GEOFF & TOWERS

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A BRIEF PROFILE OF THE CEO
Geoff Kuti Haromi is a business philosopher, a social entrepreneur and a higher life strategist. In 2009 he was part of the team that drafted the first National Youth Manifesto in Nigeria. The erstwhile Personal Administrator to a former Assistant Secretary General of United Nations believes that the 21st century belongs to African entrepreneurs.
In his indomitable quest to raise capitalists out of people without any capital the legendary Christian Business School was founded (to empower Christian entrepreneurs with the relevant skills to take over the market place).
Geoff is also the CEO of Geoff & Towers Consulting Ltd; a leading advisor on business strategy, employee creativity and corporate innovation.
As a motivational speaker and a syndicate moderator for national and international conferences he does not forget to remind African leaders to shift from exporting natural resources to exporting knowledge and ideas and from being a consumer of technology to a producer of technology. His greatest dream is to help people achieve their greatest dreams).
It is generally acclaimed that one minute with Geoff can turn a dwarf into a giant. He is probably the greatest creativity expert in this part of the world……..
He has academic advancement in Public Administration, political economy and a stint at Law.
About Geoff & Towers Consulting Limited
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Geoff & Towers Consulting is an elite management consulting firm and a leading advisor on corporate innovation, employee creativity and organizational development. We partner with clients from the private, public, and not-for-profit sect










ors in Africa to identify their highest-value opportunities, address their most critical challenges, and transform their enterprises. Our greatest dream is to help our clients achieve their greatest dream through the implementation of smart strategy.
Our systematic, engaging and interactive training(s) promises to make your employees smarter than the sharpest guys in Wall Street and even creative as the best brains in Silicon Valley. We are opting to challenge, educate and maximize the full potential of your workforce.
Our customized approach combines deep insight into the dynamics of companies and markets with close collaboration at all levels of the client organization. This ensures that our clients achieve sustainable-competitive advantage, build more capable organizations, and secure lasting results. We seek to be agents of change for our clients, our people, and society overall.
We are committed to:
Creating competitive advantage through unique solutions
Building a ladder where aspiring business leaders, employees and organizations will rise
Building capabilities and mobilizing organizations towards their goals
Driving sustainable impact through strategy implementation
Providing unparalleled opportunities for personal and organizational growth
Succeeding together with passion and trust
Training and educating any workforce anywhere in the world
We are the Partner of choice to transform business and society. At Geoff & Towers Consulting Ltd we believe that to build a healthy and sustainable organization, the CEO needs to have the
Right game plan (strategy)
The right leadership (people management)
The right corporate culture
And a creative workforce
Plans fail for lack of counsel, but with many advisers they succeed. Geoff & Towers Strategy Consultants is that trusted adviser to CEO’s on these four crucial areas of Strategy, Leadership, corporate culture and Creativity.
We believe that the number one skill for business leaders to succeed in the New Economy is the ability to develop and implement business strategy.
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A diagram indicating strategy; the game of CEO’S

Top three most important skills for a CEO to possess are Strategy, Human Resource Management, and Marketing. With Geoff & Towers this big three dimensions will be taking care of with absolute substantiality. It’s our hope to communicate and deliver an image of integrity, stability, values, and leadership.
Jim Collins wrote in 1997 that the strategic frame of reference for many businesses is expanded by focusing on why a company exists rather than what it makes.  In 2001, he recommended that organizations define themselves based on three key questions:
What are we passionate about?
What can we be best in the world at?
What drives our economic engine?
As a team we have adopted these 3 questions not as rhetoric but as a fundamental question we seek to ask our vast network of amazing clients.


6 principals on how Geoff & Towers advice CEO’s
Geoff & Towers Strategy Consulting is committed to adhering to the following executive coaching principals when providing trusted advice to its CEO clients.
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To discuss how to implement strategic planning
To test and analyze a workable corporate culture
To unleash business intelligence through creativity and corporate innovation
To present thoughtful and objective advice (on the importance of knowledge, ideas, information and skills as the new raw materials for local and international commerce)
To think proactively about opportunities and threats in the future
To market organizations products and services against the odds
The truth is that the CEO is always looking for a solution to a problem which we are proud to be.
Our Mission
To make our clients smarter than their competitors.
Our Vision
To be the bank of ideas of Africa leading companies; famous for turning dwarfs into giants
The fulfillment of this mission will:
Enable clients to build and grow their company in a healthy manner.
Remember and honor the “spirit of the people” first.
Enhance an organization’s desired performance.
Promote leadership based on Biblical principles.
Our Training & Development Goals

