South Africa
Our work in South Africa is centered around improving the performance of our clients through the development of their people, recognising that people form part of systems.




Developing effective leadership behaviours in everybody
In Africa, IDG has delivered programmes to participants from over 15 African countries including, South Africa, Botswana, Zimbabwe, Zambia, Uganda, Ghana, Cote d’Ivoire, Nigeria and Egypt.
We have worked with multi-national clients from various different industries and our programmes include: culture strengthening, values integration, transitions into leadership, leading for performance, induction programmes and business relationship excellence.
Our underlying philosophy indicates our belief that leadership, followership and collaboration are needed to capacitate agency for organisational effectiveness.
Strategically aligned, effective partnerships
We invest heavily in ensuring each of our programmes are aligned to our client’s strategy and desired culture. We then engage in a tailored or bespoke solution, collaborating closely with an internal project team, to craft a design and delivery.
We believe that any effective partner needs to understand the context, issues, culture and organisational system of the client of the organisation it works with in order to bring about timely, measurable and sustainable change of behaviour that meaningfully contributes to performance.
To this end we have an emergent approach as opposed to an expert imposed one so that our contribution is completely relevant to the situation at hand and aligned to the organisation’s vision and mission. This recognises that the people within the organisation are the change makers.
Our Clients
At IDG we see our clients as our partners and we are proud to have productive, ongoing relationships with highly respected organisations both in the public and private sectors.
Our programmes are tailored according to the particular needs of our clients. We are sensitive to cultural differences and our bespoke interventions are designed to address and overcome strategic needs within the business.
As such, we spend a lot of time at the beginning of any relationship understanding exactly what our clients are trying to achieve before designing a bespoke solution. This approach will ensure that the solution is consistent not only with the strategic objectives but also with the political and cultural environment in which the organisation operates.

Where we help
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Leadership Development
Create better leaders, managers, followers and teams to deliver exceptional business results
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Commercial Excellence
Give your people commercial confidence and the ability to make better commercial decisions
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People Analytics
Know your business better by accurately surveying your people and effectively analysing the data
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Team & Executive Coaching
Get 1-to-1 training from industry experts for you or your team
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Early Career Development
Inspiring graduates, as well as school leavers and university students, to be the leaders of tomorrow
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Professional Qualifications
Achieve a recognised global qualification either as part of a programme or as an individual
OUR PEOPLE


Joanne Walsh
Joanne is Managing Director of IDG SA, having joined IDG as an associate in 2013 and delivering several programmes before IDG SA was established in 2016.
Joanne is a qualified capital markets specialist. Her work in capital markets saw her based in the USA and Frankfurt before returning to South Africa. She obtained a qualification from the Securities Institute of London and after several years trading, started a financial services company in Durban. After four years of building a solid business with several million dollars under management, Joanne sold this company to pursue her fascination in our ability as human beings to transform ourselves and therefore impact on the quality of our outcomes.
Joanne’s passion is to contribute to individuals, teams and organisations unlocking potential so that individually and in partnership with each other they can create responsible leadership, followership and performance excellence.
This passion has led Joanne to play a significant role as an intervention designer, trainer, facilitator and coach in various contexts from education, to international non-government organisations and commercial businesses. In addition she has experience as serving as board member and Chairperson on the Kairos Foundation Board – SA Board (an international NGO operating in SA) where she chaired the first fully operational board.


Rejoice Ngcongo
Dr Rejoice Ngcongo is one of the four directors, serving as Chairperson of Inspirational Development Group South Africa (IDG – South Africa)
Rejoice’s, 40 year, career has been constituted in the fields of learning and education, spanning secondary and tertiary education both as an educator and a leader in these institutions, in South Africa and around the world. Her extensive experience in learning, education and leadership development, is coupled with her corporate experience in the Talent and Human Resources fields.
Her career spans her formative years as a secondary and tertiary teacher and lecturer and later principal. For 2 decades Rejoice served as a Senior Lecturer, Professor of Education and then Vice Dean of the Faculty of Education at the University of Zululand. This experience in the field of education culminated her serving as Visiting Professor at the Universities of South Carolina in the United States of America, Latrobe and Victoria in Australia.
In her short stint as a practicing social worker, Rejoice realised that in order to make a meaningful contribution, teaching and solutions to unlock potential, were essential.
In 2004, Rejoice was appointed as founding scholarships manager of the Mandela Rhodes Foundation Scholarships Programme.
She is frequently invited to present papers and share her very own brand of thought leadership, particularly in the field of leadership for educators.
Despite her accomplished success, and never satisfied to rest on her laurels, Rejoice joined the Allan Gray Orbis Foundation where she led the Human Resources and Talent Development functions.
With a high school teaching diploma, a Bachelor of Social Science and her doctorate in Leadership and Conflict Resolution firmly under her belt, Rejoice has never stopped learning. More recently she has been accredited as a coach, mentor and facilitator.