UBONG'S PROFILE

Ubong Essien began his professional career as a life insurance sales person with the now defunct Amicable Assurance Plc way back in 1992 after graduating from the University of Ilorin with double Honours in Biology and Education. From there, he moved fully into the field of Education, before venturing into his life-long passion of Human Empowerment where he began with publishing the award-winning Achiever’s Manuals and delivering motivational speeches to companies and conferences.

Today, he is the ultimate embodiment of the complete motivator. Why? His amazing sense of versatility that enables him to utilize and apply a variety of skills to a variety of situations involving a variety of individuals and organizations. From any platform or medium, Ubong Essien can deliver a positive motivational influence to any audience. Much so that Mr. Sunny Obazu-Ojeagbase of Success Digest magazine had to confess; “Mr. Ubong Essien is a born motivator.” The very reason Mr. Essien prefers to be referred to, first and foremost, as a motivational expert.

Ubong has the tremendous capacity to deploy his motivational expertise via any or a combination of the speaking, training, coaching, consulting and products mediums, as the occasion demands. Mr. Bunmi Oni of Cadbury had to, on listening to him, commend his adeptness; “Well done Ubong! Having listened to you, I have no doubt you truly understand the critical role and responsibility of encouraging people and helping to extract their leadership traits and qualities. Well done!”

Ubong Essien understands the dimensions associated with working with the blue-chip companies within the Nigerian economy and has held successful motivational speaking sessions at Oceanic Bank PLC, Omega Bank PLC, AIICO Insurance PLC, Mobil Producing Unlimited, Nigeria Bottling Company PLC, and Sports Radio.

A television personality watched weekly on the network service and his talks well received Ubong has been dubbed Nigeria's Mr. Motivator. In acknowledging all these contributions and more, Success Digest magazine named him its Young Entrepreneur of the year in 2002.

In a nutshell, Ubong Essien is an enabler of others with one major objective; to help every client improve their condition. He is the first Nigerian to hold the Motivational Speaking Professional (MSP) designation. And has authored 2 books; Dare to Dream & Succeed and The Gates' Way to Riches.