South Africa is the most real place on earth – it contains the dilemmas of the world. The rich diversity we work with in this country is very exciting and sometimes also very despairing.
Christo wants to be at the peak of his being by the time he hits 60. He wants to feel, from month to month, that he's influenced something or someone, and made a difference, no matter how small, and wants to live that with real consciousness.
One of Christo's biggest strengths is that of conscious fathering which has blessed him with one of the most superb relationships a father and son could have. Christo and his son Roark have an incredibly special relationship and this love shines through in everything he does in both his personal and professional life.
Christo definitely owns his own rank, but he seldom pulls rank. He also actively mines the belief that every person has a contribution to make – "it's about mining the greatness in other people". He has an irreverence for stupid rules and bureaucracy and that sometimes gets him into trouble!
Christo's dreams for the Village are for it to be a portal through which a rich diversity of people and clients can transform their businesses and their people. He wants the Village to contribute to unleashing the leader that lives within each individual; for the Village to never grow staid – to always have a healthy balance between working with proven stuff and testing the edges; and to create and sustain a network of abundance that is driven by Village specialists and our clients.