Unlock Your Potential In the Western Workplace With Evidence-Based Methods That Work
Understand the Terrain
You begin by decoding the landscape. Learn the unspoken rules of your new environment, avoid common newcomer mistakes, and develop situational awareness to navigate reputational risks, adaptation traps, and identity confusion.
Rewire the Machine
This is where transformation happens. You’ll rebuild your internal “operating system” — shifting how you set goals, embrace your uniqueness, manage failure, and shape your identity in a new context.
Execute with Strategy
Now it’s time to act. You’ll master practical strategies — assertiveness, feedback, influence, resilience, office politics, social intelligence — to build the career (and life) you came for.
Who This Course Is For:
✅ Immigrant professionals struggling to get traction in Western workplace
✅ Mid-career experts who feel stuck or overlooked
✅ Anyone ready to break out of survival mode and into strategic growth
✅ Those who value depth, evidence-based content, and real transformation
About The Course Instructor
Dr Richard Akintayo is a physician and rheumatologist trained in Nigeria and the UK. He is a widely published clinical researcher who has injected enormous amounts of evidence-based knowledge into career growth and leadership tailored to immigrant professionals in the West.
Dr. Akintayo has mentored several immigrant and ethnic minority professionals in various disciplines and is sharing this wealth of knowledge even further. His consultancy service has helped many realise their potentials in improving their health, growing their careers, finances, and aspirations. As the former chair of the Research Committee of the African League of Associations for Rheumatology, Dr Akintayo has inspired international collaborations in leadership, research, and innovation in ways that have led to career and philosophical benefits for many.
Having served on the faculty of Rheumatology for All, a North American-based charity advancing the training of rheumatologists in Sub-saharan Africa, for years, Dr Akintayo's unique combination of medical expertise, teaching experience, clinical research background, and personal experience navigating career advancement as an immigrant professional provides unparalleled insights for those seeking evidence-based approaches to professional success.
Dr Richard Akintayo MD
Course Curriculum
- Lesson 6: Nothing Should Be Anything (6:46)
- Lesson 7: Goal Setting (5:25)
- Lesson 8: The Goals for Your Goal (6:06)
- Lesson 9: Embracing Your Failures (4:59)
- Lesson 10: Embracing Your Uniqueness Not Your Flaws (4:36)
- Lesson 11: A Lesson in Latin (4:54)
- Lesson 12: What Filters Can Teach Us About Ourselves (4:53)
- Lesson 13: How To Fool Yourself (5:32)
- Lesson 14: How To Fool Yourself 2 (5:47)
- Lesson 15: Making Miracles (6:14)
- Lesson 16: Don’t Be a Frog (7:00)
- Lesson 17: Reality Testing (5:28)
- Lesson 18: Optimizing the Operating System (7:23)
- Lesson 19: Locus of Control (7:10)
- Lesson 20: All Models Are Wrong (7:23)
- Lesson 21: The Right Use of Identity (6:00)
- Lesson 22: How to Straighten Your Life Using a RULER (10:13)
- Lesson 23: The Danger of Black and White Thinking (9:17)
- Lesson 24: The Energy That Gets Things Started (8:45)
- Lesson 25: Assertiveness 1 (7:12)
- Lesson 26: Assertiveness 2 (8:21)
- Lesson 27: Aligning Your Life to Goal through Assertiveness (4:56)
- Lesson 28: Challenges of Assertiveness (6:43)
- Lesson 29: The Behavioural Flexibility Approach (6:24)
- Lesson 30: Why Not to Disappear Into the Crowd (6:35)
- Lesson 31: Charm and Magnetism (6:39)
- Lesson 32: Check Yourself Before You Wreck Yourself (7:05)
- Lesson 33: Doubling the Bet on Your Strength (6:10)
- Lesson 34: Getting It and Getting Others to Get It (7:11)
- Lesson 35: Solving Quandaries (7:03)
- Lesson 36: Navigating Challenging Dialogues (6:28)
- Lesson 37: Leveraging Feedback (5:42)
- Lesson 38: Influence (8:38)
- Lesson 39: Turning Hurdles on their Head (5:39)
- Lesson 40: Leaning Into Discomfort (5:34)
- Lesson 41: Finding a Catalyst (6:35)
- Lesson 42: Recognising Bad Mentorship (6:41)
- Lesson 43: Weaving Your Web (6:34)
- Lesson 44: Office Politics – The Game of Appearance (7:18)
- Lesson 45: Office Politics – Behavioural Archetypes (6:51)
- Lesson 46: Office Politics – Ingratiation (4:48)
- Lesson 47: Consciousness of the Dark Triad (5:41)
- Lesson 48: Making the System Work for You (5:58)
- Lesson 49: Being Alive with Social Awareness (5:24)
- Lesson 50: Social Intelligence in the Workplace (5:59)
- Lesson 51: Escaping the Rut (4:52)
- Lesson 52: Amping Up Strengths (5:13)
- Lesson 53: The Vitality Factor (5:13)
- Lesson 54: How to Mold Yourself (5:21)
- Lesson 55: How to Self-Destruct (8:18)
- Lesson 56: Initiative and Passivity (4:38)
- Lesson 57: Climbing on the Back of Stress (5:58)
- Lesson 58: The Good Soldier (6:08)
- Lesson 59: Playing the Long Game (6:32)
- Lesson 60: Reciprocity Ring (3:41)
- Lesson 61: Unforced Errors (4:32)
- Lesson 62: How Not to Fight Dragons (7:31)
- Lesson 63: Workplace Cruelty (7:07)
- Lesson 64: Sneaky Tactics and Low Blows (5:45)
- Lesson 65: How to Manage Chaos (7:39)
- Lesson 66: How to Pick Your Battles (5:42)
- Lesson 67: Examining Incentives (6:26)
- Lesson 68: Surviving Adversaries (7:00)
- Lesson 69: Responding to A Challenge (5:25)
- Lesson 70: The Third Story (5:53)
Our Testimonial
Sarah O
"I thought I had to settle. This course rewired my thinking, gave me confidence, and taught me how to navigate challenges like a professional."
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Joseph T
"After years of underemployment, this course helped me reframe my value and land a role aligned with my experience. It changed everything for me."
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Hanna R
"When I was close to giving up, this course helped me find strength. I now see adversity differently — and I know how to grow through it."
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