What We Do
"Sawubona" is a Zulu greeting which directly translated means "I see you". The Zulus believe by greeting a person with "Sawubona" they bring that person into existence. Sawubona Consulting specialises in building leadership capability and high performing teams and in doing so helps to bring purposeful leaders and high performing teams into existence.
Bringing great leaders into existence
Great leaders drive results aligned to the organisations strategy by providing teams with direction, purpose and creating the right environment for their team to shine. We will work with you to create bespoke, targeted leadership development programs to build leadership capability and prepare your leaders for the future of work.
Creating high performing teams
Effective teams are focused on delivering results aligned to the organisation's strategy. They are efficient, productive, inclusive and collaborative. Effective, high performing teams do not happen by accident. Sawubona Consulting creates development experiences which will help to build trust, purpose, and alignment - the ingredients for creating high performing teams.
Workshop design and facilitation
Sawubona Consulting is experienced in designing and facilitating interactive team workshops for team building and strategic planning. We take the time to find out your needs and then create a day that ensures you get the best outcome for you and the team.
Enabling leaders to reach their full potential
Executive coaching is an important component of developing leadership capability, transitioning leaders into more senior positions and ensuring the talent within your organisation reach their full potential. Sawubona Consulting has had 10 years of coaching experience helping leaders reach their full potential.
Change leadership
How transformational change is managed and led is vital to how well it will be embraced by your people and embedded into your organisation. Sawubona Consulting can work with you to develop a change management strategy for your entire organisation, or to create programs that will manage and embed transformational change.
Experience
Bringing purposeful leaders and high performing teams into existence
Craig Buller is the founder and principal consultant of Sawubona Consulting. He is an experienced organisational development professional, facilitator, change manager and executive coach with over 30 years experience in People & Culture, Line Management, Project Management and B2B Marketing roles. He has worked across a variety of industries such as; Banking & Finance, Telecommunications, Aviation and Property, enabling transformational cultural change, developing capable and purposeful leaders, and building high performing teams. Craig is resourceful and pragmatic. His approach is one where he identifies both symptomatic and underlying organisational challenges with a focus on influencing positive business outcomes.
Bringing your CVP to life
Developed and facilitated a half day team based workshop to enable teams to bring their organisation's customer value proposition to life in their day to day operations. The program ran for 12 months and was delivered to over 200 teams.
Inducting and onboarding new leaders
Designed and facilitated an induction program for those who are new to leadership or new to the organisation in a leadership position for a major financial services organisation.
Building high performing teams
Designed a set of modular workshops to create trust, purpose and alignment to build high performing teams.
Change leadership
Created an organisation wide change management strategy and collaborated with the Project Management Office to embed significant transformational change. This helped the organisation embed transformational change while embracing and building change management capability.
Leadership Development Facilitation
Facilitated a significant first time leader development program consisting of several 2 day modules over a 6 month period for a major financial services company.
