We are here to strengthen the institutions that shape Africa.
Who we are
We are not a consultancy with a research wing and an advisory desk. We are a purpose-built institution
with a mission at our core.
LFA&Co. was founded on the conviction that the single biggest constraint on Africa's development is leadership: not capital, not infrastructure, not resources, but the quality and quantity of people capable of leading institutions through the complexity of building a continent.
LFA&Co. was created to put that conviction to work commercially and to extend it. We saw the gap in SMEs and non-profits: organizations with real potential being held back not by lack of ambition, but by lack of financial and operational infrastructure.
The result is an institution that builds leaders, produces knowledge, and strengthens organizations and uses the proceeds to do the same thing for the people and institutions that cannot yet afford to pay for it. That is not a trade-off. That is the design.
50%
What runs the work.
The 50% that stays funds our researchers, practitioners, advisors, and the rigorous delivery that makes every engagement actually work. This is what makes us world-class. We do not compromise on quality across any of our three practices.
50%
What funds the mission.
The 50% that goes to Lead For Africa funds the Lead For Africa Fellowship for emerging leaders who cannot afford market rates. It funds educator development in under-resourced schools. It funds open-access research on the systems that shape African lives. Every engagement you make with us: leadership, research, or advisory is an investment in the Africa you want to see.
Every engagement is personal. These are the people who make it so.
Daniel Dotse holds a background in biomedical engineering from Cornell University and began his career at Regeneron Pharmaceuticals. He returned to Africa by choice — and has spent the twelve years since doing what very few consultants can claim: building institutions from the ground up, raising capital in constrained environments, assembling and leading high-performance teams, and making the decisions that determine whether an organisation survives or folds. His experience in the leadership development space is not observational. It is operational.
At LFA&Co, Daniel works at the highest level of institutional leadership — advising governments, guiding boards, and partnering with Africa's most ambitious corporations on the questions that matter most: how to build organisations that perform, scale, and last. LFA&Co was not conceived to be the largest consultancy on the continent. It was conceived to help African companies become the largest in the world. Beyond LFA&Co, Daniel is the Founder of Lead For Ghana, Lead For Africa, CapitalDoe — a social investment firm targeting ten million jobs across Africa by 2050 — and LeadAI, a multi-sector artificial intelligence platform. Five institutions. All built from zero.
The future of Africa will not be inherited. It will be built — by leaders bold enough to stay.
Sabine Huber holds a Master of Science in Management and a Doctorate in Marketing from the University of Mannheim. She has spent her career at the intersection of organisational performance and human capability — working with leaders and institutions that refuse to accept the gap between where they are and where they could be.
At LFA&Co, Sabine leads leadership development engagements across the private and public sectors — designing bespoke programmes for executives, senior teams, and high-potential leaders who are expected to perform at the highest level. Her approach is precise, evidence-based, and uncompromising on outcomes. She does not run programmes. She builds leadership capability that shows up in how organisations actually perform.
The best leaders are not the loudest in the room. They are the ones who make everyone around them better.
Andrews Bonsu holds a BSc in Business Administration from Ashesi University and is completing an Executive MBA at the Ghana Institute of Management and Public Administration. He brings to LFA&Co a sharp commercial mind, a deep understanding of institutional finance, and the kind of operational discipline that turns strategic ambition into measurable results.
At LFA&Co, Andrews works with organisations navigating the financial and administrative complexity that comes with scale — building the systems, controls, and governance infrastructure that allow institutions to perform consistently at the highest level. He understands that the difference between a good organisation and a great one is rarely vision. It is the rigour behind the vision. That is what he brings.
The organizations that change the world are not the ones with the best ideas. They are the ones with the infrastructure to execute them.
Grace Ansah holds a BSc in Chemical Engineering from Stanford University and a Master's in International Education Policy from Harvard Graduate School of Education. She brings to LFA&Co a rare combination — the analytical precision of an engineer and the policy sophistication of someone who understands how systems actually change.
At LFA&Co, Grace leads the research and advisory practice — producing the original, rigorous evidence that governments, corporates, and institutions need to make better decisions. Her work is not academic. It is designed from the outset to reach the people who need it, in a form they can act on. She operates at the intersection of data, policy, and institutional strategy — turning complex questions into clear answers and clear answers into institutional action.
The most powerful thing an institution can do is decide well. Grace makes that possible.
Peter Narh Sewu holds a Master of Public Health from the University of Ghana and a BSc in Biological Sciences from Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology. He brings to LFA&Co a rigorous, data-driven approach to institutional research — combining public health methodology with a sharp instinct for what the numbers are actually saying and what decision they need to inform.
At LFA&Co, Peter works within the research and advisory practice — analysing performance data, identifying institutional trends, and translating complex evidence into clear, actionable insight for clients across the public and private sectors. He understands that research earns its place only when it changes something. That is the standard he works to.
Data without direction is just noise. Peter makes it signal.
