There is a kind of financial education every human should pass through in their lifetime. It is not the one contained in textbooks, free Youtube courses or in the four corners of a classroom.

It is that one that happens in a room full of people who are tired of watching their money vanish guided by coaches who have scaled that phase.

The Game of Money Conference is that room.

On Saturday, May 16, 2026, the Game of Money Conference arrives in Chesterfield as part of its UK Tour, and if you have been waiting for a reason to finally get serious about wealth creation, building investmentstrategies, and understanding how money actually moves, this is your chance.

What Is the Game of Money Conference?

The Game of Money is a movement before it is an event.

Convened by Dr. Temitope Mark-Odigie, a broadcaster, entrepreneur, real estate executive, and financial educator known widely as TMO, the conference is built on a simple but confronting premise: money has rules, and most people are losing not because they are not working hard enough, but because nobody ever taught them how the game works.

The series launched in Nigeria in 2024 with the Game of Money Conference 1.0 held in Lagos, Nigeria.

In 2026, a podcast with the same premise as the conference, the Game of Money podcast, was launched right before the Game of Money Conference 3.0 with a watch-party hosted in Lagos. The conference itself drew hundreds of attendees to Kingsway International Christian Centre, Maryland, Lagos, on May 9, 2026.

The event, themed "How to Build Wealth on a Salary," packed a room with salary earners, entrepreneurs and young professionals hungry for the kind of personal finance clarity that most formal education and even financial experts never delivers.

Lagos showed that the appetite for this conversation is real. Now the conversation is crossing borders.

The Chesterfield edition has been designed with the British financial landscape specifically in mind, interrogating the respectability culture that teaches people to want less and be grateful for it, the dangerous comfort of leaning entirely on the NHS and pension system, and the quiet but costly belief that talking about money is vulgar.

These are the mindset traps that quietly cap financial growth, and they are exactly the kind of thing the Game of Money conference exists to dismantle.

Speakers, Frameworks, and What to Expect in the Room

The Chesterfield conference will feature a lineup that promises depth

Dr. Alo Ohio-Omokhomion, James Akinsiun and convener, Dr. Temitope Mark-Odigie, are among the speakers expected to take the stage, bringing expertise across financial literacy, wealth building, investment strategy, and the kind of mindset work that sits underneath every real money decision a person makes.

The conference introduces structured thinking tools, including the GAME framework (Think, Habits, Execution, Gaps, Assets, Mindset, Expand) and the WEALTH acronym (Work on your mindset before your money; Earn through ownership, not just effort; Act consistently; Leverage what you already know; Think in markets, not postcodes; Have the conversation today), which are, indeed, practical lenses for anyone serious about long-term financial planning and asset building.

One of the sharpest ideas driving the event is that your origin is your advantage. The outsider's eye, built from navigating systems without safety nets, is a rare capital in wealth creation, rather than a liability it has been marketed to be.

Gaps that insiders cannot see are exactly where investment opportunity lives, and the Game of Money conference is designed to help attendees recognise and act on that edge.

The conference also pushes back against the idea that financial success is luck or corruption dressed up as achievement. As Wallace D. Wattles, referenced in the event's framework, put it: getting rich is a science, not a stroke of luck.

The science is learnable. But first, you have to be in the room.

The Game of Money UK Tour

Date: Saturday, May 16, 2026

Location: Chesterfield