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Strategic Leadership and Change Management
Set direction, turn strategy into unit plans and lead people through mergers, migrations and restructuring
Read Ethiopia's fast-changing financial landscape, cascade strategy into KPIs and lead large change with people on board, using a two-bank merger as the running case.
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What you will be able to do
- Analyze the strategic environment of Ethiopian finance with PESTEL, five forces and scenarios
- Translate strategy into unit-level plans, OKRs and KPIs and review performance against them
- Lead large change programs such as mergers, system migrations and restructuring with structured stakeholder management
- Build high-performing, inclusive teams and a culture that supports strategy
- Make sound, ethical decisions under pressure and present a 12-month change roadmap
- For
- Branch, department and senior managers in Ethiopian banks, microfinance institutions and other financial firms who already manage people and now lead units, programs or transformations.
- Study time
- About 5 hours online, in 5 modules (24 hours in the classroom version)
- Each module
- Short lessons, animated visuals, Ethiopian examples, decisions to make, the laws and directives that apply and worked calculations, then a quiz
- Assessment
- A 20-question final exam; pass mark 70%
- Certificate
- Erudite Africa Center of Excellence certificate of completion
- Access
- Module 1 free for registered users; the full course, exam and certificate for subscribers
The 5 modules
- Module 01Free previewStrategic thinking for Ethiopian financeRead the forces reshaping Ethiopian finance and turn them into scenarios and clear strategic choices for your unit.6 lessons · 60 min · quiz
- Module 02Strategy execution: from plan to unit KPIsTranslate strategy into scorecards, OKRs and cascaded targets, and run reviews that change what people do.6 lessons · 60 min · quiz
- Module 03Leading major changeUse Kotter, ADKAR, change governance, stakeholder mapping, impact assessment and communication plans to lead mergers and system migrations.6 lessons · 70 min · quiz
- Module 04Mergers and transformationIntegrate two cultures, keep the people you cannot lose and restructure fairly within Ethiopian labor law.6 lessons · 60 min · quiz
- Module 05Leading people, decisions and the capstone roadmapCoach, lead inclusively, decide well and ethically under pressure, and present Andinet's 12-month change roadmap.6 lessons · 70 min · quiz
- Officer simulationA quarter as change manager in Bank A's merger transformation officeWork as change manager, transformation office: 12 real-life items, decisions with consequences and a hand-over note. Pass with 70% to qualify for the certificate.
- Final examFinal exam and certificate20 applied questions across all 5 modules. Pass with 70% to download your certificate.
Built on
- Erudite Africa training module: Ethiopian Context, topic 4.c Strategic Leadership and Change Management, Level 2 Intermediate (October 2026)
- NBE directives as listed in the lessons: FXD/01/2024, SBB/89/2024, SBB/91/2024, SBB/93/2025, SBB/94/2025, NBE/INT/13/2026; minimum capital rule SBB/78/2021 as reported
- Banking Business Proclamation No. 1360/2025 and Labour Proclamation No. 1156/2019
- NBE Monetary Policy Committee meeting No. 7 press release (July 2026)
- Digital Ethiopia strategy and the Ten Year Development Plan (2021 to 2031)
- Management frameworks: Kotter's eight steps, Prosci ADKAR, the Kaplan and Norton balanced scorecard, Porter's five forces, the GROW coaching model
Examples and organizations are fictional. Apply your own organization's approved policies.