Embed leadership diagnostics and coaching across your founder portfolio.
For DFIs, family offices, foundations, accelerators and bilateral agencies backing African founders. Three delivery models, institutional-grade instruments, aggregated reporting to your board. Built so your founders actually scale.
For the institutions backing African ventures at scale.
You manage a portfolio of founders. You need leadership outcomes you can report on, not just convenings you can attend.
Pick the one that fits your portfolio. Or we co-design something between.
Each model is engineered for a different institutional reality. All three are built on Heart + Strategy.
Embedded Founder Coaching
Individual coaching tracks running through your portfolio. Each founder gets six structured sessions over four to six months. Aggregated insights come back to the institution. Founder confidentiality is preserved.
The closest analogue to having an embedded head of founder development without the headcount.
- Cohort size
- 5 to 15 founders
- Duration
- 4 to 6 months
- Founder time
- ~15 hours total
- Format
- 1:1 virtual
- ·Six structured sessions per founder
- ·Hogan Leadership Forecast and iEQ9
- ·Aggregated quarterly reporting
- ·Confidential to each founder, themed to the institution
Cohort Intensives
Group learning that moves faster than 1:1 work and still builds individual leadership muscle. Three full-day workshops plus individual coaching for each founder. Built for the moments where the institution wants the portfolio learning together.
The right model when you need momentum across the portfolio in a single window.
- Cohort size
- 8 to 20 founders
- Duration
- 4 months
- Founder time
- ~20 hours total
- Format
- 3 workshops + 1:1
- ·Three full-day workshops
- ·Individual coaching support between workshops
- ·Cohort peer accountability structure
- ·Aggregated insights for the institution
Custom Programme Design
The full institutional programme, designed end to end. Curriculum, assessment, facilitation guides, M&E framework. Training for your internal team. Light-touch advisory through the first cohorts.
For institutions building permanent in-house capacity, not buying a recurring service.
- Cohort size
- Up to 50 founders
- Duration
- Custom
- Founder time
- Zero (we train your team)
- Format
- Institutional design
- ·End-to-end curriculum design
- ·Facilitation guides and assessment instruments
- ·Internal facilitator training
- ·Light-touch advisory through year one
- ·M&E framework aligned to your reporting
The institutional architecture.
The list below holds regardless of which delivery model you choose.
Cohort-wide assessment
The Business Readiness Assessment deployed across your portfolio.
Individual coaching tracks
Where the model includes coaching, each founder gets a structured arc.
Portfolio-level insights
Anonymised aggregated reporting back to the institution.
Custom design and measurement
Programme shape and M&E aligned to your reporting frameworks.
Baseline and endline data
Diagnostic at the start. Re-assessment at the end. Movement made visible.
Founder confidentiality
Individual conversations never report up. Themes do.
Integrates with oversight
Designed to sit alongside existing investment oversight, not replace it.
Quarterly check-ins
Standing review with the institutional sponsor.
Direct line to Liza
Asynchronous access for the institutional sponsor throughout.
One conversation. A clear read on whether PLD fits your portfolio.
Send a short note about the institution, the portfolio, and what you are trying to move. I will reply within the week.