Corporate Experience

Anne is an internationalist who has lived and worked in Canada, Switzerland and England. She has held a variety of roles in organisations such as IBM, Nestle and P&G with her last management role having global oversight at Nestec.

Anne holds a Bachelor of Business Administration (Honours) and enhanced her international leadership skills through the IMD Program of Executive Development (PED) in Switzerland and the London Business School’s Nestle Leadership Program.

Coach Credentials

Trained with the Coaches Training Institute (CTI) and a member of the International Coach Federation, Anne is an ICF Professional Certified Coach (PCC) and a CTI certified coach.

Corporate Coach Experience

Anne provides individual and group coaching at board and mancom level. Client positions range from MD, VPs and Directors to middle management. Her experience ranges across IT, FMCG, Banking, Mining, Energy, Automotive and Transport in organisations such as Nestle, Deutsche Bank, Ford, Areva, Lancome, BMW, Tieto, Lloyds of London, Lego, Aldi and WH Smith.

Unique About Anne

Anne is skilled in utilising the R2 Strength Profiler and conducts Team Alignment Coaching workshops to help senior leadership teams create a step-change in organisational performance.

She is a published author with AWC London Bridge, Expat Plaza and The American.

Corporate Experience

Asli is an internationalist who has lived and worked in Austria, Dubai, UAE, USA, Turkey, Singapore and England. Her experience in global roles crosses functions from Operations Director to HR Leader, Talent Management Director and Leadership & Organisational Director with the retail group Boyner, Nicholson International Consultancy, Commerce One and Microsoft.

Asli holds a BSc in Public Administration and Political Science an M.A. in Human Resources.

Coach Credentials

A member of the International Coach Federation, Asli is an iPEC Certified Professional Coach. Before launching her coaching practice, Asli coached internally at Microsoft with executives around the world in her role as Leadership and Organisational Director for the Chief Strategy & Research Officer

Corporate Coach Experience

Asli provides individual and group coaching to leadership teams in organisations such as Experian, American Express, Sygenta, Chevron and Microsoft. At Microsoft she was a dedicated coach for High Potentials and the Leaders on Succession lists.

Unique About Asli

Asli brings a range of assessment tools experience to help her clients raise their self awareness, including; Hogan, TotalSDI Strengths assessment, Energy Leadership Index, Gallup Strengths Finder and Hay’s emotional intelligence.

She has a deep specialisation in Collaboration and Conflict Management based on strengths, triggers, motives and awareness and deploys this knowledge working with High Potential Teams.

She is highly skilled in transition coaching, executive presence and communication skills.

Corporate ExperienceBarbara has worked in American, Multi-national and Chinese organisations and from that brings a rich, cross cultural perspective as a psychotherapist, counsellor, mediator and Executive Director of a non-profit training center for healthcare professionals to her coaching practice.

She holds an MEd in Educational Psychology, a BS in Psychology and Sociology and is a Licensed Mental HealthCounsellor.
Coach CredentialsTrained by the College of Executive Coaching and a member of the International Coach Federation, Barbara is a Board Certified Coach (BCC) with the Center for Credentialing and Education (CCE).
Corporate Coach ExperienceBarbara has over 25 years experience providing individual and team coaching to CEO’s, Directors and Senior Executives in Fortune100 and global companies across healthcare, medical technology, manufacturing, education, finance, retail, FMCG and professional services.
Unique About BarbaraBarbara’s background enables her to bring client’s a deep awareness of emotional and political intelligence in their roles whilst supporting higher levels of innovation and and strategic thinking.

This unique capability showed in her book THE ENLIGHTENED EDGE FOR LEADERS: Ignite the Power of You which was praised and endorsed by Stephen Covey.

She has also created her own range of assessment tools and activities:

1. The Contact-Zone^TM: Power & Influence board game and training
2. Performance and Balance: Dynamic tools for Work & Life workshop
3. Work-Life Effectiveness Assessment for individuals
4. Courageous Communication training program
5. The Relational Performance Assessment for organizations

and is qualified to administer MBTI, FIRO, TKI and CPI.

