Igniting individuals and teams to deliver their best work.

We are specialists in organisational effectiveness and resilience. We help leaders and teams become future fit and future ready, so that high performance is something they can sustain rather than survive.

Three moves, in this order. The order is the whole point.

FIRST

Unlock high performance

Not by asking for more effort. By finding what is already in the system and is not being used.

BY

Building resilience

Capacity has to come before output. Resilient people and teams can hold a higher standard for longer.

THEREBY

Preventing burnout

In individuals, in teams, in organisations. Performance bought at the cost of people is a loan, not a gain.

Future-Fit Whole Leadership

We do not create better leaders. We help people become more whole.

Leadership is the outcome. Nine dimensions over nine months, grouped into three movements: the inner work, the relational work, and the systems work. Every module asks the same question underneath. Am I operating from personality, or from essence?

The shape of every day

The arc is the engine.

Information without the arc produces notes. The arc, with information, produces change. Every workshop day moves through the same five phases.

01

Awaken

60 min

See what you have not seen before. Blind spots, assumptions and unconscious patterns surface.

02

Understand

90 min

Make sense of what you see. Neuroscience, personality and system context.

03

Reimagine

60 min

What becomes possible? Question inherited beliefs, models and defaults.

04

Practise

90 min

Try on a new way of being. Experience, not information.

05

Commit

45 min

What will I do differently? A ninety day experiment, named in front of peers.

Methodology

The age of hierarchy is over. Complexity demands collective creativity.

We research, discover and blend seamless diagnostics, neuroscience, analytics and coaching methodologies to provide precision optimisation for every individual, team and organisation.

Diagnostic

Integrative Enneagram

The iEQ9 uncovers the patterns of behaviour that subconsciously drive and motivate us to act in certain ways. Once those patterns are conscious, they can be worked with.

30 to 40 minutes online, then a one hour feedback session. Standard or professional depth.

Diagnostic

Neurozone

A brain and body resilience index for individuals and teams. Applied neuroscience, translated into recommendations practical enough to act on this week.

25 minute online assessment, personal or team report.

Framework

Semco Style

Trust, alternative controls, extreme stakeholder alliance, self leadership and creative innovation. Treat adults like adults, and make work awesome again.

Five principles from the Semco Style Institute, licensed and taught.

Cadence

90 day radical results

Systems thinking and a living organism view of the business, driven on a ninety day strategic roadmap. We plug into the rhythm you already run.

The roadmap every workshop ends with.

How we work

We are journey partners, not suppliers.

We listen carefully, then help you define the challenge you are actually facing. What we design is powerful, simple and scalable, and it is built with you rather than handed to you.

Consult

Meet and understand. Define the perceived challenges and the real ones. Contract and agree.

Design

Select the diagnostics that inform the pivotal decisions, then design the intervention around what they show.

Implement

Deliver in phases against an organisational resilience framework, at the pace the business can absorb.

Measure

Feedback, return on investment, and the next phase of the journey and support.

What you should expect to have afterwards

  • Leaders equipped to execute on their strategic responsibilities, not just their functional ones.
  • A deeper understanding of the personalities, communication styles, strengths and defences in the room.
  • Alignment on the few things that actually matter, and a roadmap with names against them.
  • Credible science, simplified enough to use without a facilitator present.
  • The talents of a diverse workforce genuinely used rather than merely counted.
  • An ownership and innovation culture, and a return that shows up in wellbeing as well as output.

Where to start

Three ways in.

Individual

For a leader who wants to understand their own patterns before asking anything of anyone else.

  • iEQ9 profile and one hour debrief
  • Executive and leadership coaching
  • Neurozone personal resilience index
  • Between session support when it is needed
One to one

Team

For a team that is competent and delivering, and knows something in how they work together is costing them.

  • Day one Team dynamics. Understanding self and others inside a 360 living organism performance system. Common purpose, value proposition, performance culture.
  • Day two The 90 day radical results roadmap. Communication breakdowns, role ambiguity, strategic and operational efficiency.
  • Individual profiles for every participant, plus an integrated team profile
Two days, plus profiling

Organisation

For a business ready to build leadership capacity as a system rather than as a series of courses.

  • Future-Fit Whole Leadership, nine months
  • Multi team and multi site harmonisation
  • Culture, change and engagement work
  • Cohort coaching and manager conversations
Nine months and onward

Where the work happens

Technical businesses, where competence was never the problem.

Multi-site teams, engineering and R&D functions, leadership cohorts. Work spanning South Africa, and across Africa and the Middle East.

AgriscienceSeed R&D, Africa and Middle East
EngineeringMultidisciplinary consultancy
TechnologyFuture leader development
HealthcareBursary and wellness coaching
Public healthLaboratory services
This is a highly competent system that now needs emotional intelligence, reflection and alignment to match its technical excellence. Our next level of performance is not about doing more, but about integrating the human system we already have.
From an integrated team profile, agriscience client

Start a conversation

Tell us what is not working yet.

Most engagements begin with a conversation about a team that is delivering but straining, or a leader who has outgrown the way they have been leading. There is no charge for the first one.

Gerda Kotzé
Managing Director
High Performance Consultant
Professional Executive and Leadership Coach
Telephone
071 679 2114