The “C-Suite Silent Pain” of 2026 is palpable. Across South Africa, from the financial hubs of Sandton to the industrial zones of Coega, organisations spent the latter half of 2025 procuring AI licenses at a record pace. Microsoft Co-Pilot is active, the dashboards are live, yet the promised productivity surge remains elusive. This is…
The Execution Gap and the Cost of Motion If you’re a C-Suite or HR leader wondering why your transformation ROI feels… suspiciously quiet, you’re not alone. Many organisations spent heavily on new systems, AI tools, and transformation programmes in 2024 and 2025, yet still face resistance, slow adoption, and unclear business impact. This is…
2025 was the year artificial intelligence stopped being a novelty and became a necessity. But the real winners weren’t the ones who automated everything; they were the leaders who used AI to strengthen the human side of transformation. This reflection explores how AI-enabled change leadership helped executives reduce change fatigue, refocus on people, and prepare…
As the year winds down, many organisations are focused on closing things off — finalising projects, ticking deliverables, and wrapping up budgets. Yet one question lingers: did the change actually take root? So often, transformation looks successful on paper — the system launches, milestones are met, reports are signed off — but the culture hasn’t…
Digital transformation can feel big, technical, and overwhelming. New systems, new processes, new ways of working—it’s a lot for people to take in. But at its heart, transformation is about people. And people don’t connect with project plans or technical jargon. They connect with stories. Why Stories Work Stories make the vision real. They explain…
On paper, mergers and acquisitions (M&A) look like a golden ticket to growth. Two organisations combine their strengths, expand their market share, and promise shareholders a brighter future. Yet, despite the glossy headlines and strategic plans, most M&A deals stumble. Why? It’s rarely the spreadsheets that fail. The real cracks appear in the spaces between…
The Human-Centric Framework for Future-Ready Workplaces “Change is good… you go first.” — The Princess Diaries (2001) Change Across Microchips: The New Reality of Change In this current world, where meeting rooms aren’t physical, traditional change management can fall short. With organisations that are split by physical location and made up of employees who are…
When I founded Up Time Consulting 20 years ago, I couldn’t have imagined how much we’d grow, the obstacles we’d face, or the lessons we’d learn along the way. It feels like a lifetime ago, and yet the journey has been filled with constant change, growth, and, most importantly, people. Back then, it was just…
Change is happening all around us but is often misunderstood. Despite the best-laid strategies, beautifully designed PowerPoints, and town halls full of energy, the truth remains: most change efforts stumble not because of the change itself, but because of the clarity gap. People simply don’t understand what change reallymeans for them. That’s where The Clarity Code comes…