Lanre Sulola Speaker | Enterprise & Creative

Lanre Sulola

Business advisor, inspirational speaker and poet who uses a combination of these skills to encourage young people to reach their goals and realise their Inner Ambitions!

Lanre Sulola is a talented poet, dynamic speaker, experienced mentor, and trusted business advisor. He is passionate about building leaders for the future and is an expert in inspiring and motivating young people within the UK.

Lanre uses his poetry to uplift, inspire and motivate listeners and allow them to understand the importance of life and making the most of it. In 2010, Lanre released a Spoken Word album, ‘Inner Ambitions’. As the title suggests, 'Inner Ambitions' is a portrayal of the inside ambitions, feelings and goals of a young man. Lanre uses this album not only to motivate others but as part of an innovative creative writing course for students. It has also been used by sports groups and organisations and top level GB athletes of as a source of motivation.

Lanre has spent many years mentoring young people in his local area. In December 2008 he was appointed a National Reach Role Model, a programme initiated to encourage and motivate young people. This gave him the opportunity to tell his personal story to young people across the country. These talks have often been described as inspirational, purposeful, refreshing and confidence boosting. He is always honest and open with the people he addresses and shares his own struggles and challenges to show the realities of the world we live in, but also to show that there is always a way out of difficult situations.

Lanre qualified as a Chartered Accountant with PricewaterhouseCoopers in 2009. He currently works for Accenture as a Risk Management consultant specialising in Fraud and Financial Crime.
He uses his business knowledge to provide guidance to young people on the necessary steps needed to make a success for their life. This includes use of business simulations and roleplays to teach the practicalities and fundamentals of business in an entertaining and exciting way.

Testimonials from Teachers

"Thank you for your Keynote speech at our Higher Education and Careers Convention on Monday 4 July. The feedback was overwhelmingly positive about your contribution and the students really found what you had to say valuable. You delivered the talk in a way that the students could relate to which was very important."

– Mary Fudge, Careers Manager, Bishop Thomas Grant School

"I just wanted to thank you formally for taking the time out to come and visit our academy last week and deliver a short motivational talk to our participants. The feedback from the lads was overwhelmingly positive and you were described as the best speaker they have had so far. I completely agree as the talk was extremely relevant to the participants and what we are hoping to achieve. It certainly reinforced many of the messages that I am trying to communicate to them as a group. For example, the need to be resilient and proactive."

– Sean Porter, Street League Academies

"The students really enjoyed Lanre’s talks. He presented a motivational message by way of telling his own story. He recited 2 of his own poems which the students loved. Lanre is not much older than our students so they related very well to him – I think they were all imagining themselves in his shoes whilst he was telling his story. Staff members who had been present with their students all gave very positive feedback about how inspirational he was. I’m delighted that the event was so successful, and I hope that we can work together again."

– Dr Tina Street, Assistant Principal HR, Sir George Monoux College

"Lanre was superb and delivered all that we wanted. The event was a phenomenal success with over 90% of attendees rating their experience as excellent. Overall we had about 100 attendees on the night and a lot of enquiries into when the next event would be. He truly blessed us and we're grateful."

– Richard Kuti, Young Black Successful Forum, Southbank University

"Lanre gave a fantastic talk which was very much appreciated by the boys – they thought it was one of the best General Studies they have had. It would be good to have him again next academic year, to talk to next year’s upper sixth."

– Liz Poole, Headteacher, Whitgift Independent School

"Fantastic feedback, especially from the lecturer, I am briefly looking through the feedback forms from our students, Lanre received excellent for the majority."

– Carol Ward, Westminster Kingsway College