Kick-off Summit 2025: Salami, others challenge professionals, entrepreneurs to transcend mediocrity
01 February 2025 |
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Renowned performance strategist, Dr. Abiola Salami, has challenged business leaders, professionals, and entrepreneurs to uphold excellence, quality, and consistency in 2025.
Renowned performance strategist, Dr. Abiola Salami, has challenged business leaders, professionals, and entrepreneurs to uphold excellence, quality, and consistency in 2025.
This was the crux of discussion at the 2025 New Year Kickoff Summit held in Lagos, which was organised by CHAMP GLC.
The summit focused on ‘Navigating Innovation and Growth in 2025’, providing strategic insights for participants to elevate their performance in the new year.
Salami, who hosted the summit, urged the attendees to transform past limitations, describing mediocrity as simply repeating the previous year’s performance.
“Stagnation in performance is mediocrity, not poor performance,” he added.
Focusing on leadership, goal-setting, and innovation, the event was rebranded from “Rock Like A Champion” to reflect its vision of empowering and inspiring professionals and entrepreneurs for a stronger start to the year.
“Our goal is to empower career professionals and entrepreneurs to achieve unprecedented success in 2025, ensuring this year’s results significantly surpass those of 2024,” Salami said.
The summit featured top professionals and thought leaders to inspire strategic thinking and personal development for the year ahead.
Among them were Managing Director of LOTUS Bank, Kafilat Araoye; Chief Executive Officer of Digital Encode, Prof. Adewale Obadare; Founder of OLCA, Dr. Lanre Olusola, and social media influencer Dr. Chinonso Egemba, popularly known as Aproko Dr.
Echoing Salami’s perspective, Araoye emphasised three key traits that drive workplace performance –flexibility, focus, and consistency.
“You cannot achieve peak performance without these qualities,” she admitted. “A peak performer is adaptable, focused, and consistent. He embraces feedback, identifies areas for improvement, and views mistakes as stepping stones to growth. Above all, humility is the hallmark of a true peak performer.”
In another session, Obadare and Olusola shared insights on cybersecurity and artificial intelligence (AI), and developing a money mindset for innovation and growth in 2025, respectively.
While Salami moderated the panel discussion, which was both engaging and enlightening, he skillfully guided the conversation, ensuring the panelists provided actionable strategies to help participants navigate challenges and opportunities in the coming year.
Obadare highlighted the transformative impact of technology on daily life, emphasising how it has reshaped the way people manage their activities.
He also issued a caution about the risks of public Wi-Fi.
“Be mindful of what you do on public Wi-Fi. Your phone can be hacked using certain technological tools. The safest approach is to avoid public Wi-Fi altogether,” he advised.
Meanwhile, Olusola delved into the concept of a “Growth Mindset”, offering valuable advice on wealth creation.
He said: “The only way to create and sustain wealth is to identify a problem and solve it. Once you have mastered solving that problem, the next step is to scale it.”
Shifting the focus to the challenges of addiction and its harmful impact on health, Aproko Doctor described it as a form of mental imprisonment created by the individual.
“If you’re struggling with something right now, it’s because of the story you’ve told yourself about it and the strong belief you’ve attached to it. That’s why breaking free feels so difficult,” he explained.
Founder of AA Holdings and one of the sponsors of the event, Austin Avuru, shared nuggets on ‘Leading in Challenging Times’.
He defined a peak performer as someone who excels with minimal supervision and shared his formula for success.
“Discipline, focus, and integrity. Combine these with hard work, play hard, and stay focused on your goals, and you’re unlikely to fail. Obstacles may arise, but you will ultimately succeed,” Avuru said.
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