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.
Our Gallery
Empowerment as an outcome cannot be achieved unless an individual is able to ascertain value and voice to their lived experience
Reach for the Stars launch
26 July 2024
Reach for the Stars Launch
26 July 2024
Afrika Day, Cradle of Humankind
25 May 2024
From work to wildlife
May 2024
Empowering futures
through continuous learning and collaboration
May 2024
Transforming visions into reality together
March 2024
December 2023
End of year party
December 2023
Forging Pathways to Social Justice
Thought Leadership Workshop
24 - 25 October 2023
Africa for Africa conversations
Sterkfontein, Harrismith
18-19 October 2023
Africa for Africa conversations
Sterkfontein, Harrismith
18-19 October 2023
King Letsitsa III of the Bakholokoe Nation
at Mothers Union Harrismith
Sept 2023
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.
AFRICA FOR AFRICA
PACTCA, BFASA and IAA
20 June 2022
MAMA GRACE MARUTLULLE
Honouring and Statue Unveiling Ceremony
19 May 2022
PREMIER
PROJECT MAKING A DIFFERENCE
UWC | Prof. Venicia McGhie
12 May 2022
KING LETSITSA III
5th ANNIVERSARY CELEBRATION
Bakholokoe Nation
Harrismith
29 April 2022
DUBAI EXPO 2020
14 March 2022
THOUGHT LEADERS PRE-CONFERENCE DIALOGUES
10 - 13 February 2022
CORPORATE LEADERSHIP PROGRAMME
January to March 2022
FEEL TO HEAL
Zimbabwe
December 2021
ALEX HOSPICE FUNDRAISING ROADSHOW
Gauteng & Cape Town
27 - 28 October 2021
3H PROJECT
Heal our Bodies | Heal our Environment | Heal our Relationships
Marlboro Community Centre
20 May 2021
ALEX HOSPICE AND REHAB CENTRE
Alexander Township
2021
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FORUM4 SOCIAL SOLUTIONS
Addressing the root causes of inequality
and its impact on GBV in Alexandra township
2021
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FULL CIRCLE ONLINE PROCESS
February to November 2021
SHIFT PROCESS
Unpacking the impact of your personal trajectory
within the context of COVID
May 2021
IAA MASTERS COURSE
Recognising the Place you lead and Impact from
February to July 2021
LENNOX T
Livestream from Khayelitsha
6 March 2021
WOMEN ON FARMS PROJECT
and Dignity for Women Auction
November 2020
VASHTO FLOWERS
Incubation to Inevitability
October 2020 to April 2021
ALCHEMY IN MINUTES | PODCAST
within leadership.
2020
click to listen on Spotify
MANDELA DAY
18 July 2020
COURAGE IS CONTAGIOUS
with Creative Director, Wisaal Abrahams
15 July 2020
IAA RESPONSE TO
CONFLICT RESOLUTENESS AND PEACE
GLOBAL ONLINE TRAINING PROGRAMME
Moving from disconnection to interconnectedness
26 May - 30 June 2020
THE REFUGEE PREDICAMENT
Addressing the unspoken overwhelm 31 January 2020
MERHABA
ORGANISATIONAL DEVELOPMENT CONFERENCE
Chantel Oppelt, Chairperson 24 – 25 October 2019
LEGACY OF LEADERSHIP
FUTURE LEADERS SUMMIT
UNIVERSITY OF THE WESTERN CAPE
Influencers Process
INSPIRE YOU TO BELIEVE PROCESS ©
St John's Ambulance
HEARTFM RADIO
16 DAYS of YOUTH
THE UNSPOKEN ISOLATION OF INSPIRATIONAL LEADERS
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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