Joanna Booysen
Consultant | Culture Strategy, Leadership & Organisational Transformation
Joanna Booysen is a consultant at Telos Partners, specialising in people and culture strategy, employee engagement through transition, leadership development, team effectiveness and governance.
She helps organisations move from the early stages of transformation through to implementation, with culture strategy as the connecting thread across her work. Joanna brings experience from business, the charitable sector and international consulting, including co-founding Telos Partners' business in South Africa.
Experience and expertise
People and culture strategy
Employee engagement through mergers, acquisitions and employee ownership transitions
Leadership formation, development and team effectiveness
Governance effectiveness
International and UK-based transformation programmes
Co-founder of Telos Partners’ business in South Africa
How Jeremy helps clients
Culture strategy - Helping leaders understand, shape and strengthen the culture required to deliver their strategy.
Leadership & team effectiveness - Supporting leaders and teams to build stronger relationships, work through complexity and perform effectively together.
Engagement through transition - Helping organisations sustain trust, clarity and participation during mergers, acquisitions, employee ownership and other periods of change.
Governance effectiveness - Working with leaders and governance groups to clarify roles, improve relationships and support better organisational decision-making.
How Jeremy helps organisations
Joanna works with leaders and organisations navigating transformation, cultural change and emotionally complex transitions. Her approach combines thoughtful listening with practical facilitation, helping people find clarity, strengthen workplace relationships and translate strategic intent into ways of working that can be sustained over time.
Client story
Joanna on culture, leadership and transformation
Joanna often supports organisations where strategic change depends on people experiencing the transition as well as understanding it. Her work brings leaders and teams together to explore the culture, relationships and behaviours that will enable the organisation to move forward. By creating space for honest dialogue and helping people connect strategic intent with day-to-day experience, she supports clients from the early stages of transformation through to practical implementation.
Questions Jeremy is regularly asked
Why does culture matter during organisational change?
Culture shapes how people interpret change, make decisions and work together. Joanna helps leaders make culture an explicit part of transformation so that strategy, behaviours and workplace relationships reinforce one another rather than compete.How can leaders maintain engagement through a merger, acquisition or ownership transition?
Clear communication is important, but engagement also depends on how people are involved and how uncertainty is handled. Joanna works with leaders to create purposeful dialogue, strengthen trust and give people meaningful ways to participate in the transition.What makes a leadership team effective?
Effective teams combine clarity of purpose with strong working relationships. Joanna helps leadership teams surface assumptions, work through difficult issues and establish ways of working that support both individual contribution and collective accountability.How does governance connect with culture?
Governance is not only about structures and formal responsibilities. The quality of relationships, conversations and decision-making around those structures also matters. Joanna helps organisations align governance arrangements with the culture and behaviours they want to sustain.What is the role of a facilitator in complex leadership situations?
A facilitator can create the conditions for leaders to think clearly together, particularly when issues are sensitive or emotionally charged. Joanna brings calm, careful listening and structure so that clients can find their own way forward with greater clarity and confidence.
Insights & thought leadership
Discover culture, leadership and organisational transformation insights from Joanna.
Why culture matters during organisational transformation
How culture supports performance and effective strategic change
Employee engagement through mergers, acquisitions and ownership transitions
Building stronger leadership teams through relationships and clarity
Governance effectiveness and the human dynamics of decision-making
Joanna discusses why culture matters
