Nicola Robins

Nicola help organisations navigate sustainable transition when the usual maps stop working. Her work sits at the intersection of sustainability, complexity science, and Indigenous knowledge systems, drawing on 30 years of practice across Africa and 25 years in the Ngoma tradition of Southern Africa.

As co-founder of Incite, a Cape Town–based consultancy, she works with leaders to strengthen judgement, decision-making capability, and coherence under pressure. 

Nicola holds a master’s degree in Industrial Ecology from Yale University and an honours degree in Impact Assessment from the University of Cape Town. In addition to her work with the Cambridge Institute for Sustainability Leadership, she teaches at the University of Cape Town Graduate School of Business and Trinity College Dublin.

She is the author of Diviner Mind: How Organisations Can Learn from the Indigenous Science of Uncertainty and lives in Cape Town, a short walk from the edge of the Great African Seaforest.