Build the knowledge, skills, judgment, and discipline to lead at executive level
Leadership responsibility increases faster than leadership preparation. Many executives enter senior positions with strong technical knowledge but limited structured preparation for leading people, making difficult decisions, executing strategy, managing risk, and working across institutions.
The Executive Leadership Mentorship Program provides a structured journey from leadership knowledge to workplace application.
Participants learn, assess their leadership, practise essential skills, apply tools in the workplace, receive mentorship, and build evidence of improvement.
The program is designed for:
By completing the program, you will strengthen your ability to:
Effective leadership begins with self-awareness and personal discipline.
You will develop:
Key result: A clear personal leadership development plan and executive operating system.
Executives deliver results through other people.
You will develop:
Key result: A practical plan for improving team performance, talent, and accountability.
Senior leaders must connect daily decisions with long-term direction.
You will develop:
Key result: A strategic diagnosis and a focused 90-day execution plan.
Executive decisions affect institutions, stakeholders, and the wider environment.
You will develop:
Key result: A governance, risk, stakeholder, and institutional leadership plan.
Use focused videos, readings, leadership frameworks, and executive tools to understand each topic.
Complete leadership diagnostics, quizzes, scenarios, and self-assessments to identify strengths and development needs.
Analyse real cases and leadership challenges that require judgment and clear decisions.
Use role-plays, simulations, presentations, worksheets, and executive tools to build practical skills.
Participate in structured mentorship sessions linked to your current leadership responsibilities.
Apply each lesson to a real workplace challenge, decision, team, or institutional priority.
Record results, lessons, feedback, and areas requiring further improvement.
Leading Self
Leading People
Leading the Organization
Leading the Wider System
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Participants assess their leadership identity, emotional intelligence, executive presence, communication, and decision-making.
Participants practise delegation, coaching, feedback, negotiation, conflict management, and performance conversations.
Participants work on strategy, execution, resource allocation, change, innovation, and organizational culture.
Participants examine governance, ethics, finance, risk, crisis leadership, stakeholder engagement, and institutional coordination.
Participants complete an executive simulation, present their leadership portfolios, receive feedback, and develop their next leadership plan.
This program requires participants to apply their learning.
You will use program tools to address real leadership responsibilities, including:
Each activity produces evidence for your Executive Leadership Portfolio.
Throughout the program, you will develop a professional portfolio containing evidence of your leadership growth.
Your portfolio may include:
The portfolio shows what you learned, what you applied, and what changed because of your leadership.
To complete the program, participants must:
Participants who meet the requirements receive a certificate of completion.
You apply the learning to real leadership responsibilities and organizational challenges.
The program uses established leadership, strategy, governance, performance, and risk frameworks.
You receive structured guidance, feedback, and accountability throughout the journey.
Progress is measured through workplace actions, leadership behaviour, professional evidence, and organizational results.
The program connects international leadership knowledge with the realities facing executives and institutions in Somalia, Africa, and emerging economies.
Program Lead
Dr. Ali Yassin Sheikh Ali is an economist, institutional leader, academic, researcher, and executive mentor.
He serves as Deputy Governor and Deputy Chair of the Board of Directors of the Central Bank of Somalia. He is also an Associate Professor of Economics at SIMAD University.
His professional experience covers central banking, economic policy, institutional leadership, governance, university teaching, research, organizational development, and public-sector management.
He participated in the Executive Public Leaders Programme at the Blavatnik School of Government, University of Oxford.
His approach connects leadership knowledge with practical application, workplace evidence, and measurable improvement.
Join a structured leadership journey that will help you lead yourself, your people, your organization, and the wider system with greater clarity and effectiveness.