Faculties and Programmes

Our purpose is to grow agile, aligned, and engaged managerial leaders who co-create innovative ecosystems. We dream of influencing the co-creation of humane sustainable societies. There are multiple ways we attempt to do this through varied community engagement initiatives, ensuring that the knowledge within is shared with surrounding communities.

Faculties

At The DaVinci Institute, a faculty is an academic domain that organises knowledge, teaching, and research around a coherent field of practice, grounded in the Management of Technology, Innovation, People and Systems (TIPS™), our proprietary management and leadership framework, which integrates these dimensions to support systemic learning and real-world impact.

  • Faculty of Technology and Innovation Management: Focuses on how tools, systems, and ideas are integrated to create meaningful change. It develops leaders who can apply technology to improve performance, harness innovation to respond to complexity, and translate ideas into practical, scalable solutions with organisational and societal impact.
  • Faculty of People Management Management: Explores the human dimension of leadership, including engagement, culture, identity, ethics, and purpose. This faculty develops leaders who can build trust, facilitate meaningful conversations, lead across cultures, and enable people to perform and grow within complex systems.
  • Faculty of Systems Thinking and Research: Provides the integrative, systemic lens that connects technology, innovation, and people. This faculty focuses on systems thinking, organisational ecology, and understanding micro, meso, exo, and macro contexts to co-create sustainable, aligned, and adaptive realities.

You can read more about our faculties here.

Heads of Faculty

Heads of Faculty are the academic custodians of a knowledge domain, responsible for stewarding curriculum, research, and learning in ways that integrate the management of technology, innovation, people, and systems, and translate knowledge into real-world, societal impact and organisational performance.

  • Dr Sam February, Head of Faculty: Technology and Innovation Management
  • Dr Mamohau Sekgaphane, Head of Faculty: People Management
  • Dr Gavin Isaacs, Head of Faculty: Systems and Research

You can read more about our heads of faculty here.

Programmes

The DaVinci Institute has a wide range of programmes, including nine accredited higher education qualifications, forming an integrated learning journey from a Higher Certificate (NQF 5) to Doctorates (NQF 10). These higher education qualifications (listed below) are grounded in managerial leadership, the co-creation of real-world impact and our proprietary managerial leadership framework, the Management of Technology, Innovation, People and Systems (TIPS™).

You can read more about our higher education qualifications here.

In addition to its higher education qualifications, The DaVinci Institute is an accredited Skills Development Provider offering Quality Council for Trades and Occupations (QCTO) occupational qualifications that are directly aligned to workplace and industry needs. These qualifications are occupation-led, practice-focused, and designed to build applied competence for immediate impact, complementing the Institute’s broader leadership, innovation, and systemic learning offering.

QCTO Occupational Qualifications offered

  • Higher Occupational Certificate: Human Resource Management Administrator: NQF Level 5 | SAQA ID 121150 | 120 Credits
  • Occupational Certificate: Project Manager: NQF Level 5 | SAQA ID 101869 | 240 Credits
  • Occupational Certificate: Small Business Consultant: NQF Level 5 | SAQA ID 118741 | 244 Credits
  • Occupational Certificate: Retail Chain Store Manager: NQF Level 5 | OFO Code 103150 | 106 Credits
  • Occupational Certificate: Training and Development Practitioner: NQF Level 5 | SAQA ID 101321 | 190 Credits

You can read more about our occupational qualifications here.

Heads of Programmes

At The DaVinci Institute, a Head of Programme is the academic lead for a specific qualification, responsible for its student recruitment, academic quality, delivery, and alignment with the Institute’s philosophy, TIPS framework, and regulatory requirements.

Heads of ProgrammesProgrammes/ Qualifications
Dr Sam FebruaryHigher Certificate in Management of Technology and Innovation (NQF 5)
Advanced Certificate in Business Innovation Management (NQF 6)
Advanced Diploma in Innovation Management Practices (NQF 7).  
Dr Mamohau SekgaphaneBachelor of Commerce in Business Management (NQF 7)
Prof Ben AndersonPostgraduate Diploma in Business Leadership (NQF 8)
Master of Management in Technology and Innovation (NQF 9)
Master of Business Leadership (NQF 9)
Dr Gavin IsaacsDoctor of Business Leadership (NQF 10)
Doctor of Management in Technology and Innovation (NQF 10)

You can read more about our heads of programme here.