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About Successory

About Successory

Two decades of turning expertise into institutional capability

Successory Nigeria Limited was established in 2001. From our base in Abuja, we have worked with governments, development agencies, financial institutions and enterprises in 18 African countries.

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Successory

Who We Are

Successory is a consulting and capacity-development firm that works at the intersection of development finance, institutional reform and knowledge. Our clients include multilateral agencies such as IFAD, the World Bank, the African Development Bank, FAO and UNDP; development partners such as GIZ, the Konrad Adenauer Stiftung and the Development Bank of Southern Africa; and a wide range of Nigerian federal and state institutions, financial institutions and private organisations.

We are a lean firm by design. A senior core team leads each engagement, and we draw on a network of more than 30 specialist consultants in development finance, agricultural economics, public policy, governance, monitoring and evaluation and communications. That lets us assemble the right team for each assignment, whatever its size.

What We Do

  • Institutional Development and Governance Advisory

    helping organisations strengthen structures, governance and systems.

  • Capacity Development and Executive Learning

    training and coaching the people who lead and run institutions.

  • Strategy, Research and Advisory

    giving leaders the evidence and direction to decide well.

  • Programme Design, Delivery and Resource Mobilisation

    helping programmes get funded, designed and delivered.

Mission & Vision

Mission and Vision

Our Mission

To help African institutions work better by combining practical advice, rigorous evidence and learning that sticks, so that their people can design, manage and deliver the results their mandates demand.

Our Vision

Well-governed, capable institutions across Africa that serve farmers, enterprises and citizens effectively, with Successory recognised for the part it played in building them.
Core Values

Our Core Values

Candour

We tell clients what the evidence shows, not what is comfortable to hear.
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Rigour

Our recommendations rest on data, fieldwork and tested methods.
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Context

We adapt lessons from across the continent to the realities of each institution.
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Results

We judge our work by what changes after the report is delivered.
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Partnership

We build our clients' capacity so the results last after we leave.
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Successory was founded by Dr Steve Olusegun Ogidan, mni, who has led the firm as Managing Director and Chief Executive since its establishment. A development strategist and institutional capacity builder, he has led supervision missions for IFAD, designed Togo's agricultural risk-sharing mechanism, advised the Central Bank of Liberia on financial inclusion and served as National Coordinating Consultant for NIRSAL Plc. He is a member of the National Institute, a Fellow of the Institute of Management Consultants and President of the Turnaround Management Association of Nigeria.

Led by experience

Our consulting philosophy

Institutions improve when strategy, systems and people move together. A strategy without capable staff stalls. Training without the right systems fades. New systems without a clear direction drift. Our engagements are built to connect all three, and to leave the client stronger at each stage.

How an engagement works

  1. Understand. We agree the real question, the stakeholders involved and what success looks like.
  2. Diagnose. We gather evidence through documents, data, interviews and fieldwork, using recognised assessment tools where they fit.
  3. Design. We develop strategies, systems or programmes with the client’s team, tested against its budget and context.
  4. Build capability. We train and coach the people who will own the result.
  5. Support delivery. We stay involved through implementation, monitoring and review, for as long as the engagement requires.
Where we work

Where we work

Our engagements have taken us across West, East, Southern and Central Africa, and to programmes delivered in the United Kingdom.

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Considering Successory for an assignment?
Tell us about your institution and the challenge in front of it. We will tell you how we would approach it.

+234 803 679 1619
info@successory.org