Spark Essentials: The Onboarding

🔥 Start Strong!
This course is your springboard into the SPARK journey. Watch each short video and reflect on the mindset and skills you’ll need to grow a sustainable business. Absorb, reflect, and apply.

Before you scale, structure, or even start your business, certain foundational truths must be clear. In this short yet powerful course, Dr. Femi Johnson distills decades of practical business experience into 10 insightful micro-lessons to prepare your mind for entrepreneurial success.

From understanding strategy to raising capital, designing products, and distinguishing between intrapreneurship and entrepreneurship, these lessons equip you with clarity, direction, and confidence to thrive in today’s dynamic business landscape. Whether you’re just starting or refining your business idea, this essential pre-course sets the tone for what’s to come in SPARK.

Learning Objectives:

By the end of this course, participants will be able to:

• Recognize the mindset and realities of entrepreneurship

• Identify viable business opportunities and respond to business problems

• Differentiate between intrapreneurship and entrepreneurship

• Recognize the importance of financial literacy and capital raising

• Grasp key concepts in business strategy and product design

Course Benefits

Taking this course will help you:

• Gain clarity on what it truly takes to run a business successfully

• Avoid common pitfalls by learning from real-world insights and examples

• Build confidence in your role as a founder or emerging entrepreneur

• Understand how to think strategically—even before you begin execution

• Strengthen your financial awareness and capital readiness from day one

• Lay a solid mental foundation before diving into deeper SPARK courses

Assessment:

No formal quiz required. Participants are encouraged to reflect on each lesson and share one actionable insight in the Discussion forum/comments and during their live cluster review calls.