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Michael Akwarandu

@michaelakwarandu

Learning experience designer at Purple Training & Consulting who trained 500+ delegates and helped improve assessment scores by up to 75%.

Nigeria

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What I'm looking for

Seeking a Learning Experience, Instructional and/or Process Design role in a forward-thinking, growth-oriented environment where core values and workplace policies are centered around empathy, mutual respect, and culture promotes individual ownership, accountability and collaboration across and within teams.

At Purple Training & Consulting, I design learning content, facilitator guides, and assessments for corporate programmes, and have facilitated training for banking, capital-market, energy, and public-sector clients. For First Bank’s Management Associate Programme, I facilitated two cohorts of 50+ delegates, contributing to assessment score improvements of up to 75%.

As a freelance Learning Experience Designer & Business Transformation Specialist, I trained 80+ staff and developed learning materials for organisations including PZ Cussons Plc and First Bank. I also led process redesign work for Goshen Furnitures Ltd, reducing process steps by 32% and the order-to-delivery cycle by 42%.

Experience

Work history, roles, and key accomplishments

Current

Associate Strategy Consultant

Current

Alternare Consulting

Sep 2025 - Present (1 year 1 month)

Co-executes needs assessments, strategy planning, process mapping, redesign, succession planning, and change-management engagements for SMEs and startups. Delivers training, documentation, and monitoring and evaluation, and helps clients integrate AI-driven workflows.

Strategy Consulting Needs Assessment Process Mapping Process Redesign Change Management Succession Planning Miro Lucidchart Strategyzer Microsoft Visio Make N8n Airtable Training Facilitation M&E

Current

Learning Experience Designer & Business Transformation Specialist

Current

Freelance

Jul 2025 - Present (1 year 3 months)

Designs and delivers corporate training and workshops, building learning content, materials, facilitator guides, and assessments. Trained 80+ staff across diverse teams and led business process re-engineering for clients, achieving significant process improvements.

Instructional Design Training Facilitation Business Process Re engineering Curriculum Design Assessment Design M&E RACI SOPs KPIs Process Mapping Training Delivery

Current

Associate Corporate Trainer

Current

Purple Training & Consulting

Jan 2022 - Present (4 years 9 months)

Designs learning content, training materials, facilitator guides, and assessments for B2B programmes across banking, capital-market, energy, and public-sector clients. Facilitated cohorts for major clients, contributing to improved assessment scores and high conversion and onboarding rates.

Instructional Design Training Facilitation Content Development Assessment Design virtual training Stakeholder Management Macroeconomics Banking Corporate Finance Business Acumen Financial Intelligence Change Management Market Risk Liquidity Risk

Head, Finance Operations (CFO)

PE Lifts Limited (Elevator World)

Jan 2022 - Jun 2025 (3 years 5 months)

Led finance operations across four countries, collaborating daily with Sales, Production, CRM, and HR teams. Led the rollout of a digital cash-flow system and a FreshSales–QuickBooks integration across four countries, driving cross-team adoption.

Finance Operations Cash Flow Management Kyriba Float Freshsales Quickbooks Cross Functional Collaboration Digital Transformation Team Leadership

Senior Portfolio Analyst

Standard Alliance Capital & Asset Mgt Ltd

Jan 2019 - Dec 2021 (2 years 11 months)

Presented research and investment recommendations to the investment committee, translating complex analysis into clear decisions.

Investment Analysis Research Portfolio Management Financial Analysis Presentation Skills

Ag. Director (Head, Admin Mgt)

Khalifa Int’l Model Schools (KIMS)

Jan 2017 - Dec 2018 (1 year 11 months)

Led the school management team through admission reforms that increased enrolment by ~45%. Administered controls to block revenue leakages, improving fees collection by ~75%, and supervised the Accounts team to implement customer-friendly payment plans.

Leadership Admissions Management Revenue Management Financial Control Team Supervision Corporate Trainer Curriculum Development

Lead Research Analyst

CHESTRAD Global

Sep 2015 - Dec 2016 (1 year 3 months)

Led capacity assessments, organizational profiling, and demographic field surveys for member nonprofit groups, analyzing data with SPSS, Stata, Minitab, and Qualtrics.

Research Data Analysis SPSS Stata Minitab Qualtrics Capacity Assessments Survey Design