For organisations
More human leadership. More innovative cultures.
As AI takes on more of the work, the edge is human: empathy, judgement, creativity and trust. We help organisations grow leaders people want to follow, and cultures where good ideas come from everyone.
Why it matters now
Machines can process.
Only people can lead, care and create.
Technology is speeding up how work gets done. What it can't do is listen, build trust, read a room or imagine something new. We help you humanise the way you lead and the way you work, so people bring their best thinking, and their best selves, to the problems in front of them.
1 · Leadership excellence
Leaders people want to follow
Many managers were promoted for what they know, not for how they lead. We help them build the human skills that make teams thrive: coaching, empathy, honest conversations, building trust and leading change with confidence.
As AI changes how work gets done, we help leaders use it well without losing the human connection their people need from them.
- Managers who coach rather than tell
- Difficult conversations, handled with care
- Teams that trust each other and take initiative
Leadership programme
Lead Forward
For managers and leadership teams · 4 months · In person, online or blended
Help strong managers become leaders their teams can rely on: coaching, hard conversations, trust, and leading change and innovation. With profiling, group coaching and a real project presented to the executive team.
Leadership course · with GIBS
Lead for Creative Thinking
For individual leaders, or several managers from one organisation · 6 weeks online, about 3 hours a week · GIBS certificate
Learn to lead creative thinking in your team. Understand your own creative mindset, learn how thinking styles differ, and leave with a creative leadership plan for your team.
Want it for your whole leadership group? We run it in-house, as we did for MTN.
2 · Culture transformation
Build a more innovative culture
Innovation doesn't come from a strategy document. It comes from people who feel safe to speak up, curious enough to ask better questions and skilled at turning ideas into action. We help you build that culture, team by team.
We work on the human side of how things get done: how people meet, decide, solve problems and treat each other's ideas, so your processes support creative thinking instead of squashing it.
- People who share ideas, not just opinions
- A shared way to solve tough problems together
- Psychological safety that makes change stick
Culture programme
Innovation ambassadors and culture change
For organisations navigating change · Multi-month · Across business units
Build a network of innovation ambassadors across the business, shift mindsets and strengthen psychological safety, so new ways of working spread beyond one team and last.
Also for your teams
Focused programmes
Shorter, specialist programmes that build on the same human skills.
For sales teams
Creative Thinking for Sales
2-day programme
Move your sales team from transactions to trusted advice, with more creative thinking about customers, opportunities and their problems.
For the legal sector
Leverage Your Creative Intelligence in Law
4 weeks online · Run with Hanne Kristiansen
An online cohort course for future-thinkers and change makers across the legal industry, with a Creative ID profile for everyone.
Workshops, offsites and keynotes
One session that leaves people with something to use
A keynote for a conference, a half-day or full-day workshop on a real challenge, a team session built around profiling, or a facilitated offsite. Tell us what you want the room to leave with, and we'll build the session around it.
Popular keynote topics
Keynote
Creativity unwrapped
Why creative thinking is the skill organisations need most right now, and how anyone can develop it.
Keynote
How to lead for creativity
What leaders do, often without noticing, that switches creative thinking on or off in their teams, and five practical moves to change it.
Keynote
From imposter syndrome to creative confidence
Nearly two-thirds of knowledge workers doubt their own thinking. How to turn self-doubt into creative confidence.
How it sticks
Wake up. Practise. Lasting change.
A memorable workshop is easy. The test is what people do differently afterwards, so every programme is built in three steps.
1. Wake up
We start with mindsete because tools grafted onto a fixed mindset don't take root.
2. Practise
Your people learn practical tools and use them on real work between sessions, with learning partners and coaching.
3. Make it stick
Managers come in as sponsors, projects are presented to someone senior, and follow-up continues though an embedding programme.
We agree what evidence of change looks like before we begin, and report on it at the midpoint and the end. Read how we work →
The evidence
What changed for teams like yours
120+
people trained at Webber Wentzel since 2023. The firm went on to win the Innovation Award at the African Legal Awards in 2024 and 2025.
100+
leaders and team members at Momentum Metropolitan in one five-month programme.
87%
average for the 26 MTN leaders assessed on Lead for Creative Thinking. 73% achieved distinction.
4
cohorts of Merchant Capital's leadership programme since 2023.
"(The Creative Thinking Accelerator Programme) was a tremendously important and worthwhile endeavour. I derived a lot of benefit from it and I think our firm will do as well. A lot of effort had gone into trying to understand our business and the issues that we are facing, so it was really outcomes driven and you could see how the discipline and the learnings that you get from it can be applied in practice."
Dawid de Villiers
Partner, Webber Wentzel in alliance with Linklaters
"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 the privilege of studying at Harvard and Stanford, this programme is better… We put our trust in you and you have shot the lights out."
Dov Girnun
Founder and CEO, Merchant Capital
"In all my years of working as a business consultant, I have never seen a programme which had such a positive and profound impact on an organization. We were anticipating the business growth following the programme. We did not anticipate the positive mindset shifts and the way the teams are operating in a more interconnected way."
Ann Baret
CEO, High Performing Teams, International Executive Business Coach | Team Dynamics Consulting
“I used the tools learned on the course to work through bottlenecks in the system with my team… I was able to implement some of the solutions which has led to an achievement of 95% of the Onboarding of employees done on time.”
Fahmida Cassim
Manager, HR Shared Services, MTN · Lead for Creative Thinking, with GIBS
“Last year, we did not meet our performance targets, and I realised we needed buy-in from the teams… I guided the team leaders in using the techniques from the course with their teams. The process was inclusive and produced valuable results.”
Yamkela Mapisa
Provincial Acquisition Manager, Employer Value Banking, Standard Bank · Lead for Creative Thinking, with GIBS
“The course helped us to unlock unconventional solutions and fostered a more collaborative and open-minded culture among planners. It also provided tools to train and enhance creative thinking, which is crucial in a fast-evolving telecom landscape.”
Ridewane Anthony
IP Transport Specialist, MTN · Lead for Creative Thinking, with GIBS
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"In my 40 years of working with the creative problem-solving process, and in all of my years of advising clients, there has never been a time where creativity is needed more,"
Roger Firestien, Ph.D.
