Fireglow

Fireglow’s story starts in beside a fire under a star-filled African sky and was so named out of a deep appreciation for the natural alchemy of a fireside conversation. It was launched by founding partners Dave and Bridget Woods, to incubate a powerful but little known approach to leadership and change, called Appreciative Inquiry. Fireglow, and our team of associates, grew exponentially over the following 12 years, designing and facilitating corporate-wide change and leadership programmes with South African Breweries, ABI (CCBSA), Tiger Brands and Unilever - as well as work with schools and numerous smaller profit and non-profit organisations. Fireglow’s offerings extended and deepened over the following years into individual and collective development, using the frameworks of the Enneagram, Integral and Leadership Maturity - and embedding the metaskill of mindfulness. Much of this work was refined in numerous executive development programmes for AngloGold and Engen in association with Aephoria. In recent years, our work has transitioned into the arena of ‘new generation’ organisations. We are mentoring and partnering young, innovative, purpose-driven leaders and organisations in their efforts to scale and sustain success from founder-led start-up to established organisation. We are learning to distill and package years of innovative experience, along with the essential elements of complex developmental frameworks, into hybrid, targeted and time sensitive programmes that fast track individual, team and organisational growth and performance.