FAQs

TLA is borne out of the necessity to drive innovations and creative leadership behaviours and standards across leaders, professionals, entrepreneurs, administrators, etc. in Africa. It started in 2017 in  Ghana with over 25 persons who gathered in Accra to discuss the future of Transformational Leadership in Africa. The Summit Group from diverse cultures, backgrounds and experiences saw the need to create a leadership development pipeline to nurture creative minds into innovative leaders and network them into a learning community to deepen their thoughts, knowledge and skills in the subject matter and grow entirely new and creative thought leaders that will challenge and disrupt the status quo and open up to a new vista of opportunities for growth advantage in Africa.

Academic agreements and bilateral co-operations exist between the six partner organizations that have designed and are promoting the TLA (Summit) events. The London Bridge Business School, UK and the Africa Institute of Public Administration, Ghana are the two major partners. London Bridge Business School, LBBS -UK has a subsisting BAC with the North East University, USA that enables the two institutions to award Honorary Doctoral Degree in Transformational Leadership and Management only. Leading Edge Business School, Nigeria, Leading Edge Academy, Nigeria both enjoy the privilege of being the local partners and representatives of the London Bridge Business School LBBS-UK. Win Institute for Gender Studies is a niche Institute and is in the partnership to promote the participation of women executives in the TLA programmes.

There are three ways a candidate can be nominated into any of the sessions of the TLA:

1. The first is through our alumni networks. At the end of each successful TLA session, satisfied alumni members are given the opportunity to nominate at least five persons who are qualified through our educational and experience criteria and in turn the TLA Secretariat sends invite to the candidates as nominated, but must be qualified persons going by approved standards.
2. There is an existing Social Research Network, TLA deploys that equally brings up suitably qualified individuals from English speaking African countries for the TLA programmes. The candidates who emerge through this means are still subject to the approval of the TLA Advisory Board who at all times maintains quality and standards of the TLA programmes.
3. The third system is advertorial. Sometimes, the organizing partners can put up adverts on the media calling for persons who are suitably qualified based on specific standards to enlist for any of the sessions of the TLA.

TLA Summit is structured to hold once every quarter - March, June, September and December. The whole four sessions this year will hold in Accra, Ghana.

TLA as the peak Transformational Leadership learning community in the continent of Africa maintains standards in the nomination process. To be nominated as a candidate, the following criteria guide the educational and experience requirements and must be fulfilled:

1. You must be a focal figure in your professional or occupational engagement who has a number of persons he or she supervises or has done so in the past or hoping to do so in your next level of engagement.
2. A person seeking for TLA nomination into the TLA class must have orchestrated or mainstreamed some leadership practices in his or her place of work, society or community or mentors persons who are climbing through a professional ladder.
3. TLA nominees must have attained at least 10years post graduation experience and must be at least 35 years of age whose character and conduct must be exemplary and inspiring to the younger talents.
4. A person who has been in a management position where he or she takes decisions that impact on an organization of not less than 25 persons is an advantage and in which case, he has track records of achievement that can be easily related to the class in clinical sessions.
5. All TLA nominees are expected to come to the weel-long learning journey prepared and with practical and real-life experience and case studies that will boost peer-to-peer interactivity and clinical analysis of challenges of Transformational Leadership and Management across organizations, states, and departments, appropriately underpinned to individual level, reinforcing the learning takeaways and adds on from the immersive learning journey in Accra.
6. From time to time, the Advisory Board of the organizing partners continues to review and update the selection criteria and approximate it with the characteristics and class of persons the TLA attracts on its Alumni profile. More so, because the TLA attracts four outstanding honours and certificates for example;

• Post Graduate Certificate in Management awarded by the London Bridge Business School, UK.
• Distinguished Fellowship of the Africa Institute of Public Administration, AIPA, Ghana.
• Honorary Doctorate in Transformational Leadership and Management by the London Bridge Business School, UK and the NorthEast University, USA.
• Kwameh Nkrumah Transformational Leadership Medal awarded from the Nkrumah Center, Accra after two hour stand-up presentation on the Lives and Times of Kwame Nkrumah and Lessons for Transformational Leadership in Contemporary Africa.

TLA nominees therefore must be persons of character, qualified and experienced to the extent that they bear true testimonies of the above earned honours, certificates and qualifications.

Yes, all TLA nominees must go through the three-day classroom drills that consist of 2 plenaries, 2 keynotes, 3 seminar sessions, 1 workshop, and 1stand-up presentation at Nkrumah center. The curriculum is incisive, a perfect blend of theories and practice delivered by formidable faculty of eminent subject matter experts, thought leaders and professors tactically selected from diverse cultures and backgrounds. The keynote speakers are globally reputed for their ability to deepen your thoughts and set an inspiring atmosphere to learn, connect and accelerate a new journey in your life.

These classroom experience including an interactive peer-to-peer clinical workshop that brings out the best in our candidates on a learn-from-each-other mode prepare our candidates for the quadruple awards/honours.

Only three options exist;

1. Pay the sum of $2,500 only directly to the domiciliary (USD) account of the organizing partners of the TLA, Leading Edge Business School, or
2. Pay the sum of N1,825,000 only to the local (Naira) account of Leading Edge Business School.
3. A third option is payment of $2600 only on site, i.e at the venue upon your arrival and registration.

No, please, the programme is already discounted and considering the quality of content, package, delivery and other offers, there will be no consideration of any further discount. We don't want to give you less than what you deserve and also expected of the standards we maintain.

1. Accommodation for 5 nights at the TLA event facility, AH Hotel, a 4-star hotel in Accra.
2. Buffet meals throughout the programme days.
3. Airport pick-up and drop.
4. Welcome cocktail on the 20th March.
5. Doctoral/Fellowship gowns.
6. Certificates, TLA capel pin.
7. Electronic documentation and one page appearance on the event brochure.
8. The globally reputed honours and awards plus exciting extra-curricular activities including a glamourous Eagles' Might on the 24th of March.

Yes, on the 4th day, there is a benchmark visit and study tour of historic icons in Accra, including the slave routes and monuments to underpin some perspectives and why Africa needs Transformational Leadership more than all. Beside this, there is the EAGLES' NIGHT on Friday, 24th when we loosen the air-tight curriculum to enable our eagles unwind, relate, network and connect amidst music, dances, meals and drinks plus some bits and pieces of entertainments by the Ghana National Troupe and the Military Band.

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