Africa

Duke CE has been a part of the African continent for more than a decade, having opened our Johannesburg office in 2008. We quickly came to realize that South Africa, and the broader continent, offered a wide range of opportunities – both to educate and to learn. Our presence in Africa is now two-fold. We work locally with South African clients, spanning industries including financial, government, automotive, and extraction, and we also deliver customised education across the continent to African and global clients. Our presence is headquartered in Johannesburg with about 30 staff members, and we have a strong network of partners across the continent, including in Namibia, Zimbabwe, Mauritius, Botswana, Ghana, Nigeria, Kenya, Uganda, and Tanzania.

As both a global and local company, we are well-positioned to have continental reach, tapping into our ground-level expertise, while at the same time, leveraging our global scale and best practices of our business. We join local insights to cutting-edge global thinking to create truly customised programmes designed to local contexts. With experience in some 30 African countries, we deliver our education in-country, at an immersive level, rather than bringing participants into a brick-and-mortar classroom.

Africa is certainly an economic growth story with its resources, burgeoning business and growth rates, but we believe its biggest story is yet to be written by unlocking the talents of its people. Duke CE is well-placed and excited to join in that journey.

For two decades, the Financial Times has consistently ranked Duke Corporate Education (Duke CE) among the top global custom executive education providers. This year, Duke CE was ranked #1 worldwide.

Women Empowered:
Rise, Lead and Transform

Executive Development Programme

Finance for Non-Financial Managers

Mastering Business Negotiation Skills

Custom Programmes

We build solutions grounded in your business context to help address your transformational challenges. Programs can be delivered in virtual, blended and face-to-face formats and address challenges like deep skill acquisition, behavior and mindset changes, new habits and practices, strategy and culture change.

African Bank: Gearing New Grads with Innovative Learning

To attract young talent and differentiate themselves in the marketplace, this firm focuses on gearing GEN Y and GEN Z talent through a new graduate solution.

Multi-National Steel Manufacturing: Calling Future Leaders to Action

This firm sees leaders as a lever to drive profit, growth and operational excellence. They are‘”future-proofing” their organization in a changing world to build resilience.

Infusing Creativity to Solve Thorny Problems

Design thinking opens the gateway to innovation that solves problems for internal and external stakeholders. Nedbank South Africa discovered this first hand during a Duke Corporate Education program.

Session Date: 28 October 2021

Financial services of the future will need to embrace Environment, Social and Governance (ESG), disruptive technology, and changing risk and regulation to remain competitive. Duke Corporate Education (Duke CE) invites you to explore the key trends reshaping the financial services landscape, and how to remain agile in a customer-centric world. Watch the on-demand recording and join the conversation around what the future may hold for financial services.

Session Date: 31 August 2021

In celebration of Women’s month, Duke CE in Africa, in partnership with The International Women’s Forum South African (IWFSA), hosted a virtual event to explore some of the most pressing issues that women are facing at this time. We’ve been watching with concern as women have been disproportionately impacted by current events in South Africa and globally, erasing years of progress towards inclusive leadership and gender equality. View the recording to hear from top leaders on working together to bring about positive change for women. Let’s lift as we rise!

Session Date: 24 June 2021

With advances in technology, learning is becoming more accessible, inclusive and, in many ways, more engaging. Duke CE has invited leaders from Google, Momentum Metropolitan, Implats, AECI and Capitec to share their thinking about learning in the workplace today and how they are reimagining learning for the future. Listen to this 90-minute virtual conversation on the future of learning in the workplace now.

In partnership with the American Chamber of Commerce, Duke CE invited business and leadership development professionals looked back at 2020 – a year that has been unlike any other in living memory, through a gripping online event.

The US Ambassador to South Africa, Lana Marks, shared valuable insights during her keynote, “Entrepreneurship as a Business Tool for Women,” and a panel of leaders from different industries shared lessons learnt have reshaped the drive to advance women leaders and gender equality.

We invite you to listen to this 33-minute podcast which brings highlights from #NoGoingBack!

Stuart Griesbach

Regional Managing Director, Africa
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