Corporate Experience

Claire has over 17 years of experience working within large corporate organisations such as American Express and Royal Sun Alliance. She held senior positions such as Vice President IT, Director IT etc.

Claire holds a Bachelor of Mathematical Sciences (Honours).

Coach Credentials

Trained with the Coach University and the Academy of Executive Coaching Claire is a member of the International Coach Federation and is an ICF Professional Certified Coach (PCC).

Claire was a ICF Board Member, Co-Chair of the International Coach Federation Global Regulatory Committee and former President of the UK International Coach Federation.

Corporate Coach Experience

Since 2000 Claire has delivered individual and group coaching at Director, MD, Regional Head and Global Head levels in Pharmaceuticals, Financial Services, Technology and Manufacturing. Clients include AstraZeneca, Barclays, BEA Systems, Cisco, Fed Ex, Ford, Johnson & Johnson, Nationwide, Newell, Rubbermaid, Philips, Sanofi-Aventis and Thermo Fisher Scientific.

Unique About Claire

Claire is skilled in utilising MBTI and Lominger Voices with clients. She also has a special focus on Transition and Career Development and Progression and is described by her clients as ”Bringing a special blend of creativity and focus”.

Corporate Experience

Gilbert bring a very practical background to his executive coaching clients having both started, run and sold a private practice and worked as a senior member of the leadership team of a hospital.

He also served on the board of directors at HWSETA. Holding a BChD and MSc in Health Sciences Gilbert brings 22 years of experience to his coaching practice.

Coach Credentials

Trained with New Ventures West and the University of Cape Town, Gilbert is a member of the International Coach Federation and is an ICF Professional Certified Coach (PCC).

Corporate Coach Experience

Gilbert provides individual and team coaching to corporate and government sector clients. He typically works with C Level, Directors and senior managers from organisations such as Coca Cola, Pearson’s, Old Mutual Wealth, UCT, Amy Biehl Foundation, Chevron, Woolworths and Lewis Group.

Unique About Gilbert

Gilbert is certified to deliver the Integrative Enneagram Assessment and holds the capacity to blend science and the humanities seamlessly.

Corporate Experience

Hilary has an impressive breadth of corporate experience from systems engineering and sales through to Operation Director and Head of HR with IBM, Safetynet PLC, Unicorn, 4Front Technologies and NCR. She holds a Post Graduate Diploma in Strategic Training and Development and has served extensively on the local and global boards of the professional body ICF.

Coach Credentials

Hilary is a member of the International Coach Federation and is an ICF Professional Certified Coach (PCC). She was the President of ICF UK in 2012 and has served on the global board as a Director since 2014. Hilary is currently the Global Chair of ICF.

Corporate Coach Experience

Hilary has been coaching professionally for over 15 years in the UK, Europe and worldwide working with executives of small and medium-sized businesses as well as multinational organisations.

Unique About Hilary

Hilary is certified in a number of tools to support her client interventions, including SDI®, PCI Verax, BARON-EQI, and DISC. She often works with young aspiring leaders and with leaders who are in transition to a new and often more senior role.

Corporate Experience

Janet leverages over 18 years of corporate experience as Vice President with Charles Schwab and General Mills in serving her clients. She holds a BSc in Economics and an MA in Organisational Development and Human Resource Management.

Coach Credentials

With over 12,000 hours coaching experience Janet is a member of the International Coach Federation and is an ICF Master Certified Coach (MCC)

Janet was the Global Board President of ICF in 2009 and i 2012 was the President of the ICF Foundation Board of Trustees.

Corporate Coach Experience

Janet provides individual and team coaching at CEO, CFO, Director and senior executive levels, frequently related to times of transition, in organisations such as: American Red Cross, Bank of America, Bristol Myers, Charles Schwab, Fireman’s Fund Insurance,Franklin Templeton, Group Health Cooperative, MultiCare Health Services, Phillips Healthcare, Startek, The Boeing Company and Visa International.

Unique About Janet

Janet has a specialisation in Systemic Coaching and Constellations and utilises a variety of leadership and team development resources in her work, including TILT 365, Birkman Method, Core Values Index and Team Coaching International

Corporate Experience

Jean has over 20 years experience ranging from Business Analyst to Regional Sales Manager with Standard Bank and NedBank. She is currently also an internal coach at NedBank to senior and Middle Management teams across Africa.

