Neo is the MD of the Thrive Institute where she focuses mainly on facilitation of different people from all walks of life, on how they can work together and thrive in the workplace. She has extensive experience from working with leading South African and International companies. Her expertise lies in working with the full spectrum of HR value chain model including people resourcing, performance management, reward and recognition, career development, organisational change; organisational (re)design; team building; leadership/management, talent management, industrial relations and psychometrics assessments.
Neo has a passion for young people, and lives out this passion by providing lectures to students at the University of Johannesburg.
She is a registered Industrial Psychologist with the HPCSA, and sits on boards as a non-executive director. Neo’s major interests lie in the subjects of Inclusion and Belonging in the workplace and is looking into completing her Phd on these subjects.
Karien van der Merwe is a registered Industrial Psychologist with 18 years’ experience. She has a special interest in the impact of Belonging and Human Connection on performance within organisation- team and on individual level. She coaches and facilitates the human connection that is needed to get the job done. Karien assists the organisation, team and individual to understand and navigate team dynamics, diversity, inclusion, conflict resolutions, having courages conversations and empowering leadership practices. The Thrive Institute’s main goal is to help people in organisations Thrive by supporting teams and organisations to foster healthy human relationships and through that become high performing organisations, teams and individuals. Karien is also the spouse of an adventurous husband and mother to 3 very busy and beautiful kids.
We have a comprehensive selection process that consists of psychometric evaluation and competency based interviewing
Through Talent Management we help you to refocus on the Individual. We offer individual and executive coaching that could include the following:
We also offer group Training and Development in:
Our Team Coaching process pays attention to interpersonal and group dynamic awareness as well as effective team communication
Our process is designed to identifying team development needs that enable us to customise intervention strategies according to client specific needs.
Please note that we can only accommodate 12 individuals per workshop.
For younger minds, our services include emotional intelligence training, diversity awareness and career coaching
We help learners to sift through, structure and process the vast amount of information within the world of careers by assisting them in identifying which career would be most suitable to their Interest, ability and skill.
Our two four-hour workshops during the course of the year assist Grade 6-12 learners with the following:
These four one-hour facilitated discussions focus on the differences in the world and are aimed to equip children to develop the capacity for and appreciation of difference.
In these sessions, we focus on:
We do this through four Career Coaching sessions starting early in the 11th grade. The sessions are structured as follows:
Coaching designed to support the EQ and Diversity training, are one and a half hour sessions to a minimum of three sessions scheduled in between the training workshops.
This specific coaching is designed to assist the individual in debriefing and internalising the growth that happens in the training sessions (EQ and Diversity).
We work with a coaching methodology that facilitates growth within the individual on various levels including leadership development, personal growth, as well as career planning and growth.
The self-awareness workshop identifies the individual’s specific training needs. People only attend the follow-up workshops according to their development needs.
