Chantell Ilbury
Chantell Ilbury
 
Chantell Ilbury is one of South Africa 's most exciting scenario strategists and facilitators, working locally and internationally. She believes passionately in the power of scenario thinking to help open one's mind and then focus it more effectively, making it the most operative form of business strategising in the new economy.
 
She holds a BSc in Chemistry, a post-graduate Higher Diploma in Education and an Executive MBA from the University of Cape Town . Chantell was born in Bulawayo and attended Eveline High School before moving to Pietermaritzburg to study at the University of Natal .
 
After completing her BSc. and HDE she started a career in education, firstly as a teacher and then as a designer of computer-based training material for industry as well as bridging courses for post-matric students. She also accepted positions to lecture Chemistry and Education. In 1995 Chantell expanded her approach to education when she founded Scienceworks - South Africa 's first science communication company.
 
She pioneered a radical learner-based approach to science education, which she then incorporated into the design, manufacturing, retail and eventual export, of a range of 16 creative science kits aimed at the 7-16 age group. It was whilst completing her Executive MBA at the UCT Graduate School of Business, that Chantell first met Anglo-American's Clem Sunter and introduced her ideas on scenario planning.
 
The collaboration led to their co-writing of the number one best-selling book The Mind of a Fox - Scenario Planning in Action, which is about to go into its tenth edition. Their writing of a second book is presently underway. As a scenario-planning strategist, Chantell has consulted at both a national and international level, including for the following:
 
• Democratic Republic of the Congo - scenarios for the establishment of a platform for negotiation and subsequent electoral systems
 
• United Nations Development Project - civic scenario dialogue process and development of a vision for Jamaica • Botswana - scenarios for Botswana - Vision 2016.
 
Click here to view her book: The Mind of A Fox - Scenario Planning 
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