Leading the Way - The Africa List

In this episode, PR strategist and media training expert Aaron Mays provides guidance on working with journalists.

We're joined by two leading executives working in the HR, talent and recruitment industries on the continent, to explore how the pandemic might affect the future of work in Africa.

The pandemic has meant that an increasing amount of our communication is digital, in this episode we hear from two experts on how you can improve your online presence.

In this episode we talk through the Leadership Field Guide designed to help CEOs and business leaders guide their companies through Covid-19 and beyond.

In our previous episodes exploring the impact of coronavirus, we’ve looked at how it is affecting different sectors in different countries across the continent. Here, we take a slightly different approach and explore how you as a leader can take your team, company or organisation through the crisis. 
Our guest is Nabou Fall the CEO of Vizeo, a communications company based in Côte d'Ivoire. Nabou is also an executive coach and has been working with leaders across the continent to help them develop effective strategies for managing through coronavirus. 
In this episode, she shares with her five approaches for effective leadership during a crisis. We hope you find this guidance helpful as you navigate your way through this incredibly difficult period.

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In our last episode, we looked at the impact coronavirus pandemic is having on different industries across the continent. However, we didn’t cover one crucial sector because we wanted to look at in more detail on its own here, and that sector is healthcare. 
All across the world COVID-19 is presenting challenges for how public and private healthcare providers work together to respond to the crisis. It’s a particularly big issue in Africa, where the private sector delivers around half of the continent’s health products and services. 

So, in this episode, we speak to two leaders delivering private healthcare on the continent, we get a perspective from a health investor and also hear from a CEO of a social finance business: 

For more from The Africa List, you can check out our blog, Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn. 

Business leaders across the continent - and indeed the world - are facing a huge challenge in how they tackle the coronavirus outbreak. In this episode, we hear from three CEOs on how they're approaching it within their teams, what they think the impact will be on their industries and how it might affect their countries in the longer term.

Our guests for this episode are:

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In this episode we're focusing on Rwanda, where we were for The Africa List's annual leadership retreat at the end of 2019. Since the 1994 genocide, the country has undergone an economic transformation, recording GDP growth of around seven per cent a year since the turn of the century.

In episode three of Leading the Way, we explore the realities of doing business on the continent through new research from The Africa List and London Business School.

In the second of our two part look at the theme of "success", we look at the importance of learning from the challenges you face in order to reach the top. This episode features insight from leading executives working across Tanzania, Uganda and Zambia, including:

Please feel free to check out our first episode on the theme of success too, if you haven't done so already.