Owner Manager Programme

The Owner Manager Programme (OMP) is a unique and transformative programme designed to enhance the leadership and management skills of business owners and entrepreneurs. The programme focuses on enhancing the personal capacity of the owner manager to drive growth and profitability in their business. The programme is designed to help owner managers to develop the skills and expertise needed to grow their businesses to the next level of success.

After attending the OMP programme, participants should be able to:

• Develop long-term strategies
• Achieve faster and more managed growth
• Achieve professional and personal growth
• Manage equity stakes
• Assess your company’s position
• Understand changing local, regional and international business opportunities
• Improve executive decision-making capabilities and succession planning

Who the Owner Manager Programme is for:

OMP is specifically designed for Chief Executive Officers and Managing Directors of their own companies and senior executives who are major equity stakeholders in medium-sized companies. You will join a wide and diverse group of successful entrepreneurs for an experience that will transform and re-energize your career and company. This programme is ideal for Entrepreneurs who own and manage Medium-sized Companies and Founders/successors of Family business companies, with an annual turnover of more than Kshs. 5 million and operational for 5 years or more. Classes comprise between 30 and 40 participants from different industries and countries representing a wide diversity of companies, sectors and cultural backgrounds.

Owner Manager Programme Key Feature

The key feature in the programme will be a joint-module in Lagos Business School (LBS). In this module, you as a participant will be able to share insights and knowledge with other entrepreneurs from Nigeria, as well as broaden your networks and identify opportunities to expand your business beyond East Africa

Owner Manager Programme Delivery

The Owner Manager Programme is a non-residential modular programme of four modules, each module lasts 4 days held at the Strathmore University Business School, Madaraka Campus in Nairobi with exception of the international module which lasts 5 days and is held at Lagos Business School, Nigeria. Due to the busy working schedules of participants, OMP is flexibly designed to be delivered in a multi-modular format, offering you a unique opportunity to undertake substantial learning and development that can be fitted into your professional and personal life. The OMP is designed to build your knowledge-base over a period of one year in three, 4-day modules. It has a comprehensive curriculum which will cover key business topics as well as special areas of interest to entrepreneurs. The case methodology will be a primary tool for delivery of course material, in addition to thought-provoking lectures and enlightening group discussions. Participants are awarded a certificate upon completion of the programme.

Owner Manager Programme Modules

1. Module 1

   • Strategic Management
   • Marketting management
   • FInancial Management
   • Operations Management
   • Entrepreneurship

Owner Manager Programme Faculty

SBS and LBS faculty members join forces to offer the programme. The faculty members hold PhD’s from world-renowned institutions and are internationally acclaimed experts for their research on current business issues. Through the integrated expertise of these two schools, participants gain a comprehensive view of business, with the distinct needs of business leaders in Africa kept sharply in focus. Moreover, they are successful business people themselves, many with their own consulting firms, operating in the real world of international business. As a result, classroom discussions provide conceptual frameworks for effective decision making, along with practical tools for real-life implementation.

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