Scaling Across AfricaPan-African leadership & people conversationsWhen Your
People Playbook
Doesn't Travel
The people decisions behind scaling across African markets
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Everyone knows the playbook does not fully transfer when you enter a second African market.
What rarely gets said is which part fails first.
It is almost never the process. Process survives a border. It is the assumption about who can be trusted to run it, and that does not hold.
The people model that gets an organisation into a market rarely gets it to scale.
- Date
- 12 November 2026
- Time
- 11:00 WAT / 13:00 EAT
- Format
- Online · 75 minutes
Six things that break. Rarely in the order companies expect.
Process travels. Judgment about people does not.
Expansion plans are built on talent supply. Supply is rarely what breaks.
The person who made the first market work is usually the wrong person for the second.
Most organisations localise what is visible and standardise what is not. Usually, that's backwards.
Headcount in the second market mirrors the first. The first market's structure records problems solved there, not a template.
Every expansion carries one assumption that turns out to be wrong. It is rarely strategic.
The decisions behind
the expansion.
Three leaders who have built teams across African markets talk about what they actually did. What they got wrong, what they changed, what they would do differently.
We will follow their decisions through four stages.
- 01Enter
- 02Establish
- 03Scale
- 04Integrate
Covering leadership deployment, capability constraints, build versus buy, what standardises and what cannot, and where capabilities should sit.
Three operators.
Three different scaling journeys.
Moderated by an independent senior African business journalist.
Speakers announced 26 October.The Africa
Scaling Index
Everyone who registers receives the Africa Scaling Index, our benchmark for how hard it is to hire and scale across Nigeria, Ghana, Kenya, Uganda and Rwanda.
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- Nigeria
- Ghana
- Kenya
- Uganda
- Rwanda
- Cost
- Delivery
- Organisational readiness
For leaders building
across borders.
CHROs, Chief People Officers, People Directors, Regional HR leaders, CEOs, COOs and Country GMs responsible for teams across more than one African market.
One group. Five African markets.
The African Talent Company (TATC) brings together Jobberman in Nigeria and Ghana and BrighterMonday in Kenya, Uganda and Rwanda, connecting employers with talent across five markets.
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12 November 2026 11:00 WAT / 13:00 EAT
Online 75 minutes
Registered attendees receive the full index before the event, and the replay afterwards, whether or not you join live.