Our Associates
Engagement Dynamics is a lean and virtual organisation with an associate network of brilliant subject matter experts, superb practitioners and phenomenal creatives that we call The Corps. We meet incredible people throughout our industry and deeply value our partnerships with some of the best. We love working together to co-create and deliver the most beautiful, useful and transformational solutions on the planet.
Learn the rules like a pro, so you can break them like an artist.
Pablo Picasso
Rory van der Merwe
Rory van der Merwe is the author of the Hope-Shift Framework. He is a multi-talented professional who seamlessly integrates his skills as a psychologist, coach, project and change manager to translate strategic goals into practical, real-world outcomes. His unique blend of abilities allows him to align the efforts of individuals, teams, and organisations resulting in improved business performance.
Rory's work experience includes managing large-scale change initiatives and projects, across multiple industries in both public and private sector. As a “working psychologist” he thrives on co-creating
enabling and empowering work-spaces for enhanced wellbeing of all staff. His career journey demonstrates adaptability as a critical capacity for the unfolding new ways of working in our relentless world of turbulent and accelerated change.
Describing himself as a HOPER, Rory has embraced curiosity and continuous lifelong learning. He is the first African accredited in Adaptability Intelligence (AQ) and the metrics, assessment and coaching for individuals and teams to improve sustainable business performance.
A seasoned professional with a wealth of experience and a diverse skill set, excelling in various key competencies:
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Coaching and Talent Development.
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Change and Transformation Facilitation.
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Project Management.
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HR Leadership, Learning and Organisational Design.
“Leaders are dealers in hope”
Napoleon Bonaparte.
HOPERs –
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Deliberately choose a HOPEFUL Mindset.
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Shift energy and focused effort towards intentional goals.
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Develop
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Willpower (agency) AND
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Adaptive capacity (pathways).
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to navigate through challenges, friction and obstacles.
The Hope-Shift Framework
HOW MIGHT WE ASSIST YOU?
Strategies for inculcating HOPE
Executive and Leadership Coaching
Team Interventions
Culture Workshops
Keynote Addresses
Frames of Reference
One of the key benefits of consultant collaborations, is the opportunity to integrate proprietary frameworks into the design of the solutions which we offer our clients. Some of the additional approaches which we integrate into our work with Rory are indicated below.
Dynamic Engagement Framework
Drivers of Greatness
Strengths Assessment
Dynamic Engagement Framework
Our proprietary Dynamic Engagement Framework© provides a useful sense-making frame for exploring and shifting engagement, culture and performance.
Astute Implementation Guide
The Astute Implementation Guide is our transformational roadmap. We use it to structure our interventions and to enable individuals, teams and organisations to navigate their developmental journeys.
Strengths Assessment
The powerful strengths assessment we like to include in all our strategic interventions identifies the innate talents and wiring that is central to how people engage with their world.
Engagement Landscape
Our research led us to develop the Engagementt Landscape as an alternative to the traditional Engagement Continuum. It helps our clients to understand disengagement at a more granular level and to identify what needs to change in order to increase engagement.
Astute DeSign Framework
The Astute DeSign Framework is a roadmap for emergent design and organisational strategy in a volatile environment. It has been influenced by Design Thinking and Lean Start-up Methodology