Team
We are process designers, facilitators, trainers and coaches. We collaborate with a number of associates to best serve each particular client's and mandate's needs.
"IPK’s interpersonal, organisational and creative skills, as well as their clear passion for their profession have led us to return to them time after time.”

Rebekah Thomas, Technical Officer, Guideline Review Committee Secretariat, WHO Geneva
Managing Director & Senior Consultant, Cape Town
Catherine is passionate about collective learning. She enjoys creating safe spaces for meaningful conversations, inviting people to step out of their comfort zones, suspend their usual voices of judgement and to listen to the deep knowledge within.
Call (+27) 73 387 73 69
Managing Director & Senior Consultant, Cape Town
Marc sees systems as living entities, with their own identity and life-force. He loves the diversity of mankind, and draws deep inspiration from working with organisations of all sizes as they see and experience the human side of their living system.
Call (+27) 76 222 8112
Managing Director & Senior Consultant, Cape Town
Marion loves seeing change and newness emerging in people. There is, she says, a hopefulness in how people come together to create something new that benefits more than the individual ego.
Call (+27) 82 923 7954
Managing Director & Senior Consultant, Geneva
Caroline believes in the collective intelligence of groups and in the power of constructive collaboration for breakthrough ideas to emerge. But it is by setting meaningful intention, carefully designing processes and holding space for dialogue that the magic can happen.
Call (+33) 773 898 136

ASSOCIATE COACH, CAPE TOWN

Grounded in practices that fuse inner renewal with systemic change, Althea Banda-Hansmann turns complexity into momentum and makes possibility practical. With 30 years in organisational transformation, she creates psychologically safe spaces where leaders surface hidden narratives, reframe the impossible, and test fresh practices. Tailored resources carry the work between sessions, embedding breakthroughs that uplift people, prosperity, and planet.

ASSOCIATE COACH, CAPE TOWN

Perpetua has many years of work experience in the Private & Public Sectors, Non-Governmental & Non-profit Organisations across the world. This gives her a great understanding of diversity and has exposed her to both cross and multicultural working environments. When she works with her clients, her motto is “unveiling the best you”

ASSOCIATE COACH, CAPE TOWN

Karen is an experienced coach and facilitator in the corporate, public sector and NPO environments. Her clients describe her as engendering “a sense of trust and confidence” and bringing an “empathetic approach”. Karen is fluent in English.

ASSOCIATE COACH, UGANDA

Joan is a facilitator and coach with expertise in designing participatory workshops and coaching programmes. She works across sectors to support clarity, collaboration, and strategic outcomes. Skilled in virtual and in-person facilitation, she enables diverse groups to co-create solutions and align around measurable goals for lasting impact.

ASSOCIATE COACH, CAPE TOWN

Gavin enjoys transforming and leveraging people capability, organisational potential and helping leaders manage their energy and effectiveness through insightful and impactful conversations. He is a strategic and results-focused coach. He designs and delivers coaching, mentoring and leadership development interventions. Gavin is fluent in English and Afrikaans.

ASSOCIATE COACH, CAPE TOWN

Babette is passionate about working with both conscious and unconscious processes in her work as a professional and leadership development coach. Understanding worldviews, challenging assumptions and reframing our interpretation of events are key to helping clients move forward out of stuckness to greatness.

ASSOCIATE COACH, CAPE TOWN

Nikki has experience delivering leadership development, culture change and strategic transformation initiatives. With an Integral methodological grounding, Nikki invites a person-centred approach that is informed by the emergent power of narrative practice.

ASSOCIATE COACH, CAPE TOWN

Pippa believes that the need for human beings to embrace and work skillfully with uncertainty and ambiguity in our current era of complexity is vital. Her work is supporting leaders in growing their leadership skills and capacity to engage with change by exploring new paradigms through engaging conversations and skillfully working with the mind.

ASSOCIATE COACH, CAPE TOWN

Simon brings a calm and wise presence as a specialist Executive and Renewal Coach who focuses on assisting senior leaders to transform, find their purpose and shape the future. Simon also coaches executive teams into alignment to create sustainable results and truly impactful leadership. He is fluent in English and Afrikaans.

