Ken & Mary Okoroafor Keynote Speaker

Ken & Mary Okoroafor are financial coaches and Sunday Times Bestselling authors of Financial Joy, a 10-week plan to help you banish debt, grow your money and unlock financial freedom. They are the founders of multi-award-winning brands, The Humble Penny and Financial Joy Academy, with the core mission of helping the nation design a life of Financial Joy to achieve a balance of wealth and well-being.

They’re sought-after international speakers and have delivered keynotes and workshops at companies such as Google, YouTube, Expedia, Ogilvy, Amazon, Netflix, Cambridge University, Imperial College, etc, across the UK, South America and Africa.

They became Financially Independent aged 34 (including mortgage-free in 7 years) with Ken having started his journey as a first-generation immigrant to the UK aged 14 and Mary was born to a hard-working immigrant family in London. Ken and Mary have 2 children aged 11 and 9 and love outdoor activities and travelling to explore new cultural adventures.

Ken is a Chartered Accountant (ACA, ICAEW) and holds an MBA from the Judge Business School, University of Cambridge. He has over 14 years of experience as an executive Chief Financial Officer (CFO) in the Investment Business in London and took the leap in April 2020 to begin running his own business full time together with his wife, Mary, as business partners.

Mary is an entrepreneur with 12 years of experience across media and IT, with 7 years also growing a childcare business.

Together, their work at The Humble Penny and Financial Joy Academy has helped over 5 million people improve their relationship with money and, they recently got named ‘Entrepreneur Senior Leaders of The Year’ by the prestigious Black British Business Awards.

Their work has been featured across the BBC, ITV, Financial Times, British Vogue, The Sunday Times, Bloomberg, Business Insider, Vice, iNews, Metro, Buzzfeed, Channel 5, The Guardian, Telegraph, including work with UK Prime Minister at 10 Downing Street.