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CORPORATE PROFILE

WHO WE ARE

First Strategy International is a thought leader indeveloping the theory and practice of economic,leadership, professional and workplace strategies. Inkeeping with our mandate, and as a flagship public,private sector consulting organization, FirstStrategy International have continually showncommitment in organising inspiring and impactfultraining/workshop for public and private sectorinstitutions within Africa and beyond; from Abuja toNew York, Nairobi to Dubai, Accra to Johannesburg,Paris, London etc, the focus has remainedconsistent. Our management consultancy solutionsare premised on excellence and innovation. FSIanalyses various organizational problems, developsimprovement plans, deploys those plans andmonitors the plans to ensure improvedorganizational performance.

We leverage on a network of excellent partnershipwith world renowned consultants and think tanks inthe US, Asia and Europe who carefully enlist theservices of some of the best brains in the industryand the professions to provide combined wealth ofexpertise, re-engineered systems and cutting edgeservices across a broad spectrum of sectors. With somany years of hands-on experience, ourcommitment to excellence has made us a leadingbrand in consultancy and human capacitydevelopment.

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FSI PROFILE

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Our primary focus is designing, developing anddelivering both off-site and on-site strategicprogrammes. Our goal is to help clients mitigaterisks and maximise returns, while building aconfident and competent workforce. Ourinterest is in strengthening and creatingcapacity by exploring the creative ingenuities ofthe human mind and combining cutting edgetechnologies and expertise to deliver continuousworkshops that will equip organisationalworkforce for greater performance with panacheand speed.

Our programmes are spread across virtually allknowledge areas to promote growth in theindividual and the workforce at large.

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OUR FOCUS

❖Public Sector Executive Seminars

❖International Development Trainings

❖Parliamentary Workshops

❖Security Trainings

❖Gender Based Workshops

❖Business Expansion Services

❖Process and Policy Transformation

❖Human Resources Management Service

❖B2B Meetings

❖Tax, Accounting & Financial Advisory Services

❖ICT Consulting

OUR EXPERTISE


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PUBLIC SECTOR EXECUTIVE SEMINARS

Never has leading organizations in the public sector been morechallenging. In an increasing complex managerial environment,executive development has to be about more than improvingcertain skills set.

At FSI Consulting, emphases are directed towards launchingprograms to strengthen leadership capabilities of senior publicservice officials and to facilitate the exchange of experiences andbest practices amongst them.

Our team have sufficient experience working with leaders fromfederal, provincial, territorial and municipal levels of government.We understand that each organization has its own uniquechallenges and objectives. We design a customized curriculum thatcaters to the training needs of clients.

Our Public Sector Executive Development Program is highlyflexible and brings executive education to your doorstep. Wedeliver in a variety of formats, including:

➢Executive Roundtable Exclusive session➢Executive Open Session➢Full or half-day hands-on session➢Working dinners, with a keynote address➢Strategic management and public policy discussions➢Luncheon speakers, with interactive dialogue➢Case study examinations and system thinking


The seminar is designed to raise participants to new levels ofperformance by:

➢Using leading edge concepts for thriving in a changing andcomplex

public sector environment➢Exploring effective leadership strategies➢Developing key relationships for goal achievement➢ Successfully implementing winning strategies➢Learning from private and public sector innovations and bestpractices

The program is also structured to challenge high-potentialpublic sector leaders in improving both personal performanceand enhancing organizational strategy by:

➢Inspiring and motivating high-performance work teams➢Strengthening leadership skills and strategic thinking➢Balancing strategy development with implementation-puttingplans into

actions➢Forming action plans to maximize strengths➢Deepening the understanding of key organizational functions➢Gaining organizational support at all levels


INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT TRAINING

Whether you are in the private sector, an NGO,government department or UN agency, we have arange of international development trainingcourses to suit your needs. These training aredesigned and run as either open courses or in-house training to meet your organizations wideneeds.


PARLIAMENTARY TRAINING

FSI Consulting organizes series of highlyinformative and interactive courses thatprovide an insight into the workings ofparliament, government and policy making.

These training are designed to build thecapacity of both members and staff ofParliaments as well as serve as a resourcecentre for individuals or organizations, whichmay require having the knowledge of theworkings and processes of parliaments andother legislative bodies.


SECURITY WORKSHOP

With the support of our partners in the UK ANDUS, we provide cutting edge training service inareas such as defence and homeland security,counter-terrorism, physical security, intelligence,anti-terrorism and force protection.

