SESTO BUSINESS ACADEMY (SBA) is an innovative and responsive organisation that offers customised professional development training, nationally accredited learning programmes and learnerships, and value-added business consultancy support services to a range of clients which include government, commerce, educational institutions, and not-for-profit organisations.

SBA is the product of 20 years of experience in consulting and training in areas such as risk management, governance, assurance, procurement, leadership, and project management to public and private sector organisations. SBA brings together the multi-SETA training history of SESTO (19,000+ SAQA learnerships delivered) and Ndalo Risk Management’s specialised consultancy and training experience in Enterprise Risk Management, Governance, and Assurance.

SBA has a B-BBEE scorecard rating of Level 2 (51% Black ownership, which includes 17% ownership in the category of Black women living with disabilities).

 

As an educational institution we view ourselves as solution providers – addressing the challenges which often require innovative, and responsive, first-of-type solutions. To this end, SESTO has been involved with the delivering of skills development, business consulting, and related training interventions that range from large scale national learnership projects and skills programmes to conducting training workshops to middle and senior management staff, to project managing provincial educational projects for the Department of Higher Education and Training (DHET) under the National Skills Fund (NSF).

 

In terms of regulatory compliance, SESTO is a nationally registered and accredited training provider. Although our primary accreditation originates with Services SETA, we deliver learnerships and skills programmes through a range of SETAs through extension of program scope under several memorandum of understandings with other SETAs. Our registration as an accredited training provider is effected under the national accreditation code: Services SETA 0307. As an accredited training provider, we offer nationally recognised qualifications that comply with South African Qualification Authority (SAQA) standards. As an accredited QCTO skills development provider (ID:SDP030123062814), SESTO is accredited to deliver the Occupational Certificate: Organisational Risk Practitioner NQF6 qualification.

 

Our learnerships, short courses, and professional development courses are unit standard aligned, which allows employers to recognise their training expense for B-BBEE Skills Development scorecard purposes at B-BBEE Level 2, being 125% of amount expended.

 

SBA also delivers short courses, skills programmes, workshops to develop professionals, notably in Risk Management, Leadership, Risk-Based Decision-Making for Managers, Introduction to Project Management, Finance and Accounting for Managers, Corporate Innovation, and Leadership. SBA will customise training for organisations seeking to develop their employees as a strategic response to developing organisational capability in a specific area of need. As a client-centric organisation focused on building quality relationships with individuals, organisations and other stakeholders we seek to deliver quality training to individuals and organisations, together with related educational consulting and support services to organisations across a diverse range of industry sectors.