Credentials
- Chartered Engineer (CEng)
- MBA — Alliance Manchester Business School
- MSc Oil & Gas Engineering — University of Salford
- Award-Winning Public Speaker
- Toastmasters Division N Director (2024–25)
- DISC Certified Behavioural Analysis Consultant
- Maxwell Leadership Certified Team Member
- Founder, Energising Excellence
From the Boiler Room
to the Boardroom
Randy Ekakitie spent 15 years as a Chartered Engineer across energy, mining, minerals, metals, and oil and gas. Not as a consultant on the outside. As a practising engineer managing teams, delivering complex projects, and carrying real commercial responsibility.
He holds an MSc in Oil and Gas Engineering (University of Salford), an MBA (Alliance Manchester Business School), and is a Maxwell Leadership certified Speaker, Trainer, and Executive Coach. He is also a DISC Certified Behavioural Analysis Consultant and NLP Practitioner.
But like tens of thousands of technical professionals, Randy hit a wall nobody warned him about. Not a technical wall. A human one. Colleagues with fewer qualifications moved into leadership. His analysis was the most rigorous in the room, yet his voice was the one least heard.
Through honest reflection and deliberate study, he came to one conclusion. The gap was not in the system. It was in skills nobody had taught him: how to communicate with authority, influence without a title, and lead people rather than just manage processes.
"Technical brilliance alone isn't enough. Great leaders know how to communicate clearly, influence effectively, and show up with confidence. That's the gap I help people close."— Randy Ekakitie
That journey became Energising Excellence. He is now an award-winning speaker, coaching and training leaders across engineering, energy, legal, government, and sales.
His belief is simple: technical excellence and outstanding leadership together are the most powerful force in any organisation. That is not a marketing slogan. It is the lesson his own career taught him the hard way.