Closing the distance between Your Purpose and the Impact you were destined to make...
Proximus Consulting partners with Boards, C-Suite executives and leadership teams across Africa and beyond — helping you define your purpose, unlock your culture, and build ecosystems where people thrive and businesses outperform.
25+ years
of Executive Leadership Experience
14+
African Countries
Served
92%
Customer Satisfaction and
Impact rating
10x
Growth and Performance
Impact
Born from purpose
Not Strategy
Proximus Consulting was not born in a boardroom. It was born in silence — on a Christian retreat in 2024, where Irwin van Stavel received what he describes as a spiritual calling to leave his 25-year corporate assignment to serve a deeper calling with a purpose to build high-performing Kingdom Businesses.
The name Proximus is drawn from the word proximity — the state of being near. Over 25 years of leading diverse teams and organisations across Africa, Irwin discovered a consistent truth: the closer things are — cultures to brands, leaders to their teams, people to their natural strengths — the more powerful the impact.
This is the work of Proximus. Closing the performance gaps that limit people and organisations from achieving their GREATNESS.
The place God calls you to is the place where your deep gladness and the world’s deep hunger meet.
Frederick Buechner
The business and performance struggles that we aim to solve for are:
Culture and Brand
When who you say you are and who you are day-to-day diverge, trust erodes and performance suffers.
Leaders and Their Teams
When their is distance between the leaders strategic vision and the team’s reality creates confusion, disengagement and poor strategy execution.
Business and Partners
When Business Partnerships lack depth, alignment, or shared purpose leave enormous value uncaptured.
People and Their Strengths
When your people operate outside their natural gifts, effort multiplies while results diminish.
Proximus helps close these gaps – through strategic advisory, culture redesign and high-impact leadership journeys enabled by AI-powered human performance platforms.
Proximus is the culmination of Irwin's lifelong journey of faith, leadership, and a deep calling to serve the African continent.
He believes in maintaining connections with clients, fostering organisational growth and guiding leaders and teams to become their most authentic and powerful version of themselves.