Maryse Curutchet

Maryse Curutchet

Maryse Curutchet consults to business and to the public sector in the development of leadership, potential, creativity and organisations. Born and bred in France, Maryse made her home in South Africa where she graduated from UNISA with a B Com. in Industrial Psychology. Fascinated by the way thinking and imagining impact success, she pursued her studies in Cognitive Psychology for non-degree purposes with UNISA.

She completed an international MBA at the Cranfield University Business School in the UK. Over the past two decades her work has focused on leadership development and on innovation with organisations across sectors locally and abroad.

In South Africa, these organisations cover most sectors including Media, FMCG, Mining, Metallurgy, Transport, Industry, Retail, Innovation and Technology, Finance and Banking, Law, Transport, Executive Education, the Resources Sector, Government and NGO’s.

In Europe and the US, these organisations encompass Business Schools (London), Private Banks (Switzerland), Telecoms and Transport (France), Pharmaceuticals (Germany and Belgium), Household Goods (UK and Belgium), Media (Benelux and Scandinavia), Oil and Transport in the US.

For two years in Cambridge, home to Britain’s most advanced technology and innovation companies, Maryse was a consultant for a leading international Innovation and Technology consultancy. During that time her focus was on the people side of Innovation, and Change, and she researched through extensive use of psychometric instruments the links between the leadership profile of an organisation and its capacity for sustainable growth through innovation.

Modes of engagement include consulting, designing programmes for the assessment and development of leadership teams, coaching and facilitating, faculty for academic institutions, primarily Wits Business School.

Maryse’s enduring interest lies in the capacity of creative, fresh thinking to produce productive change and in leadership development.

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