As a coach, Natalie facilitates transformations in individuals and teams towards personal self-actualisation – for improved performance, goal attainment, and the ability to lead effectively within continually expanding paradoxical and transitional environments.
The people she coaches achieve their specified outcomes and ideals and go beyond their own expectations whilst consciously managing their stress levels. People experience her as energetic, intuitive, empathetic, creative and intellectual in approach, with absolute dedication to her clients.
Natalie has 18 years experience as a business owner and entrepreneur, and seven years as a full time coach. She is internationally accredited through Middlesex University in the UK, is a qualified meta-NLP practitioner and coach through the Institute of Neuro Linguistics, and also sits on the Ethics Committee of COMENSA.
Natalie is a preferred coach to executives and senior managers in companies such as General Electric Healthcare Services South Africa, Discovery/Pru Health, Standard Bank, Santam and SITA, and finds her passion working in environmentally- and ethically-orientated organisations and NGOs, or facilitating the alignment of such.
Natalie’s uses powerful questioning techniques, adult learning and an advanced non-directive approach that enables people to regularly access the big picture in even the most complex environments. This aids value-driven strategy execution and improves buy-in from all stakeholders. Leaders learn to apply creative problem solving from a systems perspective, enhance their leadership capacity and emerge their individual purpose and values in order to ignite authentic and congruent leadership styles.
Coaching furthermore ensures that leaders and mangers put into action all the learning and training they have acquired, facilitating their journey into self-mastery.
Natalie’s experience in stress management enables her to leverage the highest performance in her clients with increased self-awareness and, therefore, wellness. Improved self/other awareness facilitates better communication and life skills, influence and problem-solving skills, drive and motivation and a positive attitude. The implementation of sustainable behavioural changes in turn improves clients’ ability to motivate others towards the same goals.
Natalie has an existential stance and is trained in many models of coaching and facilitation including neuro linguistic programming (NLP), neuro semantics, cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT), coactive coaching and systemic approaches, to name a few. In each case Natalie uses specific methods and skills best suited to the individual needs of her clients.
As a result of her role as research assistant on “High Performance Executive Teaming and the Contribution of Coaching” for Christo Nel’s Doctorate at Middlesex University Natalie uses the most up to date research and technology to the benefit of her clients.
Natalie also runs workshops for Women in Leadership and, as chair on the COMENSA ethics committee, trains coaches on ethics in the business of coaching. She is a sought after speaker and trainer in the field of coaching ethics.
Natalie has in addition 20 years experience as a yoga practitioner and teacher, using the science of yoga as a tool for transformation and healing.
Coaching education and related experience:
• In the process of completing a Masters Degree in Coaching through Middlesex University, UK, in association with Stellenbosch University Business School
• Research assistant to Christo Nel for his doctorate degree in coaching, researching the impact of team coaching for high performance leadership and executive teaming
• Accredited I-coach through Middlesex University, UK in association with USB
• Beehive and VISA consultant for Christo Nel and The Village of Leaders Accredited certified Meta Coach through the International Society of Neuro-Semantics NLP practitioner
• Internationally accredited yoga teacher and trainer
• Experience as coach and related activities:
8 years coaching.
• Teams and individuals at General Electric Healthcare SA
o Senior leadership coach at Standard Bank
o Co-facilitated ABSA EXCO breakaway sessions
o Facilitator of Mentorship Programme and Advanced Communication
o for Siyadala and Business Connexion.
o Designed and facilitated Creative Leadership Programme with Christo Nel for USB
MBA students
o Coaching executives in Standard Bank, GE Discovery/Pru Health,
o Santam, Human Communications, SITA
o Coach to financial and creative directors in various SMEs, particularly
advertising
o Co-designed and ran the Spirit of Women in Leadership and
o Interconnection workshops
• 10 years as director of a talent management and development company called Whacked Management (1995 to 2004)
• Founder of the Coach Network
• Created and ran own recording studio producing international releases
• Jazz musician, composer, performer, recording artist and lecturer at Natal Tec (1993 to 1995)
• Director and designer of self-made clothing label Skineez (1990-1995)