A new branch. A larger team. A new market. New funding.
Each one puts pressure on the systems, people, and cash flow your business runs on.
Over 12 weeks, you and your management team will develop a complete Business Expansion Plan. Online. Together.
See if this is for your business ↓ Cohort starts 22 September 2026 · Limited to 5 companiesEvery expansion decision is stress-tested against your own business data before you commit.
The business owner and key team leads develop the plan together. They leave owning their part of it.
You can see the opportunities: new markets, more locations, stronger distribution, wider reach, or fresh funding.
But you also know that expansion without the right foundation can create more problems than it solves.
You are past the start-up and early survival stage.
You have key people responsible for functional areas such as Sales, Finance, Operations, HR, or ICT.
You generate consistent revenue. You are planning expansion, not trying to validate a business idea.
Revenue is increasing but profit, systems, cash flow, and team alignment are not keeping pace.
At minimum, you have sales records and can account for income and expenses. The more complete your records, the more your Business Expansion Plan will reflect your actual business — not estimates.
You and your key team leads can commit to two sessions per week across 12 weeks.
Not sure if you qualify? The eligibility check takes 2 minutes.
Check Your EligibilityThere is no structured expansion plan. Strategy is a series of educated guesses made under pressure.
Every expansion attempt feels like you are gambling with your business.
You are trying to do everything yourself instead of building a leadership team that can carry the business forward.
When you approach a bank or investor, they see the risk more clearly than they see the opportunity.
If two or more of these are true for your business, EYB is designed for this stage. Not with theory. With a plan your team develops, owns, and implements.
Expand Your Business is the top-tier programme within the International Labour Organization's Start and Improve Your Business suite. SIYB is one of the world's most widely used enterprise development programmes, designed to strengthen business management skills, support better decisions, and promote job creation through practical training and post-training support.
Source: International Labour Organization
Afifen Business Consult is led by a certified ILO SIYB trainer with authorisation to deliver the full suite of Start and Improve Your Business programmes including Expand Your Business.
Afifen has trained and mentored SMEs, women entrepreneurs, and growth-oriented businesses across Nigeria. The programme is delivered with an understanding of the Nigerian business environment, not just international curriculum.
Afifen designed the six-month Business Expansion Accountability System to address a known gap in training delivery — plans that are built but never implemented. The accountability phase is not an add-on. It is part of how Afifen works.
Each cohort is limited to 5 companies. This is a deliberate choice. Smaller cohorts allow the facilitator to give each business meaningful attention during sessions, clinics, and the six-month accountability phase.
Part of the ILO SIYB suite, used in over 100 countries. The framework has been applied across manufacturing, trade, services, and technology businesses for decades. This is not generic business advice — it is a tested, structured process.
Delivered online in live facilitated sessions. The business owner and management team attend from their own locations. No travel. No full days away from the business. The 90-minute session format is designed so the whole team can participate without losing working days.
The business owner and key team leads develop the plan together. The people who will carry out the strategy are in the room when it is created. They leave aligned, not briefed.
You leave with a complete, written Business Expansion Plan covering all five functional areas of the business. A credible document for presenting to investors, banks, and grant bodies.
Every session applies the EYB framework directly to your business. You analyse your own financials, your own market, your own team structure, and your own expansion options. Nothing generic.
The programme does not end at Week 12. A six-month post-programme accountability phase includes monthly company reviews, group support sessions, and progress tracking. Included in the programme fee.
This is strategic business expansion, not motivation seminars.
This programme ends with decisions made, plans developed, and a management team that created the plan together, understands the strategy, and owns their role in carrying it out.
A written strategic plan covering all five functional areas: Operations, Marketing, ICT, HR, and Finance, developed from your own business data. A credible document for presenting to investors, banks, grant bodies, and strategic partners.
Specific targets for sales, market reach, customer retention, profit margins, and workforce productivity, owned by the team that will deliver them.
Five-year financial projections and an understanding of the ratios that investors, banks, and funding bodies use when evaluating a business for expansion support.
Your management team develops the plan together. They leave knowing the direction, owning their functional strategy, and ready to carry it out.
The programme runs for 12 weeks. Weeks 1 to 9 include 18 live facilitated planning sessions. Weeks 10 and 11 include four Business Clinics, where each company receives focused review and guidance on its Business Expansion Plan. Week 12 ends with Pitch Day, where each company presents its reviewed plan and receives final feedback.
The business maps its current position: mission, vision, core competencies, SWOT, customer analysis, competitor analysis, macro-environment, and financial health.
The team agrees the expansion direction: future vision, revised mission, core values, expansion strategy selection, business objectives, and five-year performance targets.
Five functional strategies are developed across Operations, Marketing, ICT, HR, and Finance, covering the changes each area must make to support the chosen expansion direction.
The complete Business Expansion Plan is assembled and reviewed in four Business Clinics — focused sessions between the facilitator and each company. Teams present to the group and facilitator on Pitch Day and leave with a reviewed, complete plan.
A focused review with the business owner and management team to check progress, discuss what has been implemented, identify what is delayed, and agree next actions.
Group sessions where participants share progress, discuss implementation challenges, learn from one another, and receive guidance.
Action steps, responsibilities, timelines, and obstacles tracked and reviewed every session throughout the six months.
The EYB programme covers five functional areas. The people who will own those areas during implementation must be present when the strategies are developed.
The Business Owner or Most Senior Leader
Operations Lead
Marketing and Sales Lead
Finance and Admin Lead
HR or ICT Lead
The business owner or most senior leader must attend personally. The programme works best when the people who make and carry out expansion decisions are in the room together.
Because each session builds on the previous one, consistent attendance matters. Missing sessions can weaken the plan and reduce what the business gains from the programme.
The 90-minute session format makes full team participation possible without losing entire working days.
We came in with a direction we were confident about. The EYB process helped us stress-test it before we committed money and people. We changed course. That decision alone was worth more than the programme fee.
₦495,000
Per company. Covers the business owner and a maximum of four team members for the full 12 weeks and six-month accountability phase.
₦250,000 now + ₦275,000
Second payment one week before the programme begins. Total: ₦525,000.
18 live facilitated sessions across 12 weeks
4 Business Clinics in Weeks 10 and 11
Pitch Day in Week 12
A complete, reviewed Business Expansion Plan
All programme materials and digital resources
ILO EYB training manual and templates
Certificate of attendance on completion
Six-month post-programme accountability phase
Every significant expansion decision carries a price. The question is whether that price is paid before the decision, through structured planning, or after it, through the cost of getting it wrong.
Businesses have lost years of profit to expansion moves that looked right but were not properly evaluated. Some took on debt for branches, products, or markets that did not perform. Some have not recovered.
When you make your expansion decision, make it with a complete picture. That is what this programme is for.
A new branch. A larger team. A new market. New funding.
Each one puts pressure on the systems, people, and cash flow your business runs on.
Over 12 weeks, you and your management team will develop a complete Business Expansion Plan. Online. Together.
See if this is for your business ↓ Cohort starts 22 September 2026 · Limited to 5 companiesStart with the eligibility check. It takes 2 to 3 minutes. If your business qualifies, you will receive the next steps to secure your place in the cohort.
Check Your Eligibility Cohort places are limited to 5 companies. The programme is selective.