She is currently a Doctoral candidate for a PhD in Applied Leadership and Coaching.

Coach Credentials

Trained with the Centre for Coaching at University Of Cape Town and New Ventures West, Jean is a member of the International Coach Federation and is an ICF Professional Certified Coach (PCC). She is also active in the Cape Town ICF chapter and is a practitioner member of COMENSA. Jean is an accredited coach supervisor through the Sandton Coaching Centre.

Corporate Coach Experience

Jean provides team and individual coaching to internal and external clients across middle and senior management levels. Clients include NedBank, Brandhouse, Sanlam, Turqle Trading, Media24, Meihuizen International and Cape Grace.

Unique About Jean

Jean is a highly effective internal coach who understands the balance between management and coach responsibilities for the client executive. As a PhD candidate in leadership and internal coach she has a unique current balance of theory and practice in her daily work.

She is a certified Enneagram practitioner and is a skilled change management facilitator

Corporate Experience

Karen’s first career as an educator (University Lecturer at Monash, Curtin & Swinburne) brings an in-depth understanding of how people learn to her 25 year coaching practice. The realisation that she was contributing more to her students than simply teaching them curriculum triggered her interest in developing people as well as minds as she transitioned to coaching in industry.

She is currently a Doctoral candidate for a PhD in Applied Leadership and Coaching.

Karen holds a Diploma of Teaching from the Australian Catholic University and a Bachelors (BEd) in Education & Psychology.

Coach Credentials

Holding a Graduate Certificate in Coaching from Swinburne University, Karen is a member of the International Coach Federation and is an ICF Professional Certified Coach, (PCC). She is a Past Regional President of ICF Australia and a Past Global President of the International Coach Federation.

Corporate Coach Experience

Karen has over 25 years of experience as an executive coach. She provides a quality brand of individual and group coaching for senior executives across the Health, Pharmaceutical, Telecommunications, Mining, IT, Banking & Finance, Manufacturing and Consulting sectors.

Unique About Karen

As the first non-American leader of the ICF in 2009 she faced the challenges that confront many leaders – assisting a geographically and culturally diverse team to think together to shore up the future of the organisation. Being at the helm of this complex organization through a major change (from a largely US base to an increasingly global focus), required her to build a strong relationship between the elected Board and the Management Company/Executive that served it. Karen brings this experience of leading through complexity to assist her executive clients work together to get the best from themselves and each other for the long-term good of their organization.

In 2011 she contributed a chapter to the Handbook of Knowledge-Based Coaching published by Jossey-Bass, and was part of the committee which produced the Australian Standards Organization’s Handbook of Coaching in Organizations

Karen is skilled in the use of MBTI, Hogan Leadership Series, Genos El, Lominger’s VOICES, The Leadership Circle and System Dynamics & Structural Constellations.

Corporate Experience

An internationalist who has worked in the USA, Africa, China and widely across the Middle East and Europe, Madi brings a unique combination of corporate experience with 20 years in leadership as Director of several Industrial companies, Managing Director of The Geneva Companies M&A (Citigroup) and Founder and CEO of Atlantium Inc. a pioneer startup in laser based Biology & Engineering Research.

He holds a B.A. in Economics, Sociology & Political Science; an MBA in Economics and a PhD in Psychology.

Coach Credentials

Madi is a member of the International Coach Federation and is an ICF Master Certified Coach (MCC). He is on the ICF International Assessors team and is a former Director of the Israeli Coach Chamber.

Corporate Coach Experience

Madi provides individual and team coaching C suite and senior executives (Director VP and above) of Fortune 500 companies. Much of his work is around the EMEA region. An extensive client list includes Google, Dell, Motorola, Ericsson, SAP, Agilent Technologies and Ernst & Young.

Unique About Madi

Madi has extensive international an cross cultural experience and also is a Professor teaching Global Strategy, Branding, Corporate’s Ethics and Management for MBA’s and teaches Executive Coaching at I.D.C Baruch Ivcher School of Psychology for MA degree.

