Meet Mignon Keyser

I am an experienced strategic facilitator and organisational development coach. Combining more than 25 years’ experience in facilitation, planning and organisational development, I have assisted leaders and teams to make the best possible use of their resources and abilities.

After starting my facilitation career in the project management industry with Vodacom, Old Mutual and Metropolitan, I transferred these skills to the entrepreneurial and NGO world, where I felt I would make the most impact.  I  founded my own company Peerpower in 2003, and over the course of the last 25 years I have had the privilege of working with over 600 entrepreneurs and social innovators. The company specialised in incubation and acceleration programmes, collaborating with numerous entrepreneurial development agencies across South Africa. I have worked with award-winning social enterprises, technology companies and NGOs using my strategic skills and experience, assisting them to improve their impact and sustainability.

I have assisted organisations to build capacity, think through strategies regarding scale, develop teams and resources in management, process development and conflict management and structuring of leadership thinking and practice.

I have worked extensively with boards and governance issues at different levels, assisting boards to be more effective. I served on the board of the business accelerator, The Bandwidth Barn, in 2010-2011 and on a start-up board for an NGO.

I have a broad understanding of the many ways organisations can organise themselves; working with the unique set of variables of each has taught me to work with diversity, flexibly and creatively.