Overview
As an industry leader, you map out your company’s course, chart its strategy and foster a culture guided by clear objectives and a shared mission. Today the global, interconnected world calls for executive leaders who are uniquely attuned to the economic currents and market shifts that could advance or undermine their firm’s long-term sustainability.
Upon completing this executive programme, you will be admitted into the prestigious Lagos Business School Alumni Association, an exclusive global network of over 9,000 members across the private and public sectors with active chapters in Nigeria, the United Kingdom, United States of America, and Canada.
Learning Objectives and Benefits
The Global CEO – Africa Programme has been designed and developed to enhance your strategic vision and equip you with new tools to better navigate disruptive trends that could impact your business.
Bringing together business leaders to co-create the African leadership solution as they individually transform their organisations.
The Global CEO – Africa programme is delivered by Strathmore University Business School together with Yale School of Management and Lagos Business School.
Why Global CEO – Africa Programme?
Expand your Global Vision & Reach through the Global CEO Programme
The Global CEO programme includes 3 residential modules in Nigeria, Kenya and the USA.
- Co-creating the African Leadership Solution
The African continent is recognised as having immense potential, but the realisation of this potential requires collaborative leadership. Through the programme, we emphasize the roles, skills and competencies required for effective leadership for African organisations
- Exclusively Designed for Executive Leaders
Expand your network and learn from top-level peers in an invigorating multi-cultural forum
- Practical, Current and Relevant Knowledge
The case method, interactive lectures, workshops, group discussions, study groups and CEO panels will all stimulate actionable insights that you can immediately apply at work.
- Address Real Business Challenges
Analyse a business challenge specific to your organisation and gain invaluable feedback and support from experts and peers.
Who should attend
- The Global CEO – Africa programme is designed for top-tier business leaders including board members, C-Suite executives, presidents, and chief decision-makers of companies with interests or a presence in the African continent.
Participants have an average of 20 years experience in senior management roles and reflect a diversity of the sector, profiles and cultural backgrounds.
Structure and Curriculum
Module I of the Global CEO programme
Understanding the Global and East & Southern Africa Perspectives
(Strathmore University Business School – Kenya)
Key topics:
- Leadership – Role of the CEO in Africa and effective leadership strategies
- Concepts of global and African economies
- Understanding the Eastern and Southern African business contexts
- Crafting and shaping your organisational international strategy
- Creating value through expansion – Eastern and Southern Africa
Module II – Understanding the West Africa perspective & Building your Expansion Strategy
(Lagos Business School – Nigeria)
Key Topics
- Understanding the business context in West, North and Central Africa
- Emerging market dynamics
- Governance and Leadership
- People management in the 21st Century
- Strategy implementation and execution
- Creating value through expansion – West, North and Central Africa
Module III – Global Positioning and Strategy Formulation & African Leadership Solutions
(Yale School of Management, USA)
Key topics:
- Innovation and entrepreneurship
- Leadership in adversarial times
- Understanding and leading culture
- Growth and expansion into emerging markets
- Global and emerging markets economic outlook
- Creating value through global expansion – emerging markets
Intra-Modular Activities
- Executive Challenge
Admission process
The Global CEO – Africa applications are accepted throughout the year but should be received no later than two months before the start date.
The Global CEO – Africa Admissions Committee, comprised of representatives from Lagos Business School and Strathmore University Business School, thoroughly reviews all applications. Due to class-size constraints and the need to maintain a balanced mix of professional profiles, it is possible that even highly qualified applicants may not be admitted.
Faculty
Academic Director
Patrick Akinwuntan is a Chartered Accountant, pan-African banker, and Fintech expert. He holds an MBA from OAU Ile-Ife, is a Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Nigeria, and is an alumnus of the Harvard Business School Senior Executive program. He is also an honorary Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Bankers of Nigeria and an Associate of the Chartered Institute of Taxation of Nigeria.
Patrick commenced his professional career at EY International and practiced investment banking at Manufacturer’s Merchant Bank (now Fidelity Bank) before a 26-year pan-African banking career at Ecobank, where he held various executive positions across Africa. He retired in 2022 as the Managing Director and Regional Executive of Ecobank Nigeria.
Patrick has an extraordinary passion for innovation, entrepreneurship, financial inclusion, and innovation in financial services. He led the launch of the first international credit card in West Africa, a unified pan-African banking App, and instant fund transfers across 33 African countries in 18 currencies.
