Programs · Advanced Professional Course
Program overview
Scale your cooperative sustainably through capital mobilisation, market entry, digital expansion and mergers.
It suits CEOs, strategy leads and boards evaluating expansion decisions. Growth and Expansion Strategies for Cooperatives equips leadership teams to scale sustainably rather than opportunistically. The program covers capital mobilisation for growth, market entry sequencing, branch and digital expansion economics, shared services and the mechanics of cooperative mergers and amalgamations including the governance and member consent questions that derail most of them.
(opens full size in a new tab)A costed expansion case that your board can defend.
On passing the assessment you receive a certificate for this Advanced Professional Course program. Verification arrangements for this program are stated at enrollment. Issued under Credence Institute certification.
If you want to know who leads this program before you apply, ask us and we will tell you.
If you are funding someone else’s studies, here is what you are paying for. Growth & Expansion Strategies for Cooperatives is an Advanced Professional Course program taking 12 weeks, examined and credentialed, and issued with a certificate that any employer can verify publicly at any time. It prepares the learner for mobilising capital for growth, planning market entry, and branch and digital expansion, and leading cooperative mergers and amalgamations. With the learner’s consent we will confirm enrollment, attendance and completion to you in writing at each stage.
Dates for the next cohorts are being confirmed. An advisor can tell you when this program next runs, and put you on the list for it.
Ask an advisor about datesMultiple payment options are available, with installments on programs of six weeks and longer. Employers can be invoiced directly against a purchase order or a letter of undertaking.
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