The Academy I founded to teach financial governance the way it is practised: on live institutional problems, with tools members take back to work on Monday.
I have trained more than 200 institutions, and the pattern is always the same: a board attends a course, understands it, goes home and does nothing, because the course used somebody else's case study and their own institution looks nothing like it.
The Academy is built the other way round. Members bring a live problem, I work it with them using their numbers, and they leave with the decision made rather than the theory understood.
The same method runs through the advisory work, the clinics and the curriculum.
A structured programme across financial governance, credit and risk, financial management, fraud prevention and control, compliance and board effectiveness. Each module ends in a practical output.
Monthly live sessions. A member presents a real institutional problem and I work it together. Members attend free and leave with the templates behind each one.
The diagnostic instruments, board templates, checklists and trackers I use in engagements, provided to members rather than sold separately.
Practitioners across Rwanda, Uganda, Tanzania and beyond, asking each other the questions they cannot ask their regulator.
The ten governance dimensions, how each is evidenced, and the action each score band triggers.
How fraud occurs in savings, lending, cash management, digital channels, procurement and staff operations, and the controls that stop it. Segregation of duties, maker-checker, authorisation limits and fraud-risk assessment.
Loan appraisal, risk appetite, arrears management and portfolio at risk control, using the institution's own loan files.
Reading a CAMEL dashboard, a cash flow forecast and an audit report, and knowing which questions to ask about each.
A two-hour live session on the critical mistakes leaders must avoid, with a toolkit: the health check, board dashboard, internal control checklist, credit governance checklist, fraud risk checklist, compliance calendar, audit follow-up tracker and a 30-day improvement plan.
If you want a certificate, there are cheaper options. If you want to walk into your board meeting and answer the questions you have been dodging, join us.