Delani has 25 years’ experience in executive leadership and board positions, internationally and within South Africa. His career encompasses the private sector, education, NGOs and public enterprises.

Team coaching and Open Space Technology workshops are core competence. He also facilitates strategic planning processes and diversity programmes for business and civil society organisations, and does part-time lecturing at Gibs, Tshwana University of Technology and Vaal University of Technology on talent management, Strategic Planning and Management and Leadership for Good Governance.

Delani believes the greatest organisational challenge is the culture of silos and internal competition. He adds: “Business sustainability is based on the strength of intellectual capital, relationships and partnerships, not on power and force of structure”.

“To succeed, people need to manage this complex environment. Prerequisites are vigour, assertion, purpose and focus. Coaching facilitates their acquisition.”

Personal mastery and ‘inside out leadership’ are the foundation for personal and organisational success – again executive coaching can be crucial.

Delani is an accredited Leadership programme facilitator (internationally and locally) for Franklin Covey Ltd and is a professional member of IoD, the Black Management Forum, the Institute of Management Consultants of SA and COMENSA. He holds an M.Sc in Leadership and Innovation from the University of KwaZulu Natal and from Middlesex University, a post-graduate certificate in Coaching.