Expertise

  • Leadership development
  • Culture Change
  • Coaching
  • Team Coaching
  • Leadership training
  • Team building
  • Leadership & Management
  • Coaching & Mentoring
  • Executive Coaching
  • Leadership Skills Training
  • organisational development
  • Culture & Engagement
  • Culture transformation
  • Team Away Experience
  • Team collaboration
  • Leadership & Development
  • Leadership coaching
  • Training & Development
  • Training and Coaching

Summary

Healthy, high-performing organisations require healthy people dynamics. We partner with clients to help them understand their individual and collective nervous system states, teach them how to support their nervous system state, and bring about transformation at an individual, team and organisational level. Offering 1:1 & Group Coaching,  Facilitation, Training and Advisory on Organisational & Leadership Development matters.

 

Contracting partnerships:
Ideally we take on longer term contracts to ensure new norms are established and transformation takes place. For individuals, teams and organisations who are able to manager their own transformation, we offer off-sites, training and team building to stimulate thinking and inject some energy to keep you going.

Approach:
We use polyvagal theory as a means to help clients develop their ability to understand how to gain insights and wisdom from their nervous system and ultimately deepen their intuition. This has helped clients make better decisions, manage tensions and struggles in teams, remove obstacles holding people and teams back, be more creative, overcome limiting beliefs and live and lead more confidently.


Experience

  • The View Looks Good

    Founder
    2025 - Current
    The View Looks Good

    theviewlooksgood.com

  • Allan Gray Pty Ltd

    Organisational Development Specialist
    101 - 500 Employees 2013 - 2015

    Managing 2 leadership development programmes. The one programme is for junior leaders and is designed to help Allan Gray staff transition from managing themselves to managing others. The programme is 3 years long. The other programme is designed to develop leadership skills for specialists and middle level managers within Allan Gray and is 1 year long.

    I am responsible for the coordination and design of the programmes as well as designing and facilitating various workshops. Workshops facilitated include:

    - Change Management
    - Allan Gray Citizenship
    - Intro to Leadership
    - Creating a Culture of Candour
    - Execution Fit
    - Team Dynamics
    - Performance Management
    - Coaching
    - Leadership Practices – based on Good to Great by Jim Collins
    - Company Engagement

    In addition to co-ordinating the programmes and facilitating workshops, I have also been responsible for:

    - Coordinating research projects that the leadership programme delegates are required to
    complete
    - Administering Fluid Leadership 360 degree surveys
    - Conducting ROI analysis
    - Sourcing new vendors that will enhance the programme

  • Routes to Resilience

    Executive Director
    1 - 5 Employees 2019 - 2021

    Built and provided learning programmes and experiential encounters that help develop a resilience mindset. Our vision was to awaken active citizens and help them to develop a deep understanding of the interconnectedness between people and planet, ensuring they have the knowledge and tools to make sustainable life and career choices. 

  • Orbis Investments Ltd

    Contractor
    101 - 500 Employees 2016 - 2019

    Contracted to design, build and initially coordination a people development programme inhouse, as well as designing and facilitating various workshops.

  • Umusa Consulting Ltd

    Founder
    1 - 5 Employees 2021 - Current

    Working on multiple projects, including:

    - culture transformation projects

    - running leadership team offsites

    - team coaching sessions

    - coaching

    - team building sessions


Education History

  • Organisational Psychology

    University of Cape Town
    2005 - 2008

Interests and Hobbies

Dancing (Swing, Latin, Ballroom, Belly-dancing, Pole-dancing, Line dancing... love it all)

Oil painting

Building puzzles


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