Leadership Training for Modern Executives

This  advanced leadership training is designed to help leaders navigate through uncertainty and cahnge effectively.

Participants are invited to sign up to all four one day courses to improve how to drive autonomous teams towards stronger customer centred outcomes.

Leadership training or development doesn’t always require lengthy programmes. The four one-day courses deliver practical frameworks for strategic decision-making, change enablement, and team leadership. Grounded in strong foundations and research the four courses are backed up academic frameworks and contemporary research.

Alternatively, participants may chose any of the courses to enhance and enable specific leadership capabilities.

Why this leadership training series is important

As AI is being universally adopted across industries, there is a need for rapid but effective decision making by executives and leaders. As new technology is adopted, alignment between stakeholders becomes essential. Furthermore operating models must support customer centric behaviour for customer’s preferred outcomes.

As the actors in the ecosystem need to take accountability and ownership of tactical decisions, leadership must learn to empower and enable self-correcting systems.

As such, it has never been more important to equip leaders with advanced leadership skills to guide the ship through the ocean of change.

Who should sign-up

This program has been designed to enable current or emerging leaders and executives to enhance their leadership skills in the face of rapid change.

Pricing – Complete Leadership Training and Development Pathway (All Four courses)

R26,000 per person | R22,000 teams of 4+ (save 15%) or Early bird benefit

• Four full days of executive leadership training at different times of the year
• Complete leadership development practitioner pathway
• Leadership toolkit and frameworks access
• Annual leadership conference invitation and discount
• Private community for ongoing peer support

Single Leadership Training Course

R6,095 Early-bird per person | Advanced leadership training

• 1 day (in-person)
• 6-12 senior leaders
• Held at the Radisson Red in Cape Town
• Specific course toolkit
• Annual leadership conference invitation and discount
• Private community for ongoing peer support

Leadership Series: Strategic Decision-Making in the AI Era

Strategic Decision-making gives leaders the ability to make quicker more appropriate decisions in the AI era.

Many leaders have an incomplete decision support system and framework with which to lead. In this era of AI they skip understanding who’s affected, what people need, and why they should care. So decisions fail, not because they’re wrong, but because the implications of implementing them have not been fully understood.

In an AI world, good data is easy to get, however, its retrospective. Good decisions require understanding people, context, and values and the impact of resolving the problem(s). Is it a complex or even a chaotic situation? Who will help resolve it? Who will be affected most if we change course? How might we identify and lower any unintended consequences our decisions may have?

This course supports informed decision-making for human-centered outcomes particulalry in non-linear, uncertain environments.

What You’ll Learn

Ethical, diagnostic, stakeholder-centered decision-making for uncertain times.

Methodologies & Frameworks 

Rich Picture Mapping
Understand the situation from multiple perspectives. Map stakeholders, their needs, constraints, and how they see the problem. Use this to avoid making assumptions.

Critical Systems Heuristics (Ought Questions)
Ask the boundary-critical questions that bring ethics and values into problem-framing:

• Who ought to benefit from this decision?
• What ought to be improved?
• By what means ought improvements be achieved?
• Who ought to be involved in deciding?

This ensures you’re not just solving the problem — you’re solving it the right way.

CATWOE Analysis
Define the real problem (not the assumed one) by mapping: Clients (who’s affected), Actors (who decides), Transformation (what changes), Weltanschauung (worldviews), Owners (accountability), Environment (constraints).

Estuarine Mapping
Assess problem complexity. Determine if your decision is simple/obvious, complicated, complex, or chaotic. This determines how you’ll involve people and make the decision.

Stakeholder Involvement Framework
Based on problem type and stakeholder needs — grounded in what ought to happen — decide who should be involved in the decision and when. Different decisions require different involvement models.

Implementation & Adoption Strategy
How to move from decision to action so it actually sticks. What needs to happen for people to adopt it?

