Marike Groenewald

Short vita

Marike is a leadership and organisational development consultant, facilitator and coach. After obtaining her Master’s Degree in Law from Stellenbosch University, Marike spearheaded people development and training in South Africa’s second largest political party for close to a decade, where she and her team built and implemented custom-made development programmes across the full spectrum of the organisation.

In 2016, Marike founded Anew, supporting its clients around the world with programmes and processes related to leadership, facilitation and programme development, organisational culture, change management, innovation, campaigning, branding and strategy development.

Marike has a special interest in working with individuals, teams and organisations operating in the fields of democracy-development and furthering human rights around the world, including NGOs, Think Tanks, networks, governments, academic institutions, social start-ups, and political organisations. Because of this focus, she has worked in a vastly diverse range of contexts and countries, including Brazil, Germany, Hong Kong, Jordan, Morocco, Sri Lanka, Switzerland, the Philippines, Ukraine, Taiwan, Tanzania, the United Kingdom and Zimbabwe, often with teams facing challenging constraints, or historic opportunities.

 As an accredited facilitator of the Thinking Environment, and with extensive experience working with the academic foundations of the Ontological Coaching body of work, Marike is deeply committed to creating an environment where participants can think for themselves with ease, rigour and engagement, taking ownership and crafting the solutions that is of most value to them. She frequently works with organisations that gather international, diverse groups, such as the International Academy for Leadership in Germany, the Kaleidoscope Trust, and the Friedrich Naumann Foundation for Freedom.

In 2015, she was selected as one of the Mail and Guardian's Top 200 young South Africans; in 2016 became a fellow of the Westerwelle Foundation's Young Founders Programme; and in 2018, she presented a TEDx talk on courage in Germany. Marike lives in Cape Town, South Africa.