Our Global Partners

Partnering with global institutions to bring quality learning closer to you.

Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh Business School (EBS)

Edinburgh Business School is the Graduate School of Business School at the world-renowned Heriot- Watt University in Edinburgh Scotland, United Kingdom that offers online distance learning business courses that are flexible and portable.

EDC is the Approved Learning Partner (ALP) of Edinburgh Business School in Nigeria. Since 2008, we have been responsible for marketing and promoting the business school’s portfolio of globally successful online postgraduate business and management programmes to individuals and corporate organisations all over Nigeria. As an ALP, EDC provides tutorial support to EBS students in Nigeria and beyond and over 1,000 executives have completed their MBA and MSc in record times having passed through our all-year-round classes since our ALP designation in 2013. Please contact us to learn more about the flagship MBA, Specialist MBAs, MSc and other programmes in the business school’s portfolio.

Heriot-Watt University, The School of Energy, Geoscience, Infrastructure and Society (EGIS)

The School of Energy, Geoscience, Infrastructure and Society (EGIS) is one of the UK’s leading institutions for multidisciplinary research and teaching in areas critical to economic development and societal equity. The school’s focus is on building sustainable energy sources, smarter construction process and creating resilient infrastructure to protect our environment. EGIS offers flexible online postgraduate courses in Engineering, Renewable Energy, and Construction disciplines. EDC is also responsible for marketing and promoting the school’s portfolio of programmes to individuals and corporate organisations all over Nigeria.

Association for Strategic Planning

EDC is proud of our pioneering partnership with the Association for Strategic Planning (ASP). The ASP is the only not-for-profit professional association dedicated to advancing thought and practice in strategy development and deployment for business, non-profit and government organizations. ASP provides opportunities to explore leading-edge strategic planning principles and practices that enhance organizational success and advance members’ and organizations’ knowledge, capability, capacity for innovation, as well as professionalism. ASP’s diverse membership base cuts across organizational leaders, strategy practitioners, business and management consultants as well as academics.

The ASP is the only body that provides reputable and globally acclaimed certifications in strategy. The body of knowledge uses the Lead-Think-Plan-Act model framework to administer the two levels of certifications namely:

 Strategic Planning Professional (SPP)
 Strategic Management Professional (SMP)

The purpose of the ASP Certification Program is to establish a high-level of quality and consistency within the strategic planning and management industry so that strategic planners and those responsible for developing and deploying strategy can assist organizations in meeting and exceeding the challenges of the 21st century. The Program is based on the ASP Standards, Competencies and Body of Knowledge Framework (BOK Framework) which was developed by leaders in the field of strategic planning and management to guide the certification of strategy professionals in the United States as well as internationally.

LBL Strategies

LBL Strategies is an international leader educating, training, and developing strategy professionals within the discipline of Strategic Planning and Management. Headquartered in Chicago, Illinois. LBL provides robust competency training to develop core skills and distinctive capabilities to help professionals and their organizations pivot to new levels of strategic thought, planning and action. Whether you are looking to lead your organization through a new strategic management process, you want your executives to grow in the discipline of strategic management or for them to become ASP industry certified, LBL’s training programs and facilitation services can help.