Hi Colin 

This Mental Well-being Month, we're exploring how creativity serves as a powerful catalyst for both professional success and personal well-being. Drawing from years of experience with corporate teams and research from leading institutions, we've seen how creative thinking goes beyond innovation – it reduces stress, builds resilience, and transforms workplace dynamics.

"I shared the resources from our training with my wife, and now she's hooked too. The new habits we've created have also had a ripple effect on our son. I'll still be doing this when I'm eighty!" said Charl van Staden, one of our clients.

We share practical tools that our clients use to enhance both their work and personal lives. Whether you believe you're creative or not (spoiler alert: you are!), these approaches can help you and your team thrive. Read on to discover how developing your creative muscle could be the well-being boost you've been looking for.

End the Year on a High: Creative Team Celebrations with Purpose

After a year of challenges and achievements, your team deserves more than just a traditional year-end party. Our interactive creative thinking workshops offer a unique blend of celebration, skill-building, and team connection – exactly what's needed to boost mental well-being during the busy year-end period.

Watch your team light up as they engage in playful problem-solving activities and collaborative challenges. These expertly facilitated sessions not only celebrate their hard work but also equip them with practical creative thinking tools they'll carry into the new year. Early booking special: Save 15% on workshops booked before 20 November. 

Reserve your workshop date by emailing [email protected]

Launch of new course for leaders at GIBS Business School🚀

Lead for Creative Thinking

We are delighted to have launched a brand-new course in partnership with Africa’s top business school, GIBS (Gordon Institute of Business Science). We are excited for the next 6 weeks with the wonderful cohort of leaders.

In this simple, scientific, and practical course, the leaders will learn how to role model creativity, coach for creative thinking, and create an environment that encourages their teams to think more creatively. The course also includes the Creative ID assessment, which offers a deeply researched, people-focused framework for creativity in the corporate world. 

Find out more and apply for our next cohort in 2025.

We will soon be celebrating the conclusion of our second L.E.A.D. Management Programme with Merchant Capital, a leading provider of disruptive financial services to small and medium businesses in emerging markets. Our five-month leadership and creative intelligence programme combines deep learning with practical application, enabling participants to implement their insights directly into their work environment.

The programme empowers leaders to enhance their self-awareness, develop stronger interpersonal skills, and collaborate across divisions to solve complex business challenges. The impact has been remarkable, earning high praise from Merchant Capital's CEO, Dov Girnun, who brings experience from both Harvard and Stanford leadership programmes.

"The Exco has been amazed at the incredible exponential growth we've seen in the people who've been on this programme.  I've had some really proud moments at our company over the past twelve years - I can count them on one hand - and this is one of them. I've sat here thinking, 'I am so proud.' I can't believe the caliber of leaders we have developed here. 

I've had the privilege of studying at Harvard and Stanford, this programme is better. This is seriously incredible stuff. These are the ingredients for a strong leadership culture and team. Creativity Wake-Up, I want to thank you. We put our trust in you and you have shot the lights out. 

This is an ongoing process, and I look forward seeing our leaders all grow from strength to strength."