An executive development portfolio for every stage of the journey.
Three flagship products, each calibrated to a distinct moment in a leader’s journey — from short, high-impact reflection to long-horizon peer community and legacy building.
Our Core Services
FOUR CORE PRODUCTS
IDS ADVISORY
An immersive programme moving executives beyond theory into lived experience — through professionally scripted theatrical enactments of O.R. Tambo’s life and facilitated debate on strategy, ethics, and communication.
IDS APEX LEADERSHIP EXPERIENCE
An immersive leadership experience inspired by the life and leadership of O.R. Tambo, Hugh Masekela and other transformative leaders.
Built on the Mirror, Map and Compass process, which uses reflection, planning, and navigation as a disciplined approach to problem solving. Executives step back from the noise, examine who they are as leaders (Mirror), chart where they need to go (Map), and define how they’ll get there under pressure (Compass).
IDS NEXT 100
An intense leadership development process built to inspire change and help leaders navigate complexity.
Over 100 days, executives move through a structured diagnostic and coaching journey, converging on the two or three problems that matter most, then building the strategic thinking and execution discipline to act on them decisively.
IDS EXECUTIVE LEADERSHIP NETWORK
A membership-led, curated executive community helping senior leaders build clarity, decision quality, trusted relationships, and a shared culture that compounds year after year.
This is where leadership potential is sustained beyond a single engagement, through peer accountability, ongoing exposure to new thinking, and a network that keeps performance sharp long after the programme ends.
OUR APPROACH TO ADVISORY
THE IDS CONVERGENCE MODEL
Every leader we work with is navigating the same underlying challenge: too much complexity, too little clarity on where to focus, and too little time to act. The IDS Convergence Model is our answer to that challenge. It brings together two of the most rigorous frameworks in strategic leadership, Michael Watkins’ six disciplines of strategic thinking (pattern recognition, systems analysis, mental agility, structured problem solving, visioning, and political savvy) and Professor Nick Binedell’s 6Cs of strategic performance (context, choice architecture, capability, connectedness, commitment, and continuity).
We pair these into six Convergence Gates. Each gate is worked through with structured screening questions, scored on urgency and importance, then tested against deeper introspective questions. The result is not a long list of problems. It is a small number, typically no more than three, of the issues that matter, clearly defined and ready to act on.
This is the engine behind every structured advisory engagement we run. Whether we are delivering IDS Advisory for a specific business problem, guiding a leader through the IDS Apex Leadership Experience, driving a full IDS Next 100 process, or sustaining growth through the Executive Leadership Network, the Convergence Model is what turns complexity into clarity, clarity into a plan, and a plan into measurable performance and impact.