EBM
August 11, 2026 2026-08-11 12:49EBM
Turn instinct into method, and method into a business.
A diploma in management, leadership, entrepreneurship, strategy and professional excellence — for founders building something of their own and for professionals rising inside an organisation. Live every Saturday, fully online, with no tuition.
For people already doing the work, who want the discipline behind it
Plenty of people run businesses on instinct and get a long way on it. The ceiling arrives later — usually at the point where the thing has to work without them in the room. EBM is about what carries you past that point.
The programme develops future-ready business leaders with skills in management, leadership, entrepreneurship, strategy and professional excellence. It covers how to structure an organisation, read its numbers, lead the people inside it, find customers, and make decisions about where to grow — and where not to.
It suits two kinds of people equally: the founder or owner who has built something real and wants to build it properly, and the supervisor or team lead being handed responsibility faster than the training arrives.
- Founders and small business owners building something meant to last
- Supervisors and team leads stepping up into management responsibility
- Professionals who want formal grounding behind hard-won experience
- Anyone planning to start a business and wanting to do it deliberately
Eight modules, from managing a team to running a plan
EBM moves outward: yourself, your team, your customers, your numbers, then the strategy that ties them together.
Principles of Management
How organisations are structured, how work gets planned and coordinated, and what a manager is actually accountable for.
Leadership & People
Motivating a team, handling conflict, delegating properly, and building the culture you say you want.
Entrepreneurship & Opportunity
Recognising a real opportunity, testing it before committing, and understanding why most ventures fail.
Marketing & Customers
Finding your market, positioning against alternatives, and building demand you do not have to buy each time.
Finance for Managers
Reading the three statements, understanding margin and cash flow, and making decisions the numbers support.
Operations & Delivery
Designing the processes that deliver your product or service consistently, at quality, without you watching.
Strategy & Growth
Choosing where to compete, what to say no to, and how to grow without breaking what already works.
Capstone: Your Business Plan
You produce and defend a complete plan for a real venture or a real change inside your organisation.
From running things to leading them
EBM is assessed on application. Every module asks you to apply the material to a real organisation — ideally your own.
Skills you walk away with
- Structure a team and delegate work so delivery does not depend on you personally
- Read a set of financial statements and act on what they tell you
- Test a business opportunity before committing money to it
- Build a marketing approach grounded in a real understanding of your customer
- Design operating processes that hold up under pressure
- Write and defend a business plan a lender or partner would take seriously
Roles this diploma points towards
Roles listed are indicative destinations, not guaranteed placements.
One day a week, built around your working life
EBM runs live every Saturday. The structure is deliberate — it lets you study without stepping away from the business or the job you are already running.
Apply online
Complete the EBM enrolment form. It takes a few minutes and there is no entrance examination.
Confirm your place
Pay the one-time ₦10,000 registration fee to secure your seat in the cohort.
Join your cohort
You'll receive your class details and platform access, then meet your facilitator and classmates.
Study Saturday
Live sessions every Saturday, with assessments and a capstone project across the programme.
The ₦10,000 registration fee is not tuition
Transformation College of Business & Technology is a non-profit institution, and the education is genuinely free. The registration fee is a one-time administrative charge that confirms your commitment to the cohort. There are no tuition fees, no module fees and no examination fees.
How EBM performed last semester
We publish our own record because a tuition-free college should be judged on outcomes, not promises. These figures are from the most recently completed EBM cohort.
Cohort breakdown
Highlights from the cohort
- Capstone business plans produced and defended across the cohort.
- Facilitated by experienced managers and business owners.
- Students joined from across Africa and the diaspora.
- Every graduate finished without paying a naira in tuition.
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EBM students on the programme
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Start EBM this semester
Live every Saturday. No tuition. The next EBM cohort is filling now — complete the enrolment form and confirm your place.