An online programme to help you advance your career and lead your team to significant success, even if you don’t have years of experience.

Lead with Emotional Intelligence

Respond with Confidence

Be a Valued Leader

Employees should not have to suffer because their team leader is inexperienced or not self-aware

Leaders who are not self-aware or intentional about their impact make mistakes that lead to employee dissatisfaction and poor business outcomes like:

Fall-outs and Conflict

Toxic culture
Frustration & Sense of despair
Poor employee experience

Loss of Talent

High employee turnover
Costly hiring & training process
Hard to attract and retain quality employees

Loss of Time and Productivity

Lack of direction
Underperformance
Unnecessary rework

Brand failure and Corporate Risk

Poor sales and customer service
Poor customer acquisition & retention
Poor company image

Everything you need to become a transformational leader and grow your business

Each month we work through a module that will build your confidence in who you are and how you lead:

1. Foundation

Discover your unique Leadership Identity through the Enneagram/MBTI personality assessment, in-depth interviews and questionnaires.

4. Fierce & Fair

Prepare yourself to respond appropriately when things go wrong and deal effectively with poor performance and conflict.

2. Leading Self

Discover how your emotional intelligence can elevate you above 90% of leaders and set you up for success.

5. Share & Connect

Learn the communication hack to connect with others and share data-stories in a compelling way.

3. Listen & Understand

Listen for understanding, ask better questions, stay curious, use and develop empathy.

6. Lead & Build

To lead yourself or a team, you have to know where you’re going. Good leaders are able to cast a vision that excites and unites a team.

“It is absolutely invaluable
and I would highly recommend anyone that’s considering to take the time to do the programme.”

Katie Hurwitz

Senior Account Director at MSL

1. Foundation

Discover your unique Leadership Identity through the Enneagram/MBTI personality assessment, in-depth interviews and questionnaires.

2. Leading Self

Discover how your emotional intelligence can elevate you above 90% of leaders and set you up for success.

3. Listen & Understand

Listen for understanding, ask better questions, stay curious, use and develop empathy.

4. Fierce & Fair

Prepare yourself to respond appropriately when things go wrong and deal effectively with poor performance and conflict.

5. Share & Connect

Learn the communication hack to connect with others and share data-stories in a compelling way.

6. Lead & Build

To lead yourself or a team, you have to know where you’re going. Good leaders are able to cast a vision that excites and unites a team.

“It is absolutely invaluable
and I would highly recommend anyone that’s considering to take the time to do the programme.”

Katie Hurwitz

Senior Account Director at MSL

Join our 6-month programme and if you’re not satisfied, get your money back, guaranteed.

Your plan for becoming an impactful leader starts like this:

01.

Let’s meet

Click here to book time for us to connect and talk about what you need. No obligation.

02.

Join the Leaders by Design Programme

You’ve decided to sign up for LbD. Select who will attend (up to 10 people per group) and start date.

03.

Achieve growth

Impactful leaders and happy employees will make your business unstoppable!

A few of Our Clients

At the end of the course you will have...

What Others Are Saying

Jane Smit
Service Director, Arc
Goitsemang Nkomo
Account Director, MSL
Lauren Brabant
Business Lead, Machine
Sibongile Modiba
Client Service Director, MSL
Katie Hurwitz
Senior Account Director, MSL
When I was told about the leadership course it brought upon the feeling of anxiousness as I'm not a people's person!

Learning about my values and the impact it has on the next person as well as taking their values into consideration when responding or dealing with them. That was one of my best take outs. Another was always being aware of your emotions; this added value to how I approach people and instead of me writing them off because I think they do not understand the logic of how I see things but soon realised they are entitled to their own opinion.

My big win was helping a colleague do better discreetly. First I was amazingly surprised because this is not what I would have done before the course. So now I listen more attentively.

Celeste and Kobus have mastered diversity, especially inclusion and are absolutely non-judgmental. Thanks again for the many tools provided, insights, vision and lastly your time. I will be forever grateful.
Gayle Jacobs
Operations Director, Publicis Groupe

About Us

Celesté Meyburgh

Programme Creator

Celesté Meyburgh, along with her (awesome!) husband, Kobus, are co-founders of *Spritely.
During office hours, Celeste is a Registered Psychometrist and Counsellor. After hours, she plays house (and LEGO® and dinosaurs) with her four-year-old girl, Famke, and six-year-old boy, Milan. During the early morning hours, she is plotting world peace.
If you have a pulse and a personality, she likes you already. Her fascination with people started years ago. Still too young to legally be a waitress, she spent Friday nights clearing tables and watching people. Not creepy. Just curious. She still spends her days observing, interacting with and learning about people. She just gets paid more. She picked up some psychology skills (M.A. Psych., trained MBTI and Enneagram practitioner) along the way and nowadays she’s in the business of making the workplace more human by cultivating self-aware leaders.

