Expert sessions
Small rooms with real answers.
Building Africa's Next Product Leaders
Through the Product Leadership Accelerator, we coach product professionals and teams across Africa through practical learning, mentorship, and peer learning to strengthen product capability and deliver better products.
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Why it exists
Building For Africa Requires Our Own Playbook
Investment in African tech now runs into billions of dollars every year, and more products are reaching Africa's markets than ever, yet recent years have shown how quickly imported playbooks break here.
We built PLA to equip emerging product professionals with the skills, experience, and leadership to build for these markets from the ground up, and to raise the standard of product excellence across the continent.
The Programme
Coaching Product Talent To Build World-Class Products
We equip product professionals and teams with the skills, expertise, and practical experience to deliver better products and stronger business outcomes
12-week learning experience
An intense structured programme that takes you from product fundamentals to practical execution.
Live classes
Real-time interactive sessions designed to challenge your thinking and deepen your understanding.
1:1 mentorship
Receive personalised guidance from experienced PMs to help you navigate your learning journey and career goals.
Capstone project
Apply everything you've learnt by building a real product solution to anchor your portfolio.
Peer learning
Grow alongside a community of ambitious product builders.
Certificate of completion
Graduate with proof of your learning and practical experience.
Our Impact
Developing Product Capability Across Africa
- 80+Product professionals equipped
- 16+Countries represented
- 60+Indigenous and global experts
Mentors
Coached by the world's top product leaders
We connect Africa's product talent directly with seasoned practitioners from top global tech companies to learn from their hard-won expertise. They have led product at:
Founder discussions
The conversations that don't happen at conferences.
Working sessions
Bring your business. Leave with a plan.
Real-life applications
Frameworks tested on real deals, not theory.
Networking
Founders who get it. No small talk required.
Every session is built around real product problems
Our Initiatives
More from the foundation
- Convene
Inspire Africa Conference
Bringing Africa's product community together to exchange ideas, build connections, and shape what comes next.
- Capital
Wicked Innovation Labs
Backing founders tackling Africa's most pressing challenges with capital, expertise, and connections.
- Connect
WorkNigeria
Connecting Nigeria's product talent with organisations looking to hire and grow product capability.
Join Us To Coach Africa's Next Product Leaders
Your support enables PLA to connect with talented professionals across the continent, each of whom brings an elevated standard of product practice to the teams they join and ventures they create.
FAQs
Frequently asked questions
PLA is designed for early- to mid-career product professionals looking to strengthen their practice and leadership, and for organisations that want to improve their teams' product capability and build a stronger product culture, both of which are required for innovation.
PLA is part of IAF’s workforce development work and represents the Coach pathway in our Four Cs approach. Through coaching, practical learning, and mentorship, we equip product professionals who can carry stronger product practices into their organisations and communities.