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GENDER BASED WORKSHOP

Overview:Research has shown that Women have natural leadership skillsthat add to the bottom line when incorporated and utilized.While studies indicates that ignoring women’s productivepotential equals a colossal setback with significant consequencefor individuals, organizations, economies and governments, theWorld Bank Group nonetheless takes as its startling point thatno country, community or economy can achieve its potential ormeet the challenges of the 21st century without the full andequal engagement of women and men.

Our commitment towards inspiring a multilateral emancipationof women leaders in the new frontier is driving by passion andthe consciousness that global empowerment of women and thegirl child requires persistence and multilateral commitment torealize change on a global scale.

These workshops are delivered over a four-day session and aredesigned to strengthen participants’ leadership capabilities,decision-making, conflict resolution, emotional intelligence,team leadership, and consensus-building. It is further expandedby mentoring, community projects, and networkingopportunities, this one-of-a-kind program challenges women todiscover and embrace their unique gifts and to use them withconfidence to have a positive impact in their personal andprofessional lives.

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More often than not, most women struggle with how to develop their ownleadership styles and effectively enhance their power and status within anorganization. To achieve the highest levels of management, it is essentialfor women to recognize, understand, and transform common lifechallenges into career-building opportunities.

Our Gender Based Workshop comes with the following benefit;

✓Strategic Networking Opportunities✓Physical and intellectual challenge leading to more self discovery andresilient mindset

✓Ability to handle gender discrimination and complexity✓Competitive mind-set that leverages your strengths as a woman✓Wide and strategic network of key stakeholders who will promote yourcareer

✓Ability to deal with hypercompetitive colleagues with whom you havelow trust

✓Confidence and assertiveness in a competitive, male-dominated world✓Competitive advantage by taking smart career risks✓Ability to manage difficult colleagues✓Nuggets for effective business, career and public sector leadership.

OUR TARGET PARTICIPANTSOur workshops are designed for women leaders and aspiring leaders in thefollowing category:

➢Women in Civil Service / Ministries, Departments and Agencies➢Female Business owners and entrepreneurs➢Women in Banking and Business➢Elected Female Executives and Legislators➢Wives of Elected & Appointed Government Officials➢Leaders of Women Associations and Civil Society Organizations➢Change and Brand Champions➢Women Leaders and Emerging Leaders, ready and willing to more fullyaccess their professional and expressive potential.


BUSINESS EXPANSION SERVICES

We work closely with our clients to develop their global businessexpansion strategy. Then, we determine priorities and timelinesfor country-specific market entry, helping clients to identify themost opportune markets, which are ready, willing, able andinterested in our clients’ products and services.

We help our clients formulate and execute their global businessexpansion initiatives, strategic plans, and tactical programs,which create paths to successful near and long-term growth. Wedevelop our clients’ capacities to obtain a deep understanding oftheir target markets, competitive environments, and knowledgenetworks. This helps them to mitigate risk, offers them theearly-mover advantage and allows them to capitalize onconstantly arising business opportunities.

Our business expansion components include the following;➢Feasibility study➢Business plan development➢Fund sourcing➢Organizational set-up➢Project management➢Market research


PROCESS AND POLICY TRANSFORMATION

Our world class process and policy consultants analyse, designand redesign business processes, policies and workflows. Thegoal is to strategically improve how organizations performbusiness, cut operational costs, carve a niche in the marketand develop increased competitive advantage.

At FSI Consulting, we understand that management’s processand policy improvement programmes are stalled because theyare sometimes not aligned with the overall business strategy;our professionals pay close attention to, for the successfultransformation of the organization.


INTERNATIONAL STUDY TOURS

FSI organizes international study tour to any destination of the world in all areas of endeavors. Our tours are structures to deliver the best of experience to participants.

We deploy our expertise to facilitate corporate andexperiential learning programs around the world. We workclosely with business, leadership and educational institutionsaround the world to design fully customized learning programsfor both the public and private sector organizations. Using ourworld-wide network of professionals, we provide both theacademic and logistic arrangements for our clients.

We support companies’ training and developmentprofessionals in providing international field trips to facilitateteam building, networking, cross-cultural experiences, andleadership development programs.


HUMAN RESOURCES MANAGEMENT SERVICE

Our HR services bring greater efficiencies, savings in timeand money, as well as a return on the bottom line. Weunderstand how important it is to provide our clients with aHR service they can trust and always rely on time. We donot operate as your supplier; we act as an extension of yourteam.

