Our Team

Designed Solutions Africa’s consultants bring together innovative approaches and a wealth of expertise in learning design, human resources development, organizational dynamics and participatory group processes to help clients co-operatively develop and apply best professional practices in the management of their people, processes and projects.

Designed Solutions Africa offers a basket of mixed talents and experiences in client engagement processes. Our Consultants includes dedicated project managers, researchers, trainers and service development specialists. They focus on assisting organizations to implement some of the field’s latest and most practical strategies and tools.

Our Commitment

Our commitment is to deal with clients honestly and in a forthright manner to provide them with the skills and information pertinent to decision making. By maintaining a small, dedicated, experienced and highly skilled team of professionals, we retain our ability to develop creative solutions to the needs and concerns of the organizations we serve.

We follow clearly defined principles in the design, creation and delivery of all our services. We appreciate that learning and change are effective when:

• they are structured as a cyclical process focusing on sense-making
• they occur in a context where diversity is a core value
• they use evaluation of performance as a means and not as an end
• they take place within a defined community
• they begin where the individual is, and not where the facilitator or consultant would like them to be
• they are grounded in real life experiences

Our Approach

Our organizational practice is a system made of the following characteristics. Essential to “who we are” these characteristics combine in each assignment to create innovative and effective work for our clients:

• Conceptual framework ensuring clear, effective and systemic approach to new assignments
• Learning design principles creating rich and sustained experiential learning
• Systematic knowledge transfer allowing autonomy and long lasting results
• Participatory methodologies allowing greater engagement of people and shared learning
• Co-created and tailor-made solutions guaranteeing high level of relevance and ownership
• Transparency and sustainability promoting responsible work
• Qualified team of consultants delivering expert input and purposefulness from vision to action
• Contribution of multiple consultants enriching input on each assignment
• Quality assurance procedures monitoring outcome/objective and cost effectiveness

Our conceptual framework, design principles and choice of methodologies originate from this early work. They now underpin all our activities and the methods used by our consultants. This enables us to meet client’s needs with innovative, tailor-made and co-created solutions.