To turn the weakest link (employee) into the organizations strongest and most valuable asset.
Our Challenge
Give us your weakest staffs and employees and we are sure to transform them into the smartest and the strongest link in the workforce. That is our promise.
Our Ethics
The ethics that guide Geoff & Towers Consulting are as follows:
We are committed to acting in an ethical manner with both clients and candidates characterized by truthfulness and a high level of integrity;
We seek to serve clients who share our concern for integrity and demonstrate it by their good business practices, fair treatment of employees, and the superior quality of their products or services;
Our work is done at senior management levels, and as a result, our clients trust us to share future plans, problems that need correction, and planned changes in key personnel;
Information obtained from clients, candidates, and candidate references is viewed as sensitive material, requiring discretion and confidentiality in its handling.
Our conclusion is that all our clients are members of our big family
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Apply This to Your Life
Practice strategy development by thinking about your own, personal circumstances. Complete the analyses below to think about your personal way forward. Here are some key questions to consider:
What are your personal strengths, weaknesses, opportunities or threats, and what are your "core competencies"?
What are you capable of achieving if you put your mind to it?
What are the "big picture" trends in your environment?
How can you monitor or adapt to these external factors?
How can you improve or add color to these factors?
Who are the people who are important to your success (your stakeholders)?
What options do you have?
Which of these should you consider?
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WHY DOES A BUSINESS NEED STRATEGY
“Strategy is the direction and scope of an organization over the long term, which achieves advantage in a changing environment through its configuration of resources and competences with the aim of fulfilling stockholder expectations” Johnson et al (2008)1
Without a strategy an existing business can drift away from its customers and become uncompetitive within its environment and eventually stops making profit, this is known as Strategic Drift. Therefore having a strategy is a way to remain competitive or a way of forcing a strategic change when an organization has drifted away from its environment and is starting to fail.
Most small businesses have a strategy in the form of a business plan; this is usually a standard document generated to convince either an advisor or a bank they have a good idea and have thought about it. The UK government’s (Business Link 2010) business advice recommends at least some SWOT analysis and financial forecasting within its business plan template. This type of strategic business plan is then used to secure funding from the stakeholders.
Strategy has a military history, going back at least to 600 b.c. with The Art of War by Sun Tzu, and as such has been mostly concerned with competitiveness. How to win a battle with your competitors has been the main stay of strategic literature for many year, with positioning of products (Strategic choice) aim to make the business better than the competition.
More recently, strategic tools are being used in the creation of vision and mission statements; to be communicated to the stakeholders. These have a number of uses: Firstly, to help sell the idea of the company to its investors to secure resources for expansion. Secondly, the move to culture based management; where the organisation rely on its culture to inform the employees choices, enabling them to make the correct decisions at all levels without strict supervision.
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What is a Strategic Plan?
In the same way that following a great recipe makes a great meal, having a great strategic plan provides you with a clear path to accomplishing key business goals.
A strategic plan’s function is to declare the purpose of your business, the goals you hope to achieve over a five-year period, and how you plan to get there. The key to doing this is working out the details. Try a “what and how” exercise: What does the business want to accomplish in five years and how will it achieve those goals?
There are also several other ways to analyze the business in order to determine attainable goals. Completing a SWOT Analysis (Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities and Threats) is one example. Beyond identifying the SWOT, use your company’s strengths to capture opportunities, mitigate threats and overcome weaknesses by helping to change the path of your business.
In addition to goal setting, a strategic plan also provides an opportunity for your business to assess its current operations and explore future possibilities. By knowing “where it is”, the company has a benchmark to move forward from. The process of strategic planning can then assist you in looking outside of daily operations to find new areas that are ripe for growth.
Reasons for Having a Strategic Plan
A precise and well researched strategic plan is the blueprint for your company’s growth. When a business functions well and avoids or neutralizes competition, it is able to expand without limits.
Having a clearly stated mission will allow your company to move forward efficiently, with a concerted effort in reaching your goals. Understanding your business opportunities and threats will allow your employees to focus on searching for new, relevant outlets for products or services. And by allowing your employees time and resources to contribute their part to the overall success of the company, you will motivate and inspire your workforce as well as receive the rewards of their efforts.
The Best Timing for a Strategic Plan
Although strategic planning is typically done during the growth stage of your business, there can be other influences on your business where planning is critical. For example, if your company is anticipating succession or any other significant change, strategic planning can mean the difference between a smooth transition and a complete loss of direction. This disruption can cause the loss of employees and productivity, and may incur financial losses for your business, if it has not been planned for fully.
A clearly written and easy-to-follow strategic plan will keep your business on track throughout any expected or unexpected changes that may affect you. The plan creates an organized flow of work while minimizing losses due to confusion.

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