Dr. Norah Njuba Bwaya, Founder of Coach Africa, opens the summit with a reflection on two decades of coaching excellence across the continent. Joined by coaches from the Coach Africa ecosystem and Esther Lehmann-Sow.

Coaching in Africa has matured. The early debate was about understanding and relevance. Over time, as institutions invested more heavily in leadership development, a harder question emerged: after so much capacity building, where is the capacity?

This session moves beyond inspiration into credible, practice-based insight. Three perspectives professional coaching standards, institutional leadership expectations, and strategy and finance come together to explore one question: if coaching is working, what value is it creating, and how can that value be seen, felt and measured?

For institutions, HR leaders and anyone responsible for leadership investment decisions, this is the conversation that has been missing.

The power of collaboration in African coaching: What becomes possible for African coaching when we start building an ecosystem together?

A conversation about what senior leaders build next. Flora Mutahi built Kenya’s first flavoured tea brand from nothing. Thirty years later, she built something else, a programme for other entrepreneurs, built entirely from what she knows. Danny den Hartog talks with Flora about that transition. Plus a recorded message from Modupe Taylor Pearce, CEO of BCA Leadership, on what senior leaders across Africa are doing with everything they have built. For senior leaders sitting with questions they have not yet said out loud: how do I stay relevant after my role? What do I do with everything I know?