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The Sudden Vacancy: Leading When the Chief Executive Dies or Is Incapacitated

For chairs, directors, company secretaries and senior executives of African companies. Handle the first hours with dignity, pass authority in an orderly way, support people, disclose in the right order, manage key-person risk and make a fair succession decision. Includes a live boardroom simulation.

  • Price₦225,000
  • DurationAbout 240 minutes
  • Access365 days
  • LevelBoardroom
  • You get9 lessons and a boardroom simulation
  • CertificateYes, anyone can verify it

Who it is for

Chairs, directors, company secretaries, general counsel and senior executives of African companies and family-influenced groups.

What you will learn

  • Confirm the facts and lead the first hours with care and dignity
  • Pass authority in an orderly way under the constitution
  • Support staff and the family and respect custom and faith
  • Disclose to stakeholders and the market in the right order
  • Manage key-person risk with banks, customers and insurers
  • Make a fair, credible succession decision and keep family and company governance apart
  • Stabilise the company and prepare succession plans

Course outline

  1. The first hours after a sudden loss
  2. Governance mechanics: who acts now
  3. People, grief and culture
  4. Stakeholders and disclosure
  5. Key-person risk, banks and insurance
  6. The succession decision
  7. Communications and the market
  8. The family, ownership and the estate
  9. Stabilise and prepare for next time
  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