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Schuitema Group works with senior leadership teams across South Africa and globally to transform organisational culture. Through our proven Care & Growth methodology — developed from decades of primary research — we help organisations build cultures where accountability, trust and high performance are embedded at every level.
Organisational culture doesn’t change through policy alone; it changes when leaders at every level understand how to bring out the best in the people around them.
Our consulting service works with senior leadership teams to diagnose cultural barriers, shift decision-making closer to the frontline, and build organisations where accountability and high performance become the norm rather than the exception.
We work as a long-term partner — not a one-off intervention. Engagements typically combine consulting, coaching, training and diagnostic tools, tailored to where your organisation is and where it needs to go.
Break down silos and build cross-functional teams that work toward shared goals rather than competing agendas.
When people work in a culture of genuine accountability and growth, engagement follows naturally — not through incentives, but through meaning.
We help you identify where hierarchy is slowing decisions down and redesign systems so authority sits closer to where the work happens.
High turnover is rarely about salary. When people don’t feel trusted or developed by their leaders, they leave. We help organisations build cultures where people stay because the work is meaningful and the environment supports their growth.
Individuals take ownership, embrace responsibility, and stop waiting for direction from above.
Our consulting services guide individuals and teams on a journey of continuous improvement and mastery, unlocking their full potential.
The Care and Growth Thematic emphasises the role of empowerment through hierarchy. What we aim to achieve when consulting with clients is to shift authority and control down the hierarchy incrementally. The aim over time is to make the organisation flatter and convert procedures into policies where possible. Otherwise, shorten them and make them more efficient.
The net effect of doing this is to make the organisation less hierarchical over time. This increases efficiency and unlocks innovation.
The aim of Care and Growth is empowerment to the point at which work teams can self-manage in pursuit of organisational objectives.
With our consulting approach, we aim to partner with senior leadership teams as they walk a journey of incremental empowerment towards this objective.
We collaborate with senior teams to develop a comprehensive plan for transforming the organisational culture. Our approach includes supportive coaching, training, and diagnostics services over an extended period.
We review the organisation’s systems and structures throughout the process, ensuring alignment with the desired cultural transformation.
An organisation succeeds when it is good at making a valuable contribution to the market. Another way of expressing this idea is that an organisation succeeds when it is good at offering a valuable service to people. The question all organisations must face then is how to ensure that their service/contribution is valuable to people/the market.
Effective leadership requires a fundamental shift in the traditional approach to management and has a critical effect on team excellence. The original research conducted by Etsko Schuitema, in the 1980s, demonstrated that effective leadership is essentially tied up with the issue of employee trust in management.
Organisations can be described as a team sport in which there is a task that needs to get done and this task is passed around between members of a team or between teams within an organisation. Fundamentally, each interaction of passing the task between team members can have one of two characters: it can either be fundamentally competitive, or it can be fundamentally cooperative/collaborative.
People are significant on the basis of their contribution; the value that they add to others during their lifetime. They are significant for what they put in, not for what they get out. Being here to give or to serve is, therefore, the core criterion which accounts for excellence in any individual. When people have cracked the code of appropriate contribution, they realise the best in themselves and come to be able to live their greater lives.
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+27 (0) 11 867 0587
Europe
+46 73 043 56 82
OUR HEADQUARTERS
Johannesburg
