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The learning Centre is focused on Entrepreneurship Education and Business Training. It offers the following:

Start-Up Academy

The Academy focuses specifically on supporting and developing Start-Ups. It offers tailored programs and resources that are designed to address the unique challenges and opportunities present for start-ups. The Academy often facilitates connections to potential investors and showcases start-ups to potential funding sources. The Academy also provides access to experienced mentors and industry experts who can provide valuable guidance and advice. These mentors have likely navigated similar challenges before and an offer insights that can help accelerate start-up growth. The Academy allows start-ups to connect with like minded entrepreneurs, investors and professional. Networking is crucial to start-ups and participating in the academy can provide a strong network that can potentially open door to partnerships, funding and other opportunities.

Leadership Academy

The Academy offers an experiential learning program that provides participants with critical leadership skills, challenges their identity, improves their cultural awareness and builds a commitment to servant leadership and nation building. The Academy also engages, develops, trains and inspires participants in preparation of taking personal and community wide action to address issues facing the country. The program is designed to create strong leaders with a remarkable work ethic and ability to tackling complex problems and find solutions.

Investor Academy

The program aims to build financial services that are better suited for the local market by increasing knowledge of private equity and venture capital, growing the knowledge base of the industry and improving the skills of the people working in the industry. The investor Academy is a program designed to equip participants with skills and knowledge to build and grow successful private equity and venture capital funds that will increase access to finance for start-ups and SMEs in the country.

Mentorship and Business Coaching Academy

The program aims to facilitate personal and professional growth of individuals by providing guidance, support and knowledge transfer from experienced mentors to mentees. This program is designed to train individuals in mentoring start-ups. It targets professionals with start-up mentoring knowledge embarking on a mentorship journey. The goal is to enhance their mentoring techniques and establish effective communication with the start-ups they guide

Business Academy

The Business Academy offers Short Courses and Certification Programs.

Small and Family Business Academy

The Academy focuses on providing Small and Family Businesses with the tools, knowledge and skills they need to make their businesses a success. The Academy is dedicated to give Small and Family business a representative voice and providing support and training to help improve Small& Family Businesses survival rates. The Academy provides business Consultancy in marketing, finance, accountancy, operations and family governance. It helps businesses to develop strategies to attract customers, increase sales and improve profitability.

Accreditation and Professional Certification Academy

A core element of IAENT’s mission is the operation of the foremost business accreditation program in the field of business innovation. Accordingly, the Institute has developed and operates a comprehensive and professionally-managed evidence-based innovation accreditation program for business organizations. Organizations holding an IAENT accreditation can be confident that their accreditations have been developed in accordance with industry best practices and are based on the inputs of leading practitioners who have worked hard to establish these standards.

The Institute of Applied Entrepreneurship is the professional body for innovators, established with a mandate to ensure innovation is seen as a professional discipline that requires knowledge, skills and competency development. The Institute, certifies, benchmarks, and provides research, development, training and mentoring in innovation and digital transformation. IAENT is the leading professional certification in the field of innovation. IAENT aims to advance individual careers and transform organizational achievements by advancing the profession of innovation leadership