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2026 Edition

The Smart Playbook Conference - Unlocking Intrapreneurship In The Workplace 2026

The Smart Playbook Conference is delivered within the organisation itself, inside the environment where people already work, where decisions are made, and where the challenges already exist. This changes the nature of the engagement. It is no longer something people attend. It becomes something the organisation experiences. This creates a level of shared understanding that is difficult to achieve when individuals engage separately and attempt to translate ideas back into the organisation. Participants are not engaging with abstract ideas, but with patterns they recognise in their own work, how decisions are made, how responsibility is handled, and how outcomes are delivered. Because the environment remains the same, what is discussed connects directly to how work is actually done.

WHO THIS IS FOR: This conference is designed for organisations that recognise that growth is no longer limited by opportunity alone, but by how people think, execute, and contribute within the business. It is for organisations where leadership still carries too much of the responsibility for execution. Organisations where systems exist, but outcomes remain inconsistent. Organisations where capable people are present, but initiative, ownership, and internal innovation are still limited. It is for organisations that are growing, restructuring, evolving, or trying to improve operational performance, but recognise that structure alone is not enough. Most importantly, it is designed for the organisation as a whole. Because the gap between structure and execution does not exist at one level alone. It exists across how people think, communicate, make decisions, carry responsibility, and contribute to outcomes throughout the organisation. This is why the engagement is built to involve employees across different levels and functions within the organisation, creating a shared understanding of the realities, expectations, and patterns affecting how work is done.

Speaker Lineup

Our Speakers at the Smart Play Book Conference 2026.

Mr. Onye Mba-Uzoukwu
About Mr. Onye Mba-Uzoukwu

Former Fortune 10 executive with leadership experience across global operations, procurement, and organisational transformation. With experience at the highest levels of global organisations, Mr. Uzoukwu brings a deep understanding of what it takes to drive results within complex systems. His perspective focuses on why strong structures and processes still fall short, and what is required to ensure execution is consistent, effective, and not dependent on constant supervision. His contribution to this conversation centres on how organisations can build environments where execution, accountability, and initiative are carried beyond assigned responsibility.

Mr. Onye Mba-Uzoukwu

Expertise: Execution at Scale, N/A

Dr. Helen Emore
About Dr. Helen Emore

Entrepreneurship and innovation expert with over 30 years of experience across enterprise development, governance, business growth, and organisational transformation. Dr. Emore’s work in entrepreneurship and enterprise development highlights how ideas are identified, structured, and scaled. Her perspective focuses on why organisations struggle to generate innovation from within, and how teams can begin to recognise and develop value that already exists inside the business. Her contribution to this conversation focuses on helping organisations rethink how ideas, initiative, and innovation are developed internally to drive sustainable growth.

Dr. Helen Emore

Expertise: Innovation and Internal Value Creation, N/A

Chiedozie John Egbe
About Chiedozie John Egbe

Human Resource and organisational management professional with experience in talent management, workplace systems, and organisational structure. With extensive experience in talent management and organisational structure, Chiedozie brings clarity to how people interact with systems. His focus is on why roles are performed but outcomes are not owned, and how organisations can begin to bridge that gap. His contribution to this conversation centres on helping organisations understand the relationship between people, responsibility, systems, and sustainable execution.

Chiedozie John Egbe

Expertise: People, Systems, and Organisational Thinking, BridgeGap Consults Limited

Ali baba Akpobome
About Ali baba Akpobome

Founder of XQZMOI and widely regarded as the pioneer who shaped modern stand-up comedy in Nigeria. Alibaba’s perspective goes beyond performance and into how people think and behave in real environments. His contribution focuses on the patterns that limit initiative, responsibility, and contribution, and how those patterns influence how organisations function daily. His contribution to this conversation explores how mindset, behaviour, and personal thinking patterns quietly shape workplace culture, performance, and organisational outcomes.

Ali baba Akpobome

Expertise: Human Behaviour and Thinking Patterns, XQZMOI

Mr. Ifeanyi Joseph Ani
About Mr. Ifeanyi Joseph Ani

Former Managing Director of TotalEnergies EP Nigeria CPFA with over 30 years of leadership experience across finance, governance, and organisational transformation. With decades of leadership experience across finance, governance, and organisational transformation, Mr. Ani brings a practical understanding of what keeps organisations stable, efficient, and sustainable over time. His perspective focuses on how weak ownership, inconsistent execution, and poor accountability quietly affect performance, even within highly structured organisations. His contribution to this conference centres on the relationship between discipline, responsibility, and long-term organisational growth, and why sustainable results depend not only on systems and strategy, but on how seriously people carry responsibility within the organisation. His contribution to this conversation centres on the role discipline, accountability, and responsible execution play in building organisations that sustain growth over time.

Mr. Ifeanyi Joseph Ani

Expertise: Discipline, Accountability, and Sustainable Growth, N/A

Mosunmola Obembe
About Mosunmola Obembe

Professional with experience in developing operational and workplace systems focused on improving execution, structure, and organisational efficiency. Mosun brings a practical perspective rooted in building and implementing systems designed to solve real organisational challenges. Through her work in developing HR and operational solutions, she has worked closely with organisations to improve how work is structured, managed, and executed. Her experience focuses on what happens after systems are introduced, why processes still break down, where execution fails, and how inefficiencies persist even when the right tools are in place. Her contribution to this conversation focuses on helping organisations move beyond having systems to building environments where those systems are actually carried effectively by people.

Mosunmola Obembe

Expertise: Systems, Execution, and Practical Workplace Solutions, BridgeGap Consults Limited