About
Hi, I'm Carla.
I'm a learning and capability strategist, programme designer and coach. For the past decade I've helped organisations turn a complex set of training needs and talent requirements into learning experiences that change something.
Underneath all of it is one question I have never quite stopped asking: what actually enables people to change?
I'm still interested in that messy, human middle – where strategy meets people, where capability meets culture, and where individuals, organisations and systems move from knowing change is needed to developing the capacity to make it happen.
What I bring
- Strategic thinking
- Understanding the organisational challenge behind the brief.
- Learning expertise
- Knowing how adults actually develop capability.
- Systems thinking
- Seeing learning as part of a wider organisational system.
- Programme leadership
- Coordinating with multiple stakeholders to create programmes with lasting impact.
- Coaching
- Creating the conditions for people to think, reflect and change.
- Platform creation
- Building platforms where diverse perspectives become shared understanding and collective action.
Experience
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2023 – present
UCT Graduate School of Business
Learning Design Partner
- Lead the end-to-end design and delivery of multi-year, multi-cohort leadership and management development programmes with budgets exceeding R10 million.
- Translate organisational priorities and capability requirements into structured learning journeys, programme architectures and implementation plans.
- Design blended experiences combining facilitated learning, reflection, coaching, workplace application and international exposure.
- Facilitate integration and reflective learning sessions for senior leaders, government officials and board-level participants.
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2021 – 2023
African Management Institute
Learning Design Lead
- Led the design and delivery of scalable leadership and management programmes across eight African countries.
- Developed learning solutions for diverse organisational, cultural and technological contexts while maintaining consistency across markets.
- Managed multicultural teams and cross-border stakeholders, using learner feedback to improve content and implementation.
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2020 – 2021
Independent Consulting
Senior Learning Designer
- Contributed to digital learning projects for Cambridge Judge Business School, FutureLearn and the University of Bristol through Hubble Studios.
- Supported learning design for Tekano Atlantic Fellows for Health Equity, Columba Youth Leadership and SALGA Women in Local Government Leadership through Elevate Learning.
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2019 – 2020
iXperience
Head of Global Partnerships · Programme Director, Lisbon
- Built university partnerships and developed avenues to increase international student mobility.
- Programme Director for Lisbon, leading the academic and execution team across content, operations, participant experience and legal compliance.
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2016 – 2019
UCT Graduate School of Business
Business Developer
- Translated organisational learning needs into theoretically sound executive education programmes.
- Designed the School's first blended learning programme.
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2013 – 2015
The Red & Yellow Creative School of Business
Instructional Designer
- Designed learning content and learner experiences within a creative business education environment.
Education
- Honours, Creative Brand Leadership
- Vega School of Brand Leadership · 2012
- Master of Arts, English Studies
- Stellenbosch University · 2009
- International Exchange
- Utrecht University, Netherlands · 2007–2008
- Honours, English Studies
- Stellenbosch University · 2006
Professional development
- Professional Coaching Programme, UCT GSB
- In progress
- Coaching for Development, UCT GSB
- 2024
- Instructional Design Models, edX
- 2018
- Finance for Non-Financial Managers, UCT GSB
- 2016
- How to Measure Learning Effectiveness
- 2016
Let's talk
Bring the problem.
You don't need the brief perfectly worked out before you get in touch. We can figure out what kind of intervention – if any – will actually help.