#AmazingSTORY: MacHenry Churchill

Meet Nigeria’s Now Highly Sought-After Motivational Speaker & Performance Coach

“Better the most sought after than the first”.

MacHenry Churchill is Nigeria’s fastest rising Motivational Speaker, Performance Coach and Talent Promoter. A specialist in Personal Branding & Communication, Sales Performance Improvement and Marketing, he helps people tell their stories to the world by connecting them with their inner genius, raising their self-awareness level and supporting them to launch out and break limits. Having mastered the gift of the gab and the business of talents, MacHenry Churchill equips people with the skills needed to effectively communicate their brands, ideas and offerings.

With more than 10 years work experience in daring and uncommon capacities, MacHenry Motiv8 Churchill has grown thick muscles as a Motivator, Life Coach, Business Development Strategist, Nation-Builder and Social/Impact Entrepreneur. His writings have been featured in The Guardian and The SUN Newspapers and on websites like Talentsandskills.com and Talkaboutladies.com. He is in the top 2% of academics and publishers on Academia.edu. His remarkable story has been featured in Socialmediaweek.org, 2tyte.com and Chukzbook.com. He has been a guest lecturer at WOLEX Polytechnic and various departments at the University of Lagos.

MacHenry Churchill is a frequently requested Speaker and Facilitator in workshops, seminars and training programs all across Nigeria. He works with several consulting and training companies as guest facilitator and associate consultant, leading learning and development interventions and corporate turnaround initiatives for organizations.  

As CEO of The MacChurchill Group, a growing conglomerate that is positioned to help individuals, organizations, communities and governments deal with developmental challenges and build relevant capacity that guarantees multi-generational wealth creation, social change and sustainable development, MacHenry Churchill has led key initiatives that have transformed people and the organizations they work for.

As Project Manager for VolunteerCorps Education Program, he managed and oversaw 7 Tutoring Centres with well over 1,500 students from various public secondary schools across Lagos State. The Tutoring Centres has since increased to 10, with 3 new centres in Ogun State.

As Project Partner with Zplus Community Movers, he facilitated entrepreneurship seminars and helped train over 2,500 youths in Apapa and Mushin Local Governments in Lagos State on how to start and manage their own businesses. The project now also runs in Akwa Ibom State and is proposed for Abia State in 2016.

In partnership with schools in Lagos State, he is engaging teachers in a FREE Teacher Training Program that equips them with the skills they require to be more effective in tutoring young people. This program teaches methods for more engaging class sessions that make students eager to learn. The program is planned to be duplicated in other states later this year.

He has also facilitated entrepreneurship development seminars for organizations like HIP Generation, Youths For A Better Nigeria, Destined Ones International, Lead Minds International, Gifted Hands Nigeria, plus numerous churches, schools and groups.

He has volunteered on projects with organizations like British Council, Fate Foundation, LEAP Africa,UPS Foundation, EnterpriseCreative, Success Attitude Development Centre and Enterprise Development Centre of the Pan Atlantic University. He is a team member in high profile events like theGlobal Entrepreneurship Week and Social Media Week.

MacHenry Churchill has authored 3 books, all in electronic format and publishes online via his 30 blogs. He is a popular radio host and On-Air-Personality who is using “the power of talk” to impact his environment and generation. He hosts a weekly LIVE radio program on UNILAG103.1 fm.

MacHenry Churchill also works with and mentors disadvantaged youths from low income communities through YOUTH WEALTH INITIATIVE, a non-profit organization he founded six years ago to support at-risk youths in overcoming the limitations of illiteracy, unemployment and poverty.

MacHenry Churchill is a polymath. Gifted in many different directions, he is a Creative Artiste – a writer, poet, lyricist, talker, singer, songwriter, guitarist and music producer. He writes copy, designs development courses & curriculum, paints portraits, evolves product/service ideas and develops content for all types of media. He is also a voice-over artiste, compere, actor, model and photographer. He is skilled in strategic thinking, imaginative marketing, persuasive selling and negotiating.

MacHenry Churchill loves people. He likes knowing and working with diverse peoples, building relationships irrespective of class, race, ethnicity and all kinds of stereotypes. He works to develop platforms that give people a chance to engage themselves profitably and exhaust the limits of their potentials. His personal vision is to help everyone he comes across become a better, more productive person. His burden lies in improving lives and impacting the world with the gift of his existence.

MacHenry Churchill holds a B.Sc in Political Science from the University of Calabar, a Certificate in Entrepreneurship from Covenant Capital, a Financial Literacy Instructor Certificate from Financial Literacy For All and a Professional Certificate in Training & Mentoring from Workforce Management Centre.