ABOUT

Twenty years on, still one question.

What leadership requires when capability is not enough.

How we work on it

We start from what is actually operating in a particular organisation rather than from a model, because what good leadership requires is not the same everywhere.

And we treat the tensions that will not resolve as material to work with rather than faults to remove. Both convictions came out of the practice. The research came out of trying to explain them.

2005

Founded in Cape Town by Roger Maitland and Brett Anderson-Terry.

5,000+

Hours of coaching delivered by the two directors, before associates.

9

Cohorts of one programme with a single client, over a decade.

2021 & 2026

Peer-reviewed papers, in organisational change and in coaching.

The directors

Dr Roger Maitland

Founder and director

Roger coaches senior leaders and builds the frameworks the programmes are designed around.

For twenty-two years he has coached senior leaders, much of it inside Fortune 500 organisations. Most arrive at a point where what made them effective has stopped being enough: a bigger role, a harder mandate, a decision with no clean answer.

The work is rarely about becoming a different leader. It is about changing how you lead without losing the things that made you effective in the first place, which is the part almost nobody manages alone.

500+ leaders coached across financial services, energy, technology, manufacturing, FMCG and retail
EMCC Global Master Practitioner
PhD in Business Administration, University of Cape Town
MA Professional Development (Coaching) with distinction, Middlesex University
Team coaching (Cape Cod Model), Gestalt International Study Center
Research Fellow and adjunct faculty, Stellenbosch Business School, on the M.Phil in Leadership Coaching

Outside the work, Roger is usually researching a Scottish ancestor who has been dead for four centuries, on a mountain, or in a country whose language he has entirely failed to learn.

Brett Anderson-Terry

Founder and director

Brett works with leadership teams through transformation, restructuring and the complexity of operating across geographies.

By thirty he had built and sold his first business in media. Since then, twenty-five years with multinational and Fortune 500 organisations across Sub-Saharan Africa, the Americas, Europe, the Middle East and Asia, supporting leadership teams through transformation and restructuring. He understands what it feels like to be the person responsible, not just the person advising.

He specialises in organisational change and leadership team development, drawing on systems thinking, NLP and personal construct approaches. Clients describe the work as gaining a new lens: seeing themselves, their teams and their context with a clarity that was not there before.

EMCC Global Master Practitioner
Postgraduate Diploma in Sustainable Development, Stellenbosch University
Master NLP Practitioner and Coach
Team coaching (Cape Cod Model), Gestalt International Study Center
Co-author on the published Adaptive Polarity Framework

Outside the work, Brett can be found debating current affairs, or being managed by two very opinionated Siamese cats.

ASSOCIATES

Our programmes are delivered by a small group of senior associates who have worked with us across many engagements. All are accredited coaches with EMCC Global or the ICF, and matched to the context and level of each engagement.