Building robust organisations for the future economy The Centre for Innovative Leadership (CIL) was founded in 1989 by Louis van der Merwe. Until that time Louis van der Merwe was a member of the top thirty executive team of a 40.000 person utility company, Eskom, in South Africa.
CIL principals and associates currently work world-wide with the CIL base in Europe, with many Fortune 500 companies, and NGO'sin the areas of scenario based strategy, leadership development and organisation renewal. CIL's offices in Europe, the U.S.A. and South Africa enable us to provide a high level of service to our clients through our associates and alliances. Our extensive experience in organisations in North America, Europe, The Far East and South Africa enables us to contribute effectively across a wide range of cultures Empower the people in the system CIL supports organisations in empowering their people. In these processes clients are guided to initiate strategic change and build sustainable infrastructure for continued renewal, creating the environment that enhances results from teams and individuals, as well as the organisation as a whole, without reducing the freedom and creativity of the employees. Building Internal capability, transferring skills and knowledge In order to sustain change processes we help build leadership capacities within the client organisations.
CIL assists organisations to develop effective processes and tools to enlarge their learning and adaptive capabilities. Improving the internal capacity and infrastructure of the organisation leads to greater competitive advantage, a more sustainable organisation renewal capacity and better use of resources. Implementation in the whole organisation Our skills and products allow us to work on different levels of an organisation, using various methods such as (customised) consulting, purpose designed workshops, training and development, and train the trainer programmes. Because of this holistic approach CIL is able to transform an organisation from top to bottom, considerably enhancing the linkage of the change effect to strategic leadership and hence enhancing shareholder value. Designed to suit CIL can provide organisation-specific support. The unique needs of the organisation determine the design of the support program. Please don't hesitate to contact us to further discuss our tailor-made approach. We deal with a large and interesting variety of clients for example:
- Old Mutual
- SABMiller
- MTN
- Sasol
- Shell
- Nokia
- Amnesty International
- Oxford Research Group
- Boeing
- Telkom
- TXU Europe
