David Adeoye ABODUNRIN

David Adeoye Abodunrin decodes the invisible systems that shape people, organisations, economies and nations.

His central idea is The Human Algorithm: beneath every visible outcome sits a hidden system, and the people who learn to read that system early are the ones who shape what comes next. A breach usually starts with a human decision, not a line of code. A failed transformation is almost always a behaviour nobody changed. A lost negotiation turns on a story someone believed. Show David the result and he will show you the architecture underneath it, and usually the small change that would have produced a different one.

He has spent close to three decades working across fields most people keep apart: artificial intelligence, fintech, cybersecurity and threat intelligence, behavioural economics and strategic foresight. He advises executives, founders, investors and policymakers from Lagos to London. He can talk to a security chief about an attacker's psychology and, a moment later, explain to a general audience why their own instincts make them the easiest target in the building.

One question runs under all of it: what must humans become as maachines become more intelligent? His answer is practical. You will not beat AI at being a machine, so the real work is becoming more of what a machine cannot be. More discerning. More trusted. Better at judgement when the data runs out. He calls that edge the human advantage, and The Human Algorithm is how he helps people find it.

It looks broad, but it is one lens turned to face different rooms. His work tends to land in seven of them. AI and the future of work, where he looks past the hype to what automation quietly removes. Cybersecurity, where he treats most breaches as behavioural problems in technical disguise. Strategy and digital transformation, where he is blunt that real change is what people do differently on a Tuesday, not the tools they buy. Fintech and the future of money, the subject of his book Fintech Black Box. Behaviour and negotiation, drawn from The 50 Laws of Negotiation. Life design and life mapping, where he helps people rewrite the inherited code they run their lives on. And faith and foresight, through the School of Apostles and Prophets he founded, where discernment and strategy turn out to be the same skill: seeing the pattern early.

The credentials sit quietly behind the ideas. David holds an MBA from Hult International Business School and an MSc in Cybersecurity, Cyber Forensics and Threat Intelligence. He is a 14-time international bestselling author whose books include Fintech Black Box and The 50 Laws of Negotiation. He is an award-winning coach, a GAGE Awards honouree, Principal Partner at Cubed Consulting, and host of EUREKA, a show for the people shaping the future: cyber chiefs, founders, technologists and leaders.

As a guest he is easy to work with. He prepares, he speaks in clear and quotable lines, and he can carry a deep-dive or hold his own in a debate. He aims to leave a listener with one idea they are still repeating a week later, and he shares the episodes he is proud of with his own audience.

A flavour of how he talks: "You can't patch a human being, so stop securing the system and start securing the decision." Or this, on the inner life: "Most people aren't living their life. They're running someone else's code and calling it personality." Lines like that are why hosts reach for the clip button.

He is not the right fit for every show. If an audience wants reassurance or a quick tour of trends, there are gentler guests. But if they lead, protect or build, and would rather see a shift clearly than be comforted about it, few conversations are better spent.

It all comes down to one line he keeps returning to: the future will not belong to the most artificial intelligence. It will belong to the most deliberately human. And becoming that is a choice you can start making today.

Decode the future. Design the advantage. Dominate the shift.