Dr. Stephen Akintayo is Africa's most influential Investment Coach. He is a member of the Forbes Business Council, an invitation-only organization for successful entrepreneurs and business leaders all over the world. He was the winner of Forbes Best of Africa Leading Investment Coach and Real Estate Mogul Award.
He is the Chairman of Gtext Holdings and the Founder of Stephen Akintayo Foundation. Gtext Holdings is the mother company of different subsidiaries, which includes Gtext Homes, a Real Estate company with a highly innovative and young workforce, owning over 20 estates.
It is based in Nigeria, with Headquarters in Banana Island, Lagos, Nigeria, and other branches including Omole Phase 1, Lagos; Abuja, FCT; Ibadan, Oyo State; Abeokuta, Ogun State; Asaba, Delta state, and Port Harcourt, Rivers State, all in Nigeria. Gtext Homes also has offices in Dubai, United Arab Emirates (UAE); London, United Kingdom and a proposed office in Dallas, USA. She has a workforce of over 300 people.
Other subsidiaries include Stephen Akintayo Foundation (SAF), which has its Headquarters in Dubai, UAE. It is poised to raise entrepreneurs who will lead the world of business and investments in Nigeria, Africa, and the world at large. It raises these entrepreneurs through mentorship, practical and in-depth training in courses such as; Real Estate brokerage and investment, E-commerce, Digital marketing, Cryptocurrency, Forex Trading, Stocks and Shares, Business Structure and Grants, Talent Monetization etc.
Stephen Akintayo Foundation has a vision of raising 1 million millionaires by the year 2050, with 70% of them from African heritage, and others which are Africans in the Diaspora. This led to the creation of Stephen Akintayo Online Wealth University in 2020.
The Stephen Akintayo Wealth University is an Online Wealth Creation School. This university was formed after realizing that formal education doesn’t teach about money and wealth creation. Hence, a university that does that was created for people to study and get certified upon completion. This university aims to broaden the knowledge base and further sharpen the skills of young people with our numerous practical and time-tested courses.
Gtext Holdings has hundreds of organizations as its clients, and that includes multinational companies like Heritage Bank, Guarantee Trust Bank, PZ Cussons, MTN, Chivita, DHL, and GNLD, amongst others. Gtext Holdings has also diversified into the agricultural sector, with the subsidiary Gtext Farms. Gtext Farms has a substantial equity investment in Allanisaqriq Limited, which started in 2012. It is focused on cash crop exportation, with a warehouse at Kano, Kogi, Abuja, and over 100 acres of Cashew farm in Oyo State, Nigeria.
Gtext Farms plans to grow into the largest Cashew crop processor and organic farm in Nigeria by the year 2035. Subsequently, other subsidiaries like Gtext Land, Gtext Academy, Gtext Hub, Gtext and Associates, Guest, and Gtext Soft have been formed, and have also birthed massive results.
The Founder of Gtext Holdings, formerly known as Gilead Balm Group Services has assisted several businesses in Nigeria to move to enviable levels by aiding them to reach their clients through its enormous nationwide database of real phone numbers and email addresses. It has hundreds of organizations as its clients including multinational companies.
Born in the Gonge area of Maiduguri, Borno State, the North Eastern part of Nigeria, in a very impoverished environment and with a civil servant mother who raised him and his four other siblings with her meager salary. His father's contract business had crumbled before he was born.
His passion for philanthropy was informed by his upbringing. In his words, “My surname was poverty. Hunger was my biggest challenge. I had to scavenge all through primary school to eat lunch, as I didn’t go to school with lunch packs. We were too poor to afford that, but things got better in my secondary school days. Although, my mum would go to her colleagues to borrow money to send me to school each term. It was humiliating when I saw them looking at my mum with utter dismay as someone who keeps begging. It hurt dearly. I hated poverty and I pray to help more families to come out of it."
