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More About Benjamin C. Anyacho
Global citizen Benjamin Anyacho, a Nigerian-born Texan for about two decades, is passionate, a quintessential project and portfolio manager, knowledge management (KM) cognoscente for 20+ years, with a mission to mentor one million servant-leaders. He is a missionary, an apostolic leader, original thinker, change-maker, philanthropreneur, and curiosity-activator with a special ability to bring all stakeholders in the city or on a project together for city and regional transformation. He is the author of the intriguing new book The Knowledge Café: Create an Environment for Successful KM and Bold, Fresh Wine, A Cry for Sustainable Transformation.
Currently, Benjamin is a senior strategic project manager and enterprise knowledge management lead at the Texas Department of Transportation.
He developed an organizational project management program that has mentored hundreds of project managers, with more than 100 of them obtaining their Project Management Professional (PMP)® certification.
In 2018, he served as president of the PMI Austin Chapter, leading the board to increase their Net Promoter Score (NPS) from 6.5 to 8.7, and gaining 97% overall customer satisfaction (CS).
Benjamin serves on several national and global boards, committees and project panels. For example, he is the chair of the National Academy of Science, Engineering and Medicine’s NCHRP project panel and the TRB Information Knowledge Management Research Coordinator. He is a reviewer of the International Journal of Knowledge Management.
He is a board of trustees member of Juliana King University, Houston, Texas, USA, honored with a doctorate in leadership. He is a Project Management Professional® (PMP) certification holder and earned an MBA from St. Edward’s University, Austin, Texas, USA.
Benjamin is the Executive Director of the non-profit Apostolic Bridge Builders, Inc. in Austin, Texas, where he lives with his wife, Precious, and two teenage children, Ben and Amara.
Current Book-signing and speaking schedule
Dec 2, 2022, 9AM: Speaker, 2022 PMI Global Summit in Las Vegas. Session Title: The Great Resignation Ignition, Knowledge Retention and Lessons Learning
Jul 27: Radio Interview w UK Chat and Spin
Jul 27: The Inquisitive Analyst YouTube/Podcast-Marcus Udokang
Jul 28: Speaker: National Speakers Association, Austin
Jul 28: Speaker: PMI Alamo, San Antonio
Aug 4: Because You Need to Know Podcast/Edwin K. Morris
July: The Bridge Radio Austin
July: Texas Standard—a National Public Radio interview.
October 6-7, 2021: I’m thrilled to be presenting a session on The Knowledge Cafe as part of Project Management Institute’s Virtual Experience Series. This conference will attract about 70k project managers worldwide
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“Everyone needs a knowledge café in their world today! Indeed, all curious knowledge workers need space and a mindset to share crazy ideas for others to test out and deepen their own knowledge and understanding.”
“Knowledge Café, surely, is a revolutionary concept. I dream of seeing the Knowledge Café take over the world, much like it has been done by popular franchises in the world — McDonald’s, KFC, Starbucks, etc… The world has learned to feed the body, but what Benjamin proposes to us is much greater and far superior: A cafe from where we could feed our souls and minds. Thank you so very much, Mr. Benjamin Anyacho, for this incredible gift to our world and our generation.”
“The Knowledge Café brings people together to have open, creative conversations to surface their collective knowledge, to share ideas, and to gain a deeper understanding of a topic. It can be adapted for a variety of purposes and, at its best, is a powerful sense-making tool. In this book, Benjamin Anyacho explores the world of Knowledge Café and its relation to Knowledge Management.”
“Knowledge Café is an excellent recipe for an innovative culture, where an open exchange of knowledge and ideas is judgment-free and includes respect and understands vulnerability.”
“One of my biggest issue in the corporate space is knowledge transfer. The Knowledge Café is a complete and utter joy. Its depth and breadth are not only needed now but provides permission to everyone to feel heard, acknowledged, and valued.”
“Innovation cultures find ways to embrace failure as much as success. This can only happen in the open exchange of knowledge and ideas that includes respect, understands vulnerability, and is free of judgment. Knowledge Café is an excellent recipe for how to make this happen in your organization!”
“Anyacho provides motivation, insight, and practical advice on convening and facilitating ‘knowledge cafes’ – where people can share what they know, learn from others, brainstorm solutions, and build relationships. This simple yet effective technique has a wide range of applications and is essential to fostering a learning culture.”
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