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changed, the fundamentals remain the
same and the solutions are often simple.
Designing a new eco-system is essential
to success in both work and happiness
and the opportunities for your business
and self are in the change. We work on
prioritising nature and wellness as a
source of inspiration to drive innovation
and cultural change.
With staggering unemployment
around the world, many are turning to
entrepreneurship as their next career
move. Whether you are one of those
people or whether you are re-shaping
your business to do better and explore
more opportunities, now is the time, and
education and shared experiences are • WTF - What is the Future of Business?
essential. Positioning your business, knowing and
understanding key insights, trends and
behaviour as tools to strategise within
The top four trends to consider in
business strategy currently are: local and global context to design better
• Health experiences and processes. We work in
• Diversity inclusion collaboration with Why Five – Brand
• Social activism Mapp on data driven insights and
• Climate change wealth study for the local diaspora.
• Back to Why - Purpose Driven
Strategy. Strategic workshop sessions
What insights are you using to change
the way you do business or the way you for individuals, groups, companies or
communicate? And to whom and how teams to build meaningful, practical
are you using those insights to design solutions to business, brand and
the desired experiences for your clients? marketing strategy. Knowing why you
What changes are you making in your are doing what you are doing, is key
own business to do it well and what are to success, and offers a competitive
your first priorities - from employee well- advantage to future fit your business, or
being to inclusion and environmental- organisation, in this new world order.
social-governance? • Work-Aways - Business Retreats. Re-
The Well Society, the brainchild of think, re-imagine and re-design your
Nikki Wilsworth, offers workshops, business and life to improve your work
masterclasses, talks, business retreats and and wellbeing for business owners Nikki Wilsworth
consulting. or teams. A guided four-day retreat Since 2001, Nikki has designed
In 2021, she has facilitated Strategic to re-set and strategise for success. A experiences for people, companies and
planning meetings for the IID and hosting collaborative approach and critical organisations. Through diverse points
CPD accredited on-line workshops for thinking process to rewrite a new of engagement, content, context and
IID and SACAP members. story, while taking some time out in immersions, she curates the ultimate
Ideal for business owners, executive the perfect environment to re-calibrate. experience while preserving integrity in
management, team leaders or start-ups, Hosted in Plettenberg Bay and tailored the product and subject. Nikki’s strengths
we offer a design thinking approach to to suit needs, interests and activities of lie in understanding the business
business, brand and marketing strategy, individuals and groups. fundamentals, strategy, marketing and
and take you through an active process “Good business sense is creative, fun creative process when designing and
that will clarify your reason to exist, and opportunistic. Good business integrating the customer, client, consumer
question what can be changed and sense improves the individual, or user experience, while optimising
consider where the opportunities may lie the organisation and the wider the most effective design solution for
in your business or design practice. community and environment. The the bottom line, without compromising
daunting challenge of becoming quality. As a force for good, she has
• Back to Business. A design thinking a business of the future is rather big picture thinking with practical and
approach to business basics. A reality becoming an exciting opportunity…” rational application. dw
check on what exists and where the - Nature of Business
opportunity lies for change. www.thewellsociety.org

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