Strategy, cybersecurity, digital forensics, business intelligence and risk advisory for organizations across East Africa who refuse to stay where they are.
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What we do
From boardroom strategy to breach investigation, every engagement is built to hold up once it meets reality.
Board level strategy, business modelling and governance frameworks that hold up once the plan meets reality.
Learn moreTurning scattered spreadsheets and systems into dashboards leadership can actually make decisions from.
Learn moreBlack box, grey box and white box testing plus governance reviews that find the gaps before an attacker does.
Learn moreInvestigating fraud, breaches and insider incidents, and recovering the evidence that stands up to scrutiny.
Learn moreFraud management frameworks, investigations and enterprise risk assessments built for how risk actually shows up.
Learn moreCertification programs in data analytics, risk, cybersecurity and fraud that build capability your team keeps.
Learn moreOur story
Since 2007, Summit Consulting Ltd has worked with banks, telecoms, NGOs and government institutions across the region, not as an outside advisor dropping in a report, but as a partner in the work itself.
Our name is not decoration. It reflects how we see every engagement: an organization's current position, the work of assessing it honestly, the change that follows, and a transformation that has no real ceiling once leadership commits to it.
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Current state
We start by understanding the real position, not the version in the last board report.
Assessment & change
A clear-eyed diagnosis followed by the strategy, controls or systems that shift outcomes.
Transform
Once the foundation is right, growth stops depending on us and starts depending on your team.
Where we work
Beyond consulting
SCL Academy
Practical courses covering everything from MS Word and Excel to culture, strategy and business development, built for board members, managers and professionals who want capability, not just a certificate.
Institute of Forensics & ICT Security
IFIS, Summit Consulting Ltd's specialized training arm, runs hands-on programs in forensics, cybersecurity, digital forensics, audit and risk, aligned with ISO, NIST and COSO standards. Its motto, Discere Faciendo, means learn by doing.
Free diagnostic
A confidential diagnostic that exposes decision bottlenecks and whether your culture supports your strategy, or quietly undermines it.
From our CEO
Written by our CEO, Mustapha Bernabas Mugisa, Seven Tools to Get on the Board and Add Value lays out seven practical tools for directors who want to add real value once they are in the room. It is also available on Amazon Kindle.
“This thought provoking book offers an incisive examination of corporate governance from both a historical and contemporary point of view. I highly recommend it for your useful and sustainable leadership benefit.”
In their words
“Summit Consulting Ltd exceeded our expectations, specifically with the rapport the Summit team built with all our staff, professionally and effectively delivering interactive, practical training in cyber security and risk management.”
“The Summit Consulting Ltd team knows how to get work done. We are grateful to the team as they are always available to make clarifications. They are great partners in ICT agreed procedures, cyber security, and penetration testing engagements.”
“Summit Consulting Ltd was contracted to conduct a penetration test of our network. They exhibited a high level of professionalism in carrying out the work, reporting and recommendations. I have no reservations recommending them for similar assignments.”
Insights
The chief executive is standing near the boardroom window at 6:40 p.m. The executive committee has been meeting since lunchtime. The numbers on the screen are no longer moving, cash collections are deteriorating. A major customer has delayed payment, the bank is reconsidering the
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A typical Monday morning management meeting in a typical Ugandan company starts with a prayer. Some organisations have structured it so well that the prayer is written in advance and distributed to everyone. Others allow a member of staff to pray in their own words. As a strategy
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How much productivity is your organisation losing because employees have stopped telling management the truth? During a culture transformation session with a financial services client, I ask participants to name the one issue quietly undermining performance. I have now come to ex
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How many executives does it take to approve a broken office chair? In one organisation I advised, the answer was seven. The request moved from Administration to Procurement, Finance, Risk, Legal, the Executive Committee and, eventually, the Chief Executive Officer. By the time ap
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How ecosystem thinking is reshaping Uganda’s bancassurance market and why Boards and executives must rethink their strategy. For decades, insurance companies have been viewed as the natural owners of the insurance business. They design products, manage risk, process claims, and d
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Before the meeting had even started, the Board Chairperson leaned back, looked around the room and sighed. “Why do we keep discussing problems that should have been solved two years ago? Every board paper explains yesterday. Who is helping us prepare for tomorrow?” The office cof
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7 Tools Board Book
Written by Mustapha B. Mugisa, this book examines corporate governance from both a historical and contemporary point of view, for directors and board members who want to add real value in the boardroom.
| Copies | Price (UGX) | |
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| 1 copy | 60,000 | |
| 6 copies | 300,000 | Save 60,000 |
| 10 copies | 500,000 | Save 100,000 |
| 20 copies | 1,020,000 | Save 180,000 |