Dr. Stephen learnt how to spell the word "THE" in JSS 1. His educational background was faulty. You could easily conclude that Stephen will never amount to anything in life. He spent ages 8-12 in an environment without electricity, within a forest region of Maiduguri-Damboa road. “I laid on a mattress at age 13 for the first time”, he said.
At 17, he read his first business book, “Rich Dad, Poor Dad” and the rest is history today.
He started a business at the age of 17, selling food supplements by GNLD introduced to him by his cousin. And his first online-based business was selling E-books he bought for N3,000. He ventured into other businesses in the process. His main drive to succeed was to compensate a very hardworking mother who denied herself everything just to educate her 5 children.
While a student, he organized students’ trade fairs within the students' community. It was during his higher education that his mother died of Ovarian Cancer at the age of 24.
That was the toughest season of his life and business career, as his mother had been his main financier. If there was anyone who believed in his entrepreneurial skill, it was his mother. One of his staff once said he was not a businessman because of his soft-outspokenness and his willingness to share his success secrets with others–qualities he learned from his mother.
"The day you start giving is the day you start living. The day you stop giving is the day you start dying. Give daily to live daily. Give joy, give counsel, give smiles, give food and give resourceful business ideas, to change the world" - Stephen Akintayo.
Dr. Stephen Akintayo's story is true of grass to grace. His singular regret in life is that his hardworking mother died a few years before he got the big break, not witnessing what she had always wished for.
In 2020, Dr. Stephen Akintayo took giant strides that landed the entire conglomerate on the global scene, expanding business networks to 4 continents of the world. The business empire has grown to a multi-billion naira corporation, with the vision to take over the center stage in the Real Estate and Digital Marketing sectors.
He is also the Founder and President of the Stephen Akintayo Foundation, formerly called Infinity Foundation. Infinity Foundation started in 2008 as a student Non- Governmental Organization (NGO) with a group of 13 students who donated N3,000 each to impact an orphanage in Ibadan, Western Nigeria, called Galilee Foundation.
The Stephen Akintayo Foundation has aided orphans and vulnerable children and has mentored young minds. The Foundation has assisted over 2,000 orphans and vulnerable children. It has also partnered with over 25 orphanage homes in the country. The Foundation had also cared for victims of Boko Haram attacks in the North-Eastern part of Nigeria.
The Stephen Akintayo Foundation focuses on the donation of relief materials, food and financial grants for school children and entrepreneurs. It offered grants of 10,000,000 Naira to 20 entrepreneurs in 2015, grants of $1,000 for the Instagram business challenge in 2021, and #500,000 Naira each to 4 winners of the Billionaire Habits book challenge in 2021.
The Foundation, in January and February 2022 respectively, gave a total of 10 million Naira as a bursary to less privileged students of the nursery, primary, and secondary schools, to aid their learning.
From 2023 - 2027, the Foundation plans to empower 1000 entrepreneurs with a grant of $5,000 each across different sectors which are technology and United Nations Sustainable Development Goal (UNSDGs) driven. At the end of the 5 years, the Stephen Akintayo Foundation would have given $5 million to entrepreneurs across Africa.
He is a prolific author who has 45 books to his name. The best-selling Billionaire Habits book, and the sequel which is the Billionaire Codes, has sold thousands of copies globally, with book reviews in over 50 cities of the world, building habits of billionaires in people. Other books include; Billionaire Habits for Pastors, Billionaire Habits for Entrepreneurs, Becoming a Billionaire Land Banker, Survival Instincts, The Information Millionaire, Maximizing your Real Estate Investment, Managing Family Finance, amongst other life-transforming books.
Dr. Stephen is a media personality in the Television, Radio, and Print media. He ran a series on the radio, tagged: CEO Mentorship with Stephen Akintayo.
