About ACLT

Leadership transformation, built in Africa

We exist to close Africa’s leadership gap — with leaders who understand its people, its markets and its promise, and who are equipped with the best tools in the world.

Our story

Africa does not need leadership borrowed from elsewhere.

Africa is young, ambitious and growing fast, yet too many organisations still struggle for want of strong, principled leadership. ACLT was founded to close that gap.

We believe the continent’s challenges are best solved by leaders who understand its people, its markets and its promise, and who are equipped with the best tools in the world.

Today, ACLT works with organisations and individuals across Southern, East and West Africa to build leadership capability that lasts.

Rooted leadership: from roots to horizon

Why the baobab?

A deep root system, a wide canopy that shelters others, and a long life measured in generations. The baobab stands for leaders who build institutions, not just careers.

What we stand for

Our values

Grounded, confident, forward-looking, warm but rigorous. We speak as a respected mentor, not a lecturer.

Ubuntu in action

We lead through and for others.

Integrity first

We hold ourselves to the standards we teach.

Excellence with relevance

Global quality, African context.

Courage to change

Transformation begins with the leader.

Legacy thinking

We build for the next generation, not the next quarter.

Our approach

Transformation journeys, not one-off workshops

We do not run one-off workshops. We run transformation journeys: assess where leaders and organisations are, build capability through practical learning, apply it to real challenges with coaching, and sustain it through community and measurement.

See our programmes

Assess
We diagnose leadership strengths, gaps and organisational needs.
Learn
Participants complete practical, facilitator-led programmes.
Apply
Leaders tackle live challenges with coaching and peer support.
Sustain
Alumni network, follow-up reviews and impact measurement.

Positioning

What makes ACLT different

Built from African realities

Content drawn from African case studies, contexts and voices.

A journey, not an event

Assess, learn, apply, sustain — rather than one-off workshops.

A pan-African network

Leaders and practitioners who keep learning from one another.

Impact you can evidence

Results tracked after the programme ends, not just on the last day.

Leadership and faculty

The people who guide the journey

Practitioners and scholars who have led institutions across Africa — and who stay alongside our participants long after the classroom.

Leadership