Public Speaking & Negotiation/Sales Closing

About this Series

Obafela Killa is an entrepreneur, writer and youth development leader working where technology, opportunity and storytelling meet. He is Founder and Chief Convener of Africa Development Sphere (ADS), a year-round organisation running workshops, webinars and competitions for students, graduates and early-stage entrepreneurs, culminating in the annual Africa Development Summit. Selected from more than 6,000 applicants, he is a Member of the Young People’s Action Team (YPAT), UNICEF Nigeria, for 2026–2027. He is Co-founder and CEO of KO Content Studios, a creative technology company building KO-OS, an AI Brand Operating System that helps founder-led businesses run their brands without a marketing team. He has trained over 2,000 healthcare workers across fifteen institutions and leads training and digitisation with Primed E-health across three Oyo State hospitals, including University College Hospital, Ibadan — Nigeria's first teaching hospital. He co-organised Build with Oyo with the Oyo State Government. He hosts Builders of Africa, a podcast reaching audiences in roughly ten African countries, and writes The Builders Journal. He speaks on building without permission, and on one conviction: value is built, not announced.