A World of BelongingDiversity & Inclusion Specialist | Professional Speaker | Coach & Facilitator
Apr. 2014Cape Town, South AfricaWithin a culture of connection, people, performance and profits thrive! I guide you beyond individual coaching to explore the organisational structure, culture and policies to discover and co-create the necessary transformation. My approach includes expanding self-awareness through self-observation and using this to develop empathy, compassion and connection with others. Other tools that I use to get the best results are beginners mind, making the invisible visible, 'trialogue' techniques, peer interviews, and games. My clients include Universities, Marketing Agencies, Non-Profit organisations and tech companies that seek to transform their culture, and connect across the apparent divides of gender identity, race, culture, privilege and economic status. They are organisations embracing the challenge of creating a sustainable future. In addition to coaching, I am a highly skilled trainer and facilitator with global experience in universities, boardrooms and townships. I have a background in Education and Language Acquisition with more than two decades of experience in multicultural, international classrooms. In this arena I have discovered how human beings learn and what intrinsic and extrinsic factors inhibit or accelerate their relationship building and their own performance. Some of my best strengths and attributes are born from my own struggle to overcome racism and gender bias, and my victory in transforming what used to be my broken marriage. From these experiences, I developed my resilience, my compassionate listening, my creative thinking and my firm belief in each person's inherent rivers of gold. As your coach, I walk beside you with encouragement and ask the deeper questions - sometimes hard but always without judgment - that challenge your beliefs and help you expand your view of your role within the circumstance that hold you back. I commit to bringing integrity, curiosity, playfulness and love to our conversations and to your coaching journey.