Business consulting & support · Nigeria · Africa
We work alongside businesses, investors, institutions and public-sector leaders on the decisions that matter — and stay on to help make them real.
How we work
We help leadership teams frame the real question, weigh the evidence and choose a direction they can defend — in the boardroom, with investors and in front of a regulator or partner.
Decisions become plans: the numbers, the operating structure, the sequencing and the capital case. We build the artefacts an organisation actually uses, not documents that sit unopened.
We stay close through execution. That may mean sitting inside a project team, tracking performance against the plan, or providing steady senior support while a client builds capacity.
What we do
Founder-led
Gladius was founded by Biodun Olatunji and Paul Oye on a simple conviction: advisory work improves when the person forming the judgement is the person sitting with the client. There is no layer between the thinking and the delivery.
We take on a deliberately limited number of engagements. Each one gets senior attention from start to finish, a clear point of view, and honest counsel — including when the honest answer is that a plan needs rethinking.
Where we work
Operating well in African markets asks more of a business than a good idea. It asks for an understanding of how things are actually done: how counterparties behave, how quickly capital moves, where informality sits alongside formal structure, and how long the last mile really takes.
We are based in Nigeria and work with clients across the continent as well as international organisations looking in. That vantage point lets us translate between the two — giving local businesses the rigour investors expect, and giving international clients context that a desk-based view will always miss.
The result is advice that is ambitious about what is possible and realistic about what it will take.
Get in touch
An initial conversation is confidential, without obligation, and usually the fastest way to work out whether we can be useful.
