Introduction

The Managing Healthcare Businesses (MHB) Programme directly bridges this gap by replacing guesswork with tested, healthcare-specific management frameworks that ensure long-term facility survival and growth.

Programme Objective

The programme seeks to transform healthcare practitioners and owners into strategic executive leaders who can build operationally efficient, financially sustainable, and scalable healthcare enterprises.

Target Participants

This programme is designed for professionals across the healthcare sector, including:

• Healthcare Entrepreneurs & Founders: Owners, investors, and direct owner-managers seeking to scale existing practices or launch new healthcare ventures.
• Specialist Clinicians: Doctors, pharmacists, and medical specialists transitioning from patient care into executive, administrative, or entrepreneurial roles.
• Hospital Executives & Administrators: Mid-to-senior healthcare managers, CEOs, and practice administrators responsible for organizational strategy, operations, and financial performance.

Key Focus Areas

The programme covers four core strategic modules:

• Module 1 – Leadership and Strategy: Defining business intent, establishing governance models, and navigating complex healthcare regulations.
• Module 2 – Operational Excellence: Streamlining unit economics, facility workflows, quality systems, and digital health initiatives.
• Module 3 – Leading People and Organisations: Managing multidisciplinary teams, driving ethics, and structuring growth across departments.
• Module 4 – Entrepreneurship and Growth: Formulating expansion strategies, managing capital investments, and securing maturity-phase stability.

Key Benefits

Participants will benefit from:

• Action Learning Project (ALP): A real-world strategic roadmap tailored to solve a core operational or financial challenge within your own facility.
• Dedicated Executive Coaching: Continuous 1-on-1 business advisory, faculty mentorship, and tailored guidance between modules.
• Dragon’s Den Executive Pitch: Exclusive opportunity to pitch facility growth strategies directly to healthcare executives, financiers, and industry leaders.
• Executive Accreditation: Certification from Strathmore University Business School along with eligible CPD points for medical professionals.

Key Learning Outcomes

By completing this programme, participants will achieve:

• Strategic Executive Governance: Master ethical decision-making, regulatory alignment, and long-term organizational strategy.
• Financial & Unit Economics Mastery: Gain complete clarity on healthcare financing, working capital optimization, and facility expansion models.
• Data-Driven Operations & Scaling: Acquire the practical capability to streamline multi-site operations, lead clinical teams, and execute data-backed growth strategies.

Programme Impact

• Individual Impact: Shifts your mindset from employee/owner to strategic investor, building executive capability and leadership confidence.
• Team Impact: Aligns multidisciplinary teams, optimizes workflow productivity, and builds organizational ethics across clinical staff.
• Organisational Impact: Delivers immediate, measurable returns through the ALP by solving actual institutional bottlenecks and securing financial sustainability.

Programme Delivery

• Format: Four 4-day in-person modules combining interactive case studies, peer learning, simulations, and healthcare immersion experiences.

Faculty

SBS’ faculty members have requisite qualifications that ensure the rich experience of a participant. PhD content developers from leading universities and who reflect different nationalities with exposure to international healthcare business models; experiential healthcare and related non-healthcare business owners, who have a unique perspective on today’s complex healthcare business landscape.

The programme is delivered by distinguished academics and healthcare leaders:

• Prof. Gilbert Kokwaro: Academic Lead, Director of IHM, and Professor of Health Systems Research
• Dr. Ben Ngoye: Associate Professor & Principal Investigator, IHM
• Prof. Frank Wafula: Associate Professor, IHM
• Dr. Dennis Okaka: Course Lead, MHB & Adjunct Executive Fellow, SBS

Why Study MHB at SBS?

Builds on a combination of the established strength of SBS business leadership, management and entrepreneurship courses offered by subject matter experts, as well as experiential learning through industry leaders with local, regional and international perspectives.

The participants will also have the opportunity to build a personal and professional network with like-minded professionals.

• Participant-centered learning
• Flexible learning experience
• Build successful networks
• Expert faculty with sector experience
• Executive coaching
• Institutional improvement projects
• World-class facilities
• A chance to get real time solutions to ‘headache’ type business problems

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