I'm Chinonso Anatune. At 21 I went from a school desk to an analyst seat at Rothschild & Co, without the route everyone said I had to take. Now I stand in front of students, universities and employers to show them what is really possible.
Portrait · presenting / headshot
Chinonso Anatune is twenty-one. At an age when most people are still being asked what they want to be, he is already the answer to a question a lot of students are too nervous to say out loud: what if the route everyone insists on is not the right one for me?
He left a selective grammar school and, instead of the path that was simply assumed for him, chose an apprenticeship. That decision took him inside Schroders, through a Level 3 he finished with a merit, and on to an analyst seat at Rothschild & Co. Somewhere along the way he started speaking, and found that his own decision was the exact thing a room full of young people needed to hear.
That is what he brings to a stage. Not theory about careers handed down from a comfortable distance, but lived proof that growth is not linear, delivered by someone close enough to their age that they actually believe him.
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Presenting · self-awareness keynote
Mic in the crowd
Mentoring · mock interview
Networking · HSBC Innovation
Panel · on the micNonso is an excellent communicator and a real inspiration to our students. He spoke openly about his own experiences and how growth is never linear. The students left knowing they could take on the world.
He was absolutely brilliant with the young people and threw himself into the whole day. One of the teams he supported went on to win, and it was lovely to see how genuinely pleased he was for them.
We would happily have him back tomorrow. He encouraged the students to build on their success rather than settle, and that stayed with them long after he left.
He speaks the language of our students because he was one of them not long ago. Honest, warm, and genuinely motivating from the first minute.
Chinonso showed our apprentices what the non-traditional route can really lead to. The whole room was hooked, and the questions did not stop.
By the end nobody was looking at their phones. They were looking at him, and then at their own futures.
Tell Chinonso about your school, university or organisation and what you want your young people to walk away with. He comes back to every enquiry personally.
Addressing the room