Welcome to BTS Africa
We're in the business of inspiring and equipping people to do the best work of their lives. And when people do the best work of their lives, they create better businesses and a better world.
BTS is the global leader in transforming strategy into action and results through people. With multiple offices across Africa in Johannesburg, Stellenbosch, and Nairobi, we bring over 15 years of experience in the African market working with leading companies across all industries.
People are the key to successfully executing any strategic initiative. Companies need their people to be aligned with the organisation’s vision of success, generating the right mindset for them to address necessary changes, develop skills, enable transformation and generate amazing business results.
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What makes us different
Global and Local trusted advisors
We understand the local context having worked in the region for over 15 years. Combining local understanding with our global expertise and thought leadership results in a truly unique approach that accelerates our clients’ results, faster.
Context matters
Leadership is relentlessly contextual. It’s not about leading any business, it’s about leading your business. We customise our approach based on your people, values, culture and business so what you get is perfectly suited to your needs.
Center of excellence in performance measurement
Our obsession with creating impact and driving meaningful business results for our clients led us to develop a center of excellence focused on measuring results and impact in each project, using a combination of business (lagging) and activity (leading) indicators.
Empowering Your Organization with Strategy Execution, Leadership, Talent and Succession Solutions
In today’s fast-paced business environment, organizations face numerous challenges in executing strategies, ensuring continuity, preparing for future needs, and cultivating a culture of excellence. At BTS, we understand these challenges and have developed comprehensive solutions that bridge strategy with leadership and talent capabilities to deliver impactful results.
Strategy Execution & Business Transformation
Going from strategy to execution can be a challenging process. To effectively execute new business and culture strategies in today’s constantly changing business environment, leaders must inspire teams to shift their mindsets and behaviours as well as initiatives and ways of working. We also know that change has changed. Traditional change management approaches can’t keep up with today’s business evolution. BTS can help your team understand, adapt, and thrive in new competitive landscapes and cultures, providing you with the alignment and mindset necessary to execute your strategies at scale.
Leadership Development
Great leaders create inclusive communities, empower individuals and teams with higher levels of motivation, and lift organisational results.
Today’s leaders must adapt to the rapidly changing world while maintaining the compassion and humility needed to relate to teams on a human level. BTS has deep understanding and expertise in leadership coaching and development, leveraging diverse methods to equip leaders with the tools to succeed.
Innovation & Digital Transformation
The discipline of discovering and solving problems in new ways under conditions of uncertainty. All companies want to innovate, and some leaders and organizations already have an idea of what they want to be doing, but only a handful are doing it successfully. We believe there are five key capabilities every organization needs to create a culture of innovation. BTS can partner with you to build the capability of your team in:
1. Thinking from the future back
2. Customer centricity
3. Divergent thinking & applied creativity
4. Disciplined experimentation (Agile)
5. Applied digital acumen and literacy
The challenges of strategy execution
BTS bridges the strategy-execution gap. Experience the signature BTS 'Leader Lab', the 'WHAT' and the 'HOW'
BTS Kenya
Hot Off The Press: BTS has officially launched our newest office in Nairobi, Kenya!
This marks a major step in our continued growth across Africa, bringing BTS’s global expertise and local partnerships even closer to the heart of East Africa’s transformation.
We’re proud to deepen our presence in the region and excited to co-create the future of leadership, learning, and people strategy in Kenya and beyond. 🇰🇪🌍
Read the full announcement
Our Smart Learning Methodology
Weaving 4 distinct ways of learning that serves the 70-20-10 development model, creating community and momentum to deliver maximum learning impact.
Process that engages learners to effectively acquire, retain, and apply new mindsets, skillsets, and toolsets in their life and work.
6 targeted application boosters focusing on developing action (application) in real-world scenarios for impact.
Leadership coaching as a culture enabler
To build a sustainable approach to recent success, and to reach their goal of becoming the best performing, most trusted, and respected consumer packaged goods company locally, the organisation identified the need to develop a leadership coaching culture. BTS Coach developed a coaching effectiveness program, as a new way of leading both people and business performance.
Multipliers: Elevating the leadership mindset
A leading provider of software for property and casualty insurers recognised a need to become more agile and tap into its full capabilities. To do so, the company needed an engaging way to virtually build excitement within the group, which was located remotely, while expanding its leadership skills, particularly for financial leaders.
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Leading during uncertainty
Facing challenging times within a difficult market, a recent acquisition, and quality issues, a leading consumer goods business recognised the need to develop its leaders. The organisation wanted to equip its leaders with the skills to manage through and out of this period of uncertainty.
The Change-Ready™ leader
A high-tech global manufacturing company set a new strategy, revolutionised their go-to-market approach, and went through a re-organisation. Feeling uncertain and lacking confidence about their ability to lead the change in their BUs and functions, the organisation’s leaders needed to become change-ready while not always necessarily being able to be face-to-face with one another.
The people side of Agile transformation
Facing a rapidly changing and highly competitive environment, a leading American financial services corporation knew that they needed to shift to become more agile and customer-centric to continue to succeed, shifting leadership behaviours from command and control to a more service-oriented “servant leadership” mindset.
Accelerating AI-first innovation at scale
Discover how a medical devices company partnered with BTS to build AI capability, align 13,000 employees and drive transformation at scale.
AI-first business simulations: A BTS innovation story
BTS is redefining experiential learning with AI-first business simulations that accelerate strategy, scale leadership impact, and drive real transformation.
Building an inclusive Multiplier culture
BTS partnered with a tech and manufacturing company to create a program that equips leaders with cross-cultural and organizational skills.
Big 4 Bank making it all about customers
BTS partnered with a Big Four bank to embed a unified, customer-centric conversation model that aligned compliance with trust-based engagement, equipping 2,500 leaders and bankers to deliver consistent, high-value customer experiences and accelerate a bank-wide service transformation.
Cultivating the critical mindsets from the individual up at top 4 bank
See how BTS helped an international bank accelerate agile transformation through coaching and simulation, increasing six critical mindsets by 17.3%.
Executing a strategic transformation
Learn how a global professional services firm partnered with BTS to accelerate growth, increase operational efficiency, and face the future.
Unlocking strategic transformation through culture change
Learn how an enterprise software company partnered with BTS to implement a large scale strategic shift by engaging key stakeholders.
Working in BTS Africa
Working at BTS means working in an organisation that puts people first. We want to be the coolest consulting firm to work for, and that is reflected in a work environment where you have opportunities to grow from day one.
At BTS Africa you will work with diverse teams, in a meritocratic and fun environment where you will have a lot of exposure both internally and with our clients. You will work with reference organisations from different industries, which will allow you to accelerate your learning curve and never stop learning.
Are you up for it?
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