We believe in the power and potential of organisations
At WorldsView Academy, we are deeply passionate about organisations. The way lions are at home on the savanna and emperor penguins thrive on the ice, we believe organisations should be spaces where progress, innovation, joy, and humanity can flourish.
We explore and share the stories of how organisations came to be, and we walk alongside them as they imagine—and move toward—what they can become. Our mission is clear: to serve organisations that are actively working to build better futures.
Our Journey
Since 1994, our path has taken us across industries, continents, and countless conversations.
In our early years, we operated as a Human Resources outsourcing company, helping clients navigate transactional HR. But by 2004, our work had begun to deepen. We shifted our focus to Organisation Development (OD)—seeking not just to solve problems, but to address the underlying dynamics of organisational performance and health.
For over 30 years, we have:
- Represented international leadership programs in South Africa
- Taken South African learning journeys into the global space
- Consulted across sectors—from fishing fleets to stock exchanges
- Facilitated leadership development, strategy alignment, structure reviews, and process improvements
- Worked with governments, listed companies, private enterprises, and passionate individuals
We have developed thousands of leaders, strengthened hundreds of teams,
and helped shape the practices of OD professionals across Africa and beyond.
Our Philosophy
We don’t just teach—we practice.
We don’t just plan—we partner.
We don’t just consult—we co-create.
Our own journey, like yours, has been filled with both challenge and transformation. We’ve weathered setbacks, celebrated successes, and learned to dance with complexity. These lived experiences have shaped our approach, and we bring both our expertise and humility into every engagement.
At WorldsView Academy, we believe the best work is done with people, not to them. We honour the scars of growth, and we’re proud to walk beside our clients as they navigate the ongoing evolution of their organisations.
Key Milestones
📍 1993
Skilled Outcomes is founded – HR outsourcing
Our eagle is born, pursuing healthy organisational life.
📍 1996
Supervisory and management development programs launched
We are accredited by the UK’s NEBS Management.
📍 2001
Name changes to WorldsView Academy
We celebrate a broader view of the world as we expand our focus to effective, healthy organisations through the Organisational Development profession.
📍 2004
Extend from HR and training to include Organisation Design and Development
We deliver our first OD-focused practitioner program, laying the foundation for our practice-led learning model.
📍 2006
Nine Conversations in Leadership™ launches
A flagship leadership development program that has since reached over 10,000 leaders worldwide.
📍 2008
Purposeful Teams™ launches
Our team development expertise evolves with the launch of Purposeful Teams™, a program designed to anchor teams in purpose and accelerate performance.
📍 2013
Higher Certificate in Organisation Development launches
Through our subsidiary, the Academy for Organisational Change (AOC), our Organisation Development expertise is translated into an NQF5 qualification for practitioners.
📍 2014
Short Programme development
Creation of targeted interventions introduced to support in-company strategy, design, leadership, and team development.
📍 2024
Sale of Academy for Organisational Change
We place the AOC in the hands of an organisation committed to growing a public education institution, allowing us to focus fully on in-company programs.
📍 2025
Website and brand refresh
We consolidate our work in strategy, design, leadership, and team development for the post-COVID, AI-age landscape.
Our Mission and Values
Our mission is to transform individual, group and organisational performance in a healthy way.
We believe in:
Transformation
Our programmes drive real change through contextual action learning, and bringing people inside the organisation together to learn from each other.
Small and Beautiful
Every grand plan has moments that matter, conversations that count, experiences that change the world. They should be as beautiful as possible for the people caught up in the moment.
Operating expertise
The person with the dirty hands has a say in repairing the engine. We don’t just rely on theory; we also rely on expertise. No two organisations are the same, no two people are the same.
Working collectively
Wherever possible, bring as much of the organisation along with the work. Ivory towers don’t translate into healthy execution.
High-Quality Relationships
People of character working in good-faith relationship with other people of character make the biggest positive difference in the world.
Matching Pace
All change starts at the current pace of the person or the organisation. A runner cannot hand a baton to someone running at a different speed.
Enquire about an organisational development or change project now.
Meet the Team
Our team brings together decades of experience, deep expertise, and a shared commitment to organisational development, leadership, and transformation.
Liezel van Arkel
Partner
Liezel completed an undergraduate degree in law at the University of Pretoria in 1995, and an MBA through Edinburgh Business School (Cum Laude) in 2010. She founded and ran her own retail business for 11 years. After selling that business in 2011, Liezel started a new career with WorldsView Academy.
Initially leading the consulting division, she became a shareholder and served as CEO from 2016-2025. Now in a senior partner role, Liezel brings a broad and practical understanding of entrepreneurialism, intrepreneurialism, and contemporary business issues to her work.
Liezel’s passion for everything Organisation Development is evident in her work, and she believes her strongest talent lies in working with groups, especially team and leadership development. She has worked on many consulting and development projects in many different industries including financial institutions, hospitality, FMCG and Higher Education.
Areas of interest include Organisational Culture, the Enneagram, Business Acumen, Business Partnering, Management, Leadership and Team Development.
Mbali Masinga
Partner
Mbali’s passion for Organisational Development sparked while studying Industrial Psychology at the University of the Free State. After gaining experience in HR, she noticed a critical gap in OD capability within organisations and pursued a Postgraduate Diploma in OD through UNISA. Since then, she has been part of designing and facilitating leadership and team development programmes across sectors including finance, FMCG, and higher education.
Her work is grounded in the belief that organisational effectiveness is achieved through people and she excels at creating spaces where individuals connect, collaborate, and thrive, enabling organisations to perform at their best. She is passionate about building workplaces where people feel valued, energised, and committed.
Her interests include Organisational Culture, Enneagram, Leadership Development, Team Development and Employee Engagement.
Craig Yeatman
Partner
Craig came to the Organisation Design and Development profession in 2004 as an entrepreneur with a love for organisational theory. He is a founder or co-founder of several organisations.
Craig has advised or supported South African and international clients, having lived and/or worked in South Africa, Zimbabwe, Tunisia, Morocco, Algeria, Kenya, Cameroon, Mauritius, Zimbabwe, Egypt, Dubai, Australia, England.
He co-designed WorldsView Academy’s Nine Conversations in Leadership™ and Purposeful Teams interventions and was on the Academy for Organisational Change design team for the Higher Certificate in Organisation Development.
Craig has studied or been taught OD processes in South Africa, and in America – learning from Dr. Lisa Kimball, Dr. Naomi Stanford, Dr. Shirley Knobel, Dr. Ngao Motsei, David Snowden, Dr. Louise van Rhyn, the Berlin Open Space Consortium, Chantelle Wyley, Liora Gross, Benjamin Zander, Peter Block, Wits Business School, Insead and other professionals or institutions. He holds an MBA (Cum Laude) from Wits Business School.
Areas of interest include Organisational Strategy; Organisational Design; Organisational Change; Management, Leadership and Team Development.
Richard Taylor
Administrator
Richard provides key support across client interactions, co-ordinating communications and linking all stakeholders with the systems, materials and support needed while interacting with Worldsview Academy programmes.
He has a keen eye for details that keep processes running smoothly and relishes the opportunity to resolve any challenges that may be encountered by using his decade long experience in the Organisation Development space.
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