What Particpants Leave With

✓ Rich Picture Map — how to map situations across multiple stakeholder perspectives
✓ CATWOE Analysis — a comprehensive problem definition framework (not the assumed one)
✓ Problem Complexity Assessment — a tool to map where decision sits on the simple-to-chaotic spectrum
✓ Stakeholder Involvement Plan — who decides, when, and how
✓ Implementation & Adoption Strategy — how to make it actually happen
✓ 12-Month Toolkit — templates, frameworks, community of 200+ practitioners

Who This Is For

• Leaders making decisions with high stakes and uncertain outcomes (strategy, AI adoption, major investments, organizational change)
• Teams navigating trade-offs between efficiency and ethics (sustainability, customer fairness, employee wellbeing)
• Decision-makers who’ve made analytically sound choices that still failed in practice (because people didn’t believe in them or implementation revealed unforeseen costs)
• Organizations trying to embed ethical reasoning into their decision architecture

Note – This course integrates established methodologies from Systems Thinking (Checkland’s SSM, Ulrich’s Critical Systems Heuristics), complexity assessment (Snowden’s Cynefin), and covers key principles of Design Thinking.

Leadership Series – Change Management Essentials

Change Management Esstentials will give leaders the necessary wherewithall to lead change and bring about value creation.

 

Making Change Stick

• Understand why your last 3 initiatives were harder to land than they should have been
• Map the system around your current (or next) change initiative
• Identify where people will resist and where you have real leverage
• Design an adoption strategy that actually works because it’s built into the system
• Leave with a plan that actually works.

Outcomes of the course:

• A systems map of your change initiative
• 3 to 5 specific interventions that will improve adoption
• Confidence in a completely different approach to leading change

Who this is for:

This is a part of a series of 1-day courses for leaders who are concerned with creating value. Anyone dealing with transformation, rolling out new systems, processes, or ways of working to bring about positive outcomes and create value should do this course. This includes but is not limimted to, IT heads, change managers, CX heads, project leads, HR leaders, transformation managers, Operational Leads etc. Anyone in organisations where adoption and alignment is a key outcome of the role.

Price: R6,500 | 8am–5pm, 1 day

What you’ll do:
Work on real scenarios and bring in actual challenges. You’ll map them, diagnose them, and design solutions you can implement immediately. Network with other leaders from different industries. Share best practices and leave more confident about how to engage and involve people in change.

Design Thinking Facilitation Training with certification

The Design Thinking Facilitation Training with Certification helps participants enhance their facilitation and design thinking capabilities. Participants will increase their confidence in running programs for multi-disciplinary teams. This inspirational learning experience opens new career paths and opportunities to shift teams and guide value creation.

The objective of the 3-day Design Thinking Facilitation Training is to leave participants with the experience to confidently facilitate teams in the workplace.

This course is perfect for aspiring analysts, changemakers, disruptors, mavericks and leaders. It enables facilitators to guide a collaborative approach to develop novel solutions using Design Thinking.

Why do this course

Do you aspire to be an agent for change? Do you want to help shift people to see and understand problems from different perspectives?

As a Design Thinking facilitator, you will learn to activate teams to tap into the mindsets and principles of Design Thinking and co-create preferred solutions.

With this program under your belt, you will be able to better plan for and facilitate teams towards the clarity needed to develop novel solutions. You will be better equipped to manage team dynamics and deal with disruptions. You will practice facilitating transitions across different stages of Design Thinking.

During the Design Thinking Facilitating training we will simulate real-world workshop experiences. This will give you the opportunity to learn and practice in a safe environment both as a facilitator and as a particpant. This unique experience give you the opportunity to experience DT from both ends (both in guiding others as well as the one being guided).

You will also learnt to curate feedback from others and of course receieve and deliver feedback. This training therefore gives you a 360 degree experience that will help you improve your facilitation techniques in an innovation and problem solving context. In addition, you will work with Design Thinking tools that will help you better understand how to facilitate tool-based sessions as well as those those where tools are not needed.

This comprehensive learning experience will enable you to lead teams through the process, understand the nuances of the framework and manage team dynamics.

Certification of Competence

The program includes a certification of competence (post the course) enabling participants to embed and practice what they learnt.

*Certification program cost is discounted for 1) participants who have completed a DT Fundamentals training with DTA 2) individual participants 3) small companies. 

*PAYMENT PLANS ARE AVAILABLE – contact [email protected] for more info