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The Sovereign Confrontation: When a Government Publicly Blames Your Company

For chief executives and boards of African groups. Learn to read a public confrontation with the state, audit your own facts, use proper channels, protect operations, keep every audience consistent, find allies within the law, and de-escalate. Then prove it in a live simulation.

  • Price₦298,000
  • 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, general counsel, government-affairs heads and finance chiefs of African groups that a government body could publicly blame for a shortage, price rise or tax gap.

What you will learn

  • Read the form, motive and powers behind a public confrontation, and adopt three principles: respect, honesty and lawfulness
  • Run an independent facts audit that separates what you got wrong from what you got right
  • Use formal channels and a respectful, firm tone, and refuse back-channels that look like influence
  • Manage the legal track: notices, deadlines, inspections, rights and consistent statements
  • Protect licences, banks, supply and staff while the dispute lasts, and refuse every shortcut
  • Keep staff, customers, lenders, development partners and international audiences consistently informed
  • Find credible allies within the law, offer off-ramps, and repair the relationship afterwards

Course outline

  1. Reading the confrontation
  2. The facts audit: what is true about us
  3. Channels and tone: how to speak to the state
  4. The legal and regulatory track
  5. Operating under pressure
  6. Staff, customers and partners
  7. Investors, lenders and international audiences
  8. Allies and coalitions, within the law
  9. De-escalation and the long game
  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