Our Programs
Business Development Academy(BDA)
Our Vision
Our vision is to help Nigerian business owners
cultivate basic business standards in their
businesses
Our Mission
We are on a mission to provide basic
business education for business owners and
entrepreneurs in Nigeria.
Who we are
We are a business education organization that works to provide foundational enterprise development training and resources to enable entrepreneurs translate their ideas and personal skills into viable businesses.
What we do
We equip our participants with the essential knowledge and skill training required to successfully start-up, manage and sustainably grow a small to medium sized enterprise [SME].
Our Courses
Our courses are centered on four core areas that are essential in building sustainable enterprises;
Principles of Business Development
Introduces participant to the fundamentals of creative thinking and idea generation, business modeling, value chain development, market development, business plan development, business financing, credit management, networking, business insurance facilitation, mentoring, international trade, formation and management of cooperatives.
Entrepreneurship Development Studies
Focuses on nurturing participant in developing an entrepreneurial mindset, understanding the role of an entrepreneur, determining what type of enterprise is suited to their business, setting business goals, developing confidence, and developing your organization, production and management plans.
Leadership Skills Development
Focuses on enhancing participant’s understanding of leadership, application of ethical behavior to business practices, decision-making, time management, presentation and inter-personal skills.
Business Operations Management
Focuses on teaching participant how to manage start-up capital, business accounting and recordkeeping, negotiation, human resources management, customer management, using information technology for business processes, and the legal aspects of running a business.
Our Values
Leadership
Our quest for leadership in driving human capital development, capacity building, job creation and socio-economic development in Nigeria drives our mission to help entrepreneurs inculcate the basic leadership mindset, skillsets and knowledge necessary to thrive in the Nigerian business environment
Readiness
We have a readiness-oriented approach to our mission, in handholding entrepreneurs through the development of key business resources that guarantee their readiness to seize business opportunities around them, and execute effectively.
Ethical Practice
Ethical practice is at the core of our operational and educational values. We strive to ensure our course content, operations and partnerships adhere to established ethical boundaries, and impress a strong sense of ethical consciousness on our staff, participants and partners.
Enterprise
We have a goal to foster the entrepreneurial spirit across Nigeria. We desire to establish a culture of willingness to undertake projects, in the face of risk, for the purpose of building businesses that last, and creating socioeconomic development.
Our Prospect
Undergraduates
An ordinary university education is often times not enough to prepare students and graduates for life after school. We aim to bridge the gap between what is learned at school and what students will face after school, by helping them develop an entrepreneurial mindset early on, that will translate what they learn at school into viable businesses.
Skilled Individuals
These persons have undergone some form of skills or vocational training, but do not know how to commercialize them. Our training will teach them to manage their skills and turn them into sustainable, profitable businesses.
Business Owners
Many Nigerians turn to business as a means of surviving the job shortage. These persons often do not have formal entrepreneurship training, or a solid understanding of good business management practices, the legalities involved in running businesses in Nigeria, etc. We aim to train and equip business owners on how to scale their businesses and transform them from informal structures to formal, fully functional ones.
Aspiring Entrepreneurs
There are many young people who desire to become entrepreneurs and business owners, and many older people who are ready to leave salaried employment for the business venturing sphere. Our goal is to teach them leadership, entrepreneurship and business management skills that will get their entrepreneurial journey started on the right foundation.
Unemployed Graduates
Most people who remain in Nigeria after graduating from university face serious risk of unemployment or underemployment, due to the severe job scarcity in the country. We do not want graduates to wait to be employed; rather we see entrepreneurship as an antidote to unemployment and aim to ingrain an entrepreneurial mindset that will set them on the path of active venturing.
Retirees
Retirees and pensioners face a danger
of not having sufficient income to
sustain them through the remainder of
their non-working years. We help them
create more options for themselves by
equipping them with entrepreneurial
skills to start their own businesses.