Chantell Ilbury

Chantell Ilbury is a globally-respected scenario strategist, facilitator, speaker and top-selling business author. She is a highly-accomplished speaker – her work has taken her as far afield as the UK, the US, the Netherlands, Belgium,South Africa, Austria, Italy, Ukraine, Australia, Jamaica, Kuwait, Singapore, India, Mauritius, Réunion Island, as well as throughout Africa. She is also versatile, with a number of talks on offer (see below), and has an engaging, relaxed and conversational approach in her presentation.

As a strategist and facilitator she specialises in guiding organisations around the world through strategic conversations, especially in times of uncertainty; she is also a guest lecturer on strategy and scenario planning at a number of top business schools.

Chantell holds a BSc in Chemistry, a post-graduate Higher Diploma in Education, an Executive MBA from the University of Cape Town Graduate School of Business, and has studied Strategic Negotiation through Harvard Business School in Boston. It was at UCT where she first met Anglo America’s Clem Sunter and shared her ideas on scenario planning that lead to the writing of their best-selling books The Mind of a Fox, Games Foxes Play and Socrates and the Fox was released in 2007. The three books were later published together as The Fox Trilogy in 2011. Her latest book – A Fox’s Tale: Insights from one of Africa’s most creative strategic thinkers, is published by Penguin, and is available now in paperback and e-book.