Our HR specialists will work with you to understand yourorganisation and its challenges, using the benefit of theirvast experience to provide the service and support you needacross all HR functions:

➢Recruitment Services➢Payroll and Rewards➢Outsourcing➢HR Consultancy

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FSI Consulting has developed its approachto the organization of Trade and Investmentmissions that maximizes the productivity ofthe participants in terms of the useful andrelevant contacts during the mission andultimately to the satisfaction of the Client(the one who commissions the event).

In difference to standard approach to Tradeand Investment Missions, our service putsemphasis on B2B meetings. The two majorobjectives we pursue with this regard arethe number and relevance of the B2Bmeetings.

B2B MEETINGS

In line with our strategy for realizing set objectives, FSI organizes National and International Conferences with themes carefully selected to address critical and contemporary challenges. Our Conferences, Seminars and Exhibitions are organized both within and outside Nigeria. We collaborate with appropriate public and private sector organizations and professional institutions to deliver some of these events.

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FSI CONFERENCES/SEMINARS

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Our workshops are delivered in popular cities of the World, Africa and Nigeria.

TRAINING LOCATIONS

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In choosing training locations, our clients’ preference always comes first. FSI has training locations in almost all the states in Nigeria. In addition, we use training locations in Liberia, Ghana, Kenya, South Africa, Dubai, UK, France, Finland, Switzerland, and the United State of America. We are continually adding to the list, and will readily explore any country and city that is of interest to our client.


CONTINOUS LEARNING

FSI offers post-workshops support through e-mails, newsletters, blogs, monthly and quarterly review activities that focus on providing useful tips and solutions to real life situations.

GROUP REGISTERATION AND EARLY BIRD

Group registrations for our open programmes areaccorded special discounts. Also early birdregistrations with full payment (not later than 1month before the date of course) attracts 5%discount. Participating organizations can takeadvantage of both the early bird and groupdiscounts for any of our courses.

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All our courses are available as customized in-house programmes which could be run exclusively for any team, group or organization at a time and location to be mutually agreed.To discuss customized in-house courses, please call +2348119740015+2348175161085, +2348037478294Or email; workshop@[email protected]

IN-PLANT PROGRAMMES

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Larry Jones-Esan is the President and the Director ofStudies of the London Academy Business School withbranches in Dubai, Nigeria and UK. He is anentrepreneur, a business consultant, InformationTechnology Professional, a Certified IT Trainer and aseasoned practitioner. He has been involved inorganising trade missions promoting British Educationaround the world including India, Pakistan, Nepal,Ghana, Cameroon, Hong Kong, Thailand, Dubai, AbuDhabi in the Middle East and Nigeria and organizedtraining programmes in Banking, Finance, Leadership,Project Management, Financial Derivatives,Consolidated Supervision, Risk Base Supervision,Microfinance, Bank Note and Currency Management,Resident Banking Supervision and have championpoverty reduction in developing countries andGraduate Job Ready program in UK, Ghana, Ugandaand Nigeria.

He holds a Doctor of Business Administration (DBA)and he is completing Doctor of Philosophy degree inInternational Business Management (PhD), Master ofEducation (PGC/M.Ed). Postgraduate degrees inEducational Leadership and Management (PGD), andPostgraduate in Information Technology PGDIT. He’scurrently a senior lecturer with the University ofSunderland, United Kingdom.

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OUR PEOPLE

Dr. Larry Jones-Esan


Dr. Adi is an Associate Professor of DevelopmentEconomics at the Lagos Business School. Prior to his facultyappointment, Bongo Adi was CIPRA MTN Research Fellow atLagos Business School where he facilitated classes in PublicPrivate Partnerships (PPPs), project finance anddevelopment. He led various collaborations on research,case studies and stakeholder engagement with variousgovernment agencies including ICRC, NERC and severalministries involved in PPPs.

He has over 15 years experience in teaching, policyresearch, and consulting. As an assistant professor, he haslectured at the University of Tsukuba, Japan, where he wasa JSPS fellow, and at the American University of Nigeria. Hehas received several international awards including theJapan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS)award. He is a UNU Fellow and a World Bank scholar.

Adi has consulted for the World Bank, UNCTAD, JIRCAS,JICA and UNU. He is widely published and his currentresearch interests include electricity market design, privatepublic partnerships, and political economy of megaprojects.

