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Proximity to Power: Governance, Exposure and Integrity at the Top

For leaders of African businesses that deal closely with the state. Learn to map your points of contact, prepare for banks, control intermediaries, handle improper demands and run the first day of an allegation. Then prove it in a live boardroom simulation.

  • Price₦315,000
  • DurationAbout 240 minutes
  • Access365 days
  • LevelBoardroom
  • You get9 lessons and a boardroom simulation
  • CertificateYes, anyone can verify it

Who it is for

Chief executives, chairs, audit committee chairs, finance chiefs and general counsel of African groups that deal with the state as customer, licensor, regulator or shareholder.

What you will learn

  • Explain legal, banking, reputational and personal exposure, and adopt a clear board statement of what you will not do
  • Build a register of every contact with state bodies and apply proportionate controls where officials hold discretion
  • Prepare a bank-ready file on ownership, politically exposed persons and source of wealth before it is requested
  • Vet, contract, pay and monitor intermediaries so that improper use is hard
  • Set practical rules on gifts, donations and community contributions, and give staff scripts for saying no
  • Respond to an improper demand, escalate it and decide whether to continue, pause or walk away
  • Run the first 24 hours of an allegation, and design board oversight that would stand up if tested

Course outline

  1. Why proximity is a governance problem
  2. Mapping your points of contact with power
  3. Politically exposed people, due diligence and the bank’s view
  4. Intermediaries, agents and the risk you rent
  5. Gifts, hospitality, donations and community demands
  6. The call you cannot refuse: handling demands and pressure
  7. When it surfaces: whistleblowers, journalists and investigators
  8. Directors’ oversight and personal exposure
  9. Rebuilding trust, and the decision to walk away
  10. Boardroom simulation

What is included

  • 9 lessons On a live whiteboard, with an AI instructor who answers from the lesson and cites its source. Questions can go to faculty.
  • A virtual boardroom simulation Face AI board members in a fictional crisis. Scored against a clear rubric (pass mark 75), checked by a person when it is close, with an appeal.
  • A verifiable certificate A certificate of completion with a QR code, with a public page where anyone can check it is genuine. It is not a regulated or accredited qualification.

Level: Boardroom · About 240 minutes · Access for 365 days