Nana Akua Owusu-Obeng holds a BSc in Administration and a Master of Finance from the University of Ghana Business School, and is a member of the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants. She brings to LFA&Co a rigorous financial and analytical foundation — and the institutional knowledge of someone who understands how money moves inside complex organisations and what it takes to make it move better.
At LFA&Co, Nana Akua works across the research and advisory practice — helping governments, corporates, and mission-driven institutions build the financial intelligence and operational clarity that serious performance demands. She understands that the difference between an organisation with ambition and one that executes on it is almost always a systems problem. She solves systems problems.
Strong institutions are not built on vision alone. They are built on the financial discipline to sustain it.
How we work
Evidence-informed. Bespoke. Measurably different.
We diagnose before we design
Before we propose anything, we spend time inside your organization. Not a survey. Real conversations, backed by diagnostic tools built on original evidence. We tell you honestly what we find — and honestly if we are not the right fit.
We build something entirely yours
What we design has never existed before and will never be used again. No imported frameworks. No recycled content. Every engagement is built around your context, your people, and your specific outcome.
We define success before we begin
We agree on measurable criteria before the engagement starts and hold ourselves to them. Not satisfaction scores. Observable change in how your leaders act, your finances perform, or your operations run.
Our core beliefs
What we believe without compromise.
These are not values written for a wall. They are the convictions that shape every decision we make, every engagement we take, and every client we choose to work with.
Simplicity.
We believe the clearest answer is always the best one. We do not add layers to justify our presence. We remove them until what remains is exactly what is needed and nothing that is not. Every engagement, every deliverable, every recommendation is held to this standard. If we cannot explain it simply, we do not understand it well enough yet.
Quality.
We do not negotiate on quality. Not when timelines are tight. Not when budgets are constrained. Not when the easier path is available. The organisations we serve are building things that matter and the work we bring into those organisations either meets the highest standard or it does not leave our hands. There is no middle ground here and there never will be.
Customer Obsession.
Our clients' success is the only measure of ours. Not the size of the engagement. Not the elegance of the framework. Not the thickness of the report. We are relentlessly focused on what the client actually needs sometimes before they can articulate it themselves and we do not stop until they have it. This is not a service philosophy. It is how we are built.
Our philosophy
The ideas that drive everything we do.
Philosophy is not abstract for us. It is the practical framework through which we make every decision who we work with, how we engage, and what we refuse to compromise on.
Institutional strength is the multiplier.
Individual leaders matter. But strong institutions outlast any individual and a strong institution multiplies the impact of every person inside it. We invest in both, always in service of the institution.
Context is everything.
The same intervention can succeed brilliantly in one institution and fail completely in another. We never assume. We always design for the specific context in front of us the culture, the constraints, the people, the politics.
Long-term thinking over short-term wins.
We are not optimized for the size of our engagements. We are optimized for the durability of our impact. We take on fewer clients, work more deeply, and measure results over years, not weeks.
Exits are designed, not negotiated.
We build for independence from day one. Our goal in every engagement is to make ourselves unnecessary to leave an organization with the leadership, systems, and evidence to continue growing without us.
Our commitment.
What you can hold us to.
A commitment is only meaningful if it is specific enough to be broken. These are ours — the obligations we accept the moment you choose to work with us.
We do not take engagements we cannot deliver on. We do not produce work we would not put our name to. And we do not measure success by whether you were satisfied — but by whether your institution actually changed.
Honesty
We will tell you the truth
Including when the problem is different from what you think, when our work is not landing as intended, and when the engagement is not right for us.r us.
Mission
50% of your fee funds the next generation
Half of every engagement funds Lead For Africa's fellowship, educator development, and leadership pipeline programmes. That is not optional. It is the structure.
Quality
We will deliver at the highest standard
Every piece of work, every program, research output, and advisory deliverable is designed and implemented to the same standard, regardless of the size of the engagement.
Outcomes
We measure what we promised to change
We define success in observable terms before we begin and we report against those terms throughout. No vague transformation. Actual, verifiable institutional change.
Careers
A job at LFA&Co. is unlike any other you’ve had.
You’ll be inspired. You’ll be challenged. And you’ll be proud. Because whatever your job is here, you’ll be part of something big. When there’s an opening at LFA&Co, we always look to fill it with the best.
Intellectual rigour
You think carefully, argue from evidence, and change your mind when the facts warrant it. You are not satisfied with surface answers.
Continental ambition
You are not just here for a job. You understand what is being built and why it matters — and you want your work to be part of it.
Operational excellence
You deliver what you commit to, on time and to a high standard. You do not produce work you would be embarrassed to put your name to.
Collaborative independence
You work well with others and can drive work forward on your own. You do not need to be managed to the output — you manage to it yourself.
Honest communication
You say what you mean and mean what you say. You give difficult feedback with care and receive it without defensiveness.
“The people who work at LFA&Co. are LFA&Co. It’s that simple. ”