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The Spartak Consult

See the Future … Walk in the Future

A Nigerian advisory firm helping public institutions and enterprises turn strategy into measurable results.

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Offices — Abuja & Lagos

Who we are

An advisory firm built around execution, not documents.

The Spartak Consult is a Nigerian management consulting firm working at the intersection of strategy, organisation and evidence. We help public institutions and enterprises define where they are going, build the structure and capability to get there, and sustain delivery long after the plan is signed off.

Our team is drawn substantially from inside the institutions we serve. Several of our principals spent their careers at the Central Bank of Nigeria — developing corporate strategy, running strategy execution, and managing development finance programmes at national scale. That grounding shapes how we work: we understand the approval chains, the budget cycles and the stakeholder realities that determine whether a strategy survives contact with an institution.

Vision

To be the advisory partner of choice for African institutions that intend to change — anticipating what is coming, navigating complexity, and achieving transformation that endures.

Mission

To combine institutional insight, analytical rigour and disciplined execution to deliver advice our clients can act on — and results they can measure.

Core values

How we hold ourselves to account.

01

Rigour

Every recommendation rests on evidence, method and tested analysis — never on assertion or template thinking.

02

Integrity

Ethical practice, candid counsel and transparent dealing. We tell clients what they need to hear, not what is comfortable.

03

Impact

We are judged by what changes in the institution, not by the quality of the document we submit.

04

Capability Transfer

We build the client team as we work, so the capability stays in the institution after we leave.

What we do

Four practice areas, one operating logic.

Strategy, structure, evidence and capability — sequenced so that what is decided is actually delivered.

Practice detail

What each practice actually delivers.

01

Strategy Development & Execution

Our anchor practice

Strategy fails far more often in execution than in design. We work with boards and executive teams across the full arc — from environmental scanning and strategic choice through to the governance rhythm, dashboards and accountability structures that make delivery visible and correctable.

Track record

Our principals contributed to the development and execution of two full corporate strategy cycles at the Central Bank of Nigeria (2021–2024 and 2024–2028), including the first strategy developed in-house since the Bank's inception — including strategy awareness across 24 branches, monitoring of strategic initiatives across 29 departments, and the blueprint for the Bank's strategy portal.

  • 01

    Strategy formulation

    Environmental scanning, strategic choice and the articulation of corporate direction.

  • 02

    Execution architecture

    Translating strategy into initiatives, owners, resources and time-bound commitments.

  • 03

    Performance management

    KPI and scorecard design, monitoring cycles and dashboards that make delivery visible.

  • 04

    Strategy adoption

    Awareness, alignment and accountability across departments, branches and management tiers.

02

Organisational Design & Development

Structure is where strategy either becomes operational or quietly stalls. We help institutions test whether their current design can actually carry the mandate they have set themselves — and redesign it where it cannot.

  • 01

    Organisational review & restructuring

    Testing whether the current structure can carry the mandate, and redesigning where it cannot.

  • 02

    Functional and role design

    Clear functional boundaries, reporting lines and role accountabilities.

  • 03

    Job evaluation & grading

    Defensible evaluation methodology and grading structures aligned to responsibility.

  • 04

    Competency frameworks

    Capability requirements defined by role, used for recruitment, development and progression.

  • 05

    Change management

    Structured transition planning, communication and stakeholder management through implementation.

03

Research, Policy & Advisory

Our research practice produces the analysis that underpins policy, investment and institutional decisions. It draws on economists and policy practitioners with direct experience of central banking, development finance and regulatory design.

  • 01

    Economic research & modelling

    Macroeconomic and sector analysis, forecasting and econometric modelling.

  • 02

    Policy & regulatory analysis

    Options appraisal, regulatory impact analysis and policy design support.

  • 03

    Institutional diagnostics

    Assessment of mandate, capability and performance to establish an evidence baseline.

  • 04

    Economic master planning

    Long-horizon development frameworks for states, regions and sector authorities.

04

Capacity Building & Executive Training

Our programmes are designed around the client's actual strategy documents, regulations and operating context rather than a generic curriculum. Facilitated by principals who have done the work inside institutions.

Training portfolio

  • Strategic planning & execution
  • Strategic stakeholder engagement & negotiation
  • Change management & organisational transformation
  • Policy development & regulatory analysis
  • Performance management & KPI design
  • Financial management & budgeting
  • Economic modelling & analysis
  • Pre-retirement & transition planning

Selected engagements

Work delivered for institutions with real mandates.

Corporate Strategy

Corporate Strategy 2026–2030

Nigeria Deposit Insurance Corporation

Full-lifecycle development of the Corporation's five-year strategy, plus the execution framework, KPIs and governance structure to deliver it.

Strategy Retreat Facilitation

Strategy Retreat & Regional Development Framework

North-West Governors' Forum

Strategy retreat and regional development framework spanning the seven states of the North-West, aligning executives on shared priorities.

