About Us
We provide organisations with the tools they need to navigate complexity and uncertainty so we can accelerate the transition to a more sustainable world.
Why we exist
To address the increasingly critical need for better decision making within organisations. Globalisation and digitalisation has created an interconnected world, and with this interconnectedness has come greater complexity that demands better management approaches.
What needs to change
Much of the traditional management literature and methodologies are based off 20th century theories and siloed thinking that no longer applies in an interconnected world.
There is a better way.
What we do
We help organisations uncover constraints and possibilities in their operating environments and help design safe-to-fail experiments to find what works to navigate uncertainty and change.
Our team
Founded by Michael Negendahl, in collaboration with a global network of associates.
After consulting in Big 4 for a decade, Michael saw the need for a different approach to helping clients with their increasingly complex challenges. Holding an MSC (OHS) and an MBA, Michael brings a deep educational background which has been complemented by his experience working in a Big 4 consulting firm for the past 10 years where he assisted clients create sustainable systems of work to mitigate strategic and operational risks.
Exaptive Labs has a network of specialists across the topics of psychosocial risk, complexity-informed strategy, risk management and organisational design.