Talking Stage: A Playbook for Professionals Exploring Tech Careers
Are you that professional who keeps hearing "get into tech" but doesn't know where to start—or worse, has already paid for a bootcamp but never finished? Sound familiar? Or you know someone in this dilemma?
Written by Oluwatayo Winkunle, who made her own unconventional pivot from banking to fintech product management, this book introduces a refreshing idea: just like relationships, tech careers deserve a "talking stage"; a phase where you explore, test, and evaluate before committing your time, money, and sanity.
Through four practical tools (The Reality Check, The Flirtation Log, The DTR Framework, and The Courtship Contract), you'll audit your actual life constraints, go on low-risk "first dates" with different tech paths, and choose a direction from clarity rather than pressure or hype.
Whether you're a banker curious about product management, a lawyer eyeing legal tech, or simply someone who's tried before and dropped out, this playbook helps you stop guessing and start exploring so that when you finally commit, you're ready.
About the Author
Oluwatayo Winkunle is an enterprise AI and data transformation leader advising African organisations on how to design and implement intelligent systems that deliver measurable business outcomes, not pilots that never scale. She is the Founder of Techlytics, where she leads data and AI capacity building for enterprises through the Techlytics Institute of Technology and Innovation.
She built her career across Access Bank and Interswitch before founding Techlytics, bringing over a decade of experience in banking, fintech, and enterprise technology to her work with executive teams navigating large-scale digital and AI-driven transformation.
Tayo has led the development of solutions such as Thor, an ERP platform digitising logistics and operational workflows for Nigeria's emerging CNG industry; an example of her focus on building intelligence systems for African realities. She is currently writing The Enterprise Intelligence, a forthcoming book on how African business leaders must rethink data, technology, and organisational strategy in the intelligent age.
A WIMBOARD Fellow (WIMBIZ Women on Boards, 2025), Tayo is a trusted voice on data strategy, AI implementation, and enterprise modernisation. She recently chaired the Emerging Technologies and Intelligent Governance panel at the Nigeria eGovernment Summit and has been featured on Channels TV, TVC, AIT, The Guardian, and ThisDay.
She holds an Executive MBA and is an Associate of the Chartered Institute of Bankers of Nigeria (ACIB).