Sea Point, Cape Town, South Africa, the world!
I use playfulness to build more present, agile and curious leaders.
My first gig was as a creative workshop facilitator at maximum security prisons. I went on to being an internationally published poet, performance artist, and blues singer. I skilled up with an MBA and was dean at Damelin, then director at UCT, then business owner, master Lego practitioner, and professor of play – in that order.4. Tell us a few of your favourite things.
The opportunity to collaborate and experiment with new ways of sense-making and leading in the world.
Thinking, imagining, laughing, panicking, stressing, doubting, connecting, reimagining, laughing, building, facilitating.
Lego; Japanese incense; glue guns; a kite-making kit… models of doing from many disciplines.
Those who are willing to experiment, laugh and try again when it doesn't work the first time around.
We’re suffering from a pandemic of over-seriousness. Evidenced by cynicism, burnout, and depression.
We don’t seem to understand that it is only in slowing down that we can make sense of and create impact in an inherently volatile and uncertain business environment.
I’m tinkering with different smells to build a workshop offering on discovering the olfactory essence of an organisational brand.
“Math men and mad men”; “thick data and big data”; “story-making and storytelling”; essentialism; impact; practice… slurp.
When I am playing Elder Scrolls Online (ESO).
Bursting into blues standards.
I’m a technophobe when I need to design processes, and a technophile when I want to think, play, collaborate and connect.
Pictures of my whippet catching frisbees on the beach mid-air. Band - an app to organise groups for multiplayer trials and farming dungeon runs online. Recipes taken from magazines. Screengrabs of awesome playlists. Twitter. Instagram. Chess app for endgames.
First, spend time experimenting and exploring in as many disciplines as you can. Knowledge from other places will really set you up well when it comes to helping others build impact. Do the work until you know yourself in all your multiplicities before you attempt to help others know themselves.
Simple as that. You can email Rumboll on moc.ycnatlusnocpihsredaelevitaerc@eniale and be sure to follow her on Twitter, and LinkedIn, as well as the Creative Leadership Consultancy on Instagram. Also click here for more on the IMC Conference, taking place on 14 March 2019 at Fox Junction, Newtown. Follow the IMC Conference on LinkedIn, Twitter, Facebook and Instagram for the latest updates.
*Interviewed by Leigh Andrews.