Work in a large variety of education and training roles over 25 years in the Public and Private sectors has resourced me to deal with the multiplicity of challenges encountered in human development.

Working for management consultants Gemini Consulting, YSA, Fieldwork, and Leadership Insights (England) and using a Leadership and Team Development coaching tool called LifePi (Life Path Insights) I identified people’s unique behaviour patterns and formulated development guidelines for individuals and teams. With Gemini Consulting companies engaged include FNB, SAB, Woolworths, Mitech group, Eskom; with YSA, companies engaged include: SABC, RMB, WWF Environmental NGO, Destiny Health, Kodack SA, Investec, Ingwe; with Fieldwork, NBL was engaged; with Leadership Insights, the National Health Service and Crown Presentation Service, etc. Focus was primarily at senior and middle management levels.

I designed and facilitated an Interactive Program for UN Country Teams (WHO, UNAID, UNICEF, UNDP, UNHCR) and associates in Botswana, Malawi, Lesotho and Johannesburg’s Southern and Eastern Africa Regional Services Centre. Focus was at all levels – from bottom to top.

Being a Director of, and managing, a Family Business, and founding and managing an NGO have both provided requisite knowledge and experience for assisting others with challenging human dynamics - from low to high levels in organizations.

I currently serve on the Board of Phaphama Initiatives, an organization that has resonated deeply for me since 1994, because of the Phaphama team’s important and deep work for social development in South Africa.

Resources are gleaned from my

Education, Research and Training:

• MA (Wits University) - Interdisciplinary research in communication, cultural diversity, transformation and power dynamics.
• Psychology Honours (UNISA)
• Teacher’s Licentiate Diploma (Trinity College, London): Speech and Drama

Intensive Training in

• Core Process Psychotherapy Karuna Institute, Devon
• Process Work (in South Africa & Portland, Oregon)
• Deep Democracy
• Transformational Coaching (UN) - integrated Landmark, Conversations, Likert and Goleman.

Participated in

• Anthropology Masters Course (New York University)

Prolonged Training in

• AVP (Non Violent Communication – NVC),
• Theatre of the Oppressed (in: New York, Brazil, South Africa, Canada, India, France, Burkina Faso, England),
• Yoga,
• Tai Chi

Workshops in

• Organizational Relationship Systems Coaching (ORSC);
• Enneagram;
• Byron Katie;
• Family Constellations;
• Alexander Technique;
• Co-counselling;
• and other methods.