Exciting times are afoot at Kite Rider as we replace DEW as our joint venture partner in Strategic Nudge with the US and UK-based business psychology and leadership development company Requisite Development. With over 30 years’ experience of management assessment and development in both the corporate and SME world, Requisite Development focuses on helping […]
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Collaboration with Warwick Business School Continues
It has been five years since we started our collaboration with Warwick Business School. Initially we focused on collaboration in the field of conflict management in business. Later we expanded this collaboration to include also subjects such as sustainability and managing complexity. With WBS full-time MBA classes we have explored how to manage complex environment […]
InnovateUK ‘infocus – Women In Innovation’ Highly Commends Kite Rider MD
The ‘infocus – Women in Innovation’ program of InnovateUK recognizes specifically the achievements of female-led companies conducting cutting-edge research and development in a range of sectors. Many of the individuals and companies awarded under the program are focused on finding new solutions to pressing challenges in energy, biotech, health but also fashion, design or sustainable […]
Foundation of Joint Venture Company ‘Strategic Nudge’ with DEW Ltd.
Kite Rider teams up with London based Developing Entrepreneurial Winners (DEW) Ltd. to create the joint venture company Strategic Nudge. The new venture aims at making our experience and expertise in developing complex, games-based training programs accessible to entrepreneurs, SMEs and corporations.
‘Schools for the Future’ for 6th Form Students at Sidcot School?
As part of a Quaker school’s aim to bring issues like global responsibility, social justice and peace studies to their students, Kite Rider has been asked to trial ‘Schools for the Future’ with a group of 6th formers at Sidcot School in Summerset. Kite Rider has worked with Sidcot School which would like to see […]
Kite Rider – Strategic Adventures Recognized for Innovation
For the past year, Kite Rider has worked closely with the Midlands Environmental Business Company, the regional branch of the UK Business Council for Sustainable Development, to help them realise projects in promoting the values of sustainable development and living in a low carbon society. MEBC and its members work together to promote the overall benefits […]
A Game-Changer: ‘Schools for the Future’ Version 2.0 Comes Hot on the Heels of the Last Upgrade!
Hot on the heels of the already impressive version 1.25, comes the new version 2.0 of the ‘Schools for the Future – Peace and Conflict Assessment’ training simulation. Now with added training scenes covering an introduction and tool kit for to conflict analysis, peace-building needs assessment, risk management, relevance assessment and an introduction into impact […]
A Perfect Collaboration – Team-Up With corncutter.design, Germany
Kite Rider has teamed up with web-design company, corncutter.design in a new venture to realize a major project for the German Government’s development cooperation organization GIZ. GIZ – the German Gesellschaft fuer Internationale Zusammenarbeit – approached the partnership after it learnt of the company and its capability to bring a vast knowledge of working and […]
Our Mission: High Impact Training to Reduce Risk
Kite Rider – Strategic Adventures was founded in 2012 by the former war journalist and CEO of the Peace and Conflict Journalism Network, Antonia Koop. Having worked in conflict and war zones around the globe and supporting journalists, aid and development workers as well as commercial organizations in operating in hostile environments Antonia Koop created […]