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Team effectiveness
Facilitated sessions that build trust, surface what’s really getting in the way, and agree practical ways of working.
Organisational psychology × applied neuroscience
Learning that sticks to the real work.
Team sessions, leadership programmes and culture journeys for organisations that want people to think clearly, work well together and stay well while they perform.
Neuroscience based
Process focused
Outcomes driven
What we do
Bespoke work for teams, leaders and the organisations around them.
Every engagement is designed around your context: your people, your pressures and the outcome you need. No off-the-shelf workshops.
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Leadership development
Programmes that help leaders understand how people think, decide and respond under pressure, and lead accordingly.
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Culture & change journeys
Multi-session journeys that help people move through integration, restructuring or shifts in strategy together.
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Diagnostics & focus groups
Interviews and focus groups that turn engagement results and team tension into clear themes and actions.
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Learning programme design
From one-day sessions to multi-week programmes, built for transfer to the job, with facilitator guides included.
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Sustainable performance
Sessions on capacity, energy and work-life integration, so teams can keep performing without burning out.
Our philosophy
Real learning doesn’t happen in a clean classroom. It happens in the middle of the work, when you need it, and it’s rarely tidy.
Dirty Learning® is how we design every session: short, practical and close enough to your real challenges that people use it the next day.
Just-in-time
Learning that arrives when the need is real, not months before or after.
Imperfect on purpose
Trying, getting it a bit wrong and adjusting is how the brain actually builds new habits.
Embedded in context
Built around your team’s language, cases and pressures, so it transfers straight back to the job.
Physical Intelligence
Your body is part of how you think, lead and cope.
Physical Intelligence®, developed by Claire Dale and Patricia Peyton, is about actively managing the chemistry of your body and brain through breath, posture, movement and focus. We build these practical techniques into team and leadership work, organised around four elements.
Physical Intelligence® Practitioner, accredited through Claire Dale (2025). Visit the Physical Intelligence Institute
Strength
Staying grounded and confident under pressure.
Flexibility
Adapting, listening and connecting with others.
Resilience
Recovering well from setbacks and stress.
Endurance
Sustaining energy and focus over the long haul.
Approach & tools
Grounded in psychology. Tested in real rooms.
One team, two distinct toolkits. Here’s who brings what, so you know who to call for your session.
Work with Hanlie
Team and leadership dynamics, psychometrics, neuroscience and learning design
Insights Discovery®
Accredited since 2006. Working with team and leadership dynamics to improve ways of work, communication and team dynamics. Practitioner and Distributor.
About Insights DiscoveryIntegrative Enneagram
Individual and Team practitioner since 2016. Focused, deeper work on motivation, patterns, and personal and team growth.
About the Integrative EnneagramBrain-based Coaching & Facilitation
Completed a Certificate in the Foundations of NeuroLeadership in 2022, and Brain-Based Coaching certified since 2023. Works closely with the NeuroLeadership Institute South Africa to design and deliver behaviour change programmes.
About NLI South AfricaPhysical Intelligence® Practitioner
Accredited through Claire Dale in 2025. Practical techniques for managing stress, energy and presence as part of proactive capacity management.
About the Physical Intelligence InstituteWork with Gert
Strengths-based and character-based leadership coaching
CliftonStrengths®
Gallup-Certified Strengths Coach. Helping people name and use their natural talents and strengths at work. Team mapping and coaching help leaders to manage their teams better.
About CliftonStrengths (Gallup)Heartstyles
Character-based leadership coaching using the Heartstyles Indicator, a self and 360-degree assessment of the behaviours and mindsets behind how we lead.
About HeartstylesHow an engagement works
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Listen
We start with your context: conversations, interviews or a short diagnostic.
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Design
A session or journey built around your outcomes, people and pace.
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Facilitate
Hands-on, in person wherever possible, and cameras on when we’re virtual.
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Embed
Practical tools and follow-up so the learning carries into everyday work.
About
The people behind Zesty Soul.
We’re based in Durbanville, Cape Town, and work with teams across South Africa and internationally, virtually or face-to-face, bringing together psychology, applied neuroscience and strengths-based development.
Gert Annandale
Gallup-Certified Strengths Coach · Heartstyles coach
Gert helps individuals and teams recognise what they naturally do best and lead from character, not just competence.
He also plays a big part in the behind-the-scenes operations of Zesty Soul, ensuring smooth delivery to clients.
Talk to Gert about: CliftonStrengths® coaching and team mapping, and Heartstyles leadership coaching.
Hanlie Annandale
Registered Org Psych in South Africa and New Zealand
Hanlie’s focus is organisational effectiveness. She designs and facilitates learning programmes and team and leadership effectiveness sessions for some of South Africa’s major organisations.
She is the creator of Dirty Learning®, which brings together facilitated and online learning, leadership conversation guides and whatever else will shift behaviour, to support learning and lasting behaviour change.
Talk to Hanlie about: Insights Discovery®, the Integrative Enneagram, NeuroLeadership and brain-based coaching, Physical Intelligence, and learning programme design.
Real people. Real work. Real change.
What clients say
“Hanlie has a way to facilitate conversations that brings depth and psychological safety quickly. We have experienced Insights many times before, but never like this.”
On working with Hanlie
“We call on Hanlie once a year to see our progress, hold us accountable and set intentions for the next year. Times are tough, change is fast. She helps us put that into context for the team, and helps us prepare for the dynamics that might bring based on who we are.”
On working with Hanlie
“Gert gives it to you straight. He is not going to let you hide behind excuses.”
On working with Gert
Contact
Let’s unpack what your team needs.
We love meeting real people, so the best first step is a conversation. Tell us a little about your team and what’s going on, and we’ll take it from there.
Insights, Enneagram, NeuroLeadership, Physical Intelligence, programmes
gert@zesty-soul.comCliftonStrengths, Heartstyles
Phone
+27 72 361 9514Where
Durbanville, Cape Town, South Africa
Hours
Mon–Fri, 09:00–17:00 SAST