Crossroads · Leadership for your next chapter
You have more to offer.
Where will you take it next?
You’ve built experience. Earned trust. Taken on responsibility. But your current work may not reflect everything you’re capable of.
Crossroads helps you decide where to take your capability next—and put a practical strategy into motion.
A three-month, cross-sector leadership accelerator for experienced professionals working through a real decision about their role, leadership, organisation or next venture.
Bring your experience. Expand your perspective.
Three monthsFocused work on your next chapter
Online + in personLearning you bring back to work
Two bootcampsThree days each, in person
Coaching + guided workSupport to decide and act
Does this sound familiar?
Which question are you carrying?
Being overlooked
“I’m doing the work. Why am I still being overlooked?”
You deliver, yet someone else gets the next opportunity.
At Crossroads
Position yourself for greater responsibility by making your value
visible and building a strategy for your next opportunity.
Moving from founder to leader
“I know my craft. But how do I build a business that can grow?”
You started with technical expertise and learnt as you went. Your next stage requires clearer direction.
At Crossroads
Step back from improvising. Clarify your venture’s direction,
priorities and practical plan for growth.
Making a move
“I know I’m ready for a change. How do I make the transition wisely?”
A new role, consulting or a venture. You want clarity about what it will take.
At Crossroads
Work through your transition with personalised strategic
guidance—and a plan grounded in your ambitions, resources and realities.
Making it count
“I’ve built experience and influence. What do I want to do with them?”
You want your next chapter to contribute to something that matters, but need to know where to begin.
At Crossroads
Choose where to put what you carry to work—and identify the first
steps to begin building.
What you work towards—and how
Make a considered next move.
Build the ability to carry it.
Choose your direction
Work through a decision about your next role, leadership responsibility or venture.
Build a strategy you can act on
Clarify your goals, choose your priorities and identify the people, resources and decisions needed to move forward.
Begin building
Turn your strategy into first steps you can test, learn from and develop.
You bringA professional decision · An institutional initiative · A
venture
Your real challenge
01
Identity
Recognise the assumptions shaping what you pursue—and postpone.
02
Purpose
Choose what deserves your capability and commitment.
03
Leadership
Strengthen how you decide, influence and share responsibility.
04
Action
Develop a practical strategy and begin testing it.
You work towards a next-chapter strategy—and real work to begin testing it.
Alumni experiences
What changed in how they lead.
Greater leadership responsibility
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Elizabeth Aluma
Accounting & Reporting Manager · Kenya Wine Agencies Limited (KWAL)Elizabeth joined with ambitions for senior leadership. Her reflections describe greater self-awareness, confidence and a commitment to improving how she led.
During the programme, she was promoted to a role in Namibia, giving her an immediate context in which to apply the leadership she was developing.
Building beyond her own effort
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Sheila Mbiru
Head of the First Lady’s Mazingira Awards (FLAMA)After a Crossroads bootcamp, Sheila connected long-term leadership thinking to her work at FLAMA: developing young people as active environmental stewards.
“Create spaces where young people lead, not just participate”
Read Sheila’s reflection ↗
More alumni reflections: from experience to building
Faith Manyala
From strengthening systems to shaping them
Faith describes using empathy interviews during her builder project to develop the Digital
Futures Listening Series, focused on conversations about digital opportunities and safety.
“Crossroads challenged me to stop waiting for certainty.”
Read Faith’s reflection ↗
Reina Kogembo
A clearer direction in institutional sustainability
Reina connects her experience in grants and finance to an ambition to help mission-driven
organisations strengthen their systems and move beyond donor dependence.
“But I am leaving Crossroads with something equally valuable: clarity.”
Read Reina’s reflection ↗
A community beyond your own sector
Your next chapter needs more than your own perspective.
Learn alongside professionals, entrepreneurs and organisational leaders from different sectors. Examine your options, question your assumptions and learn how others handle responsibility.
The Alumni Builder Series brings alumni experience into practical conversations. Explore two sessions below.
Get the programme guide ↗
Alumni Builder Series
See the conversations in action.
