Your organization has a ceiling. It's exactly as high as you are. ELEVATE exists to raise it — through you.
A transformative strategic retreat and training experience for CEOs, founders, and growing entrepreneurs. K Hôtel, Douala.
You've scaled the business. Have you scaled yourself?
Most CEOs and founders are operationally excellent and personally underleveraged. They lead companies worth millions — sometimes billions — but often get stuck on their own growth.
The result is a slow, invisible tax on everything: team performance, talent attraction, investor confidence, market positioning, and the quality of every decision made from the top.
Sure, the organization is already successful and growing, but the CEO’s level of elevation may be placing a ceiling on the organization’s potential, delaying new heights.
Your personal brand isn't working as hard for your organization as it should.
You lead a culture by default rather than by design — the patterns you haven't examined are already running your organization.
You're operating at 70% of your potential because the systems around your time, energy, and decisions were built for a smaller version of the company.
You communicate brilliantly one-to-one and inconsistently at scale — in all-hands, on stage, in media, with the board.
Your vision is clear in your head and fuzzy in your organization — and the gap costs you every quarter, whether you realize it or not.
"The most valuable investment a CEO/founder can make is in the quality of their own thinking, presence, and clarity in vision and articulation — because everything in the organization flows from there."
Not a conference.
Not a seminar. An immersion.
ELEVATE is designed around one governing principle: deep change requires depth of experience. Every session is transformational, hands-on, and directly connected to real decisions with real impact in your business.
Every meal is a structured peer experience. Every moment of rest is intentional. You leave with recordings, written deliverables, and a 90-day plan built in the room. You leave transformed, energized with clarity, elevated.
Leadership enhancement
Master the inner game of leading at scale and high-stakes decision making.
Voice & presence
Refine your command of any room, from the board meeting to the global stage.
Personal brand & org mindshare
Leverage your authority to drive institutional growth and market confidence.
Vision engineering
Translate fuzzy long-term goals into precise strategic frameworks for your team.
Culture design
Learn to architect environments that attract and retain world-class talent by design.
Productivity & leverage
Reclaim 10+ hours a week through systems built for the modern CEO.
Peer mastermind
High-level strategic exchange with a small cohort of your genuine peers.
Three days designed to the hour.
Work sessions, premium dining, and deliberate rest are woven together.
One investment. Nothing left to arrange.
Three-night premium room
Luxury accommodation at K Hôtel, Douala.
All meals and dining
Curated gastronomic experiences throughout the retreat.
Spa & wellness access
Full access to fitness and relaxation facilities.
Personal video recordings
Full-HD recordings of your speaking and workshop sessions.
The ELEVATE Playbook
Comprehensive physical and digital strategic toolkit.
High-level networking
Lifetime access to the private ELEVATE alumni cohort.
30-day 1:1 accountability
Post-retreat follow-up call with Yvan Ahinaga.
Strategic deliverables
Your completed 90-day execution roadmap.
Your lead facilitators
Yvan Ahinaga
Yvan Ahinaga is a seasoned high-level consultant and trainer with nearly two decades of experience working with national, pan-African and global organizations such as the World Health Organization, the World Bank Group, Ecobank, MINDEF Cameroon, the National Assembly, the Institute of Security Studies Trust, and many others. He is also the founder of Kontritok, TransInterp, and FinRize.
Past Engagements Include
Helene Mugob
With over 15 years of experience across 23 countries, Helene operates at the intersection of strategy, systems, and human capital; ensuring organizations don't just design brilliant strategies but build the capability to execute and sustain them.
She has partnered with organizations including Go Ahead Africa Ltd, ST Digital, GreenHouse Ventures Ltd, Microsoft, Unilever PLC, the US Embassy in Cameroon, FabAfriq Media Group, GSK, BBC, MODEC, Cockett Group, and Standard Chartered Bank. She's a senior consultant with LHH Africa and founder and CEO of MAHM Consulting Group.
Past Engagements Include
Thierry Ekambi Lobe
A certified Toast Master with a career rooted in HSE, Sustainability, and ESG as an HSE Coordinator at MTN Cameroon, Thierry brings the power of communication to leadership, strategy, and impact. For more than a decade, he has partnered with multiple organizations as a professional speaker, Master of Ceremonies, and voice-over artist, supporting major corporate, economic, and high-profile events.
Beyond the stage and the microphone, he coaches executives and corporate teams in high-impact public speaking, helping them transform communication into a strategic business lever. His work enables leaders to articulate clear visions, align teams, influence stakeholders, and drive profitability — proving that powerful communication is not optional, but essential to corporate success.
Built for a specific kind of leader.
CEOs of scaling companies
Founders with CEO roles
CEO-calibre execs of large corps
Industry leaders who invest in themselves
Not the right fit: early-stage pre-revenue founders, non C-suite managers and employees, consultants looking to sell to the room.
One place. One price. Everything included.
Each cohort is capped at 16 participants.
Registration Deadline: Oct 16 · Retreat: Oct 31 – Nov 1
Included in your investment
Alternative Option: A non-residential option is available at CFA 1,250,000. Includes access to training sessions and all amenities except accommodation.
Registration Application
Oct 31 – Nov 1, 2026 · Registration Deadline: Oct 16
Before you apply.
Your organization has a ceiling.
It is exactly as high as you are.
ELEVATE exists to raise it — through you.
"The best time to invest in your own elevation was a year ago. The second best time is now."