Lawyer, project manager and chartered marketer
Chuba Nkala is a barrister and solicitor of the Supreme Court of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, a PMP and Chartered Marketer. He has trained over 50,000 professionals, and researches why institutional reforms fail at the execution layer.
About
I teach the PMP because I hold it, and because I have watched what separates candidates who pass from those who study hard and still fall short. It is rarely knowledge. It is reading a scenario the way the exam does, and choosing the best answer among several good ones.
Over ten years my practice has trained more than 50,000 professionals. In the last twelve months, 64 of the candidates I trained passed the PMP, and their stories are here. I founded Dinak Strategy Consulting in 2015, I mentor PMP-certified practitioners across five continents, and I practise as a barrister and solicitor in Abuja, Nigeria.
Beyond training, I research why institutional reform fails at the execution layer. I developed the Accountability Triangle, the Implementation Fidelity Protocol and the AI Accountability Framework for Dinak Strategy Consulting, and they are now the basis of an in-progress SSRN paper series.
The simulator is that classroom experience, written down: realistic scenarios, honest explanations, and a score report that tells you what to study next.
Principal Partner. Barristers and Solicitors, Abuja. Corporate and commercial advisory, public sector and regulatory law, infrastructure and project finance, and technology and AI governance law.
Founder and Managing Partner. Institutional governance and capability consulting across Nigeria, Sierra Leone, Uganda, The Gambia, Ghana, Senegal, Guinea and Ethiopia.
Founder and Executive Director, Strategic Operations and Business Development. Facilitated a revolving two-million barrel crude oil contract between Mid Atlantic Projects (US) and Akpanoko Oil and Gas (Nig) Ltd.
Associate Director. Earlier sales roles at Tiens (2003 to 2006). LLB (Hons), Nnamdi Azikiwe University.
The record
Programme work delivered through Dinak Strategy Consulting. Outcome figures are engagement-reported unless a source is shown.
$145M programme. Delivered PMBOK Guide and PRINCE2-based execution training for the leadership team and six regional university hubs. The engagement was associated with the programme's move from Unsatisfactory to Highly Satisfactory.
$50M+ portfolio. Sustainability and value-capture models for climate-resilient infrastructure, with GIS and hydromet data systems handed over into state governance.
Master deployment strategy across poultry, maize and fruit tree value chains, directing N638M+ in IDA matching grants for 1,750+ commercial farmers.
PRINCE2-based execution training for the leadership and technical teams of three major pipeline projects.
PMBOK Guide and PRINCE2-aligned training that brought the Managing Director, Board and all Directors under one project management framework.
Founder. Inducts PMP-certified practitioners into a mentorship chain that now runs across five continents.
Research and frameworks
Field work on World Bank programmes and federal agencies exposed the structural gaps behind delivery failure. I developed three proprietary frameworks from it for Dinak Strategy Consulting, and they are the subject of an in-progress SSRN research paper series.
Diagnoses and rebuilds institutional accountability by mapping the relationships between authority, responsibility and consequence, so reform starts where the structure actually breaks.
Closes the gap between policy design and field delivery by finding the exact points where well-designed interventions lose integrity in execution.
Governance architecture for institutions deploying intelligent systems: clear lines of accountability for algorithmic decisions where traditional oversight falls short.
The three converge in the Institutional Capability Maturity Assessment™ (ICMA™), a diagnostic that produces an institutional capability scorecard, and the Institutional Capability Transformation Roadmap™ (ICTR™), which maps findings to a development sequence. Writing includes "Why Most Institutional Reforms Fail at the Execution Layer" and "AI Governance Without Accountability Is Governance Theatre", published as LinkedIn articles and through Dinak Consulting Strategic Insights. SSRN papers are in progress.
Ten working papers by Chuba N. Nkala on institutional governance, accountability and AI governance. None is posted yet, and titles may change before posting.