Victor Apollo
AI for Real-World Opportunities
Explore AI through the lens of practical opportunities for your work and next ambition.
Watch the conversation ↗Alumni Builder Series
Developing Minds for Peak Performance
Explore a conversation about developing the mind for performance and leadership.
Watch the conversation ↗After Crossroads
Continue learning through alumni gatherings, fireside conversations, peer circles and the Alumni Builder Series.
Ask the programme team about the current calendar, availability and any separate booking requirements.Space to think, support to act
Give your next chapter
the attention it deserves.
Step out of daily demands for focused bootcamps, then bring the learning back into your work.
Personalised coaching and accountability
Work through your decisions with a coach and strategic peers who challenge your thinking and support your follow-through.
Two immersive, three-day bootcamps
Step away from daily demands to do the deeper work on your direction, leadership and strategy.
Guided work on your ambition
Develop and begin testing your role transition, initiative or venture using Crossroads frameworks, practical materials and coaching.
Training materials and bootcamp meals are included in programme fees. The guide provides the full calendar, current investment, payment options and admissions details.
Your guides
The people guiding your next chapter.
Esther Mwaniki
Founder & CEO, Lapid Leaders AfricaConnects your development as a leader to the people, systems and governance needed to build lasting institutions. Brings over 20 years across corporate risk, financial services and leadership development.
Read Esther’s bio
Esther helps leaders connect who they are becoming with what they want to build—and the people, systems and governance needed to sustain it.
Through founding Lapid, she has spent more than a decade building pathways through which African talent can develop, contribute and lead.
Her approach combines the discipline of her work at PwC Kenya and the UK and Guaranty Trust Bank with a commitment to developing leaders who strengthen institutions and create opportunities for others. She is an Obama Foundation Fellow and an NYU Wagner Executive MPA graduate.
Caroline Ndirangu
Finance Leader & Institutional StrategistConnects ambition to the resources, financial decisions and governance needed for sustainable growth. A PwC alumna with over 20 years of experience across African markets.
Read Caroline’s bio
Caroline helps leaders understand what it takes to turn ambition into an enterprise or institution that can grow and sustain itself.
At Crossroads, she connects leadership decisions to the practical questions of resources, financial viability and institutional growth.
She holds an Executive MBA from ESADE Business School and is a Fellow of the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants.
Lenny Wachira
Lead Coach, Lapid Leaders AfricaHelps you navigate career transitions, clarify what matters and turn difficult decisions into practical action. A certified life, career and leadership coach.
Read Lenny’s bio
Lenny helps professionals work through career transitions and the deeper questions that come with choosing their next chapter.
He serves as Lapid’s Lead Coach and a Life & Leadership Coach at Northpoint Coaching and Training.
His work helps participants clarify what matters, examine the decisions they have postponed, and turn that clarity into action—with accountability for following through.
Your questions
Before you decide.
Is Crossroads right for where I am now?
Crossroads is for experienced professionals, founders and organisational leaders working through a real question about what comes next. You may want to strengthen your positioning, lead your venture more strategically, make a transition or put your experience to work in something that matters.
What will I work on during the programme?
Bring a professional transition, an organisational initiative or a venture. With coaching, practical frameworks and peer input, you develop a strategy and begin testing your next steps.
How much time will I need?
Allow for online learning, preparation, personalised coaching, work on your ambition and two three-day in-person bootcamps. The guide provides the full calendar so you can assess the commitment.
When does the next intake start, and what does it cost?
The programme guide provides the next intake’s schedule, current investment and payment options. For specific questions, email info@lapidleaders.com.
Does requesting the guide commit me to joining?
No. Review the details before deciding whether to apply or make a payment commitment.
Your next step
You’ve built your capability.
What will you do with it now?
If this next chapter matters to you, give it a place in your calendar—and begin the work.
Apply for Crossroads ↗Three months · Hybrid learning · Two three-day bootcamps
See the guide for current dates and
investment.
Get the programme guide
Review the schedule, investment and admissions details for the next available intake.