Novo is the essential partner for maximizing the opportunities in transition for individuals, leaders and businesses. Our clients trust us to coach, guide, facilitate and co-create in ways that help them build long-lasting and measurable practices.
Individuals
We help some of the world’s leading executives, entrepreneurs and independent professionals access authentic and long-lasting behaviours through our short form coaching.
Combining data-driven perspectives, storytelling and the neuroscience of change, we offer clients the chance to sharpen their locus of control, augment their behaviours and mindsets, and develop practices that support current and future change.
Organisations
Our clients are global and local entities with business interests across Africa who care deeply about the transitions of their leaders and teams and want to maximize these commercial and personal development opportunities.
Speaking Brands
Novo’s powerful and provocative storytelling processes enriched by a deeply humanistic approach has made us a partner of choice for Speaking Brands.
CEOs, Entrepreneurs, Authors, Scientists and Executives trust us with their stories and how they show up on public platforms. Whether you’re preparing to speak on a global platform or want to sharpen your results presentation, we help align speakers with their brands in a way that allows them to unlock lasting insights for their audiences.
Journeys
A Novo Journey helps cut through the noise and clutter, develop perspective and create space. Whether you’re an Entrepreneur or Executive looking to stretch and learn, or a leader whose team needs a chance to reset, our handcrafted Journeys use Africa’s wildest spaces to unlock and invigorate your sense of what is possible.
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The Founder
Graham Fehrsen
A transition and change specialist, over the last 20 years, Graham has been helping individuals, teams, and organisations accelerate performance and become more effective and resilient during times of extreme change.
Coaching c-suite leaders and teams from across the listed space to entrepreneurs and independent professionals, Graham’s range of skills and experience has helped create meaningful and long-lasting change for people, teams, and organisations.
Known for his bold and honest style, Graham’s innate commercial abilities have seen him build business functions in large corporations, and build and drive entrepreneurial and charitable ventures. From 2015 Graham led the growth of the top digital learning and networking platform for CFOs and HR Directors in Africa.
Graham’s passion for Africa and its wild places shows up in his client immersion work, Novo Journeys, and, most meaningfully, as a fundraiser and volunteer member of Children in the Wilderness, a nonprofit that aims to facilitate sustainable conservation through leadership development and education of children in Africa.
Graham holds an MSc in Organisational Change and Development from the University of Manchester and a BA (Honours) in Applied Clinical Psychology from the University of the Witwatersrand.