Profile
I am an experienced Learning and Development Consultant and have focused on this area of my career for the past 10 years. My focus and passion is for people development and to see individuals reach their full potential.
My experience in the learning and Development field (as Facilitator, Assessor, Mentor, Learner-ship project manager, Business & Life Coach and Professional & Motivational speaker) has provided me with the vast experience, knowledge and skills required to effectively develop a wide range of people (locally, nationally and internationally).
I had 3 years’ experience in setting up and managing a training centre for a leading retail company as the Department Head and Skills Development Facilitator
Many well-known and respected companies have made use of my services and have only glowing reports for the work I have conducted for them.
My goal is to lead, grow and manage a team whose ambition it is to contribute to overall organisational growth through people capacity development initiatives.
Recent Consultancy Mandates & Previous Work Experience
Consultancy Mandates
For the last number of years I have worked as a Learning and Development Consultant in the areas of project management processes and skills development practice. I facilitated training in project management according to PMI accredited curriculum of world-renowned TenStep as a certified TSPM Facilitator to include course development and project management process implementation consulting. I also did extensive work as a consultant on early childhood development handling regional project management in South Africa. My involvement included facilitating induction, conducting coaching and motivational sessions, managing and monitoring facilitators and other staff.
Concurrently I set up Eagle Vision Training as a Training and Consulting firm offering consulting, facilitation, material development, coaching, mentoring and motivational speaking services to Corporate and SME markets. Services include staff evaluation against KPI’s and development of PDP’s in line with organisational objectives, life and business coaching as well as business change initiatives.
SEDA (Small Enterprise Development Agency – developing the emerging entrepreneurial market in South Africa) and AMSCO (African Management Services Company – developing the African Corporate market) became regular clients. I concentrated on developing their entrepreneurs and business analysts on an on-going basis whereas consulting services to AMSCO clients was predominantly in the field of customer orientation and provision of high quality customer service delivery.
When Barloworld Logistics made use of my services, I travelled extensively to regions in the African continent including Botswana, Zambia, Malawi as well as South Africa.
Recent London Experience
Recently, based in London, I worked in collaboration with DCS, a consulting company, providing labour relations improvement programs for executive union members of West African State Oil Corporation. I provided training initiatives to up-skill executive management on Corporate Reputation Management for Organisational Growth.
Previous Work Experience
Leading up to my more recent involvement I was responsible for setting up and running a training department for a photographic retail company, Universal Image, which consisted of a staff of 300 in numerous shop outlets. Their head office was based in Johannesburg.
Prior to that I worked as a Customer Service Representative for MTN (the largest mobile company in Africa), receiving numerous awards for high level quality service provided.
Education & Qualifications
2009 Facilitator and Assessor – ODETDP (Occupational Directed Education Training Development Programme) on-going
2005 Sales and Marketing Management
1995 Public Relations Certificate
1992 Qualified Photographic Artisan
1989 NTS 4 Industrial Affairs, Mathematics, Supervision, Avionic Computing Principles
1986 Matric (A level equivalent)
Interests & Other Skills
• Motivational Speaking, ability to recognise and cultivate potential in others
• Well-developed Social Skills, enjoy meeting new people and winning them over
• Strong technical aptitude – gadgets, technology and handyman work
• High moral values/integrity, believe in treating all people the same and fairly.
