Extracurricular Entrepreneurship Education · On-Site at Schools · Grades 6–11
In an AI-first world, one skill endures: spotting the
gap
and building what belongs in it.
BizBoss SA helps South African learners develop the skills and mindset to identify problems and craft profitable solutions — case studies, group challenges, visits from working entrepreneurs, and ultimately a real business of their own. One session a week, after school, on-site at your school.
Entrepreneurial skills can give your child the mindset, adaptability and confidence to build their own future.
Founded by an Oxford MBA and designer of Oxford University entrepreneurship programmes, BizBoss brings the world's best thinking on entrepreneurship education to the SA classroom.
Phase intake — every stage, Grades 6 to 11
Enrol a learner
KidBoss, YoungBoss and BizBoss all take enrolments — tell us your learner's grade and which phase you have in mind, and we will come back to you with session times and the next available spaces at their school.
Three programmes, one throughline
KidBoss, YoungBoss, BizBoss — pick the one that fits your learner
Each stage is pitched at its own grade band and stands on its own — a learner joins the one that matches where they are now. All three run as a weekly after-school programme, on-site at your school — one session a week, eight sessions a term. And every stage runs in two phases: Phase 1 (Foundations) and Phase 2 (Deep Dive), each a term long, taken together or on their own.
STAGE 3 · GRADE 10 & 11
BizBoss
Future founders
Learners design, build, and launch a real business — taking their own solution from concept to market, with working founders alongside them.
Phase 1 · Foundations — a term, ending in a parent showcase.Phase 2 · Deep Dive — a term, ending in a cross-school showcase and pitch for finance.
Phase 1 — FoundationsOne term, one session a week, 8 sessions in all. Learners find a gap and shape an idea, and the phase culminates in a parent showcase event where each of them presents it.
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Phase 2 — Deep DiveA second term of 8 sessions going deeper — costing, competition and the plan behind the idea. It culminates in a cross-school showcase, where learners pitch their business for finance.
1+2
Both phases, or just oneEvery stage — KidBoss, YoungBoss and BizBoss — runs both phases, and each phase is a term long and stands on its own. Do the two back to back for the full arc, or start with a single phase.
How it works
Built around finding, not just learning
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Case studies
Real business problems, examined for the gaps hiding inside them.
02
Group activities
Ideas are pressure-tested in teams, not worked out alone.
03
Entrepreneur visits
Working founders share how they found and closed their own gap.
Core programme pillars
Eight pillars, explored a different way in every phase
Every BizBoss SA stage is built on the same eight pillars. Phase 1 lays the foundations across all eight; Phase 2 returns to them through new case studies, new group challenges and new founders in the room — so a learner who does both phases meets each pillar from several angles, at a level that keeps moving.
Revisited in every phaseWork that looks like the real thing
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Find the gapSpotting the everyday problems people already pay to have solved.
02
Develop your ideaTurning a rough hunch into something you can explain in one sentence.
03
Who's the competition?Who is already solving it, how well, and where they leave room.
04
Get in the customer's headWhat the customer actually wants, in their words rather than yours.
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Why choose us?Finding the reason someone picks you over the alternative.
06
All about the moneyCosts, pricing, and what is actually left at the end of the month.
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Make the planGetting it onto paper — what happens, in what order, by when.
08
Pitch the conceptStanding up and making the case in front of a room.
Educators
Bring us to your school
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Weekly, after schoolOne session a week inside your existing after-school slot — 8 sessions a term, and each term is a phase.
02
On-site, we come to youDelivered in your classrooms by our facilitators, so learners never leave campus.
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School incentive programmeAn attractive incentive for partner schools — details shared on enquiry.
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New sites across South AfricaWe are able to launch new sites nationally, wherever the demand is.
Schools & partnerships
Ready to spot the gap?
We are signing up new schools all the time — if you are an educator who would like to understand what it looks like to bring BizBoss to your school, please get in touch.
A phase-by-phase outline pitched at your grade bands.
Everything needed to run the first session on your site.
School enquiry
Bring BizBoss SA to your school
Founder
Andrea Warriner
FOUNDER, BIZBOSS SA
Andrea holds an MBA from Oxford, where she went on to design entrepreneur development programmes for Oxford University. She is Managing Director at the African Management Institute, which has reached over 30,000 entrepreneurs across Africa since 2013.
BizBoss SA channels that experience into the classroom — building the gap-spotting instinct early, so it has a decade to mature before it's needed most.
