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What does it take to run and grow a successful start-up business in Africa, and particularly, Uganda, today? A crucial part of the CEO Apprenticeship Programme (CAP)is interacting with real businesses successfully navigating and growing in today’s business environment. This year, the CAP 2020 cohort was hosted by the fast growing ride hailing start-up, SafeBoda. Here, they interacted with co-founders Ricky Rapa Thompson and Maxime Dieudonne who emphasized the importance of innovation, risk taking, data analytics and passionate employees as important factors for SafeBoda’s success. “Innovation rarely comes from status quo. If you want to change things, you really need to take some risks. Be obsessed about small things but do not micromanage, there is difference. In addition, Safeboda is unique in that we have proximity with the product that we are building. All our staff are SafeBoda super users and we are able to get amazing feedback for example, our pair feature was an innovation of one of our Engineering staff,” said SafeBoda co-founder Maxime Dieudonne. “KPIs and Metrics are important in using data analytics – Data needs to be structured around building a competent BI team that’s technically competent but also teams that add value and understand trends and what these mean for the business.”- SafeBoda COO, Deepa Shekar, added. Catherine Tulina Kafumbe, Head of Support, also emphasized, “The secret in service excellence is in the hiring of passionate individuals and in being committed to building an engaged team.”

Introducing CEO Apprenticeship Program CLASS OF 2020! The new CAP 2020 Cohort, made up of the brightest leaders and future CEOs, begun their CAP journey on 28th February 2020 with an orientation at Kampala Serena Hotel. For the next 9 months, the Cohort will go through a rigorous training across 3 countries aimed at developing a generation of globally competitive, innovative and tech savvy corporate leaders. The CAP 2020 Cohort was welcomed by our founder and team leader, Mr. Peter Kimbowa, who challenged the new cohort to become the kind of leaders who inspire, care and influence for good. CAP Alumni President, Mr. Godfrey Byekwaso, was also on hand to welcome the cohort. He stressed the importance of creating and nurturing effective leadership on their journeys to becoming successful leaders. “When you create networks, are they effective? As Alumni, we plan activities that enhance our learning and value in society,” he said. We were honored to have Country Director of Strathmore Business School, Stephen Mukasa, to introduce the new cohort to the Program and their CAP journey will entail. Through our partnership with Strathmore Business School and University Of Cape Town Graduate School Of Business we’ve created an exciting program designed to train industry thought leaders on how to build and grow business in today’s volatile world.

CEO cluster teams will be launched at the ninth edition of the CEO Summit Uganda on October 23rd at Kampala Serena hotel by the Prime Minister of the Republic of Uganda, Dr Ruhakana Rugunda. The purpose of these cluster teams is to: Engage and prompt senior level public policy makers and Practioners into execution mode – Transform ideas into Action, and Action into Impact. Analyze Information, trends and their implications with a view to practical action and assessment of Risk.  Accelerate, consolidate and expand priority actions through regular (quarterly) consultation and mutual accountability. Serve as a catalyst for deep thinking about what works and what really matters in Business.