaken for stability. Book One of the Career Architecture Series is the blueprint I wish someone had handed me before my first collapse.
I did not learn business in a classroom. I learned it the morning my income died.
I was headhunted before I finished my psychology degree at the University of Ghana, handed a newspaper to run at twenty-something, and certain the path was set. Within a year the paper was gone and my entire income went with it. That was the first lesson. The second cost more.
Since then I have co-founded a book-sourcing business that served banks and universities across three continents, built a signage company from $2,000 to over $300,000 in revenue in two years, survived the year my business partner was murdered on the eve of our biggest contract, and turned a dying billboard business into Brand Rite, a digital marketing practice, by deciding in 2019 instead of reacting the way I had in 2014.
Today I run Brand Rite and My Beautiful Ghana, manage a school of four hundred pupils, hold a stake in a fashion label, and advise fintech and government-technology firms on the documents and strategy that win work. When Covid shut the country in 2020, three of those businesses closed their doors for months. The digital one never stopped billing. That is not luck. That is architecture, and it is what I write about.
Built, lost, rebuilt. The honest account.
Most bios list the wins. A builder’s record has both columns, and the losses taught me more than the wins did.
The losses are on this page on purpose. A career book by someone who never lost anything is a theory. Mine is a record.
What I run today.
Founded 2014, redesigned 2019. Social media management, branding, and out-of-home for clients including EFG Housewares, Golden Pride Export (UK), and the Heal Komfo Anokye Project, a $10 million fundraising campaign.
Ghana’s story, told honestly and fact-checked: features, festivals, news, and tours, with an e-commerce shop shipping from Accra to anywhere DHL flies.
Strategy, proposals, and bid documents for fintech and government technology since 2017, including the winning proposal for a national cocoa-industry enterprise platform.
Acting general manager of a family school of more than 400 pupils and 40 staff: ICT centre built, classrooms rebuilt, teachers rewarded for exam results.
The buildings taught. The books carry it.
Three books, fifteen years apart in lessons. The frameworks in the newest one were first tested in print in 2011 and in business every year since.
The origin of the 3C Framework, the Universal Hiring Rule, and the Risk Reversal Strategy. Written for the Ghanaian job market; the ideas travelled further than the print run.
Find a copyCo-authored with Abiola Bawuah. A story of faith and improbable rising, published in Ghana and available on Amazon.
Get it on AmazonBuilding a Career No Layoff, Merger, or AI Can Erase. Fifteen chapters, twelve frameworks, five diagrams, and a ninety-day plan that starts the week you finish reading. Paperback $16.99 · Kindle $6.99.
Order on Amazonreplaceablebook.com →The documents that win the work, and the strategy behind them.
Twenty years of proposals, pitches, and plans that had to earn real money, for my own companies first and for clients since.
Proposals, expressions of interest, feasibility studies, and pitch decks for fintech, govtech, construction, and NGOs, including grant proposals to the Qatar Fund and the European Union.
Social media strategy, brand repositioning, and content systems through Brand Rite, for businesses from housewares to hospitals to heavy equipment.
More than 500 interviews conducted across my companies and clients since 2017. I speak and advise on hiring well, and on the career frameworks from the books.
Published since my teens.
The Daily Graphic printed me first. The habit never left.
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Download photosCareer architecture in the AI decade. Building businesses in Africa that survive shocks. Hiring after 500 interviews. The one-sheet has all three.
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Consulting, speaking, media, bulk book orders, or a good idea worth hearing. One address reaches me.