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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 leader, ownership, liquidity and disputes. Then prove it in a live boardroom simulation.

  • Price₦320,000
  • DurationAbout 240 minutes
  • Access365 days
  • LevelC-suite
  • You get9 lessons and a boardroom simulation
  • CertificateYes, anyone can verify it

Who it is for

Chairs, lead independent directors, family council members, founders, successors and advisers of founder-led or family-controlled African groups.

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

Course outline

  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
  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: C-suite · About 240 minutes · Access for 365 days