Our Team |
Michelle van Wyk
Michelle practices as an experienced facilitator and coach with a special focus on heartrate variability (HRV) as a measure of coherence. With her NLP training coupled to her innate compassion she is skilled at holding safe spaces for reflection and supporting people to generate the life conditions for their latent capacities to emerge.
With her post-graduate diploma in management, her background experience of a hands-on approach to organisation development and below-the-line marketing has been supported by deep emersion in the culture of the marketplace in South Africa and Ghana. This is coupled to her practical experience as a small enterprise entrepreneur.
With her post-graduate diploma in management, her background experience of a hands-on approach to organisation development and below-the-line marketing has been supported by deep emersion in the culture of the marketplace in South Africa and Ghana. This is coupled to her practical experience as a small enterprise entrepreneur.
Jane Pightling
Jane has over 20 years’ experience as an ILM qualified executive coach providing support and development to leaders in large statutory organisations and NGOs. With her background in improvement science and organisational development she has worked across the public sector, with non-profit organisations and CICs, including time with the NHS Leadership Academy.
An accomplished facilitator, Jane is adept at supporting boards and leadership teams to set direction, successfully resource themselves and improve leadership in today’s complex and uncertain environment. Her passion is to develop ways of working that improve quality through a drive to deliver purpose; increase effectiveness with strengthened autonomy; and enhance engagement and wellbeing by utilising the whole person in their work.
Jane’s interest in designing communities of practice and learning networks to engage people in deep focused discovery connects diverse thinking across boundaries to generate innovation. She convenes the Health Foundation’s Q Group; Reimaging Health and Care. Jane is a member of international networks and communities focusing on next stage organisations and ways of working. With two master’s degrees from Sheffield, and Sheffield Hallam University, Jane is proud to maintain her social work registration
An accomplished facilitator, Jane is adept at supporting boards and leadership teams to set direction, successfully resource themselves and improve leadership in today’s complex and uncertain environment. Her passion is to develop ways of working that improve quality through a drive to deliver purpose; increase effectiveness with strengthened autonomy; and enhance engagement and wellbeing by utilising the whole person in their work.
Jane’s interest in designing communities of practice and learning networks to engage people in deep focused discovery connects diverse thinking across boundaries to generate innovation. She convenes the Health Foundation’s Q Group; Reimaging Health and Care. Jane is a member of international networks and communities focusing on next stage organisations and ways of working. With two master’s degrees from Sheffield, and Sheffield Hallam University, Jane is proud to maintain her social work registration
Claudius van Wyk
Claudius promotes holistic approaches to human and planetary challenges. As executive coach and consultant for over 25 years he applies complexity insights to strategic management and leadership focusing on organisational wellbeing. He directed the ‘Gondwana Alive’ initiative in the 2002 Johannesburg World Summit of Sustainable Development and participated in a research project for United Nations Environmental Program with the London School of Economics Complexity Research Group.
His articles were published in Kosmos Journal, Greenbuild, Biophile, and the Holistic Science Journal. His paper on complexity and organisational change, describing the Process and emergence Tool (PET) is published in “Moving Forward with Complexity” (2011). Claudius has presented complexity papers in the UK, South Africa and Brazil and addressed conferences on economics and governance at Kingston University, London, and the University of Pretoria.
He lectured complexity approaches to economics and society to MA economics students at Schumacher College, and co-developed a short-course, ‘Holism and Leadership - Transforming Organisational Praxis’. Claudius is an external marker for Ashridge/Hult Business School in their post-graduate Master’s in Management program. He is a member of the Synthesis Complexity Research thinktank.
His articles were published in Kosmos Journal, Greenbuild, Biophile, and the Holistic Science Journal. His paper on complexity and organisational change, describing the Process and emergence Tool (PET) is published in “Moving Forward with Complexity” (2011). Claudius has presented complexity papers in the UK, South Africa and Brazil and addressed conferences on economics and governance at Kingston University, London, and the University of Pretoria.
He lectured complexity approaches to economics and society to MA economics students at Schumacher College, and co-developed a short-course, ‘Holism and Leadership - Transforming Organisational Praxis’. Claudius is an external marker for Ashridge/Hult Business School in their post-graduate Master’s in Management program. He is a member of the Synthesis Complexity Research thinktank.