Anyone with graduate-level education from a tertiary institution of learning can take The Oak Seed Executive Leadership Course. More especially, mid-level to senior management leaders from the private, public and non-governmental sectors who have passion for the transformation of their institutions and communities will benefit from attendance of this course.

1. Learn the skills and behaviour needed to function effectively as transformational leaders in the spheres of influence.

2. Examine history and the different operating leadership paradigms and their consequences in nation building.

3. Explore different models of nation building principles and from that, propose what Africa can do to develop in this season.

4. Develop and execute transformational projects for personal and collective expression of knowledge gained as way forward for actual involvement in societal transformation.

The Oak Seed Executive Leadership Course runs third weekend (Saturday & Sunday) once a month online for five months (from 9:00 am – 5:00 pm on Saturdays and 1:30 pm – 8:30 pm on Sundays GMT+1). The sixth module is the online project presentation. The course concludes with a three-day residential History Makers Training (HMT-1) module in September 2024.

Each session will be assessed through a combination of objective (multiple choice) and written class dialogue assignments. Participants will write and execute transformational projects in their spheres of influence before the end of the Course. These projects are for direct application of knowledge gained.

Attendance, including student forum participation and completion of assignments and projects, count toward graduation assessment. Participants who successfully complete the course will be awarded a Certificate of Graduation by the Institute.

The content is grouped into seven modules and there are six lecture topics under each of the first five modules offered online with a first-class Virtual Learning Environment.

The sixth module is the online project presentation module.

The concluding seventh module, the History Makers Training 1 (HMT-1), runs as a residential three-day intensive learning adventure that focuses on developing the personal discipline and character traits necessary to become a transformational leader of impact.

The academic content is specifically designed to challenge participants to think about the major challenges African nations face and the potential solutions within their spheres of influence.

Participants will be required to attend all the online lectures during the two full weekend days of teaching blocks every month. In extreme cases where participants might not be able to participate in a class (with approved advance notice – only permitted once), recorded sessions may be made available.

Attendance of the residential History Makers training module is compulsory. Date and venue of the training will be communicated to participants in advance.