Solutions for individuals, teams and organizations

Solutions for individuals

The Decision Walker

Are you stuck in a decision? Again? Or just this once?

These are the situations where you might want to give me a call and ask me to walk with you. To get unstuck. Over time, the way we work together will help you understand your very own decision- making process better. Once you deeply understand this, taking decisions gets easier. Step by step, until you can walk entirely on your own.

The Sounding Board

You could use a sparring partner? A sounding board who asks you unusual questions, so you can develop an entirely new perspective on things? Someone who is able to hold the space you need in order to think things to the end, and who is courageous enough to challenge you in that space, no matter where you dwell in the company hierarchy? Sounding Board solutions can be scaled ad lib and might be a perfect start for whatever comes next. They go beyond the daily decision-making of the Decision Walker and are rather about the long-term strategic.

Solutions for teams and entire organizations

The Cooperation Pilot

One of your projects got stuck or went haywire? You launched a global policy, and somehow cultures clashed over this and all hell broke loose? You dream about up-/down- and cross-selling and yet, somehow things don’t really flow? Cooperation hiccups and inefficiencies can have many symptoms, but they all have one underlying cause – an ineffective flow of communication. I will thus navigate along with your teams through their relevant processes, structures and interactions to find the knots and help untangle them. So that things can flow and stuff gets done.

The Analyst

Do you see a recurring pattern of projects getting stuck or going haywire, cultures clashing, things being “mistranslated” along escalation and reporting lines? Sounds like you need someone to check the general wiring of your place, i.e. processes, structures, reporting lines, systems, and all that operational stuff that affects the flow of communication in your company. Someone who adds an entirely new dimension to your risk management, prevention and decision making ability.

Analyst assignments can be a postmortem exercise, shedding light on your past and present, or a design exercise, shining the light ahead from the present into your future. Or both. 

The Full Monty

Two different continents, two different genders, two different skin colours, 160 odd years of experience, countless perspectives: When thorough analysis is done and it’s time for implementation, you might want someone who walks by your side and helps you to not only develop your very own roadmap to excellence but to pursue it joyfully and effectively.

To do just that, I teamed up with Dr. Hamilton Pharaoh from Paarl, South Africa, to develop an offer combining analysis and practical workshops. Dr. Pharaoh is a senior academic at CPUT, researcher in youth development, community builder and rugby mental coach. The team is completed by Claudia Maradof, former Head of Strategic and Regulatory Change at Deutsche Bank, Executive Coach and Breathing Space Creator. This unique combination of a former corporate employee, a former corporate contractor, and a seasoned community builder from the other side of the world makes sure we understand your life from the inside and are able to offer fresh insights and unusual questions from the outside. Three concentric circles of competence at your service.

 I look forward to walking with you on jour journey. Here’s how to get to me.