# The Founder’s Exit: Succession in Founder-Led African Groups

> For chairs, directors and advisers of founder-led groups. Learn to run a fair succession: the founder's transition, the family map, governance, choosing a…

- Provider: BrandsClass Executive Academy (a Brands Nexus Network Limited company)
- Format: online lessons, then a live virtual boardroom simulation with AI board members, scored against a published rubric
- Duration: about 240 minutes (9 lessons)
- Access: 365 days from the day you start
- Price: ₦320,000 (NGN)
- Certificate: a certificate that anyone can verify online. It is not a regulated or accredited qualification.
- Level: C-suite
- Who it is for: Chairs, lead independent directors, family council members, founders, successors and advisers of founder-led or family-controlled African groups.
- Page: https://brandsclass.com/courses/the-founders-exit-succession-in-founder-led-african-groups/
- Last updated: 2026-10-14

## What you will learn

- Plan all four transitions: leadership, ownership, governance and wealth, with a realistic multi-year timeline
- Help a founder design a second act and a written role after the handover, and plan for incapacity and death
- Map the family, its branches, interests and hidden tensions using the three-circle model
- Build a family council, constitution, stronger board and shareholder agreement
- Choose the next leader through written criteria, an independent panel and respect for the unchosen
- Plan ownership, inheritance, funding and valuation with the right advisers, across the regimes that may apply
- Prevent and resolve disputes privately, and run the handover announcement and the first hundred days

## Lessons

1. Why founder-led groups stumble at the handover
2. The founder’s own transition
3. Mapping the family and the business
4. Governance for the next generation: the family constitution
5. Choosing the next leader
6. Ownership, structure and the transfer of wealth
7. Liquidity, dividends and the exit of family members
8. When the family fights: preventing and resolving disputes
9. The handover plan and the first hundred days

## How to enrol

Open https://brandsclass.com/courses/the-founders-exit-succession-in-founder-led-african-groups/ to create a free account and buy a seat.