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West AfricaBusiness School

Executive education

For the leaders who shape organisations and institutions.

Discover the best programme for you to reach the next level in your professional or entrepreneurial journey. Prepare yourself for the current and future challenges faced by business executives and government workers, with our executive education programmes. These programmes are designed to teach outstanding public servants and management professionals how to develop efficient and ethical solutions to the evolving problems of the modern business and public service landscape. Join our MBA, DBA, Diplomas, Masterclasses, Executive Development Programmes and Conferences, delivered with international faculty in venues across Africa and beyond.

Overview

Results-driven leadership, built with peers from across the region.

Our executive education brings senior leaders together to increase their knowledge and skills, make informed decisions, successfully implement change and take responsibility for a better world.

Since 2010 WABS has run strategic business conferences, leadership programmes and management courses across Africa, with a particular focus on the financial services industry and the public sector.

Participants at the International Executive Development Programme for Senior Civil/Public Servants & Government Officials in Africa, held in Dubai

How we deliver it

Six ways to take part.

Masterclasses

Short, intensive sessions led by practitioners on a single specialist subject, such as bancassurance or private banking and wealth management.

International Executive Development Programmes

Multi-day programmes held outside the home country for senior civil and public servants, government officials and executives.

Conferences

Regional gatherings that bring leaders, regulators and practitioners together around an industry or a theme.

Coming soon

Master of Business Administration

Take the next step in your professional journey, enhancing your career or business with passion and purpose, through our MBA programmes.

Executive education

Master of Business Administration

Coming soon

Take the next step in your professional journey, enhancing your career or business with passion and purpose, through our MBA programmes.

These programmes are designed for candidates with a minimum of 3 years of work or entrepreneurial experience who require flexibility to combine their work or business with their MBA.

Register your interest and we will contact you when admissions open.

Register interest
Coming soon

Doctor of Business Administration

Transform your experiences into management solutions and understand problems to be able to react favourably in an increasingly complex business world.

Executive education

Doctor of Business Administration

Coming soon

Transform your experiences into management solutions and understand problems to be able to react favourably in an increasingly complex business world.

Join the Doctor of Business Administration (DBA) programme to enhance your capability to conduct management research relevant to solving complex business and public sector challenges.

Register your interest and we will contact you when admissions open.

Register interest

Diploma Programmes

Practical, career-focused diplomas for working professionals and entrepreneurs who want a recognised qualification in their field without stepping away from work.

Choose from 23 programmes across business, finance, technology, public service and industry, from Accounting and Finance to Travel and Tourism.

Executive education

Our 23 diploma programmes

  • Diploma in Accounting and Finance
  • Diploma in Business Management
  • Diploma in Bancassurance
  • Diploma in Business Administration
  • Diploma in Computing and IT
  • Diploma in Cyber Security
  • Diploma in Customer Service
  • Diploma in Education and Training
  • Diploma in Engineering
  • Diploma in Entrepreneurship & Innovation
  • Diploma in Fashion
  • Diploma in Health and Social Care
  • Diploma in Human Resource Management
  • Diploma in Hotel Management
  • Diploma in Logistics and Supply Chain
  • Diploma in Marketing Management
  • Diploma in Health and Safety
  • Diploma in Oil and Gas
  • Diploma in Project Management
  • Diploma in Public Administration
  • Diploma in Risk Management
  • Diploma in Sales and Marketing
  • Diploma in Travel and Tourism

Tell us which diploma interests you and we will send you the details.

Enquire about a diploma

Who it is for

Designed for senior leaders.

  • Company executives and directors
  • Senior managers and heads of department
  • Senior civil and public servants and government officials
  • Public administrators and policy makers
  • Entrepreneurs and business owners
  • Community and political leaders
A group of programme delegates in business dress standing outside a hotel entrance

Past programmes

Executive programmes we have run.

Full track record
Participants at the International Executive Development Programme for Senior Civil/Public Servants & Government Officials in Africa

International Executive Development Programme for Senior Civil/Public Servants & Government Officials in Africa

21–25 March 2022

Dubai, United Arab Emirates

Participants at the CIMA International Bancassurance Conference

CIMA International Bancassurance Conference

8–9 May 2019

Hotel Pullman, Douala, Cameroon

Participants at the Women Leadership Development Conference

Women Leadership Development Conference

2019

Douala, Cameroon

Participants at the CIMA Zone Bancassurance Conference

CIMA Zone Bancassurance Conference

8–9 May 2018

Novotel Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire

Participants at the Private Banking & Wealth Management Masterclass

Private Banking & Wealth Management Masterclass

30–31 October 2017

Fiesta Royale Hotel, Accra, Ghana

Africa Bancassurance Masterclass 1.0

24–25 August 2011

Oriental Hotel, Lagos, Nigeria

Tell us the gap. We will design the training to close it.

Corporate training, seminars, conferences and in-house workshops, built around your team’s needs and schedule.