Think unconventionally and act with integrity
Here to guide you around the risks
The African market represents a huge opportunity for global businesses, but it is also fraught with risk and failure. At African Sherpa Global we specialise in unconventional, and disruptive, forward thinking. It’s much more efficient to anticipate Africa than it is to wait for a crisis to occur.
Our approach is through pre-emptive lateral planning, solid local knowledge, experience and accessibility. Our team and partners are specifically selected because they can demonstrate real grass-root operational experience, and unconventional thinking combined with problem solving in different parts of Africa. Critically, we operate an on-demand model, so we are always on hand throughout the twists and turns of your journey.
Your operational guides to the African continent.
Discovery
African Sherpa Global’s role is to help your business avoid the common pitfalls experienced by so many others who choose to trade in Africa. Our strength is in unconventional thinking.
By combining your commercial objectives with our understanding of the African environment we will help your business;
Reduce your start-up time
Reduce your cost exposure
Reduce your overall risk
Clearly understanding the scope of what you wish to achieve, African Sherpa Global can begin to help you identify additional opportunities and the likely areas of African risk or vulnerability in your implementation plans. This includes but not limited to fiscal reporting through to physical security. Identification of strategic local partner requirements, potential for bribery & corruption and associated mitigation options.
Adding value in your journey from the outset.
Pathfinder
We walk with you every step of the way.
Our highly experienced team thrives on the ambiguity of Africa. We’re able to provide boardroom executive guidance and advanced delivery on the ground. We will complement your existing personnel until you’re comfortable to undertake a transitional take over, ultimately reducing the strain on your organisation and expediting your start-up.
African Sherpa Global is about shortcutting decades of hard knocks and lessons learnt for people who wish to do business in Africa. It’s about giving non-African businesses a turbo-charged start-up plan and it’s about providing an instant layer of protection from operational crisis and bribery and corruption. We work with you to develop your team, meaning you’ll develop empowered Sherpas of your own.
With trusted partner networks that span both western and African cultures we have the resource to make your vision a commercial reality.
Real Intelligence
Nobody likes surprises.
Senior decision-makers are becoming increasingly more reliant on regular, detailed and accurate business intelligence services in order to mitigate risk and minimise uncertainty. But of course that requires the decision-maker to have a deep understanding of the local terrain and associated intelligence implications. Just like an expert tracker African Global Sherpa will help you make sense of the local, regional or continental implications.
By monitoring the environment around you we can guide you, from board level to ground level, through a spectrum of unforeseen influences, political and otherwise.
Utilising real-time intelligence we’re able to help mitigate business interruption to ensure your business can continue to operate with minimal disruption.
Resilience
Withstand the shocks
Preparing an enterprise for crisis is often overlooked with little-to-no investment, particularly if the business is owned and operated from outside of Africa where western norms do not apply. Worse still are the businesses who operate a box ticking exercise when it comes to crisis management.
Constant electricity cuts, border closures, health emergencies, access to forex, tribal uprising, political upheaval, the list goes on. At African Sherpa Global we live and breathe Africa. In Africa every day is prone to volatility and uncertainty – every day can be a crisis day.
It’s not about planning for every eventuality – you simply can’t do that in Africa. We will intentionally help you develop crisis resilience in your business from the outset. By working shoulder to shoulder with our African Sherpa Global experts your business will learn how to pre-empt and prevent the unforeseen so that your business can withstand shocks. African Sherpa Global will be on hand to help you think unconventionally.