He holds an MA and a PhD in development economics fromthe prestigious University of Tsukuba, Japan. He undertookpost doctoral training at the Data Mining Team of theNational Agricultural Research Centre, Tsukuba, Japanwhere he developed routines for forecasting rice yields frompaddies using remote sensing data from the JapanAerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA).

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Dr. Bongo Adi


Prof Makinde, emeritus professor of Political Science,Religion and Administration is one of Africa’s finestpioneers of innovation and excellence in Africa’stertiary education. He was the 2nd President of thefirst Private University in Nigeria; BabcockUniversity. As the President of Babcock University,Makinde was able to provide more access to moreindigent students through the “Adopt a Studentscholarship scheme”, he raised the enrolment from3500 to 10,000 students within the space of sevenyears, he increased the University balance sheet byover 850%, worked assiduously to expand theUniversity network of development partners and oneof the evidence of that effort is the strong productivepartnership with Medical Bridges Inc.

Prior to joining Babcock University, he worked as theFaculty Officer of Obafemi Awolowo University inNigeria. His contributions to the development ofUniversities in Africa was recognized in 2011 by theAll African Student Union who conferred on him theprestigious Kwame Nkrumah Leadership Award andon the University; the Best Private University inAfrica. Prof. Kayode has also been commended by theUS Legislative Black Caucus for pioneering innovationand excellence in higher education in Africa. He is amember of the African Leadership Hall of Fame.

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Dr. Paddy Kemdi Njoku

Amb. Chief, Sir Paddy Kemdi Njoku holds aDoctor of Philosophy (PhD) from one of theworld most prestigious Universities . Heserved as Chairman of the NationalExaminations Council (NECO)from 2012-2016, He is currently the Director General ,International Institute of Leadership andGovernance (INILAG) and Chairman,Fellowship of Partners for the Protection ofEthics and Values.

Dr. Njoku researches, lectures, writes, speakand consult in Public Policy, Mediations,Conciliations and Negotiations. He has heldseveral leadership, senior and topmanagement positions in the past severalyears including; Assistant Registrar, FederalUniversity of Technology, Abeokuta(former),Senior Assistant Registrar, University ofLagos(former) National President, Instituteof Chartered Mediators and Conciliators(former) National Dean, Nigeria Associationof Ambassadors for Peace etc.

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Mr. Anyanwu is one of Africa’s finest creative youngtalents whose inroads in the public-private processdevelopment across Africa is highly commendable. Mr.Anyanwu has been the brain child of so many youthdevelopments and empowerment projects of so manystate governments in Nigeria and has equally pioneeredvarious international gender dialogues involving somany global bodies. A project manager, contentdeveloper, negotiator/mediator, business strategist andmost sort after international public and private sectorworkshop facilitator. Having enjoyed a rewarding workexperience up till management cadre with careerstraversing banking and media, Mr. Anyanwu hasrepeatedly being recognized and rewarded forperformance and excellence and has consistentlydeployed his expertise in accordance with laid downorganizational guidelines and procedures.

With a BSc and MSc degrees ,he has consistentlycommitted himself to self development with so manylocal and international courses/workshop to his credit.His membership to professional bodies include;Executive Member, African Young Professionals Forum;Executive Member, African Youth Chambers ofCommerce and Investment, Member Chartered Instituteof Public Managers; Nigeria Union of Journalists. He is aprolific writer who speaks English effortlessly, widelytravelled and happily married with children. Mr.Anyanwu is the MD/CEO of First Strategy International.

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Mr. Chrys Anyanwu



Hawa is the CEO Spearheading Training Excellence in SouthAfrica. A renowned International Corporate Trainer,Motivational Speaker and Inspirational Presenter. Sheextends her reach to consult in the UAE with ARCManagement Consultancy and PEC (Prime EducationCentre). She is an expert in Corporate Strategy andBusiness management; her expertise further extends butnot limited to Communication Strategies, Negotiation Skills,Customer Services, Human Resources and Leadership.Hawa is also a qualified, registered Assessor and Moderatorfor the MICT SETA and Services SETA’s. She is a certifiediWAM Professional and a Certified Language And Behavioral(LAB) Profile Practitioner certified to utilize a uniqueAssessment tool that provides a window into intrinsic andattitudinal patterns of people in the context of work inrelation to Human Resource Management.

She is a Lead Assessor in Organizational Health –Organizational Well-being Indicator WBiTM and PersonalDriving Dynamics PDDTM using Reality Check AssessmentTools in terms of Ecology and Ecometrics - Thequantification of human behavior within a defined andspecific environment. Hawa is faculty for Middle Earth HRConsultancy and the Carlton Advanced ManagementInstitute (CAMI) in Dubai, Africa, Egypt, Iran, and MiddleEast.