This uniques combination of theory and practice brings tremendous value to his clients. In addition he is also skilled with use of MBTI, Kouzes and Posner’s Leadership Practice Inventory, CPI260 and BarOn EQ Inventory.

Corporate Experience

Marcia has over 30 years of experience working in corporate organisations including 20 years at Microsoft. She brings a combination of the logic of a software developer and the instincts of a senior marketing and program manager for her practice.

She holds a Masters Degree in Leadership and Organisational development from Saybrook University, and an MBA from Universidade de São Paulo.

Coach Credentials

Trained with the International Coach Institute Marcia is a member of the International Coach Federation and is an ICF Associate Certified Coach (ACC).

Corporate Coach Experience

Marcia coaches teams and individuals from commercial organisations like Microsoft and Strata Associates and non-profits such as DesignLights Consortium and United Planet.

Unique About Marcia

She built and managed cross-functional and multi-cultural teams in Brazil, Spanish-speaking Latin America, and the United States. She has designed, launched, and led projects that enabled organisational change, simplified decision making, and strengthened employee engagement.

As a certified C-IQ Enhanced Skills coach she brings that practical communications skill and emotional intelligence to coaching effective teams.

As a certified Prosci® Change Practitioner she helps organizations to strategize, create, and implement change plans that maximize employee adoption and usage, minimize resistance, and enable achievement of results.

Corporate Experience

Merlene has 20 years experience in senior executive and Director roles across Finance, HR, Operations, Marketing and General Management with organisations like A. P. Moller Maersk; British American Tobacco, Standard Bank, City of Cape Town and Levi Strauss

She holds a DBA and MBA and is currently on the CCT program with Stanford University. She has completed MBI M1 and MBSR Mindfulness Based programs.

Coach Credentials

Trained with the Graduate Business School University of Cape Town and has the MCC, PCC and ACC qualifications. Merlene is New Ventures West certified.

Corporate Coach Experience

Merlene coaches teams and individuals at C suite and High Potential levels. Clients include Alexander Forbes, British American Tobacco, NSFAS (National Student Financial Aid Scheme) AP Moller Maersk, Safmarine, City of Cape Town and Standard Bank Group.

Unique About Merlene

A certified Enneagram practitioner, Merlene also studies the interplay of Buddhism, Mindfulness and Modern Psychology to bring valuable Stress Release Techniques to executive clients. She has extensive international and cross-cultural experience having worked in 50+ countries.

Corporate Experience

Penny brings an interesting profile of managing cross cultural teams (in Asia since 1988) in a specialist discipline of designing high performance workspaces with Steelcase, US Embassy Indonesia, US Agency for International Development and the US Department of Commerce and Labor. She now combines this with her coaching skills to focus on high performance work styles for senior teams working virtually across the region.

Penny holds a BSc in Design with a Business minor

Coach Credentials

Trained at Coach-U and Results Coaching Penny is an ICF member and is an ICF Professional Certified Coach (PCC) and with over 2,400 hours experience is currently undergoing her MCC mentor preparation process.

Corporate Coach Experience

Penny coaches individuals (at CEO, MD and VP levels) and teams across the Asia-Pacific region, frequently working virtually. Her client list is extensive and ranges from Fortune 500 across banking, consumer goods, brand luxury products, IT, manufacturing, pharmaceutical, energy and Government agencies.

