PEP Africa's AfriCafé: Co-creating a strategy for growth

As PEP Africa embarked on a new strategy in 2023, their inspiring CEO, Bouwer Strydom, recognised the need for a fresh approach. He reached out to CreateConsulting to design and facilitate a dynamic large-group process that would involve the input of every Dynamo (employees).

The result? AfriCafé - a collaborative large group World Café.

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Justin Kiley
Altron advances leadership excellence for long-term success

CreateConsulting and Altron recently partnered on an extensive leadership development journey, aimed at strengthening the skills and mindsets required for positive, long-term organisational change.

This collaboration featured two programmes: the Create Leaders Academy for 21 managers, and an eight-month journey for 14 senior leaders.

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Justin Kiley
Powerful catalysts for change, wellbeing and happiness

Meaningful conversations are powerful tools for initiating change and enhancing our wellbeing and happiness. Much more than exchanges of words, they have the power to enhance connections and understanding, resolve conflicts, celebrate special moments and shape our perspectives and emotions.

  1. Clean Talk for Healthy Teams

Effective teams thrive on open dialogue and aren’t afraid to tackle the hard topics. Just as a team must face challenges for optimal performance, individuals too can benefit from confronting personal hurdles. Yet, mastering tough conversations is an art.

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Justin Kiley
Unlocking Team Potential: The Thinking Environment® and collaboration, innovation and happiness

The importance of diversity in innovation is widely acknowledged. Yet, many teams struggle to leverage it to achieve wellbeing, happiness and performance.

The Thinking Environment®, pioneered by Nancy Kline, is  a framework and philosophy that not only values diversity  - or difference as they prefer to term it - but actively nurtures an environment where it can flourish.

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Justin Kiley
'Engineering Happiness'

In a world that often seems chaotic and challenging, the pursuit of happiness becomes a universal quest. Mo Gawdat, former Chief Business Officer at Google X, shares his unique perspective on happiness in his insightful book, "Solve for Happy - Engineer your path to joy."

Gawdat is an engineer and his formulaic approach to happiness goes beyond traditional self-help approaches. It's grounded in logic and practicality, making it accessible to a broad audience. 

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Justin Kiley
Stretch Thinking Partnerships

Are you interested in unlocking the power of thinking agility in your organisation?

One facet of diversity that is less discussed is cognitive diversity. Each of us thinks differently, but nature and nurture create biases for a preferred style of thinking.

Acknowledging these differences and focusing on a non-judgmental appreciation of them, plays an important role in the establishment of psychological safety and trust.

Read more about our Stretching Thinking Partnership Programme and the impact it has had in organisations such as Hollard Insure and GWK.

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Standard Bank's IT Service Management Conference: A journey of collaboration and purpose

Reuniting for the first time since the pandemic, @Standard Bank's Group IT Service Management Community of Practice recently held an impactful 5-day conference. 138 delegates from 17 African countries were invited to participate and collaborate in: 

  • Cultivating an aligned community

  • Enabling consistency through shared standards, and 

  • Fostering shared learning and feedback. 

Our role was to design and facilitate a dynamic and engaging large group process, that would leave a lasting impression on communication, collaboration and teamwork.


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Justin Kiley
Possibility - When Things Get Tough, How Do You Think

How are you feeling today?

We are hearing a common sentiment from the leaders we engage with in organisations large and small, local and global - "It's tough out here"

This edition of CreateSpace focusses on:

  • The Art of Possibility

  • Tips on how to be a great thinking partner

  • Implementing a Stretch Thinking Partnership Programme in your organisation

  • The Core Theory of Success

  • Enhancing our wellbeing by shifting our focus to others

  • MAXimising McDonald’s MEA Footprint

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Justin Kiley