Living wisely is a lifelong journey about purpose, decisions and actions guided by those values that make us flourish.
Values guide our thoughts and actions, make quality relationships possible, determine our sense of what is right or wrong, and the decisions we regard best to make. Shared values provide a context in which people can develop their full potential and co-create meaningful achievements. Values-driven living, relating and leading make ethical organisations and societies possible.
WisePraxis joins hands with leaders and professionals to put values and ethics at the centre of their work. This requires wisdom about what matters most and courage and skillfulness to make it work. Spoken or unspoken, values are present in all we discuss, decide and do.
WisePraxis (Pty) Ltd is a registered training and consulting firm specialising in the integration of values in organisational practices such as leadership, teamwork, culture, sustainability and strategy. We have experience in working with boards, management teams and staff of different types of organisations.
As the founder and owner of WisePraxis, Arnold is also an associate professorship extraordinaire at University of Stellenbosch Business School (South Africa) and a member of the faculty at the IEDC-Bled School of Management (Slovenia).
He is furthermore a non-executive director of The Ethics Institute, a trustee of SEED Educational Trust, a member of the Advisory Board of the Business Ethics Network of Africa, and a member of the Advisors Group of the Globally Responsible Leadership Initiative.
Arnold specialises in the integration of values in organisational practices such as leadership, teamwork, culture, sustainability and strategy.
In 2019, Ciske completed her honours degree in Architecture at the University of Cape Town, after which she began working as a project manager at Our Future Cities, an NGO based in Cape Town, South Africa. This experience encouraged her to pursue an M.Sc in Transforming City Regions at RWTH Aachen University. With a newfound fascination in socio–technical systems and their potential to solve large–scale urban problems, Ciske has since moved to Imperial College London, where she is currently a PhD student in the Intelligent Systems and Networks research group.
Infinitely curious about the world we live in, Ciske enjoys reading about ideas held in economics, philosophy and ethics and uses these as a basis from which to think about shaping a more inclusive and equitable society.
