Keynote Speaker · Media Entrepreneur
My keynotes help founders and leaders make the decisions that turn successful businesses into enduring institutions.
Media Entrepreneur
Publisher, The Week Junior Nigeria
Founder, Kibati Media
About
Seun doesn't speak from theory. He speaks from the middle of something real.
He is the founder and CEO of Kibati Media, and the publisher of The Week Junior Nigeria. Nigeria's first licensed children's current affairs magazine, produced under an exclusive licence from Future plc, one of the UK's leading magazine publishers. He is building it in public, in real time, across the UK and Nigeria simultaneously.
His talks draw on the unfiltered reality of building a media institution from scratch — the decisions, the risks, the licensing negotiations, the fundraising, and the long game of creating something built to last decades, not just survive the next funding round.
What Seun speaks on
Startup conferences · Entrepreneurship programmes · Marketing & brand events · Business schools
We are in the middle of a shift. The most powerful marketing strategy available to a founder today is not an ad campaign. It is radical transparency about the process of building something real.
This talk explores what it actually means to build in public: how to turn your company's origin story into a content strategy, how to build trust with investors, partners, and customers simultaneously, and why the founders who share the journey — not just the highlight reel — are the ones who build the most durable brands.
Drawn from Seun's own experience building Kibati Media and The Week Junior Nigeria in public on LinkedIn, this is a talk about the founder as media. And why, in a world drowning in content, authenticity is the only thing that cuts through.
The audience leaves with: a clear framework for building in public without oversharing, and a practical understanding of how transparency compounds into brand equity over time.
Entrepreneurship conferences · Business schools · Accelerators · African founder communities · Impact investing forums
Most African entrepreneurs are told to build from scratch. Fewer are told they can licence something that already works — and build a business, a brand, and an institution on top of it.
This talk tells the story of how Seun approached Future plc — a £1.4 billion British media company he had no prior relationship with — built a complete editorial mock-up of a Nigerian children's magazine to prove he could uphold their standards, and walked away with an exclusive licence to publish The Week Junior in Nigeria.
It is not a talk about luck. It is a talk about identifying proven models, understanding what licensors actually need from licensees, and using intellectual property as a shortcut to institutional credibility.
The audience leaves with: a practical understanding of how licensing works as a business model, what licensors look for in licensees, and how to identify licensing opportunities in their own market.
Media & publishing conferences · Parenting & education events · Corporate CSR & EdTech audiences · Children's wellbeing forums
In 2026, screen dependence in children is the defining parenting anxiety of the era. Governments are banning under-16s from social media. Parents are searching for alternatives. And yet the conversation about solutions is dominated by more screens, not fewer.
This talk makes the case for print not as nostalgia, but as strategy. Drawing on the launch of The Week Junior Nigeria, it explores why physical, trusted, distraction-free content is experiencing a cultural moment, and what it means for brands, educators, and entrepreneurs paying attention.
It is also, quietly, a talk about long-term thinking. About building things that last. About choosing depth over velocity in a world that rewards neither.
The audience leaves with: a fresh perspective on the screen dependence crisis as a market opportunity, and a framework for thinking about physical and trusted media in a digital-first landscape.
What to expect
Seun is a natural conversationalist. He reads the room, adapts in real time, and brings warmth and directness in equal measure. The structure is there, but it breathes. The insights are real, because they come from something he is living through right now, not something he read about.
He is equally at home at a 500-person conference keynote and a 30-person boardroom conversation. The talk scales. The honesty doesn't change.
If you need someone who will fill the room with energy, make the audience feel something, and leave them with a perspective they didn't have when they walked in, that is what Seun does.
Who books Seun
Get in touch
To enquire about availability, fees, and fit for your event, reach out directly. Seun responds to all genuine enquiries personally.
seun.s@kibatimedia.comThank you — Seun will be in touch personally.