Founders & Leaders Academy 2.0

Don't Die.
Build a Business
That Outlives You.

A one-day, high-intensity business intervention for Africa's boldest but overwhelmed founder-operators.

Investment ₦35,000
Saturday, 25 July 2026
09:30 AM – 6:00 PM WAT
Lilygate Hotel, Lekki Phase 1, Lagos
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The Problem

Most Nigerian Businesses Don't Fail.
They Quietly Collapse.

Every year, thousands of Nigerian businesses with real revenue, real customers, and real potential quietly collapse — not because the market failed them, but because their founders never built institutions. They built habits.

A growing segment of founder-led businesses — those with 3–15 years of operation and real cash flow — are structurally fragile. They are one bad month, one sick founder, or one key employee resignation away from collapse.

Founder Dependency

The business cannot function without you. You are the bottleneck, the brand, and the backup plan all at once.

Financial Leakage

No separation between business capital and personal wealth. Revenue grows but profit stays invisible.

Market Invisibility

Competing on personality, not systems. Your brand is you — and that doesn't scale.

The Intervention

FLA 2.0 is designed by Scale NXT to diagnose the structural fragility inside your business, eliminate founder dependency, build financial guardrails, and send you home with a written 12-Month Business Survival and Growth Blueprint.

Who This Is For

Built for Founders Who Are
Stuck in the Middle.

01

The Burnt-Out Builder

You built something real — but the business can't run without you. Every decision, every client, every crisis loops back to one person: you. You're growing revenue but losing yourself.

  • 3–15 years in operation
  • Can't take a week off without chaos
  • Seeking systems, not motivation
02

The Family Heir

A second-generation business leader preparing to modernise a legacy business. High urgency, significant asset base, institutional mindset.

  • Inheriting or transitioning leadership
  • Modernising legacy systems
  • Building governance structures
100

Seats Only

Deliberately limited to ensure depth over scale. Every interaction is meaningful. Every participant does real work on real businesses.

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The Facilitators

Meet the Minds Behind
Your Transformation.

Four seasoned practitioners who have built, scaled, and advised businesses across Africa. No motivational speakers. Just operators.

Debo Omotunde

Debo Omotunde

Principal Consultant, N'Able Global Solutions | Strategy & Innovation

Harvard-certified strategist and BSI Certified Lead Auditor with deep expertise in strategy development, quality management systems, and capacity building. Former faculty at TENARIS Corporate University and published author. Trusted advisor to leading organisations across oil & gas, aviation, and power sectors.

Lampe Omoyele

Lampe Omoyele

Managing Director, Nitro 121 | Founding Partner, Lucent Consulting

A widely respected marketing and advertising leader and mentor across Sub-Saharan Africa. His senior leadership roles include Managing Director, Nielsen West Africa, and Marketing Director at Airtel Nigeria, Cadbury East & Central Africa, and GlaxoSmithKline Consumer Healthcare. Named among the World Marketing Congress's top 100 most influential global marketing leaders (2018), he is an adjunct faculty member teaching marketing strategy at Orange Academy and Pan-Atlantic University, and best-selling author of "Brand or be Bland!".

Adebunmi Wellington

Adebunmi Wellington

Founder, Skaet | Product Visionary & Fintech Architect

Product Visionary and Fintech Architect with a 26-year career building the systems that power African commerce. Founder of Skaet, the continent's first AI-driven Revenue Orchestration Platform, and previously founder of Credo, Africa's first social payments platform (Social Payments App of the Year, 2022). A former Executive Management Committee member at eTranzact International PLC, she has delivered 20+ enterprise applications, managed a fintech portfolio generating over $355M in revenue, and mentored 100+ product leaders through Product Dojo.

Dr. Emmanuel Aihevba

Dr. Emmanuel Aihevba

Retail Banking Executive | Digital Transformation & Ecosystem Banking

A highly analytical, results-driven banking executive with over 25 years of transformative experience across Nigeria's top-tier banks, leading strategic financial initiatives, digital transformation, and customer-centric solutions. He has a proven track record of turning loss-making branches into thriving profit centres, cultivating strategic partnerships, and pioneering innovative ecosystem banking models for sustainable growth. A thought leader in retail banking, he holds a Doctorate in Business Administration alongside a rich portfolio of professional affiliations and certifications.

