Ifayomi Grant

Ifayomi Grant is an entrepreneur, writer, management consultant and public speaker. He is the author of seven books, including ‘Buy Now Pay Later – How Debt is used to create Financial Slavery’. See his website www.houseofknowledge.org.uk/newsite/.

Ifayomi is the author of the Navig8or newsletter which he has been producing since 2006 and which goes out to subscribers around the world, bringing cutting edge analysis of economics, finance and geo-politics.

He has lectured, run courses workshops and seminars in the UK and overseas on a variety of topics related to the condition of Black people in the UK and around the world. He has been interviewed on a large number of radio stations in the UK and US.

Ifayomi set up his first business, a recruitment consultancy, which was featured on the front page of the Times newspaper and in the Financial Times, aged 22; and since then he has never lost the entrepreneurial bug. His career has included running the aforementioned recruitment consultancy business, working in prisons and with ex-offenders as an Employment/Training Adviser, working as a Training & Development Manager, Community Safety Consultant and in his last job as the Deputy Chief Executive of a £55 million pound community regeneration programme, where he had overall responsibility for project delivery, partnership working and Human Resource issues.

In February 2006 Ifayomi completed the circle and returned to self-employment and set up his own management consultancy company. Since that time he has held six non-executive director positions, including sitting on the boards of companies with an annual income in excess of £100M. He has gained experience in regulatory work and is an executive director of an independent fostering agency.

Amidst all of this activity Ifayomi has continued to volunteer in his local community, whilst reaching out to Afrikans around the globe. He is one of the founders of Nubian Link a community education group established in 1995. Nubian Link is self-financing with members tithing on a monthly basis. www.nubianlink.org.uk

He conceived and co-founded the Afrikan Business Development Fund www.abdf.co.uk , a community economic development company in 1996.

He is Chair of the Community Partnership Forum in Nottingham which is an umbrella organisation encouraging partnership working between local voluntary and community organisations. Ifayomi tithes to this group.

He is Vice-Chair and co-founder (in 1998) of the Nottingham Black Families in Education Parent Support Group which provides educational advocacy and support. Ifayomi acts as a volunteer educational advocate and also trains the group’s Jenoch (Mentors). He tithes to this group.

He was founder member of Brother II Brother an Afrikan men’s group that delivered rites of passage programmes for Afrikan boys aged 12-14 up until 2008. Brother II Brother was largely self-financing with members tithing on a monthly basis.

Ifayomi is also a member of the US based group Us Lifting Us www.usliftingus.com , which is a community economic development co-operative.

Ifayomi has a Bachelor of Science Degree in Applied Chemistry and a Masters Degree in Training & Human Resource Management. He is married and has two children.