Beyond Diversity: Building Cultures That Honour Every Culture
By: Cobus Visser Published on: 27/10/2025Learn how leaders can turn diversity into belonging by understanding cultural differences and leading with awareness, respect, and emotional intelligence.
The 10 Commandments of Family Business: Building a Legacy That Lasts
By: Cobus Visser Published on: 20/10/2025Family energy runs on trust, familiarity, and belonging. Business energy runs on clarity, systems, and accountability. The real art is learning to make these two energies dance together without one consuming the other. The principles that follow, I call them the 10 Commandments of Family Business, are not corporate theories. They’re human truths. They come from decades of working with leaders and families who have built, broken, and rebuilt what matters most. They are lessons born from the fire, literally and figuratively, because just like walking on fire, leading your family business requires calm focus, courage, and unshakable belief.
How to Scale the Family Business Without Any Bloodshed
By: Cobus Visser Published on: 13/10/2025Scaling a family business should strengthen relationships, not strain them. Yet, too many family-led companies break under the emotional weight of growth. In this piece, Cobus Visser explores the balance between love and logic in family enterprises showing how boundaries, clarity, and trust can turn generational tension into legacy.
The Calm Leader
By: Cobus Visser Published on: 06/10/2025There’s a moment every leader reaches where the noise becomes too much. The messages keep coming in. Deadlines tighten; the team looks to you for direction while you’re still trying to make sense of what’s changing. You start to feel that familiar pressure, the sense that if you stop moving, even for a second, everything might collapse. I’ve been there more times than I can count. In my early days leading teams, I used to think good leadership meant being the first to react. Quick answers. Fast decisions. Always available. I believed that constant motion meant progress. What I’ve learned over years of coaching executives and working with business owners across industries is this: speed without clarity eventually burns you out. Today, the most effective leaders aren’t the loudest in the room. They’re the calmest.
