Transforming the way we do business
JOURNEY FROM ISOLATION
TO CONNECTION
by engaging the alchemy of business through transparency, truth and transcendence.
Our methodology creates safe spaces in which thought leaders can access the truth of who they are, become clear about how they use their power and bring that into congruence with the organization, the country or their personal objectives.
Vision
To contain the charism that creates a world where Hope is real, and Limitations are Impossible.
Mission
Through a process of scaffolding that enables access to one’s inner resources ensuring that the alchemy of transformation is inevitable.
Values
The fundamental principles of the Institute for Applied Alchemy is to work with Transparency and Equanimity.
To create a space for innovative and intuitive guidance to emerge within a corporate and leadership environment. The essence of these principles is to elicit and live a reality that business can be done in another way.
Purpose
To impact the Gini-coefficient in South Africa by ensuring that each citizen understands their individual wound and has sufficient internal scaffolding to extricate the gold that lies within.
Our Global Energy Footprint
The Institute’s programmes encourage a change in perspective and problem-solving at an innate level,
which inevitably catapults the individual and/or organization into a global mindset
creating impact and effecting real change.
Meet the team
Meet the team
Our inside-out methodology is a carefully crafted process of self awareness translating into leadership focus and impact.
HOPE
INSPIRE
ACTION
is our interdisciplinary and multifunctional programmes designed to engage and bring synergy to any system:
The Institute for Applied Alchemy works with interventions and a methodology that creates in the moment shifts and maximises impact for leaders and their teams. The work is process driven and highly detailed to the extent that all participants feel deeply cared for and safe to share some of their unspoken truths. Our team is exceptionally skilled at unearthing the unspoken but necessary information required in order to make informed decisions that enable informed actions.
Hope
Activating the potential of one’s charism
Inspire
Translating the vision into the trajectory of ones reality
Action
Active engagements that produce tangible outcomes and impact change
OUR PROGRAMMES
The Institute for Applied Alchemy specialises in designing bespoke interventions and programmes in the areas of Leadership, Strategic Thinking and Talent Mobility. We offer leadership training, business model design and organizational development consulting which addresses challenges such as a lack of self-leadership, accountability, team cohesion, agility, organizational chaos or talent leaks, to name a few.
All programmes offered by the Institute makes use of alchemical processing which addresses the root cause of the challenge through scaffolding the wounding that inhibits the individual or organization from moving into optimization. The fundamentals of the IAA’s work is therefore applicable across industries, around the world.
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Empowerment as an outcome cannot be achieved unless an individual is able to ascertain value and voice to their lived experience
ONE NATION, ONE VISION
ONE FUTURE
05 - 06 Feb 2025
ONE NATION, ONE VISION
ONE FUTURE
'True emancipation requires both economic access and psychological freedom' - Lwazi Mankahla
05 - 06 Feb 2025
ONE NATION, ONE VISION
ONE FUTURE
05 - 06 Feb 2025
ONE NATION, ONE VISION
ONE FUTURE
Leadership conversations:
Shaping ideas, inspiring change, driving impact
05 - 06 Feb 2025
ONE NATION, ONE VISION
ONE FUTURE
"We will walk the land
and work the land' - Shirneal Damons
05 - 06 Feb 2025
ONE NATION, ONE VISION
ONE FUTURE
05 - 06 Feb 2025
Taking teamwork and woman leadership
to new heights
Dec 2024
Taking teamwork and woman leadership to new heights - a stunning adventure over Cape Town with a female pilot Dec 2024
Taking teamwork and woman leadership
to new heights
Dec 2024
Reach for th Stars | "The Road to the Karoo" initiative
Dec 2024
"The Road to the Karoo" initiative
Dec 2024
"The Road to the Karoo" initiative
Dec 2024
Recent Projects
The IAA presents the integration of a new world system and approach to dealing with critical socio-economic issues. It challenges the minds of influential thinkers with the intention of creating a greater impact on South Africa and the world. The essence of the work speaks to intrinsic values of ownership and collective acknowledgement of the power we hold within to create substantial change that is shared by all. The outcome of the work is focused on evolving high-performance leaders to inspirational leaders by shifting them towards a level of intrinsic value and fulfilment.
