Femi Oke and the Case for the Professional Moderator

How a British-Nigerian broadcaster built a global events company on the conviction that facilitation is a profession, not an afterthought.

There is a photograph Femi Oke wants you to see. In it, she is walking stride-for-stride with the president of Ethiopia, heads tilted toward each other at matching angles, moving through a corridor toward a stage where five thousand people at Kigali Stadium are waiting. The briefing is happening in transit because Oke could not get into the VIP holding …