Leadership, Team Effectiveness and Organisational Culture

Every system is different. So is the work required to change it.

We partner with leadership teams, businesses and institutions to work through the challenges that shape their performance, relationships and culture.

Our work begins with understanding your context: the people involved, the tensions you face, the future you want to create and what needs to change to move towards it.

Discuss your organisational challenge

How we work

  1. 1

    Understand the system

    We explore your context, relationships, challenges and ambitions to understand what is happening and what matters most.

  2. 2

    Shape the approach together

    We scope the engagement around your needs, defining the focus, the people who need to be involved and the work required to move forward.

  3. 3

    Work towards meaningful change

    We bring together the relevant coaching, facilitation, leadership development and systemic interventions to support progress in your context.

Areas of work

Not fixed packages — each engagement is scoped around your needs.

Executive coaching

Individual coaching for executives and senior leaders navigating complex responsibilities, relationships, decisions and change.

Systemic team coaching

Working with leadership teams to strengthen cohesion, relationships, communication, collective intelligence and performance.

Leadership development

Tailored leadership programmes, workshops and interventions designed around the needs of leaders and their organisations.

Organisational design and culture change

Supporting organisations to understand and shape the structures, relationships, practices and conditions that influence their culture and effectiveness.

Systemic transformation

Longer-term partnerships supporting organisation-wide change, including the design of an approach, implementation support and follow-through to help sustain progress.

Focused workshops and executive retreats

Targeted sessions for executive teams and organisations seeking to address a specific challenge, strengthen alignment or make progress on an important issue.

Who we work with

  • Corporate and executive leadership teams
  • Small and medium-sized businesses
  • Higher education institutions
  • NGOs and mission-driven organisations
  • Industry and community partnerships

Our programmes

Our programmes provide a starting point for meaningful development. Each offering is designed around a particular leadership, team or organisational need, providing a structure for learning, reflection and practice.

Mentorship in Higher Education

Developing People, Sharing Experience and Strengthening Academic Practice

Meaningful mentoring relationships that strengthen individual capability, encourage knowledge sharing and build a culture of learning and development within universities.

Leader as Coach

Developing a Coaching Approach to Leadership

Practical coaching skills for middle managers, senior managers and organisational leaders to build trust, deepen conversations and support ownership, learning and team performance.

A Bespoke Executive Team Retreat

Sensing the Field

A bespoke offsite experience for executive teams to pause, reconnect with their collective purpose and shape a shared vision for the future.

Academic Leadership in Practice

A Development Programme for Heads of Department

A practical development programme for Heads of Department to navigate competing demands, strengthen relationships and create meaningful departmental impact.

Systemic Team Coaching for Leadership Teams

Alignment, Trust and Collective Accountability

Enable your leadership team to deliver complex outcomes together with alignment, trust and collective accountability.

Programmes with strategic partners

Programmes we deliver to higher education institutions in collaboration with our strategic partners.

Change Makers in Engineering Education

Curriculum Transformation Starts with Us

A human-centred initiative that gives engineering academics a facilitated space to navigate the human complexities and tensions of curriculum transformation — delivered in partnership with the Innovative Engineering Curriculum (IEC).

Transformative Teaching in Engineering Education

Educator Identity, Learning Experiences and Knowledge Design

A three-part journey for engineering educators to develop relational, reflective and purpose-driven teaching — offered to higher education institutions in partnership with the Innovative Engineering Curriculum (IEC).

What our clients say

“The community engagement module in the EBIT Faculty at the University of Pretoria requires a very specific type of success coach. We required young developing engineers to be able to move outside of their own comfort zones, work in multi-disciplinary teams and connect with communities who do not know their technical disciplines. As an engineer teaching/training these young students, it was important for me to get…
Dr. Lelanie Smith, University of Pretoria
“Curiosity Campus has a proven track record of experience working with individual and corporate clients. They work authentically and deeply to deliver profound training that translates into meaningful impact in the workplace.”
Mark Holtshousen, Head of Global Talent Solutions, MTN Group
“The relationship with MultiChoice and Curiosity Campus over the last 2 years has been invaluable in helping my Senior Management Team with their development, resilience, wellbeing and alignment in performance. We will continue our relationship with you on that basis and would like to thank you for all your support.”
Marlon Samson, Executive Head of Customer Care, MultiChoice
“Jaco is an excellent facilitator, with patience, emotional and social intelligence and a real talent for reading a room. He is able to foster confidence and create avenues for communication when group facilitation and coaching takes place. Definitely someone you need when you and/or your team is a bit stuck and you need a bit of a mental health reset.”
Tanya Van Wyk, Women & Leadership; Systematic Theology and Theological Ethics, University of Pretoria
“I had the privilege of experiencing Jaco’s facilitation of the Change Makers workshop twice, working with staff members in our faculty’s departments. Each session proved to be genuinely life-changing – and I don’t say that lightly. Jaco’s expertise as a transformation coach shines through in his ability to guide meaningful professional development. His facilitation style is both masterful and supportive, creating an…
Bronwyn Swartz, Associate Professor, Cape Peninsula University of Technology
“In my capacity as collaborator on the international engineering education capacity building project – the Innovative Engineering Curriculum (IEC) – as well as president of the South African Society of Engineering Education (SASEE), I have been privileged to work with Jaco Fourie since 2022. Our initial engagement was as part of a team building and systemic awareness workshop with the core IEC team. Jaco is one of…
Karin Wolff, Associate Professor, Stellenbosch University
“I had the chance to work with Jaco on 3 different occasions in the past years: - the first time I met him, I was working on a 3 days conscious journey in Johannesburg. Jaco was the brilliant facilitator of a collective brainstorming, as a part of a more global brainstorming to design the 10 years vision of the large retail company I was working with. The emotion and experience were just the one you live once in a…
Delphine Bouchereau-Mazillier, Responsable Impact Social et Solidarité | Déléguée générale Kiabi Foundation, KIABI

What change are you working towards?

Whether you are developing your leadership team, navigating a complex organisational challenge or working towards a wider transformation, we'd welcome a conversation about what you're trying to make possible.

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