About Us – Springboard Training

Are you ready
for change?

Springboard empowers people and organisations to embrace change, unlock potential, and create meaningful, sustainable progress.

OUR COURSES:

Our Training Courses

COURSE

TTL Creating Clarity out of Uncertainty

Are you ready to live a life that has a positive impact on you, your family and your community. Join this 11-session program of discovery, planning and purposeful action to create the future (living legacy) you want.

COURSE

Coming Soon:

How to Start a Small Business

Ready to turn your purpose into a sustainable business? Join this six-session course to identify opportunities, plan strategically, manage finances, and build a meaningful legacy.

Our Vision

A generation of purpose-driven entrepreneurs transforming Africa’s economy.

Springboard Academy envisions thousands of young South Africans — and Africans — building sustainable small businesses, creating employment, and unlocking the God-given potential of our nation.

“The Springboard Academy has a vision of stimulating Africa’s economy by raising up a generation of young, skilled and successful small business owners and entrepreneurs.”

About Springboard
Academy

South Africa is a country blessed with extraordinary beauty, abundant resources, and deeply talented people. Yet inequality, poverty, and unemployment continue to hold many back from discovering their purpose and building a future filled with hope.

Springboard Academy exists to change that. We believe that every young person carries unique value — and with the right guidance, they can create solutions that uplift families, strengthen communities, and contribute to a thriving national economy.

Our mission is built on truth, diligence, and faith:

Deliver foundational business and life skills that empower young entrepreneurs
Uplift and up-skill committed individuals using the Gospel as our foundation
Mentor small business owners through encouragement, accountability, and practical support
Cultivate a culture of paying it forward to multiply impact across the economy

We are here to help you discover your purpose, clarify your value, and build a future that honours your calling. “With the right motivation and guidance our talented youth will be able to create solutions to improve the lives of all our people…”

About Terence

I’m Terence — founder of Springboard Academy, entrepreneur, mentor, and passionate believer in the unique abilities God has placed within every individual.

“I believe in the unique abilities and capabilities of each individual.”

My purpose is to help you uncover your own. I walk alongside entrepreneurs as they discover their strengths, refine their vision, and build strategies that lead to meaningful impact and lasting legacy.

“My passion is to facilitate your discovery of that unique value, and develop a strategy to fulfil your purpose and legacy.”

Testimonials

“Terence Knott-Craig, through his work at Springboard Academy, has been more than a business mentor—he’s been a trusted guide throughout my professional journey. His unique ability to bring clarity to strategy, focus to goals, and structure to execution has helped me grow not just as a Managing Director, but as a leader. His emphasis on communication, feedback, and celebrating wins has transformed the way I lead and build teams.”

Pieter M. Kruger

PMCK Group of Companies

“I love the Take the Leap! for Youth program. It allowed me to think about my future. For the first time, I learned what a Living Legacy means. The process of identifying my strengths and what I want to do in life was so exciting for me. Thank you for the opportunity!”

Alexa Young

“The TTL assisted me to have clarity on my purpose, I always knew it subconsciously but it was not clearly visible in my mind and TTL assisted me clarify my living legacy "which is to help South African develop a Devine identity" one of the main things I learnt from TTL is not to wait for perfection and the right time but to start implementing my living legacy.

As results even before I finished the program, I was busy publishing my book that I have been postponing for a very long time and I am currently seeing my living legacy in action.”

Yibanathi

Entrepreneur

“One-on-one coaching with The Springboard Academy has changed the way I lead my teams for the better. With Terence’s hands on approach to training, and focusing on my journey to improve myself on a personal and business level, I can honestly say that I am more confident in my abilities and my role in my restaurants. to push us further into the future”

Kevin Steyn

PMCK Operator