Teambuilding, Leadership and Mindset: Unlock your potential

Content

The presentation will give you a flavour of how Bolu went from professional rugby league to the packaging industry to sitting on a committee supporting the first female metropolitan combined Mayor in the U.K and entrepreneurial investments at home and abroad.  

It also covers how he changed every aspect of his life during Covid19 and embraced the full mindset and skills he used as a young 18 year old sportsman to create a brand new exciting journey which continues to expand and grow. 

He will talk about building teams and growth and how you can positively transfer a range of skills to tackle a multitude of world problems.   

There's an overview of how to built unique relationships with people with complementary skills, backgrounds and outlooks but with shared values and visions for the future.   

Learning Outcomes  

• Specific high performance habits transferable from sports  
• Leadership  
• Building the best team for your organisation  
• Building a brand that shows others who you are  
• Resilience and relentless attitude to growth  
• Diversity of ideas and backgrounds to foster the best outcomes for organisations.

Duration

1 hour (1 CPD Unit)

Speaker

Bolu Fagborun

Bolu is a former professional rugby league player with Huddersfield Giants, Sheffield eagles and Rochdale hornets. He played internationally for Nigeria and managed the Nigeria National team to success in the Middle East and Africa competition in Ghana 2022. 

He’s the Managing Director at Fagborun Limited, he’s successfully transitioned to a provider of bespoke transformational executive coaching and consultancy specialising in leadership both for emerging talent and executives in high growth and highly skilled industries like tech, digital and consultancies. 

He is one of the sports voices on the West Yorkshire Mayor / combined authority culture, heritage and sports committee, working on the first ever West Yorkshire Mayors pledges to the 2.3 million people in this region. He is also on the leadership group for the West Yorkshire Chamber of Commerce in Leeds. 

Bolu is a Non-exec at Bradford Bulls, one of a handful of Corporate Social Responsibility Directors in professional rugby. He is also a trustee at two sports charities Bradford Bulls foundation and East Bierley Community Sports Association (EBCSA).  

He has Business investments ranging from property, transport, landscaping gardening and farming.