OWNER DIRECTOR PROGRAMME (ODP)

As the owner/director of a business in an emerging market economy, you have the daunting task of growing and scaling your businesses irrespective of the challenges in this environment. Should you diversify your product portfolio? By how much? For how long? How should you position your business? In a digital world, how should you market your products or services to get the best results? How should you finance growth and expansion: through debt or equity? How can you grow your business into a micro-multinational organisation? How can you scale your business within and across borders, especially given the complexity of your home market? What are the strategies to reverse the vicious cycle of near stagnation and declining revenues? The �й�һ��Ƭ Owner Director Programme provides owners or directors of businesses, like you, with an opportunity to share, learn and network with colleagues across various industries on key concepts that affect the survival and growth of their businesses. Through cases, tools, frameworks, and a collegial exchange of views, you will develop the skills and capacity to confront the complexities of a growing organisation in a rapidly changing world. The programme is also supported with resources that enable you to conceptualise and test your assumptions about new business ideas or processes in real time.

Who Should Attend

Content

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WHO SHOULD ATTEND

The uncertainties of today��s business world demand that companies be led by highly professional business leaders who possess extraordinary foresight and vision.

Ideal candidates for this practice-oriented programme are CEOs, Managing Directors, Chairmen, Presidents and Executive Directors of small and medium enterprises (SMEs) based in Africa.

Following the philosophy of the International Master in Practicing Management (IMPM), an innovative paradigm initiated by management guru Henry Mintzberg, �й�һ��Ƭ has launched the ODP especially for leaders in fast-growing and successful enterprises who want to take their companies to the next level of growth and sustainability.?

PROGRAMME CONTENT

The content and curriculum of our?Owner Director Programme?are organised as an?integrated, immersive learning process that enables you?�C the owner or director �C to?systematically engage with complex strategic?issues through the following 6 modules delivered across 3 cities:

Module 1: Financial Growth Strategy for Entrepreneurs (Accra)

Module 2: Disruption, Essence of strategy and Organisational Agility (Lagos)

Module 3: Beyond the Founder: Leading Family Businesses (Accra)

Module 4: Marketing Strategies for a Digital Economy (Accra)

Module 5: Global-Local (Glocal) Immersion and Teambuilding Module (Accra)

Module 6: Executive Business Coaching (Accra/Lagos/Distance)

* Expositional Session on Doing Business in China

* Post Programme China Immersion Module (Shanghai) �C TBC

PROGRAMME OBJECTIVES?

Our?Owner Director Programme?aims to provide you with general management perspectives, systematic management knowledge, frameworks for strategic thinking and hands-on business leadership along with management tools.

Our?Owner Director Programme?will provide an opportunity for you to:

Expand your perspective of strategic issues within your industry and beyond
Learn skills and strategies from relevant cases to aid decision making in scaling and diversification ?
Share your experiences for the benefit of others
Forge strong relationships with your counterparts across transnational and multicultural channels
Acquire key resources needed to guide continuous learning, improvement and corporate performance
Test your business and strategy ideas and gather feedback in a friendly, intellectually stimulating yet challenging environment
Conceptualise and understand how to implement the most appropriate approach to succession planning.

These opportunities will equip you to learn, implement and, share your new knowledge.

PROGRAMME BENEFITS

This programme is designed to help owners and directors of fast-growing enterprises rethink the key business leadership and management challenges they are facing, set up modern and agile management systems, and lay a solid foundation for scaling their business growth in a dynamic business landscape. It will challenge you to get the best out of yourself. You will gain confidence, feel re-invigorated and be ready to improve the performance of your business.

By the end of the programme, you will have:

Acquired specialised knowledge of human resources, marketing, finance and accounting, as well as how to formulate and implement strategies pertaining to business leadership and management
Developed advanced and practical management tools, formed your own theoretical frameworks for business leadership and management and mastered effective, strategic models
Gained a deeper understanding of the particular role of both CEOs and directors, and learned how to establish constructive work relationships with employees and external stakeholders
Further enhanced skills which are essential for both CEOs and business owners: negotiation, coaching and communication
Gained membership in the prestigious �й�һ��Ƭ Global Alumni Association and begin to benefit from the international network available to members within and outside Africa.

�й�һ��Ƭ DIFFERENTIATOR

Before, during and after the 6 modules, we have designed and arranged a series of extra-curricular activities that demonstrate the programme��s practice-orientation approach which is in line with the executive education ideas of the International Master in Practicing Management (IMPM), an innovative paradigm initiated by management guru Henry Mintzberg. These include:

Company Visits �C Immerse yourself in businesses that address your key challenges
Alumni Dinners �C Network with our prestigious alumni and shape your next deal
Learning through Reflection �C Break away from your entrenched position and mind-set through questioning, analysing, discussing and sharing
Learning Log �C Use an effective way of systematic thinking and discovery
Reflection Paper �C Synthesise the knowledge gained from the programme to create a workable action plan that will be implemented in your business after the programme ends
Executive business coaching.

ODP 2025 SCHEDULE

Date	Module	Location	Time
April 21 - 23, 2025	Financial Strategy and Value creation	Accra	3 Days
April 24 - 25, 2025	Driving exponential growth through strategic marketing	Accra	2 Days
May 14 - 16, 2025	Beyond the Founder:? Leading Family?Businesses	Virtual	4hrs a day for 3 days ? 10:00AM �C 02:00PM GMT? Each Day (Equivalent of 2 days face to face class)?
May-August, 2025	Executive Business Coaching	Face-face/Virtual	4 Days Equivalent
June 23 - 26, 2025	Disruption, Essence of Strategy and Organisational Agility	Lagos	4 Days
August 06, 2025	Doing Business in China	Virtual	3hrs 10:00AM �C 01:00PM GMT
September 16 - 18, 2025	Game Changing? Leadership for Dynamic Times	Accra	3 Days
September 19, 2025	Immersion and Teambuilding Module	Accra	1 Day

*Saturday, September 20, 2025 �C Graduation in Accra ?

Post-Programme China Immersion Module

There will be a 5-day China Immersion module in Shanghai. The cost and dates of this module will be confirmed later.

PROGRAMME FEES?

The programme fee is US$6,000 (excluding the post programme China immersion module) and is payable in installments.

Your programme fee includes tuition, course materials, case licensing fees, certificate, accommodation when outside your country of residence, breakfast, lunch and coffee breaks. The fee does not cover your flights.

Cost of post programme China immersion module to be confirmed later.

ADMISSION PROCEDURE

Complete?the online Application Form?or download, complete and submit?the Application Form. These will be the next steps:

Interview: After receiving the Application Form, we will contact you as soon as possible for an interview
On passing the interview, the �й�һ��Ƭ Admissions Office will send you a Letter of Provisional Acceptance and a Payment Notice
Priority for the Letter of Acceptance shall be determined by date of receipt of payment.

Given space limitations, �й�һ��Ƭ reserves the right to stop accepting applications or transfer applications to the next cohort of the same programme. Generally, an application must be completed at least 20 days prior to the programme start date. All application forms are examined in order of submission, and seat confirmation will be decided by the date the Letter of Acceptance is received. Applications received less than 20 days prior to the programme start date will be handled on a case-by-case basis.

Cancellations:

Any cancellation made 15 days or more prior to the programme start date is eligible for a full refund of programme fees paid. However, the expenses arising therefrom shall be borne by the applicant or his/her employer. Any cancellation made less than 15 days prior to the programme start date shall be subject to a fee of 20 percent of the total programme fee. After the programme starts, no fees shall be refunded for participants who withdraw from the programme for any reason.