Kobus Meyburgh

Programme Creator
Kobus Meyburgh is father of two, husband to one and loves living in Cape Town. He is passionate about innovation, brands and people, and the psychology that connects them. He coaches leaders to get themselves unstuck, lead confidently and advance their careers. His superpower is to help you unpack ideas and develop new perspectives. He facilitates super fun strategic workshops using the LEGO® SERIOUS PLAY® method so that you can play your way to cohesive teams, new insights and solutions. From Biokinetics to Banking, from negotiating international franchise agreements to finding meaning in LEGO® and Leadership – with over 20 years of consulting and executive experience across a wide variety of industries, Kobus and his (awesome!) wife now focus their skills and creativity on their signature programme: Leaders by Design. LbD is a bespoke experience, aimed at helping business leaders be more human at work while still (perhaps because of it) delivering exceptional business results.

Frequently Asked Questions

  • This course is NOT for you if:
    • Self-development work is not your thing
    • You are “too busy” or not willing to reflect and take action
    • You’re looking for an easy way to get people to comply
  • This course is for you if:
    • You are an existing/aspiring to be a team leader
    • You are faintly/fully aware of your desire to make a lasting impact
    • You are 100% committed to taking action to apply what you learn

Yes! We don’t believe the myth that leaders are born. We KNOW that leadership behaviours are learnt.

A leader is simply someone with sufficient self-knowledge and emotional intelligence to adapt flexibly to any situation and a strong enough vision to influence people in a specific direction.

We’ll guide you through a process of self-discovery and once you have this kind of clarity, people will trust and follow your lead!

You decide.

 

We have a 60min group check-in every week. You’ll learn a lot from each other and this may be enough for you. However, if you want to get max benefit from the course, there is approximately 2-3 hours of content to work through each week.

 

The lessons are bite-size, so you can fit them around your other deadlines…or the kids. 

 

For less than 20min a day, you’ll make quantum leaps in your personal and professional development.


Pro tip: Listen to the longer podcasts/video clips when doing chores/exercise and make yourself voice-notes with key take-aways and an action plan.

So, you’re the kind of person who wants to get the info sans first booking a call because you’re worried someone is going to get salesy with you. Fret not! You can download our snazzy brochure with all the info you need here

YES!

 

Bonus 1: An online Enneagram or MBTI Personality Assessment

(Value R2500)

 

Buried in the deepest precincts of our beings I sense there’s a truer, more luminous expression of ourselves, and as long as we remain estranged from it we will never feel fully aware, alive, or awake.” ~ Ian Cron.

 

We use these psychometrically valid and reliable assessments to increase your self-awareness because what you don’t know CAN hurt you and the people around you. The awareness you’ll gain will help you live more authentically and intentionally.

 

This bonus includes a comprehensive report and 60-90min individual feedback session .



Bonus 2: A LEGO® SERIOUS PLAY® workshop*

(Value R22 700)

 

Our LEGO® Serious Play® workshop is designed to unlock the full potential of the team quickly, effectively and on a deep level. It is a process that will move a collection of individuals towards a cohesive team; one that is characterised as:

– nurturing innovative ideas

– being alert, flexible and transparent

– sharing ideas and resources

– being self-motivated and purpose-driven

 

As an outcome, you can expect to:

– find connections that bind you together

– construct a shared identity for your team within your organisation

– develop a set of simple guiding principles to support decision making in the real world and transfer lessons learnt in the workshop to the most achievable, realistic actions possible

 

This bonus includes a 6-8 hour workshop. Travel and accommodation is excluded.



Bonus 3: A Leadership Identity Report

(Value R3000)

 

We create a consolidated leadership report for you based on your personality preferences, a Psycruit Leadership questionnaire, peer questionnaires (you select 4 team members to provide us with input) and a self-report questionnaire.

This will give you a holistic picture of your leadership strengths as well as focus to work on specific developmental areas.

Included in this invaluable bonus is your bespoke Leadership Identity Report, another hour individual feedback session and a very useful Psycruit report.

We’re pretty sure you’ll love it, but if not, no worries, because we have an iron-clad guarantee that makes this a no risk investment.

 

Give it a test drive for 30 days, and if you don’t think you’ve learned skills that will make you a more self-aware leader, we’ll refund all your money, except for the personality assessment (R2500pp) and individual cost of the LEGO® SERIOUS PLAY® workshop.

 

You won’t be able to access any further content, the community or the coaching, but you’ll get your money back, which is cool.

 

No hard feelings. Nothing but well-wishes.

 

Sounds like you’ve got nothing to lose and everything to gain!

 

Give it a try.

Get in touch

We’d like to see your face, so a video call is best 🙂

We can’t wait to see how your company grows when Leaders-by-Design, brought to you by Spritely, starts working for you!

Call us

Kobus: 082 898 6422
Celesté: 083 648 5606

Mail

info@leadersbydesign.co

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Goitsemang Nkomo
Account Director, MSL
Lauren Brabant
Business Lead, Machine
Jane Smit
Service Director, Arc