ASSOCIATE COACH, MADRID

Gisèle is a seasoned executive and team coach with 5,000+ hours of experience. Specializing in cultural transformation and leadership, she supports teams in pain, mentors senior leaders, and designs innovative development programs. She now consults independently and creates coaching tools for impactful change.

ASSOCIATE COACH, JOHANNESBURG

Beatrice has a special interest in building communities where organisational development becomes a way of work, as well as collaborative change journeys where the wisdom lies in the collective. Beatrice uses self-discovery leading to the alignment of purpose and the fulfilment of goals. She is fluent in English, Afrikaans and French.

ASSOCIATE COACH, PHILIPPINES

Nadine’s coaching offers a space for people to come home to themselves. She also enables professionals to address challenges and opportunities, in alignment with their role and purpose in the given context, by tapping into their inner agility. Nadine uses an Embodied Whole-Brain Intelligence approach so that her clients can let go of circling thoughts and come to fresh insights, often with surprising ease.

ASSOCIATE CONSULTANT, CAPE TOWN

Mwenya is an interdisciplinary performance studies scholar who has an interest in facilitating creative processes. She is inspired by re-imagining African futures and is driven by bringing something new into being. Her creative, teaching and facilitation practices are based on crafting space for people, and on listening carefully, and trusting the multiple intelligences in the ‘room’. Mwenya is fluent in English and Nyanja.

ASSOCIATE CONSULTANT, CAPE TOWN

Kate is an experienced facilitator and activity-based instructional designer who creates engaging, adult-focused learning experiences. She designs for impact—crafting sessions that spark real a-ha moments. Known for her light-hearted style, Kate brings energy, humour, and heart to every room she facilitates.

ASSOCIATE CONSULTANT, BANGKOK

Wan sees that changes happen every day, but systemic changes require safe spaces for diverse groups of people to work together, try out new ideas together, and collaborate in the longer term. Thus, providing a space for egalitarian communication and an environment for out of the box thinking is one of her core beliefs for change. Wan is fluent in Thai, English; good understanding of Laotian, Spanish, German.

ASSOCIATE CONSULTANT, SANTO DOMINGO

Héctor believes that true collaboration is possible through nurturing connections, using the right tools and selecting appropriate group processes. He has worked for the last 20 years throughout Latin America designing and facilitating transformation engagements. He is a very adaptable facilitator and is very fluid using technology to facilitate remote and face to face sessions. He is fluent in Spanish and English.

ASSOCIATE CONSULTANT, LILONGWE

Grace thinks that each individual has a purpose in life, and she supports others to realize this purpose. She is passionate about personal, team and organizational development. Grace focuses on organizational learning and development, relationship systems coaching, and change management. She is fluent in English and Chichewa.

ASSOCIATE CONSULTANT, LILONGWE

Sam strongly believes that success in achieving goals is heavily contingent on the ability to manage change and process needs. Applying a whole systems lens, he brings extensive experience in providing organizational development and change, as well as facilitation. Sam is fluent in English, Chichewa and Shona.

ASSOCIATE CONSULTANT, NETHERLANDS

Ewen’s ‘raison d’être’ is to unlock the collaborative, facilitative, relational magic of everyone to join forces towards improving human systems and/or the environment. He facilitates, process designs, trains and coaches for effective, healthy, happy (multi-stakeholder) collaborations. Ewen is fluent in French, English, Dutch, with working knowledge of Spanish and Portuguese, average German and notions of Amharic.

ASSOCIATE COACH, COLOMBIA

Ximena is a strategic leader with deep experience in financial services, driving results through collaboration and vision. She brings expertise in commercial leadership, client experience, transformation, and strategic communication. With a background in business administration, marketing, facilitation, and coaching, she fosters empowered teams aligned with organizational goals.

ASSOCIATE CONSULTANT, GENEVA

Marina creates inclusive, empowering cultures through emotionally intelligent, people-centered learning. Passionate about positive discipline, diversity, and transformation. She is a certified trainer known for strategic insight, collaborative problem-solving, and impactful, participatory program design.

ASSOCIATE CONSULTANT, GENEVA

Natalia is a project manager and facilitator passionate about organizational development, diversity, and inclusion. She specializes in team training, soft skills, and distributed leadership. With a focus on emotional and body awareness, she supports changemakers through engaging events and workshops that foster conscious collaboration and meaningful, lasting impact.