In 2020, he started the revolutionary business TV Show: Investment Chat in a Rolls Royce with Dr Stephen Akintayo, which is a perfect blend of luxury, entertainment, and investment talks. The TV show is two-phased, the Nigerian and Dubai series. The Nigerian series has been airing since 2020 on Channels Television as well as on his social media platforms–Facebook and YouTube.
In 2021, he took the show to Dubai and how much of a huge success it was! He also started the Learning Luxury Show in Dubai as well and is on the 3rd edition of the show.
He has also started his podcast called The Billionaire Habits Podcast, which is aimed at bringing successful entrepreneurs on the platform, who had a poor beginning and have made it legitimately, to inspire and educate young people. The first edition was shot and produced in Dubai, UAE.
In February 2022, he started the shooting of his 3rd show, Big Talk with DSA–a political show aimed at resetting the minds of youths and empowering them with the right knowledge to birth a new nation.
In 2021 as well, he hosted the Global Property Brokers Conference, the largest Brokers Conference in Africa. It is now renamed to the Global Property Festival with international business moguls such as Grant Cardone, Ryan Serhant, and the number one coach in the world, John C. Maxwell, as co-speakers.
In 2022, he organized the Global Wealth Festival in 3 locations around the world–Nigeria, London, and the United States of America. The first location of the festival was in Dallas, which was held in July 2022; thereby, featuring Grant Cardone as the Keynote speaker. He also hosted the Global Leadership Conference in Dubai, with Ex-president Olusegun Obasanjo as the Keynote speaker.
He has also hosted Robert Kiyosaki, Dr Brian Tracy, and Dr Les Brown, on the Billionaire Habits Masterclass webinar–a global webinar that was organized to instill into young people the habits of successful billionaires and how they can replicate the same.
He’s also the convener of the Believers' Wealth Conference and the Family Finance Conference which teach the believers of the Gospel of Christ and couples respectively how to build legitimate transgenerational wealth for themselves.
He hosts a yearly conference called the Upgrade Summit, which is held at the beginning of every year to prepare young people all over the world for the coming year and how they can achieve giant strides in the year.
His mentorship platform has a wide reach as it caters for both personal and corporate development. Dr Stephen strongly believes young Nigerians with a passion for entrepreneurship can cause a business revolution in Nigeria and the world at large. Little wonder why his business empire is run by young, fly, and vibrant folks.
His first degree was in Microbiology from Olabisi Onabanjo University, Ogun state, Nigeria. He is a member of the Institute of Strategic Management (ISMN). He is also a graduate of Harvard University Executive program, where he studied Essential Management Skills for Emerging Leaders, and Real Estate Investment respectively.
In 2020, he was awarded a Doctor of Science, D.Sc (Honoris Causa) in Real Estate Development and Corporate Leadership by the European American University. He is also a trained coach by the Coaching Academy, UK.
In 2022, he was also awarded a Doctor of Strategic Leadership and Management by the Myles Leadership University, Cotonou, Benin.
In July 2023, he was conferred on the Forbes Best of Africa Leading Investment Coach and Real Estate Global Award, by Forbes Best of Africa in London, United Kingdom.
He is a multiple award and fellowship winner from several organizations globally, one of which is Ten Outstanding Young Persons of the World (ToyP) JCI Award 2015; Junior Chambers International Nigeria.
He is happily married and blessed with three children: two wonderful boys and a lovely girl.
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He is the host of the Investment Chat in a Rolls Royce, which teaches people on different investment opportunities around the globe; Learning Luxury Show, a show that educates on the benefits of owning luxury and monetizing it, and Big Talk Show, aimed at enlightening youths and the general public on election-related issues in order to build the new Nigeria.
He is also the host of the Billionaire Habits Podcast, Burj Khalifa series in Dubai. You can watch it on the Billionaire Habits Podcast.
Dr. Stephen is also the author of 43 books; his latest are The Billionaire Habits for Pastors, Billionaire Habits for Entrepreneurs, and Becoming a Billionaire Land Banker. All his books can be found in Dr Stephen's books.