A sample from her client list includes:
ABN-ARMO, Abbott Laboratories, Agere Corporation, Agilent, Air Products, AMGEN, Amerada Hess, American Express, BHP-Billiton, BT Group, Bayer, Billerud, Bristol-Myers Squibb, Cabot Microelectronics, Cambridge Associates, Carrier International, Caterpillar, CIGNA, Cisco, Chevron, Dow Corning, Covidien, Credit Suisse, DHL, Daimler, Danon, Dell, Dupont, FMC, FedEx, Fonterra, Frieslandcampina, GE (General Electric), Genentech, Glaxo Smith Kline, Goldman Sachs, Hamilton, Heinz, Hershey, Hewlett Parkard, Hill-Ron, Hitachi, Honeywell, Infineon, Infineum, Infoprint Solutions, Ingersole-Rand, Ingredion, Interbrand, John Deere, Johnson & Johnson, Kellogg, Kimberly Clark, Kraft, Lam Research, Land Rover Jaguar, Lego, Levi Strauss, Lenovo, Lubrizol, Lucent, Mars, MasterCard, Maxis, Medtronic, Merck, Microsoft, Monetary Authority of Singapore, Munich Re, National Australia Bank, Ngee, Nike, Northern Trust, ON Semiconductor, OTIS, Orica, Parker Hannifin, Peretti Van Melle (PVM), Pepsico, Pfizer, Philips, Pioneer Hi-Bred, Pratt & Whitney, Pricewaterhousecoopers PWC, Procera, Procter & Gamble, QBE Insurance Quintiles, REHAU, Rockwell Automation, Royal Bank of Canada, Royal Bank of Scotland, Samsung, Seagate, Singtel, Singapore Management University, Shell, Societe Generale, Standard Chartered Bank, Statoil, Steelcase, Swiss Re, Syngenta, Tate & Lyle, Tektronix, Temasek Holdings, Textron, Timken, Twitter, Tyco, UBS, United Overseas Bank, United Parcel Service, United Technologies

Unique About Penny

Penny has developed a keen innate sense as to what inspire individuals and teams to understand each other, work better together, embrace change and drive organisations forward. Her expertise focuses on senior global leadership and intercultural competence mindset, skills and behaviours.

She supports this by bringing appropriate tools to her work including: MBTI; FIRO-B; Berlitz Cultural Orientations Indicator (COI), GlobeSmart, TMA World Country Navigator & other cultural competence tools.

Corporate Experience

Sharon has extensive experience in the area of Financial Services having spent 26 years with Nedbank Limited. In the course of her corporate career she worked in many parts of the organisation and held senior management and executive roles in the Retail Banking Division. Some of these roles included the creation of the Client Service division, Leadership Development Programmes, and a large scale strategic culture and values based leadership and business transformation programme. Her years of experience in earlier line management roles have led to a deep understanding of the impact of management skills on every part of all businesses.

Sharon is a faculty member SA College of Applied Psychology.

Coach Credentials

Trained with New Ventures West San Francisco and Centre for Coaching, Graduate School of Business UCT, Sharon is an International Coach Federation member and an ICF Certified Professional Coach (PCC). She is an active ICF member and Past President of ICF Gauteng Chapter.

Corporate Coach Experience

Sharon coaches senior individuals and teams at Public and Private sector at organisations such as H. L. Hall & Sons, Hollard Insurance, Nedbank Limited, Robor Limited, St Stithians College, Worldwide Positions, AIG, Etana, Vodacom, Astrotech, Spar Group, British American Tobacco, Deloitte & Touche, Teljoy, SAB Miller, FirstRand, Absa Bank Avis Fleet Management, Department of Environmental Affairs, RMB, Standard Bank, Exxaro, Coach to NGO leaders through Investec and Fresh Group collaboration (Pro bono) Spencer Stuart, Royal Bafokeng Holdings, Fulcrum Group

Unique About Sharon

Sharon has a deep understanding of the challenges and opportunities inherent in establishing and leveraging successful relationships in the workplace and in life and brings this to helping her clients build the skills needed to remain authentic whilst coping with the demands of the fast paced business environment. She bring an intense skill with application of the Enneagram to this work.

Corporate Experience

Shaun started his career as a mental health professional for MIND. His leadership experience began supervising teams of counsellors at Lowdown and the YMCA. He leveraged that deep understanding of people in his work developing change programs and transition training at Avon Cosmetics.

Shaun holds a BA (Honours) in Behavioural Science and professional certification in Person Centered Counselling. He also is certified in Psych-K Balancing and NVQ Level 4 Learning, Development and Support.

Coach Credentials

Shaun trained to Diploma level as a coach with Newcastle College and in Counselling at Westminster College. He has 20 years of experience in coaching, developing, delivering and implementing management and leadership programmes. He designs and delivers coaching skills workshops for managers (incorporating EQ and Transactional Analysis) at the University of Sussex.

