Speakers
Junior Ogunyemi
Junior is an multi-award winning motivational and entrepreneurial speaker, inspiring young people to business success. He is the best-selling author of “How To Be A Student Entrepreneur”
As a social entrepreneur his business awards include the Rising Stars Award , Black Youth Achievement for business & Enterprise and NACUE National Social Enterprise Award. SMA Football was Junior’s first company founded at the age of 17. It is a coaching academy that uses football and boxing as a means to communicate key life skills to young people aged 4- 14 years old. Following this success he went on to set up a publishing company called “BD Publishing” whilst studying a BSc in Economics at Queen Mary University.
His publication, “ How to be a Student Entrepreneur” shares his success principles, inspiring people to success and maximising potential. Themes include leadership, entrepreneurial spirit, overcoming failure, self- discipline, business principles, marketing, financial management.
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“It’s fantastic to see that the Peter Jones Enterprise academy Students are still buzzing about the master class with Junior Ogunyemi. They were all inspired and the whole department has really benefited. “
Karen King (director of enterprise at North Hertfordshire College)
