Temitope Olotin
Keynotes for sales kick-offs, leadership offsites and conferences: one question your people will still be asking on Monday.
Booking January to September 2027 · keynotes from ₦8,000,000 plus travel
Four keynotes, each built for a different room
Every talk is rewritten for your audience after a planning call. Pick the room you have; the lengths and formats follow.
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The Possibility Question
For sales kick-offs and all-hands that need a flat year to feel winnable.
Rooms of 300 to 9,000 people
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Hard Rooms
For sales leaders and customer teams who have to change a mind in thirty minutes.
Rooms of 50 to 1,500 people
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Teach It Back
For leadership offsites of 20 to 80 managers who coach by telling.
Rooms of 20 to 80 people
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The Unfinished Classroom
For education and association conferences: learning that still works in week six.
Rooms of 200 to 3,000 people
312 events in 17 countries since 2014
From a leadership team of 12 in a hotel library to 9,000 people in an arena. Organisations Jordan has spoken for include:
- Harlow Mutual
- Calderon Foods
- Kestova Software
- Marrowind Logistics
- Tessel Bank
- Brightwater Health
- Orvane Pharmaceuticals
- Lumora Hotels
- Pellam Insurance
- Northgate Credit Union
- Fenwick Schools Trust
- Westbrook University
- Quarry Point Energy
- Strand & Hale
- Alder Street Retail
- Ridgeline Outdoor
What an organiser said
Next on the calendar
Two of the next ten are open to the public. If Jordan is already in your city that week, the travel is shared.
Fenwick Schools Trust Staff Day
Ibadan, Oyo State · 2,300 teachers
Private event
What a keynote costs, and how booking works
Fees are per event, plus travel at cost. Schools and non-profits: two dates a quarter at a reduced fee.
Keynote, in person
from ₦8,000,000
Keynote, outside Nigeria
from ₦11,000,000
Virtual keynote
from ₦4,000,000
Send your date
Date, city or virtual, audience and budget. Mara replies within one working day.
A free hold
We hold the date for ten working days while you get sign-off.
Contract and deposit
A one-page contract; a 50% deposit confirms the date.
Planning call
Four to six weeks out, with you and anyone who knows the audience.
On the day
Sound check, the session, Q&A, and a follow-up note within the week.
The book behind the keynote
"The Possibility Question: How teams find growth in a flat year" (Calloway Press, 2022).
Two hundred interviews with managers who kept their teams trying through a bad year, and the classroom question that ties them together. Many organisers give a copy to every seat.
Hardback ₦22,000, signed ₦28,000; event copies ₦13,200 each from 100, with a signed bookplate.
Two minutes on stage
A keynote speaker is easier to judge than to describe. Watch the reel, then ask for the full recordings.
Reel 2:00 · full keynotes 45 to 60 minutes
What happens in those two minutes
Each half-minute is a different keynote. Jump straight to the one you are thinking of booking.
- 0:00The Unfinished ClassroomThe opening story: a room of sixteen-year-olds and one question on the board.
- 0:30The Possibility QuestionThe question itself, and 2,600 people writing it down.
- 1:00Hard RoomsTwo volunteers, one cold meeting, and the teach-back that warms it.
- 1:30Teach It BackManagers practising a ten-minute coaching conversation, and the close.
What organisers said afterwards
Jordan rewrote half the day after our pre-call, using our own depot problems. Forty-eight managers, and nobody touched their phone.
Priya RamanChief People Officer, Marrowind LogisticsLeadership Offsite 2026 · 48 managers The easiest speaker I have managed: a one-page AV rider, in the room for sound check at seven, and finished on the minute.
Luis OrtegaEvent Producer, Great Lakes School Leaders ConferenceOpening keynote 2026 · 1,400 attendees Our virtual audience stayed for the questions, which never happens. Two of our directors asked for Hard Rooms for their own teams.
Hannah ColeDirector of Learning, Northgate Credit UnionLeadership Forum 2025 · 420 online
Recent stages
What the organiser asked for, what Jordan did and how the room rated it.
