Featured Success Stories

How GWK’s Executive Team engaged, inspired and lead through change

GWK’s inspiring purpose is ‘to feed the people who feed the people.’

However, even industry leaders face challenges and have to rethink their strategies. It was during this time that Llewellyn Brooks, Group Managing Director, was appointed. “We needed to address the challenges and set a new direction. To do this, we had to adopt a new strategy and build a highly efficient Exco team,” shares Llewellyn.

Our partnership with GWK began in 2018. Since then, their commitment to achieving their vision and shared goals has led to significant improvements in the business’s performance and health.

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Transforming meetings into Whole Brain® Thinking Environments

Leaders, creating and shaping change at unprecedented rates, must be able to think for themselves and to set up the conditions in every interaction and in every meeting, that will allow people at all levels to think for themselves.

Hollard Life Insurance engaged CreateConsulting to learn how to use the meeting structure of a Thinking Environment® to engage each other fully, to generate their finest thinking, to encourage respectful, robust discussion leading to decision making of exceptional quality.

Click here to read more on the process and the tremendous impact it had on the team.

Getting to the bones of great leadership with Morton & Partners

Morton & Partners Heads of Department (HOD’s) are pivotal to the success of their business. As qualified Radiographers with a wealth of technical expertise, they have been appointed in leadership roles to manage the branches.

To equip the HOD’s with the skills to drive Morton & Partners continued high-performance in an increasingly complex and competitive market, we customised our Create Leaders Academy (CLA) into a powerful development journey. Not only has this equipped the HOD’s to lead a patient-centric, solution-thinking and high-performance culture, it also enhanced team cohesion and alignment within the practice.

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CreateConsulting and Hollard Insure, say YES to building leadership team capability

We love Hollard Insure’s motto of ‘say yes’. 

To achieve their ambitious goals, the executive team decided to focus on strengthening their leadership and aspire to greater cohesion and alignment.

After a year-long journey, the team is aligned, understands each other’s thinking and has the know-how to unleash their individual strengths and work together to achieve their ambitious goals.

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Sikhula Kunye - PEP Africa’s Journey of growing together in leadership

PEP Africa’s inspiring journey has been shaped by a profound purpose: touching lives through serving the people of Africa.

As a prominent customer-focused retailer, PEP Africa has expanded to over 200 stores in four countries, including Angola, Malawi, Mozambique and Zambia, firmly establishing itself as the market leader in these regions.

PEP Africa has always had a great culture. The business however, had been through a challenging period and it became crucial for the leadership team to build resilience, maturity and cohesion to navigate these challenges and foster an environment of Sikhula Kunye (growing together).

Click here to read more about their inspiring journey and the significant impact.

Building a stronger team: overcoming dysfunction to reach peak performance

A team of specialist physicians, working in one of South Africa’s leading healthcare facilities, reached their boiling point in 2021 when the team’s toxic behaviour began to inhibit their ability to deliver results. Having heard about CreateConsulting’s successful track record in assisting ‘fragmented’ teams that need ‘healing’, the Departmental Head reached out to us.

Following an in-depth needs analysis, we set out to design an integrated team solution that would improve their cohesion, and in turn, their performance and effectiveness.

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A Team Journey with Onsight

Onsight is a business-to-business technology development company based in Cape Town, South Africa. This dynamic company is powered by a team that has decades of collective experience in building and delivering exceptional software
products.

After a few hard years getting the business off the ground, Onsight were experiencing significant growth and had doubled the size of their team. Their CEO, Sabine Frielinghaus, reached out to us to do something fun and motivational to reward the team. They got a lot more than they bargained on.

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CreateConsulting helps align the SABMR team to save lives

We are proud to be partnering with the South African Bone Marrow Registry (SABMR) to support their leaders with the frameworks to do their best thinking.

For 4 years we have worked alongside their leadership team to design and facilitate workshops that create team alignment and support the development of a clear vision and strategy.

The ongoing collaboration between the SABMR and CreateConsulting has had a big impact on the alignment of the SABMR team.

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Shark Nets Stakeholders Think Tank

After a spate of shark attacks in the 1950’s and 1960s, shark nets were introduced to protect bathers. Unfortunately, these nets kill hundreds of sharks, dolphins, turtles and stingrays each year.

“We cannot afford to lose more of these vital animals, but its difficult to withdraw protection as people’s lives are at stake,” shares Shanan Atkins, Marine Biologist and Ph.D. candidate of the University of the Witwatersrand (Wits).

Believing that there is a win-win solution, Shanan reached to CreateConsulting to design and facilitate an online Shark Nets Stakeholder Think Tank for 30 - 40 of the stakeholders closest to the issue, to explore opportunities for change.

Click here to read more about this vital conversation.