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BUILD THE ROOM

BUILD THE ROOM

Future Africa Summit · 2026 · 22:10

On building teams and rooms where the truth is allowed to be said out loud.

Key Ideas

  • Most culture problems are room problems: who speaks, and what gets rewarded when they do.
  • Psychological safety is not the absence of standards — it's the presence of honesty.
  • A leader's first honest mistake is worth more than a hundred confident ones.
TRANSCRIPT (EXCERPT)
“You don't inherit a great team. You build a room where the truth is cheaper to tell than the lie. Everything else is downstream of that one decision.”

[Full transcript available on request via the media kit.]
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