She is passionate about women emancipation and havedevoted years couching women especially from developingnations of Africa, Asia and South America.

Hawa Charfaray (Mrs.)

Mr. Emmanuel Nwalor Jnr.

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Emmanuel Nwalor Jnr. He is a well-groundedprofessional in Human Resources with over 8years experience, specialising in Talentacquisition and Manpower planning in thebanking and technology industries. He’s analumnus of the University of Port Harcourt andNelson Mandela Metropolitan University and alsoa certified Human Resource BusinessProfessional (HRBP).

Emmanuel is passionate about building brandsthrough people, using 3rd generation tools,endearing to fishing out very young talent andnurturing them to their full potential. He’s afaculty member as First Strategy International.

Mr. Felix Ijoma

Mr. Ijoma is a chartered accountant with proventrack record and years of hands-on experienceconsulting for public sectors in Nigeria. He is anexpert in tax and financial matters. His careerhas spanned a wide number of roles in RiskManagement, Auditing, Tax, Finance, Cost andManagement Accounting in both public andprivate organizations. He has equally deployedsuch expertise in accordance with laid downorganizational guidelines and procedures. He isa Faculty member at First Strategy International

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OUR CLIENTS

Nigeria Police Force Federal Ministry of Environment

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OUR CLIENTS

In recent times, the following organizations have enjoyed our unequalled range of excellent professional services;

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I am very satisfied with the training. I rate this training 101% and I will improve my capacity as with the aim of comptroller general mission for creating this capacity building training programme workshop. Sarki B.Nigeria Customs Services

The course generally was very good and adequately spaced. The topic was well chosen and the resource persons gave their best. I sincerely appreciate the composure and delivery of the resource persons. They should keep it up and do these kinds of training often. Ogunkua IBNigeria Navy

If only I can turn back the hand of the clock, I will turn back to the first day we started this training. It was indeed an excellent training I have ever had in my entire career life. Bravo!Itukwude Maureen NEXIM Bank

The organizers offer the participants a good opportunity to learn intensive lessons that are generally priceless and worth the time. A job well done.

Victor, S.M

Nigeria Export Promotion Council

This was my unexpected surprise for the fact that some seminars conducted by teams like this would come up with information that are not sustainable. The presenters have really built up our capacity that would be sustained for a productive service and self development. Etok, NsikakabasiIndependent National Electoral Commission

TESTIMONIAL



MONTH COURSES DATE VENUE COST

March Forum on African Women

Leadership Development

6-10March

Kigali, Rwanda $1,200.00

Master class on

Leadership Development

& Strategy

28 – 30

March

Lagos, Nigeria N120,000.00

April Internal Communication,

Office Administration and

Workplace Ethics

25-27

April

Abuja/Kaduna N120,000.00

May Leadership Development

and stress Management

29-3

May

Uyo, Akwa Ibom N120,000.00

June Expert Strategic Sourcing

and Procurement

14-15

June

Abuja N120,000.00

INTERNATIONAL FORUM

ON TRANSPARENCY AND

PUBLIC ACCOUNTABILITY

27 – 30

June

Nairobi, Kenya $1,200.00

July Building and Leading

Effective Team

25-27

July

Calabar, Cross

River

N1,200,00.00

August Effective Auditing and

Monitoring

21-23

August

Lagos #120,000.00

September Advanced Technology and

Information Management

10-12

September

Abuja N120,000.00

Master class on Change

Leadership

27- 28

September

Dubai, UAE $1,500.00

October Human Resource

Development

9-11

October

Lagos #120,000.00

Women in Leadership and

Public Service Forum

28 – 31

October

Nairobi, Kenya $1,200.00

November Financial Planning and

Analysis

6-8

November

Enugu #120,000.00

December INTERNATIONAL FORUM

ON CORPERATE SOCIAL

RESPONSIBLITY IN AFRICA

10 – 13

December

Johannesburg SA $1,500.00

2018 WORKSHOP CALENDER (ALL WORKSHOP CALENDER ARE SUBJECT TO AMENDMENT INLINE WITH CLIENT’S PREFERENCE)

All the above courses are available as customized in-house programmes which could be run exclusively for any team, group or organization at any time and location to be mutually agreed.

For participation and enquiry, please call +2348119740015,+2348175161085 or email [email protected]

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