Ithaca Leadership

Transforming Leaders and Executive Teams to Higher Performance

Through Proven Coaching Methods and Strategies

Our Services

We optimise individual and team performance through cutting-edge global methodology and thinking, grounded in South African complexity and opportunity.

Individual Leadership Coaching

Our individual executive leadership coaching raises the quality of the leader’s thinking and personal and professional performance resulting in improved relationships, decision making and ultimately team and business outcomes.

Team Coaching

Ithaca Leadership uniquely combines the principles of relationship and systems-based coaching to create an optimal space in which to harness the executive team’s collective intelligence. This results in durable, positive, personal and organisational change.

Certified Courses

Ithaca Leadership delivers all Time To Think certificate and qualifying courses as well as Relationship Systems Intelligence at Work (RSI@work). These improve leadership competence, team communications and people’s ability to collaborate within the business.

“Creina’s expertise in coaching has resulted in tangible personal growth of individuals. She has an engaging and sincere manner, and quickly captured the culture of our company, bringing us to specific insights and offering recommendations to aid Galderma in our quest to be the best”

Jenny Wright, Managing Director, Galderma South Africa

About Ithaca Leadership

Led by Creina Schneier and her team of coaches and facilitators, Ithaca Leadership has consistently delivered value to over 40 leading South African and international businesses and organisations. Through the last 20 years with innovative and dynamic coaching, leadership development interventions, and building intelligent and effective teams, Ithaca continues to positively impact business performance that exceeds expectations.

Benefits to Business

Our coaching interventions result in more intelligent teams for more sustainable and better performing businesses
Individuals gain more awareness of self and the impact of their behaviour on others.
Our systemic approach to leadership development helps identify challenging areas in teams and organisations and provides insights and opportunities, tools and competencies to address and resolve these.
Conflict is seen as a signal of what is trying to emerge, which, when skilfully facilitated, results in empowered, stronger and more durable outcomes for all parties.
Leadership team members learn to value and appreciate their own unique skills and talents as well as those of their peers – they can do and be more!
Diversity and difference is celebrated in teams resulting in improved relational and performance dynamics and a lived experience of inclusion of all voices.
More efficient meetings which save time and amplify creativity.
Constructive and effective communication within the team.

Our Courses

Ithaca Leadership’s Time To Think courses enable a step change in people’s growth and their evolution within their organisations, their teams and in their personal capacity.

Adding Expertise

Time to Think Foundations Programme

22, 23 & 27 June, 2023: Learn how to create a Thinking Environment that positively impacts your competence as a leader, coach or facilitator.

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Adding Expertise

Time To Think Facilitator Programme

Coming soon: How do you create a Thinking Environment and facilitate from this orientation in teams, groups and organisations?

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Adding Expertise

Thinking Partnership Programme

5 – 7 July, 2023: How do you create an optimal environment for individuals to think well for themselves? This programme is a requirement for those wishing to become qualified Time To Think Coaches.

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The quality of everything that human beings do depends on the quality of the thinking they do first. What more can we do to help people think for themselves?

Nancy Kline, Time to Think Founder

Our Approach

Ithaca Leadership uniquely combines and adds the principles of relationship and systems-based thinking to coaching executive teams. The methodologies of Relationship Systems Intelligence and the Thinking Environment lead to personal transformation and higher performance within the organisation.

About Time to Think

The internationally renowned Time To Think approach is interwoven into all Ithaca’s individual and team coaching practices. The Thinking Environment creates an optimal space for genuine engagement that encourages individuals and teams to produce their finest, creative and most robust thinking making it fundamental to good leadership. It enables people to think beyond historic limiting assumptions to achieve greater self-insight and higher levels of personal, team and organisational performance.

About Relationship Systems Intelligence

Relationship Systems Coaching is an advanced and courageous way to approach leadership and team interactions. At its core lies Relationship Systems Intelligence – a key to access untapped team potential, harness collective intelligence and consciously create optimal spaces for alignment, collaboration, accountability and innovation. Individuals are enabled to move beyond personal concerns to a powerful, generative, durable team self-reliance with the resilience and resources to constructively address challenges.

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