Leading Scale Up and Rapid Growth Teams

Fast growing African businesses often outgrow the informal leadership that carried them through their early days, and founders and managers struggle to lead teams that are doubling in size. This course helps leaders build the structures, delegation and communication needed to scale without losing culture or control. Participants learn to lead through hypergrowth while keeping quality, cohesion and momentum intact.

What you will be able to do

Recognise the leadership shifts required as a small team scales rapidly.
Redesign roles, structures and reporting lines to support growth.
Delegate and build layers of leadership rather than remaining the bottleneck.
Preserve culture and shared values as new people join at speed.
Maintain communication and alignment across an expanding organisation.
Anticipate and manage the strain that rapid growth places on teams.

Course outline

01How Leadership Must Change as You Scale
02Redesigning Structure and Roles for Growth
03Building Layers of Leadership
04Delegating Beyond the Founder Bottleneck
05Protecting Culture During Rapid Hiring
06Keeping Everyone Aligned as You Expand
07Managing Growing Pains and Team Strain
08A Roadmap for Leading Your Next Growth Phase

Who should attend

This course suits founders, general managers and department heads in start ups, scale ups and fast expanding enterprises who must lead teams through rapid growth.

Dates, venues and fees

Dates	Venue	Days	Fee
17 to 19 Aug 2026	Dubai	3	US$1,500
24 to 26 Aug 2026	Lagos	3	US$1,500
31 Aug to 2 Sep 2026	Harare	3	US$1,500
7 to 9 Sep 2026	Kampala	3	US$1,500
14 to 16 Sep 2026	Dar es Salaam	3	US$1,500
21 to 23 Sep 2026	Pretoria	3	R13,000
28 to 30 Sep 2026	Cape Town	3	R13,000
12 to 14 Oct 2026	Online	3	US$900
19 to 21 Oct 2026	Mozambique	3	US$1,500
26 to 28 Oct 2026	Cairo	3	US$1,500
2 to 4 Nov 2026	Accra	3	US$1,500
9 to 11 Nov 2026	Lusaka	3	US$1,500
16 to 18 Nov 2026	Kigali	3	US$1,500
23 to 25 Nov 2026	Nairobi	3	US$1,500
30 Nov to 2 Dec 2026	Durban	3	R13,000
7 to 9 Dec 2026	Johannesburg	3	R13,000
21 to 23 Dec 2026	Mauritius	3	US$1,500

Fees are per delegate. South African venues are priced in rand; other locations and online in US dollars. Fees exclude 15% VAT where applicable. Group bookings of three or more delegates from the same organisation qualify for a reduced rate; contact us for a quotation.

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We can run Leading Scale Up and Rapid Growth Teams privately for your team, on your dates and built around your own systems. Group delivery is usually more cost effective from about six delegates.

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