Introduction
Board members and senior executives increasingly face situations where rapid organizational decline threatens stakeholder value, employee livelihoods, and market confidence. Yet most leaders lack the specialized knowledge and proven frameworks needed to diagnose corporate
distress early, design effective turnaround strategies, and execute successful revitalization while maintaining proper governance standards. The complexity of balancing fiduciary duties with crisis decision-making, managing multiple stakeholder interests during transformation, and sustaining organizational change often overwhelms even experienced executives.
This intensive training program equips board members and senior executives with the strategic frameworks, governance practices, and execution capabilities necessary to lead successful corporate revitalization initiatives. Participants will master the complex interplay between board oversight and management execution in transforming underperforming organizations into sustainable, value-creating enterprises.
Training Objectives
By the end of this program, participants will:
- Diagnose Corporate Distress: Identify early warning signals and root causes of organizational decline through comprehensive performance analysis and stakeholder assessment
- Design Revitalization Strategy: Develop robust turnaround strategies that address operational, financial, and strategic challenges while maintaining stakeholder confidence
- Execute Governance Excellence: Implement effective board governance structures and processes that enable rapid decision-making while maintaining fiduciary responsibility
- Lead Transformation: Navigate complex stakeholder dynamics, manage communication strategies, and drive cultural change throughout the revitalization process
- Measure and Monitor Progress: Establish key performance indicators and governance mechanisms to track revitalization success and ensure sustainable transformation
Training Modules
Module 1: Understanding Corporate Decline and Strategic Inflection Points
Facilitator: To be announced
Key Topics:
- Corporate Health Assessment Framework: Master systematic approaches to evaluate organizational performance across financial, operational, and strategic dimensions. Learn to identify early warning signals and use diagnostic tools to create comprehensive corporate health profiles that inform strategic decision-making.
- Root Cause Analysis and Problem Identification: Develop skills to distinguish between symptoms and underlying causes of corporate distress. Understand structured methodologies to trace problems to their source, avoiding superficial solutions that fail to address fundamental issues driving organizational decline.
- Stakeholder Mapping and Impact Analysis: Gain expertise in identifying, categorizing, and assessing the influence of key stakeholders during crisis situations. Learn to evaluate stakeholder expectations, power dynamics, and potential responses to various revitalization strategies.
- Strategic Options Development: Understand how to generate and evaluate multiple strategic alternatives for corporate revitalization. Learn frameworks for assessing turnaround versus transformation approaches, portfolio optimization decisions, and resource allocation priorities.
- Financial Restructuring and Capital Strategy: Develop capabilities to design financial solutions that support organizational recovery. Learn to evaluate debt restructuring options, capital raising strategies, and working capital optimization techniques essential for corporate survival and growth.
- Board-Management Strategy Collaboration: Understand how to establish effective governance processes for strategy development during crisis periods. Learn to balance board oversight responsibilities with management execution needs, ensuring strategic decisions are both sound and implementable.
- Case Study: How a listed company reversed market failure through board-led restructuring.
- Break Out Session: Boardroom simulation – analyzing a company in decline and proposing initial strategic interventions.
Module 2: Board Leadership in Strategy Design and Execution
Facilitator: To be announced
Key Topics:
- Board’s Role in Shaping Strategy vs. Operational Execution: Learn to clearly delineate board responsibilities in strategic formulation from management’s operational execution duties. Understand how to provide strategic direction and oversight while avoiding
inappropriate involvement in day-to-day operations, ensuring effective governance boundaries during revitalization efforts. - Collaborating with Management Without Micromanaging: Develop skills to build productive partnerships with executive teams during crisis periods. Learn techniques to provide necessary support and guidance while maintaining management autonomy, fostering trust and accountability that enables effective decision-making under pressure.
- Prioritizing Resource Reallocation and Strategic Investments: Gain expertise in evaluating and approving critical resource allocation decisions during corporate transformation. Learn frameworks for assessing investment priorities, divestiture opportunities, and capital deployment strategies that maximize recovery potential while managing risk.
