WAFA ASSURANCE and ESSEC Business School – Africa reached an agreement on Friday March 26, 2021. The objective of this partnership is to launch a training and development program for managerial and leadership skills, for 30 executives and senior executives of the WAFA Group INSURANCE per year. The objective is to train 150 employees, from the parent company as well as from the various French-speaking and English-speaking subsidiaries, over the duration of the partnership, which is 5 years.
ESSEC Business School provides a fully integrated service (educational engineering, seminars, conferences, courses, tutorials and defenses) co-built with the Human Capital Pole of Wafa Assurance to lead to WAFA Lead Program which includes two certifying training courses:
• WAFA Emerging Leaders for executives and young leaders.
• WAFA Advanced Management for senior managers and executives.
The future laureates will benefit from a series of seminars, putting people at the center and shedding light on the challenges of modern organizations for a community of managers and leaders that is both inclusive and efficient. The first two promotions will start in April 2021.
Wafa Assurance aims to enable its General Agents and their employees to benefit from this partnership, by developing certifying training courses adapted to their needs as entrepreneurs and ambassadors of Wafa Assurance.
ESSEC Africa is ESSEC’s establishment in Morocco, one of the best business schools in Europe and in the world. Inaugurated in April 2017, ESSEC Africa has a modern and ultra-connected campus in Rabat which offers an ideal environment for learning and innovation for students and professionals.
“Our presence in Morocco marks our commitment to Africa. We offer learners and partners a real openness to the continent through academic courses focused on African issues, and alliances with renowned academic and economic organizations. Creating the link, promoting responsible and intelligent development through training and collaboration, such is our ambition ”declares Hugues Levecq, Deputy Dean of ESSEC Africa and Director of ESSEC Global BBA.
He then added concerning the Wafa Lead Program “This course, which combines academic, practical and personalized support, will engage managers towards responsible and benevolent leadership. Built on a sharing of values between two prestigious institutions, Wafa Assurance and ESSEC, it will help strengthen the managerial identity within the Wafa Assurance Group.
This adherence to the vision and values will also be the cement of a community that will become more and more international ”.
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