Marrowind Logistics Leadership Offsite
Calabar, Cross River State · 48 regional managers
Recap
Read the recap
On podcasts, radio and in print
Interviews give organisers a longer listen than the reel.
Episode 212: "Why your kickoff is forgotten by March"
Podcast · The Front Row
· 48 minutes
Jordan on asking better questions in a hard year
Radio · Monday Leadership Hour
· 22 minutes
The rooms Jordan plays
The same ideas work for 20 people and for 9,000; the format changes. Start from the size of your audience.
An offsite room
20 to 80 people
Teach It Back as a half or full day: managers in pairs, their own problems on the table.
Teach It Back
A ballroom
300 to 1,500 people
Hard Rooms or The Possibility Question, with volunteers on stage and the room working in pairs.
Hard RoomsAn arena
2,000 to 9,000 people
The Possibility Question as an opening keynote: big screens, one question, everyone writing it down.
The Possibility Question
Seen enough? Hold a date for ten working days, free.
Booking January to September 2027. Send the date, the city and the audience size, and Mara Okafor replies within one working day.
I taught sixteen-year-olds for eight years. Now I teach rooms of 3,000 to ask better questions.
Organisers book me for sales kick-offs, leadership offsites and education conferences, and for talks their people still use the week after.
Which keynote fits your event?
Read across from your event and your audience size. A leadership offsite of 60 is Teach It Back; 800 sales leaders is Hard Rooms or The Possibility Question.
| Keynote | Best for | Audience | Length | Formats |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| The Possibility Question | Sales kick-offs, company all-hands and conference openings | 300 to 9,000 people | 45 or 60 min | Keynote and Virtual |
| Hard Rooms | Sales leadership meetings, customer-facing teams and partner conferences | 50 to 1,500 people | 50 min or half day | Keynote and Workshop and Virtual |
| Teach It Back | Leadership offsites, new-manager programmes and team retreats | 20 to 80 people | 3.5 or 7 hours | Workshop and Keynote |
| The Unfinished Classroom | Education conferences, school staff days and professional associations | 200 to 3,000 people | 45 min | Keynote and Virtual |
Fees from, before you ask
Per event, plus travel at cost: one return flight from Lagos and a night in a hotel near the venue.
Keynote, in person
from ₦8,000,000
Anywhere in Nigeria. 45 to 60 minutes, a planning call, a sound check on the day and 15 minutes of Q&A.
Virtual keynote
from ₦4,000,000
40 minutes and live Q&A from Jordan's studio, with a technical rehearsal the week before.
Keynote and workshop, one trip
from ₦14,000,000
The keynote to the whole room, then the workshop with its leaders, on the same day or the next.
Virtual, from a proper studio
Two cameras, broadcast sound and a fibre line with a 4G backup. Jordan joins your platform, or sends a link to a private stream. A technical rehearsal the week before is part of the fee.
Virtual keynotes from ₦4,000,000, 40 minutes and live Q&A.
Ask for a virtual dateFor the MC and the production team
Everything you need before the day, on one page, without emailing anyone.
Introduction script
Sixty seconds for your MC, with how to say "Reese".
Headshots
Three photos at print size: portrait, square and on stage.
Short and long bio
50 and 200 words, ready to paste into your programme.
AV rider
One page: a headset microphone, a confidence monitor and a clicker.
What planners ask first
Still unsure? Send the date and the audience and Mara Okafor will answer the rest.
Four to six months for an in-person keynote in the dry season, October to March, which fills first. Shorter notice often works: send the date and we will tell you the same day.
Preparation, one or two planning calls, the session, a sound check, Q&A and a follow-up note for your team. Travel is billed at cost after the event, with receipts.
Yes, for your own people, at no extra charge. Recording for public release or resale is agreed in the contract.
Yes. Bureaus keep their commission and their client; send the client's name and date and we will hold it for you.
Two dates a quarter are kept for education and non-profit events at a reduced fee. Ask when you send your date.
The keynote moves with it at the virtual fee, and the difference is refunded or carried to a later date.