ONE NATION, ONE VISION
BUILDING AFRICA’S GREEN ECONOMY THROUGH CANNABIS COLLABORATION
05 - 06 FEB 2025
AFRICA FOR AFRICA
A homecoming for African Descendants
PACTCA, BFASA and IAA
20 June 2022
MAMA GRACE MARUTLULLE
Founder of Alexandra Hospice and Rehabilitation Centre
Honouring and Statue Unveiling Ceremony
19 May 2022
PREMIER
PROJECT MAKING A DIFFERENCE
Joseph Stone Auditorium
UWC | Prof. Venicia McGhie
12 May 2022
KING LETSITSA III
5th ANNIVERSARY CELEBRATION
Bakholokoe Nation
Harrismith
29 April 2022
DUBAI EXPO 2020
Zimbabwe Day
14 March 2022
THOUGHT LEADERS PRE-CONFERENCE DIALOGUES
Harare & Victoria Falls | Zimbabwe
10 - 13 February 2022
CORPORATE LEADERSHIP PROGRAMME
PHASE I, II & III
January to March 2022
FEEL TO HEAL
Shirneal Damons | Executive Director
Zimbabwe
December 2021
ALEX HOSPICE FUNDRAISING ROADSHOW
with Mama Grace
Gauteng & Cape Town
27 - 28 October 2021
3H PROJECT
Healthier Life - A live event
Heal our Bodies | Heal our Environment | Heal our Relationships
Marlboro Community Centre
20 May 2021
ALEX HOSPICE AND REHAB CENTRE
an IAA Strategic Partnership | 'Walking with Grace'
Alexander Township
2021
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FORUM4 SOCIAL SOLUTIONS
Men Leading Men
Addressing the root causes of inequality
and its impact on GBV in Alexandra township
2021
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FULL CIRCLE ONLINE PROCESS
Fire | Water | Earth | Air
February to November 2021
SHIFT PROCESS
Online interactive workshop
Unpacking the impact of your personal trajectory
within the context of COVID
May 2021
IAA MASTERS COURSE
Online Self Mastery Modules
Recognising the Place you lead and Impact from
February to July 2021
LENNOX T
Concert in the Township
Livestream from Khayelitsha
6 March 2021
WOMEN ON FARMS PROJECT
PhotoVoice Project
and Dignity for Women Auction
November 2020
VASHTO FLOWERS
Strategic Partnership
Incubation to Inevitability
October 2020 to April 2021
ALCHEMY IN MINUTES | PODCAST
Engaging the unspoken and missing conversations
within leadership.
2020
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MANDELA DAY
Sharing the Madiba magic during lockdown
18 July 2020
COURAGE IS CONTAGIOUS
Musicbed reopen challenge
with Creative Director, Wisaal Abrahams
15 July 2020
IAA RESPONSE TO
CONFLICT RESOLUTENESS AND PEACE
10 July 2020
GLOBAL ONLINE TRAINING PROGRAMME
Intercontinental Power Dynamics
Moving from disconnection to interconnectedness
26 May - 30 June 2020
THE REFUGEE PREDICAMENT
An interactive dialogue:
Addressing the unspoken overwhelm
31 January 2020
MERHABA
Brussels, Belgium
7 – 10 November 2019
ORGANISATIONAL DEVELOPMENT CONFERENCE
Stellenbosch, Cape Town
Chantel Oppelt, Chairperson
24 – 25 October 2019
LEGACY OF LEADERSHIP
Pat Gelderbloem
10 October 2019
FUTURE LEADERS SUMMIT
An interactive Dialogue with our future leaders
5 October 2019
UNIVERSITY OF THE WESTERN CAPE
Emergence of original thought through writing
8 August 2019
Influencers Process
Managing the Façade
31 July 2019
INSPIRE YOU TO BELIEVE PROCESS ©
Mandela Day – 67 Minutes
18 July 2019
St John's Ambulance
Mandela Day – 67 Minutes
18 July 2019
HEARTFM RADIO
Interview with Chantel Oppelt,
Executive Director
11 June 2019
16 DAYS of YOUTH
HeartFM – Porterville
10 June 2019
THE UNSPOKEN ISOLATION OF INSPIRATIONAL LEADERS
An Interactive process for Thought leaders28 February 2019
Partnerships
Working in collaboration with our partners, we are committed to supporting the emergence of integrated African leadership. Leveraging the IAA’s vision of an aspiring, inspirational, and rising African continent, we aim to realise and refine narratives on the Pan African Vision in four key sectors : Leadership, Agriculture, Health and Education.
FEEL TO HEAL
Implementation partner | Together IAA and Feel to Heal aim to create equity for women across Africa. Building choice and access for economic sustainability, and diversifying leadership for women across the African continent
Black Farmers Assoc. of South Africa (BFASA)
the IAA designs bespoke agricultural business models
that impact equality in South Africa.
Pan-African council of
Traditional and Customary Authorities (PACTCA)
This partnership objective is to enhance the African agenda of intercontinental exchanges in the agricultural sector by cultivation and investment in food security in SA and the African Continent
ALEX HOSPICE AND REHABILITATION CENTRE
Strategic Partner | the IAA provides strategic leadership and fundraising support to enable a sustainable palliative care model as the organization transitions into a new facility in Alexandra.
FORUM4 SOCIAL SOLUTIONS (F4SS)
Strategic thinking partner | the IAA’s role is to design bespoke interventions, models, and programmes that provide focused engagement and containment for critical insights to emerge, relative to addressing root causes of gender-based violence in South Africa, through a township lens.
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