Corporate Coach Experience

Shaun works with teams and senior managers from Public and Private sector organisations such as Maersk, Nestle, Ramboll, University of Sussex, UPM Paper, Honda, Lloyds, Barclays Bank, Zurich Insurance, Hastings Direct Insurance, East Sussex County Council, Lewisham County Council, Action on Hearing Loss, Mind, Brighton and Hove Housing, Southdowns Housing.

Unique About Shaun

Shaun brings a special knowledge of Positive Psychology, Transactional Analysis, Motivational Interviewing, Human Given and Cognitive Behavioural Therapy to his interventions. His work is psychologically informed and is designed to tap into a person’s strengths and wisdom to grow emotional intelligence, resilience and agility.

Corporate Experience

Tanya learned business, management and leadership by building and running her own company (AEA Real Estate) over a 13 year period. She brings her understanding of organisational dynamics and systemic thinking to her client situations.

Tanya has a Bachelor of Arts and a Bachelor of Social Science in Psychology and a Masters Degree in Management: Business and Executive Coaching. and is currently pursuing a Masters in Coaching and Consulting for Change.

Coach Credentials

Trained at the UTC Graduate School of Business, Tanya is a member of the International Coach Federation and is an ICF Associate Certified Coach (ACC).

Corporate Coach Experience

Since 2006 Tanya has been providing individual and team coaching to managers and senior leaders across industries in organisations such as: Barclays, Nedbank, Mondi, Sanlam, Vodacom, SAB (InBev), Oceana, NSFAS, The University of Pretoria, Abbott Laboratories, Research Africa and Santam .

Unique About Tanya

Tanya’s approach is a combination of sound theory and practical experience. She brings a wide range of tools to bear as appropriate with her client interventions including; The Enneagram, Adfen e- scale, Belbin Team Role Assessment, Discovery Insights, PPA Personal Profile Analysis System and Team Coaching 360 assessment.

Corporate Experience

Tom has a depth of team leadership experience from over 25 years of corporate experience including 23 as a Support Engineering Manager for Microsoft. He spent several years as a trained and certified coach utilising his skills internally.

This very “left brained” work environment combines with his Bachelors degree in Music and a Masters in Theology to provide an extremely well balanced approach to his clients.

Coach Credentials

Tom trained through a Graduate Certificate in Executive and Professional Coaching at the Jindal School of Management at the University of Texas and is a member of the International Coach Federation. He is an ICF Associate Certified Coach (ACC).

Corporate Coach Experience

Tom is able to work with leaders, managers and other professionals easily by utilising his extensive knowledge of leadership gained from his numerous years as a manager.

Tom’s clients at Microsoft and Unreasonable Labs North Texas noted that he has the ability to ask thought-provoking questions and spark deeper levels of conversations that guide them in the direction they wish to go.

Unique About Tom

Tom is an Authorized Partner with John Wiley & Sons, Inc. for Everything DiSC® and The Five Behaviors of a Cohesive Team™.

Corporate Experience

Vivienne brings an intense background into play for her clients. Starting as a school administrator and college director she went on to become a broadcast journalist and war correspondent. Coming back from the field to be a television news anchor, producer and senior executive, (VoA, BBC World Service,CNNI, SIGMA Radio TV) she left the industry as the youngest, and only female, Director of News and Current Affairs in the country.

In 1999, she became a dotcom pioneer, co-founding a UK based start up that created one of the first Flash animated virtual environments for learning languages; hailed by the Guardian Educational Supplement as “genuinely new and ground breaking”.

Coach Credentials

Trained with Coach-U and the Evolutionary Institute, Vivienne is a member of the International Coach Federation and is an ICF Professional Certified Coach (PCC).

Corporate Coach Experience

Drawing on her corporate background, Vivienne travels extensively and works with clients across Europe, Middle East, Africa and Asia, coaching individuals and teams at middle, senior and C-suite levels in global organisations that include: Maersk, Kering, NOKIA, UPM, UPONOR, Nestle, Ramboll, BSI and F-Secure.

Unique About Vivienne

As an Award-winning broadcast journalist & documentary maker, Vivienne brings a special perspective on the human condition to her work. As one of her clients said “Your spacious intellect presented me with the opportunity to face myself with candid awareness. I am very simply, more able to be me.”