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Abstract
The promotion and development of leadership and management principles with our target audiences is a major focus of our activities in British Council Mombasa. The British Council is committed to supporting the Africa-led programme New Partnership for Africa's Development, NEPAD, which aims to promote sustainable development in Africa through better leadership and governance. This is being done through the support of the reform agenda of transformational leadership and more engagement with young potential future leaders. The Council provides them with a platform that they can use to develop leadership and management skills. The Management Forum is one such platform and is the one discussed in this paper. The Management Forum is an association of managers in the region who have come together with the main aim of providing a channel through which managers across all professions and industries could share their experience and exchange information. They work to provide networking opportunities for one another, influence management thinking through creating awareness of good practice, capacity building of their institutions and individuals and also recognise excellence in management through awards. The Forum is governed by a code of ethics. The paper looks at one specific activity of the forum, which is to organise management conventions/forums-a platform for managers to come together and deliberate on an issue that concerns them. This was the first convention organised and I happened to be in the centre of it. Hence my writing this paper to discuss my involvement in the process.