Executive Training

Strategic Stakeholder Engagement & Negotiation

Infrastructure Concession Regulatory Commission

Training on strategic stakeholder engagement and negotiation for PPP success.

Strategic Planning

National Sugar Development Council

Training on strategic planning for the Council's management cadre.

Pre-Retirement Programmes

Pre-Retirement Training Programmes

Nigerian National Petroleum Company

Multiple pre-retirement training programmes.

Transition Planning Programmes

Nigerian Midstream & Downstream Petroleum Regulatory Authority

Financial, enterprise and personal transition planning.

Engagement spotlight

Nigeria Deposit Insurance Corporation — Corporate Strategy 2026–2030

The mandate

NDIC required a five-year corporate strategy and a working execution system — a way to convert corporate objectives into departmental accountability, and to see progress clearly enough to intervene early.

Our approach

We ran the full lifecycle: diagnostic assessment, organisation-wide stakeholder engagement, executive visioning and scenario sessions, then design of the execution framework — KPIs, monitoring cycles and governance structure.

What it draws on

The engagement applies methodology our principals built and ran at the Central Bank of Nigeria across two corporate strategy cycles, adapted to NDIC's deposit insurance mandate and operating structure.

Related work includes strategy retreat facilitation for the North-West Governors' Forum, and stakeholder engagement training for the Infrastructure Concession Regulatory Commission.

How we work

Five steps, run in this order, every time.

  1. 01

    Diagnose

    We start with the institution as it is — mandate, structure, constraints, politics — not with a preferred framework.

  2. 02

    Co-create

    Client teams work inside the engagement. Analysis is built with them, so conclusions are owned before they are presented.

  3. 03

    Structure

    Findings become decisions, decisions become initiatives, and initiatives become owned, resourced and time-bound commitments.

  4. 04

    Embed

    We install the governance cadence, tools and reporting that keep delivery visible after we step back.

  5. 05

    Transfer

    Capability building runs throughout, so the institution can run the next cycle itself.

Leadership team

Principals who have run this work from inside institutions.

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Musa Bulus Zgabawa

FCCA, FCA

Musa Bulus Zgabawa

Director of Business Strategy

Leads the strategy and organisational development practice, bringing financial and governance depth to strategic planning, organisational design and implementation.

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PhD, PMP

Isah Mohammed Idris

Chief Operating Officer

Twenty-three years in financial services and development finance, including corporate strategy, enterprise architecture and agile delivery at the Central Bank of Nigeria. PhD in Strategic Studies.

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Dr. Dauda Musa

CCMP, FAIPA

Dr. Dauda Musa

Director of Economic Research

Leads macroeconomic analysis and econometric modelling, advising public and private clients on forecasting, sector dynamics and economic impact assessment.

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Temitope Olumuyiwa Alabi

CCMP

Temitope Olumuyiwa Alabi

Senior Principal, Change Management & Governance

Over fifteen years at the Central Bank of Nigeria in stakeholder engagement, policy development and regulatory compliance. Certified Change Management Professional.

Consulting team

The practitioners on the engagement.

Portrait of Olamide T. Ogundipe, Strategy Consultant

Olamide T. Ogundipe

Strategy Consultant

PSM I, PRINCE2® Practitioner

Eleven years in central banking across strategy formulation, execution and policy development. Contributed to the CBN 2024–2028 Corporate Strategy, led the blueprint for the Bank's strategy portal, and ran strategy adoption across 24 branches. BSc Economics, University of Lagos.

Portrait of Jabir Hadi Imam, Strategy Consultant

Jabir Hadi Imam

Strategy Consultant

A.L.M. Harvard University · People Analytics, NYU

Seven years in strategy execution and institutional development; consultant on the NDIC Corporate Strategy 2026–2030. Previously Business Process Analyst in CBN's Strategy Management Department, helping deploy the Enterprise Strategy Management System tracking over 50 KPIs.

Specialist research capability

An adjacent scientific capability, available where a mandate requires it.

Alongside our core strategy and organisational practice, The Spartak Consult maintains a specialist biochemistry research capability led by Dr. Fatima Bulus Musa. It supports clients whose mandates touch agriculture, health, pharmaceuticals or environmental regulation — where a policy or investment decision needs a scientific evidence base rather than an economic one alone.

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Dr. Fatima Bulus Musa

Chief Scientist, Biochemistry

Directs the firm's scientific research work and ensures methodological rigour across biochemistry engagements.

  • Bioanalytical method development
  • Agricultural & environmental applications
  • Metabolomic & biomolecular analysis
  • Regulatory-standard custom analytical procedures

Contact

Let's talk about what you're trying to change.

Whether the task is a corporate strategy, a structural review, an evidence base for policy, or a programme to build capability in your team — the conversation starts with your mandate and the constraints you are actually working within.

Offices

Abuja, FCT · Lagos