- Role of Governance, Transparency, and Communication in Revitalization Efforts:
Understand how to maintain stakeholder confidence through effective governance practices and transparent communication. Learn to design disclosure strategies, manage regulatory requirements, and communicate progress to investors, employees, and other stakeholders during challenging periods. - Restructuring Culture, Leadership, and Capabilities: Develop capabilities to oversee organizational transformation at the cultural and leadership levels. Learn to evaluate leadership effectiveness, guide cultural change initiatives, and ensure the organization develops capabilities needed for sustainable performance improvement.
- Creating a Performance-Based Culture and Trust in Uncertain Times: Understand how to foster organizational resilience and high performance during periods of uncertainty and change. Learn strategies to build trust, maintain morale, establish accountability systems, and create cultural foundations that support long-term success beyond the immediate crisis.
- Practical Exercise: Designing a turnaround strategy with timelines and KPIs for a fictional enterprise.
Date
September
18th, 2025
Attendance Mode
Virtual
Zoom
Time
10:00am - 02:30pm
WAT
Days to go
Hours
Minutes
Seconds
Training Fee
NGN 250,000 per participant
(10% discount applies to a group of 3 or more participants from the same organisation).
Participants Will Receive
- Pre-Training Materials: Articles and strategic case briefs.
- Post-Training Toolkit: Strategy design templates, stakeholder mapping tools, and board governance checklists.
- Certificate of Participation
Who Should Attend?
- Company directors (executive and non-executive),
- Business owners and founders,
- C-suite executives (CEO, CFO, COO, CSO),
- Company secretaries and governance professionals,
- Aspiring board members and professionals supporting board strategy functions.
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Meet the Facilitators
- Over 35 years of professional experience in finance, strategy consulting, operational management, and board governance.
- Managing Director of InVivo Partners Ltd
- Served on boards in developing and emerging markets across FMCG, Oil & Gas, Healthcare, Financial Services and Technology sectors.
- Former partner at McKinsey and Company in Europe
- Head of Strategy and Business Development, Pfizer Inc.
- Former Vice President of Strategic Planning and Business Development at Pfizer Pharmaceuticals Inc
- She has previously served on the boards of PZ Cussons PLC (UK); Barloworld Ltd (South Africa), Stanbic IBTC Holdings (Nigeria), Seven Energy (Nigeria). UAC (Nigeria), Diamond Bank PLC (Nigeria); Vlisco Group (the Netherlands) as well as a number of privately held businesses.
- Holds current board seats at Imperial Brands PLC (UK), Guinness /Diageo (Nigeria), Bank of Africa, BMCE Group (Morocco) and subsidiaries of the Nigerian Stock Exchange, where she brings valuable insights on strategy, operations, ESG issues and sustainability practices.
Ngozi Edoziem
Nkemdilim Uwaje Begho
- Over 15 years of experience in business/digital transformation, change leadership, risk oversight, and digital marketing.
- CEO of Future Software Resources Ltd. (Futuresoft)
- Designed and executed innovative brand strategies, digital marketing campaigns, and digital transformation projects across Africa.
- Currently holds board seats on Stanbic IBTC Holdings PLC (Nigeria), Novare Investment Fund Ltd (Nigeria), Lagos State Research & Innovation Council (LASRIC), The BudgIT Foundation, Global Leaders Today (USA), Society of Corporate Governance Nigeria (Nigeria).
- 2019 Obama Africa Leader
- Over 14 years of experience in crafting and executing brand and growth strategies for African and global enterprises eyeing expansion across the continent.
- CEO of Caizen Business Development Company (Caizen), a sustainability marketing company.
- Founder and Editor-in-Chief of ASPIRE Luxury Magazine.
- Led and worked with cross-regional teams on multi-million-dollar marketing projects, fostering sustainable development and elevating brands to industry prominence.
- Highly sought-after certified sustainability and marketing consultant.
- Advisory board member and mentor for several Pan-African ambitious startups, social impact and not-for-profit organisations.
