About The Coaches | Change Partners

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Mojalefa first encountered coaching as a new executive in higher education in South Africa some twelve years ago. Then it seemed an expensive intrusion that should not be given any serious thought, interesting though it may have sounded. But it remained a curious puzzle for him until he became a client and realised how sorely he needed it then. Mojalefa became so fascinated with coaching that he immediately applied its tenets in managing his immediate reports, thus improved not only his performance but also his relationship with employees, his immediate subordinates and people in general.

Clifford Zungu

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Clifford is a seasoned HR professional who has had more than 25 years HR experience most of which in leadership roles across five business sectors. He has served on boards of a number of JSE listed and unlisted companies some of which being global leaders in their industries.

Vanessa Marks

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Vanessa has spent the last 20 years of her career in leadership roles in a mix of large corporations and entrepreneurial businesses. These roles helped develop and shape a strong mentoring and coaching ability which she has used to assist other leaders in their development.

Pat Roberts

Pat’s experience has been with large organisations working on fast-tracking the personal development of individuals identified as talent and with leaders on addressing specific issues they face within their organisations or related to their personal leadership development. She also works with teams and groups to achieve maximum effectiveness through cooperation and the integration of various skills and styles. Her recent focus in Team Coaching has been exploring what kinds of leaders exist within the team and how to maximise the benefits of this range of leadership styles.

Wendy Sidwell

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Wendy gained her extensive general management experience in the services industry over the past 20 years. Her last position was as General Manager at Change Partners where she was responsible for running their leadership development business. She was also exposed to their ongoing coaching training programme.

Refilwe Marathe

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Refilwe is a coach and brings the relevant knowledge and understanding essential to the effective delivery of a successful and results driven coaching experience. Her natural strengths and abilities allow her a level of empathy, analysis and problem resolution which enables effective breakthroughs.

Geoff Brown

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Geoff’s approach is to provide clients with a safe, discreet and empowering space in which he can serve the clients as an attentive listener, strategic partner, challenger and probing questioner, while acknowledging their power and potential. He supports them through asking powerful and creation-seeking questions. Geoff focuses on working with clients to reach the following objectives:

Facilitating change and sourcing transformation
Transforming breakdowns into breakthroughs
Creating enthusiasm anywhere, anytime
Creating their lives as a masterpiece

Geoff has coached and facilitated various individuals and groups who occupy very senior and executive positions in the academia, politics, government and the corporate world. He also devotes many hours of coaching and mentoring in the Mankind Project, an international organisation, which supports men through coaching to live with integrity and to be successful in what they do.

Retha Adendorff

Retha has been associated with Change Partners since 2005, when she made her mark very early on by using her experience to coordinate the internal coach continuing development programme which remains a key feature of the Change Partners’ model. Through her constant research and coach-client interactions, she has grown to appreciate how different leadership approaches are relevant to various change agendas, and the challenges faced by executive leaders in particular - those so-called “soft skills” which often prove to be the hardest.

Sundra Naidoo

Sundra has leadership experience from working as Director at Career Transition International and as Country Manager at DBM in South Africa. He has over 25 years experience in Human Resources, working with multinational companies in South Africa, through the American Chamber of Commerce in South Africa, as well as through his post as Head of Human Resources for S.A. Cyanamid

Gerrie de Villiers

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Gerrie is a former CEO and MD of M-Net and SuperSport, and has also served in executive and board positions at Naspers, AECI and Educor in a successful business career of 27 years. He is a founder director of the Aardklop National Arts Festival.

Tjaart van der Walt

Tjaart has many years experience as a Business and Strategy Advisor, with nearly 30 years experience in starting up and/or managing various businesses in the consultancy industry, financial services industry and manufacturing industry. During the last ten years Tjaart led two successful turnaround initiatives as Managing Director and later as Chairman, in the manufacturing industry.

Lindiwe Mkhondo

Lindiwe has 12 years of experience as a developer and facilitator of leadership development, team building, change management, diversity and wellness programmes in various business settings.

Ann Hofmeyr

Coaching for Ann is a relationship of commitment invoking a process of real time growth and sustainable change. Maintaining curiosity and listening actively for the right questions to ask are routes to clients’ insights, followed by desired shifts in self-awareness and, ultimately, new behaviours.

Simone Le Hane

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Simone Le Hane joined Change Partners after 12 years of successfully coaching and mentoring executives and senior managers individually and in management teams while working in the private and public sectors as an executive.

Tumi Moloto

Tumi is a senior manager in an IT company where she leads an organizational change management and training teams. She specializes in design of change management methodologies in the roll out large scale Enterprise Resource Planning projects that will impact over 150 government departments. She has led change management and training teams in deploying changes in a number of government departments.

Marilize Augustyn

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Marilize Augustyn is the hub of the Change Partners Coaching system. She connects the coaches, customers and clients in a vital and energetic network, and her key contributions are in the areas of finance, customer liaison, back office management and sales support. She provides mission-critical support for the effective delivery of Change Partner's core value services.

Andy Johnson

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Andy, founder of Change Partners, served in the British Royal Navy for 22 years and was a submarine commander in the Falklands War. Later, as a senior executive at state-owned British Railways he experienced the challenges of privatisation and the pressure of delivery in a commercial environment.

Les Weiss

Les, one of the founders of Change Partners, has coached hundreds of senior executives from many different organisations and has helped these companies develop their better people into better leaders. He has held senior positions in several organisations and is a former MD of the Transvaal Coal Owners’ Association, at that time the world’s biggest coal exporter.

Rean du Plessis

The only true differentiator between companies today is the quality of their leadership. My approach is to deliver sustainable business results through engagement with each person as a whole human being. By changing our way of being, we change the results we achieve. By encouraging leaders and leadership teams to become accountable, they are enabled to create the environment needed for measurable change.