Cara Turner
Organisation & Innovation Coach
Helping you build a future-ready
organisation that thrives
About me
With over two decades of experience consulting across industries, I understand the unique challenges organisations face today.
My journey has been more career trail than career path - anything but linear. I've coached, consulted and trained in small and large organisations from media to banking, and even founded a coding academy.So whether you're a startup navigating rapid scaling or an enterprise undergoing digital transformation, I can help you build a future-ready organisation that thrives.
Here's how I can help
Want to explore ways to enhance innovation, software leadership, and organisational agility within your business?
I bring a unique blend of strategic vision, practical experience addressing complex organisational issues, and a collaborative approach that empowers teams to flourish. I'm passionate about helping businesses adapt, innovate, and build thriving cultures.Innovation Coaching helps your teams generate creative solutions that align with your business vision. Through Agile Coaching, I’ll guide you in implementing flexible methodologies that boost collaboration, efficiency and responsiveness. With my expertise in managing Innovation Projects, we’ll ensure your initiatives deliver impactful results, and with Organisational Leadership, we'll build a culture based on innovation and leadership, and streamline your operational execution.
Shift perspective, build thriving teams
Innovation Program
You know change is coming, and you're ready to start exploring the landscape, and find and test new ideas that actually fit your organisation. Innovation programs replace uncertainty and risk with discovery and learning.
Let's chat about getting you from hunch to innovation and implementation.
The innvoation journey
A short walk through the innovation process & phases, and what to expect for running a design thinking program in your organisation.
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Organisational Agility
Adopting and scaling agile practices present different challenges, and your teams need to deliver responsibly & perform at their best through each process. Whether they're onsite or remote, let's explore ways to improve collaboration, develop leaders, and build a culture where team members want to stay.
Introduction to agile practice
A short talk with lots of discussion, helping your leadership team make sense of agile practice and how it can support your teams.
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Innovation Workshops
You're stuck on a challenge - where to go next, or how to move forward with a too-well-known problem. Sometimes we just need some out of the box thinking.
Whether you're looking at a product or a process, let's design a workshop to explore new options - online or in person.
Creative problem-solving
This 90 minute workshop equips your teams with tools for flexible thinking, helping them find new approaches to stubborn challenges.
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Latest Thinking
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Get in touch
Schedule an introductory talk or a complimentary consultation today, and let's embark on a journey of innovation, growth, and success.Whether you're a disruptive startup, an enterprise undergoing digital transformation, or just want to optimise your operations, I’d love to connect and discuss how we can tackle your organisation’s needs.You can reach me through the contact form or drop me an email at the link below.
I'm available remotely or in person (Cape Town, South Africa).
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Introduction to agile practice
What is agile practice?
Equip your leadership team with the understanding of the problems that agile methodologies and practices are designed to address, how they do that, and where they fit with traditional management.
We'll discuss some of the myths, the WHY of agile and HOW it works, with plenty of time to discuss WHAT that might look like for your organization.Duration: 60 - 90 minutes
Location: Online, or onsite in Cape Town.
Creative problem-solving workshops
See your challenges in a new light, with creative problem-solving!
When we’re stuck on a stubborn problem, everything feels like a roadblock, and creative thinking can be really hard to get too.This interactive online workshop provides a framework to get you unstuck, and generate new ideas that resonate with you!Duration: 60 - 90 minutes
Location: Online, or onsite in Cape Town.
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The innovation journey
What does innovation look like for you?
Even when innovation is on the agenda, managers and leaders are often too absorbed with business-as-usual to find time to explore what innovation would look like for their organisation.
Building this understanding takes time, so this session provides an overview, and plenty of time for discussion.Duration: 60 - 90 minutes
Location: Online, or onsite in Cape Town.