12 practical topics, three days in Nairobi, and your own strategy turned into an execution map, a departmental cascade, a scorecard and a review calendar.
Practical learning experiences delivered across Africa. A few moments from previous Vantage Africa cohorts:
Organisations invest heavily in formulating strategy and then lose momentum: priorities are never cascaded, ownership stays diffused, and review meetings fill up with activity instead of results.
A small number of priorities that travel down to a department, a team, and finally one person who knows which part is theirs.
A short video on why strategies fail in execution and almost never in formulation.
Video holder · Add approved clip hereMeetings that ask what moved and what will be done about it, rather than what everybody has been busy with.
A priority with nobody’s name on it, no number to move and no date to be reviewed is just a sentence in a document. This programme is about everything that turns it into work.
The pathway is designed around what you will be able to do. You begin guided virtual learning as soon as you register, then build on it during three practical days in Nairobi, 10–12 May 2027.
The situation, the problem, the choices and how they reach a named person.
Three focused days on scorecards, budgets, governance and the review rhythm, in Nairobi.
Proposed allocation: topics 1–5 are guided online and cover the analysis and the choices; topics 6–12 are worked through during the three physical days, on your own organisation’s strategy, with a facilitator beside you.
Explore each topic below. The real test is whether anything is different two quarters from now.
Plans fail quietly, between the launch and the first review. What gets checked here is whether every priority has a named owner, whether each one carries a measure that would actually move, and whether the review calendar exists before anybody leaves the room.
Join the 12-topic pathway →Your organisation’s actual strategy or plan, not a case study.
A small number of priorities — and what you are deliberately not doing.
To departments, to teams and to named people, with a measure attached to each.
Budget and people against every priority, or it was never a priority.
Who meets, how often, and the decision each meeting has to produce.
The reference material comes with the programme. The thing worth carrying home is your own strategy taken the rest of the way — mapped, cascaded, costed and scheduled, with the review calendar already filled in.
StudyGenius guides you through progressive skill-building, practice, feedback and applied challenges. Try a lesson free.
Explore StudyGenius ↗Video placeholder — insert an approved clip of Dr. Benson cascading a priority to a named owner.
You are not simply buying training days. You are investing in a strategy that reaches the people who have to deliver it, and a community of peers.
18,000+ professionals trained across 30+ countries, including government, NGO and development-sector teams.
Guided by Dr. Benson Kiarie and experienced faculty; every exercise runs on data from real organisations.
Observable work, feedback and practical checks — and an execution plan your leadership can act on next quarter.
You have probably already done the hard thinking: the retreat, the facilitator, the document the board approved. What almost never gets built is everything underneath it — priorities carried down to named owners, measures that move, budget behind each one, and a review that actually happens. That is what these three days build, on the plan you already have.
See the 12 topics →Priorities with owners against them. Measures that would actually move. Budget behind each one. A review calendar with real dates. Built here, on your own strategy, rather than described.
Bring your current strategic plan. Most participants do.
The programme is built around practical work rather than attendance. You work on your own organisation’s strategy and leave with it cascaded, costed and scheduled rather than with notes on how strategy works.
Yes. The pathway covers all 12 topics, 5 guided online and 7 in the room, subject to the programme’s formal assessment decisions.
The first 5 are introduced through guided online work before the workshop and cover the analysis and the choices. The remaining 7 form the focus of the three physical days in Nairobi, spent building the cascade, the scorecard and the review calendar.
Yes. Under the standard-fee pathway, the $80 initial payment counts toward $580 and leaves $500 payable. The $480 offer is for early full payment, not the instalment plan.
The programme is planned for Nairobi, Kenya on 10–12 May 2027. The exact venue will be confirmed by the Vantage Africa team before a final booking commitment.
That programme develops the leader: judgement, influence and how you carry a team. This one builds the machinery: the cascade, the scorecard, the budget and the review rhythm that make a strategy happen. They overlap by design and many organisations send people to both.
It helps, and most participants bring one. If yours is still being written, bring the mandate or the draft — the choices topic is where a lot of plans get sharper.
Yes. Contact Vantage Africa for an invitation letter, invoice or a tailored in-house proposal.
Let us tailor strategic planning, execution governance or a full strategy facilitation assignment to your organisation, sector and challenges.
Contact Dr. Benson · +254 725 303 645 · bkiarie@vantageafricaleaders.comBecome the person who turns the board’s intention into next quarter’s work.