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Program Overview
The African Leadership Program is a program offered through AiC’s Institute for Professional Development. It is a rigorous, one-week program designed to enhance the individual, interpersonal, and institutional skills of leaders. Participants acquire the tools and techniques to better inspire, motivate, and build for better global leadership.
The coursework for this program is delivered by Georgetown University’s Center for Professional Development and is based on Georgetown’s Executive Leadership Program.
Included in the program are networking opportunities and events to compliment the classroom experience.
The primary goal of the program is to equip African leaders in both the government and private sectors with the tools needed to address, lead and manage change in a global context.
Other goals:
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Cultivate healthy, effective organizations, units, and teams
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Understand how to develop a power base and use that power to influence others, and achieve set objectives
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Master the foundation of business practice including planning, growing, managing, analyzing, and budgeting
Other benefits:
The inherent benefit of the African Leadership Program is to increase the economic viability and sustainability of business and professional development in Africa.
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Enable Africa’s participation in the Global economy through visionary leadership and commitment to economic development
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Foster an environment of intellectual discourse and pooled intellectual capital
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Initiate the capacity-building processes, human and manufacturing, in Sub-Saharan Africa
Who Should Attend?
As the program builds upon participant's experience and perspective, we expect mid-level managers and above to benefit most from this program.
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