Portfolio Leadership Development
You are deploying capital into ventures. The single most predictable point of failure is not the market. It is the founder's leadership capacity.
Most accelerators and funds invest heavily in business model, go-to-market, and capital structure. Almost none invest in the leadership capacity of the founder who must execute all of it. PLD closes that gap — with structured, measurable coaching that institutions can deploy across their portfolio.
Three Delivery Models
Each model is tailored to the institution's structure, timeline, and reporting requirements.
Cohort
Group of foundersStructured coaching for a cohort of founders within your programme. Group sessions combined with individual deep-dives. Designed for accelerators and incubators running 10–30 founders at a time.
Embedded
Ongoing within programmeLong-term coaching embedded within your fund or programme operations. Founders receive continuous leadership support across investment cycles. Built for portfolio managers who want sustained founder development, not one-off workshops.
Advisory
Curriculum designLeadership curriculum design and facilitator training for organisations building their own coaching capacity. You get the methodology, frameworks, and M&E architecture — delivered as a transferable system.
Africa-Contextualised. Measurement-Ready.
Leadership coaching that produces data your funders can report on — not just qualitative sentiment.
Every engagement begins with a diagnostic: where founders are, what the programme needs, and what success looks like for funders.
Coaching is built on the Heart + Strategy Operating System — integrating conviction, self-awareness, and strategic rigour into a single leadership framework.
All sessions are contextualised for Africa: the capital landscape, the institutional dynamics, the cultural weight founders carry.
We track leadership growth using structured assessments at baseline, mid-point, and close — producing data your funders can report on.
Measurement covers decision quality, delegation capacity, stakeholder management, and founder resilience — not vanity metrics.
Institutions We Have Worked With
What Institutions Say
“The leadership coaching Liza embedded within our accelerator cohort was the highest-rated component of the entire programme. Founders consistently cited it as the intervention that changed how they made decisions under pressure.”
Programme Director
Pan-African Accelerator, Kenya
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