NCDMB Hosts Peterside On Game-Changing Leadership Insights

The Nigeria Content Development and Monitoring Board (NCDMB) will host Nigeria’s leading crisis leadership and turnaround expert, Dr. Dakuku Peterside, for an exclusive leadership briefing on Wednesday, 15 April 2026, in Yenagoa.

The event marks the fourth in NCDMB’s series spotlighting prominent Nigerian authors to promote literacy and critical thinking. For the first time, it features a leadership scholar: Dr Peterside and his award-winning book, Leading in a Storm.

Peterside’s book, named THISDAY’s Leadership Book of the Year 2025 and recognised as one of six Independent Newspaper must-reads for 2025, offers practical strategies for thriving amid crises.

Dr Peterside will share transformative insights on crisis leadership in Nigeria, the oil and gas industry, and broader development challenges.

A reform-minded thinker and management turnaround expert, he prepares public-sector and business leaders to manage change, handle crises, and lead large-scale transformations. Kellogg Professor Loran Nordgren describes Leading in a Storm as “a must-read for any leader who wants to successfully navigate the storms on the horizon.” Hugh O’Doherty of Harvard Kennedy School calls it “a practical manual,” while Prof. Tunji Olaopa, Chairman of the Federal Civil Service Commission and Professor of Leadership, commends it as “a defining contribution to leadership practice.”

With over 24 years of extensive experience across both public and private sectors, Dr. Peterside has transformed complex institutions and programmes through systemic reform. He serves as an adjunct lecturer at leading business schools, mentoring emerging leaders with practical wisdom. Author of two other books and developing a third, he remains a key voice in values-driven leadership development.

Through its corporate communications and social responsibility initiatives, NCDMB promotes scholarly works by Nigerian authors—both fiction and non-fiction—to foster knowledge and innovation.