The Day

Five Sessions. One Blueprint.
Zero Fluff.

09:30 AM
Arrival

Registration & Networking

Sponsored breakfast. Attendees complete pre-event Business Health Diagnostic on arrival.

10:00 AM
Session 1

The Wake-Up Call

Africa's business mortality data — real numbers, real stories. The room confronts the structural fragility inside their own businesses.

Deliverable: Business Mortality Case Study
11:30 AM
Session 2 — Operations Workshop

The Detox

People, process, and performance design. Learn how to hire and retain the right talents, leadership development, and SOP for improved business performance.

Deliverable: Live Business Operations Audit and Process Design
1:00 PM
Lunch & Sponsor Activation

Networking Break

Catered lunch. Structured networking tables. Sponsors engage directly with participants in a relaxed, conversation-driven format.

2:00 PM
Session 3 — Finance & Investor Readiness

The Blood Bank

Cash-flow & pricing deep-dive. Separate family money from business capital. Build financial guardrails that protect you from yourself. Learn what investors look for and how to position your business for funding readiness.

Deliverable: Cash-Flow Separation Framework + Investor Readiness Checklist
3:30 PM
Session 4 — Marketing

The Oxygen Tank

Learn how to de-commoditise your brand and stop competing on price. Insight into product-market fit, customer acquisition and retention system design, and access the "Why Us?" Canvas.

Deliverable: Only-Choice Framework + "Why Us?" Canvas
4:30 PM
Session 5 — The Intensive

The Discharge

90-minute intensive: Every participant writes their 12-Month Business Survival and Growth Blueprint. You leave with a plan.

Deliverable: 12-Month Business Survival and Growth Blueprint
6:00 PM
Close

Close & Sponsor Showcase

Final networking. Scale NXT presents partnership programmes. Sponsors engage closing conversations.

Access global business builders. Gain practical insights. Leave with a fresh blueprint for growth.

Investment: ₦35,000
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Talk Directly to Founder-Operators.
In One Room.

100 high-value founder-operators. Full-day, captive attention. Your brand woven into a moment of high emotional investment.

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  • Exclusive keynote address to all 100 participants
  • Full-page workbook feature
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The FLA Difference

100

Intimate Scale

Every sponsor and attendee can meaningfully interact. This is not possible at events with 300–1,000 people.

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Emotionally Engaged

Participants arrive having completed a Business Health Check pre-diagnostic. They walk in already confronting vulnerabilities.

SOP

Work-Based Format

This is not a talk-listen event. Founders do real work on real businesses. Products that solve problems get noticed.

90d

The 90-Day ICU

Post-event engagement continues for three months. The Blueprint lives on desks and in decisions — not in the bin.

FLA 1.0 Alumni

Don't Take Our Word for It.
Take Theirs.

"The best event I have attended this year. Honestly, nothing else has come close."
Oyin Balogun
FLA 1.0 Alumnus
"Mind-blowing. Beyond anything I expected from a one-day programme."
Mark Chukwuka
FLA 1.0 Alumnus
"It was beyond my expectations. Well done to the team — this is world-class."
Deborah Adeoye
FLA 1.0 Alumnus
35+
FLA 1.0 Alumni
2+
Years Operating

The FLA Roadmap

FLA 2.0 is not a standalone event. It is the second chapter of a multi-year movement to build the most important founder community in Nigeria.

Now

FLA 2.0 — Lagos

25 July 2026 · 100 Founders

Next

FLA 3.0 — Port Harcourt

Q4 2026 · 300 Founders

Future

Founders & Leaders Retreat

2027 · Nigeria-wide

The Venue

Where It All Happens.

Join us at one of Lekki's finest hospitality destinations.

Lilygate Hotel

Lekki Phase 1, Lagos, Nigeria

A premium venue in the heart of Lekki Phase 1, with ample parking and easy access from the Lekki-Epe Expressway.

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100 Founders. One Room.
Real Transformation.

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Partnership.

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