Deals Happen Over Suya: Hannatu Adegboyega on Enterprise Sales

Send us Fan MailHannatu Adegboyega trained as a lawyer, graduated from the Nigerian Law School, and never practised. Instead, she walked into a retail sales role at Etisalat, was promoted to team lead in three months and key account manager in twelve, and went on to close some of the largest deals of her career across telecoms, fintech infrastructure, and now AI-powered logistics.In this conversation, Hannatu talks about what she was actually following when she chose sales over law. She speaks about a truth we often don’t say out loud, that many deals don't happen in meeting rooms but at 11pm, over suya, at someone's house, and what it takes for a woman to navigate that world on her own terms. She speaks plainly about being the only woman in the room, what that has required of her that it never required of the men beside her, and what she looks for in the people she builds and leads.This is a conversation about what it actually takes to close the deal, and to keep choosing rooms that weren't built with you in mind.Support the show