Executive adviser. Leadership thinker. Author. Speaker.

Leadership has never lacked information. It has lacked space to think.

I have spent more than three decades working with senior leaders, executive teams, and organisations navigating pressure, growth, change, and complexity. The work has taken many forms: advisory, coaching, mentoring, speaking, books, leadership development, Presence Practice, and The Leadership Intelligence System. But the centre has remained the same. I help leaders think more clearly about what matters most.

Anton van der Walt
Where the work begins

Every organisation reflects the quality of its leadership. Every leader reflects the quality of their thinking. That is where my work begins.

Most leadership challenges are not caused by a lack of knowledge. The leaders I work with are usually experienced, capable, and deeply aware of the responsibility they carry.

What they often lack is not another answer. They lack the space, structure, and challenge to think clearly enough to see what the situation is really asking of them.

Leadership is not only a discipline of action. It is a discipline of thinking before action.
What I have learned

The difference is often found in the things most people overlook.

I have worked across industries, cultures, and continents. I have seen organisations grow, stall, transform, fragment, recover, and reinvent themselves. The pattern is consistent. Small shifts in how leaders think, listen, decide, and engage can create disproportionate changes in performance and trust.

That is the idea behind the 10% Differentiator. Not a slogan. Not a programme. A belief.

The difference between good and exceptional leadership is often found in the subtle things most people overlook: trust, judgement, empathy, courage, clarity, timing, and the quality of the conversations leaders are willing to have.

Where the work lives now
01

Speaking

I speak to executive audiences, leadership teams, and organisations about the human and strategic demands of leadership today.

Speaking →

02

Books

My books are a written record of the questions that have shaped my work: transformation, leadership perspective, and the small shifts that change everything.

Books →

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Presence Practice

Presence Practice is the enterprise advisory firm where I work with partners on leadership, business, finance, technology, transformation, and enterprise value.

Presence Practice →

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Leadership Intelligence System

LIS is where my philosophy of leadership thinking becomes a structured AI Leadership platform: a thinking partner built to help leaders work through complexity with clarity.

Leadership Intelligence System →

In their words

Your coaching sessions enlighten me to look at things from a different perspective. They help unlock things that perhaps I didn’t actually even think of before.

Terence Byrne, CEO

Every conversation we had, I walked away with something new, incremental or value-add.

Tariq Javed, CEO

Without these coaching sessions with you, my trajectory in the organisation would’ve been very different.

Sanjeev Aggarwal, Director

Everything I do begins with the same belief. Leaders rarely need more answers. They need better thinking. If that resonates with how you lead, I would welcome the conversation.

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