Patrick has extensive board-level experience which includes non-executive director positions at Africa Finance Corporation (AFC), FMDQ Securities Exchange, First Securities Discount House (FSDH), and premier Chairman of Accion Microfinance Bank Limited. He currently serves on the Disciplinary Tribunal of the CIBN and was Chairman of the Ethics and Professionalism Committee of the Bankers Committee between 2018 and 2022. He is also an independent non-executive director on the board of Airtel Nigeria, MudoZangl Nigeria Limited, and Opolo Global Innovation Limited.
Awarded best retail banker in Africa for 2016 by the Asian Banker, Patrick is co-chair of the Advisory board of Retail Banking Councils for Africa and a member of the Board of Trustees of the Fintech Association of Nigeria.
He is currently an Adjunct Faculty at the Lagos Business School where he is the Academic Director of the Global CFO programme and the Global CEO Africa programme.
Isaac Orolugbagbe is a Senior Fellow at the Strategy, Entrepreneurship and SPEB Department of Lagos Business School and an Adjunct Faculty, Strategy & Corporate Governance at Strathmore Business School, Nairobi, Kenya.
Currently Isaac is Chairman of Boctrust Microfinance Bank Limited, Chairman Fastizers Foods and Confectionery Limited, and Board Director for Beta Computers Limited, Park City Homes Limited and IDC Farms Limited. In the past, he served as Director for Thomas Wyatts Plc. and Vice-Chairman of Red Star Express Plc.
Professor Enase Okonedo, FCA, is currently the Vice-Chancellor of Pan-Atlantic University, Lagos, Nigeria. Prior to this, she was Deputy Vice-Chancellor, and Dean of Lagos Business School (LBS).
She also serves on boards in the banking, telecommunications, and power sector and is the President of AIFA Reading Society – a society committed to achieving sustainable education in Africa by promoting and supporting a reading culture; and a member of the Panel of Advisors, Africa Initiative for Governance (AIG).
She is a professor of management and holds a Doctorate in Business Administration (DBA) from International School of Management (ISM), Paris; an MBA from IESE Business School, Barcelona, and a Bachelor’s degree in accounting from the University of Benin.
Professor Olayinka David-West is an esteemed academic and thought leader with expertise in the intersection of business management and technology. With an illustrious career spanning several decades in IT and financial services, she has made significant contributions to academia, research, and the advancement of business practices and policies through her insightful analyses and strategic thinking.
As the Dean of Lagos Business School, Professor David-West brings visionary leadership to one of Africa’s premier business institutions. She is passionate about digital transformation and inclusive finance and has held critical positions at prestigious institutions. At LBS, she has served as a faculty member, faculty director, academic director, associate dean and accreditation lead, propelling the school to attain international accreditations and global rankings.
Testimonials
The modules have opened one’s mindset to the possibilities that exist not only on the African continent but also from a global perspective. And how as a CEO, you could manage your internationalization strategy or your global or African regional strategy to create more value for your company.
Alexander Okoh CEO of Bureau of Public Enterprises, Nigeria
The partnership that they’ve put together to deliver this is world-class and is also driving home the need for us to domesticate our solutions in Africa. A lot of times, we copy and paste what we see working in England or US. We think it’s going to work in Africa. This is about creating a homegrown solution leveraging the fact that we have what it takes to solve Africa’s problem.
Valentine Ozigbo President/CEO TransCorp PLC, Nigeria
It engages you. It’s not just about things that you already know. It’s from the point of view that you even reevaluate your own perspectives, how you have pursued your vocation so far, and the kind of value you can add.
Ronke Bammeke MD & CEO Pensions Alliance Ltd, Nigeria
Coming from the public sector and meeting a lot of CEOs coming from the private sector. This is where both of us in a classroom are able to interrogate our roles and see how we can create synergies. The last one week has been very enriching for me. I have learned a lot of very good ideas, which I believe I’m going to use to transform Narok County
Samuel Tunai Governor, Narok County, Kenya
One of the biggest programmes that I attended was last year for Dubois African CEO’s forum. Similarly, the topics are almost the same, but this one, there’s a lot of practicality which people are taken through compared to the other one. There is much more weight in what we have been taught in the class than the other one.
William Maniyel CEO Allied Services Ltd, South Sudan
Upcoming Sessions and Contact
For more information, please call Victor – 07080070551 or send an email to execedsales@lbs.edu.ng
