Andrew Brough is an international learning consultant based in Johannesburg, South Africa. As a facilitator, lecturer and broadcaster, Andrew’s wide ranging professional experience includes over 19 years as a Communications consultant. Andrew has invested more than half of that time working as an Executive Business coach specialising in Sales & Marketing and Leadership related subjects. He has been particularly successful in facilitating Commercial Negotiation, which he has lectured and facilitated up to MBA level.

As a qualified Chartered Marketer- the top professional marketing designation in South Africa - Andrew consults for and with many international blue chip companies around issues pertaining to individual and team development. His research and facilitation in both an African and European context means that he brings a professional understanding to issues around diversity, teamwork and leadership.

Professional Background:

Andrew has designed and delivered a wide variety of programs ranging from basic Life Skills through to Global Corporate Branding through South Africa and Sub-Saharan Africa, and as far a field as Malaysia, Germany, England and the USA. As a big picture-bottom line thinker, Andrew facilitates around organizational and management development in Strategic Planning, as well as Transformational Leadership and Personal Effectiveness.

He has a passion for media – particularly television as a means of distance learning- and writes, broadcasts and presents targeted educational programmes for corporate clients.

Philosophy and approach:

Andrew works to help learners understand how an individual’s values and beliefs influence attitudes that determine behaviour, team effectiveness and potential. He prides himself on using a principle-based approach to training of “Equipping for Excellence” by demonstrating transfer of skills in an “applied-learning” context.

Relevant Training Experience:

Brand Behaviour and Organizational Assimilation
Change Management
Communication Skills - Verbal Interaction Analysis
Conflict Resolution
Negotiation Excellence
Presentation Skills
Principles of Selling
Sales Management
Strategic Planning
The Manager Coach
Transformational Leadership
Key clients include: ArcelorMittal, BMW, Boehringer Ingelheim, Chevron, First National Bank, Global Access, Heinemann, Netcare, Visa Inc.

Professional Qualifications:
Bachelors Degree in Education, University of Witwatersrand, South Africa
Chartered Marketer - CM(SA)
Currently Completing Masters Degree in Transformational Leadership

James Mpele is a consultant based in South Africa. He has over 20 years experience as a change agent, coach, and trainer. He combines a detailed knowledge of personal, group and organizational change technologies with a broad background in business, entrepreneurship and education. He brings to his consulting and training work a broad multi-disciplinary background in business, organizational dynamics, and human psychology.

Professional Background:

James’ ideas for creating dynamic learning organizations draw on a set of well-tested theory and research, having worked with the Business School of the Netherlands, the South African Institute of Management and many others. James has extensive knowledge of the challenges of participatory management, the introduction of technologies into organizations and the dynamics of life in non-profit making organizations. James has worked throughout South Africa, Tanzania, and Lesotho.

Relevant Experience:

Over 20 years of experience in Human Resources Management and HR Development and Organisational Development
Leadership and supervisory development
Design of HRD processes; Job evaluations and descriptions
Experience in Training (Vocational and Technical Education)
Change and Diversity Management
Curriculum Development
Key clients include: BMW, Atlas Copco, South African Breweries, Oracle Corporation, South African Airways, Hewlett-Packard

Professional Qualifications:

MSc in Training and HRM, Leicester University, UK
B. Tech Human Resources, University of Johannesburg, SA
Personnel, Training, Labour Relations Management, Institute of People Management, SA

Languages:

English - Excellent
Afrikaans / Zulu / Sotho / Xhosa, – Good passive skills
Sepedi / Siswati – Basic communication skills.

Professional Background:

Dr Mark Manley has led his own consultancy since 1988 specialising in the areas of Strategy, Leadership and Transformation.  Having developed a number of new processes that have been shown to be highly effective, he consults internationally to large businesses, key governmental departments, FBOs and NGOs. Practically this involves facilitating high level processes, leading and speaking at seminars and conferences, conducting tutorials and individual leadership coaching.

Philosophy

Growth is the right of every individual and community, and that embracing change and personal transformation is a prerequisite of growth.

The rich diversity of people should be collaboratively harnessed into a powerful force for social, group and individual development.

Development should focus on the practical change of behaviour which is a result of exposure to new information that impacts on the beliefs, values, attitudes and thus behaviours of the learner. This is best brought about by establishing in an adult learning fashion the benefit of belief in, and behaviour towards a new way of doing things.

Relevant Experience:

Head of Management Development at Liberty Life Limited
Author of a number of papers in adult education and leadership
Designer of the Liberty Life MDP and BDP
Originator of Leader Centrism ©
Has facilitated over 1000 people through management and leadership development programmes
Dr Manley limits himself to 40 hours of one to one Leadership Coaching per month
Has facilitated close to 100 strategic planning conferences
Dr Manley’s client list includes multi nationals, blue chip companies, large international NGOs, Government, and smaller organizations, right down to groups in previously disadvantaged communities.

Professional Qualifications:

Training Certification Programme through Productivity Development SA
Many business certification courses at various institutions
BA (Natal)
Post Graduate Diploma in Education (Natal)
Post Graduate Diploma in Communication Studies (Witwatersrand)
Masters Degree in Adult Education (Witwatersrand)
Interdisciplinary PhD (Business and Education) in focused on Leadership Development (Commonwealth)

Dr Erna Fourie is a senior financial and management consultant registered with the South African Institute for Professional Accountants.  Her teaching encompasses a wide spectrum, ranging from “managing your personal finances” on the level of ABET to the supervision of doctoral and masters degree graduates. As a facilitator she has conducted numerous Leadership and Management Development programmes, Negotiating for Results, Transformational Conflict Management.  She has facilitated many different programmes for both government and commercial clients requiring a variety of skills and expertise.

Academic life:

Dr Gustav Gous obtained his Doctorate (cum laude), in Ecumenical Studies & International Relations from the University of Pretoria, following his research in Geneva, Switzerland. He also has degrees in Philosophy and Psychology. He lectured  at the University of South Africa (4 years) and the University of Pretoria (4 years), and has published two academic books.
 
Professional life & Career:

• Executive Coaching: Gustav acts as a life coach for a number of senior executives. He has developed the Diamond Profiling^© technique as structuring principle for psychometric information and the Life Mapping^© method to integrate life/work planning.
• He is also known for his counselling skills and acted as company counsellor for the international petrochemical company Sasol for nine years. He has developed and presented ‘train-the-counsellor’ programmes on ‘Counseling Skills in Corporate Context’ and ‘Basic Counselling Skills: HIV/AIDS Counselling’.
• Gustav is the founder and Managing Director of the company Short Walk Seminars (Pty) Ltd.
• Gustav is also known for his ‘Short Walk to Freedom’ transformational executive leadership programmes on Robben Island.
• Motivational Speaker: He rates amongst the best motivational speakers in South Africa, and also tours the international motivational speaking circuit. He has released three motivational audio CD’s. He is known for his keynotes on:

•	The Diamond Dream Team
•	Use stress to achieve success
•	Motivation beyond the summit
•	Emotional intelligence at work
•	Creating a great corporate culture
•	Founding member of the National Speakers Association of South Africa (NSASA).
•	His monthly public seminars on ‘Life’ that have impacted the lives of many:
•	The Game of Life and How to play it
•	Life Planning Seminar/Workshop

• Gustav has extensive national and international experience not only as motivational speaker, but also as consultant and facilitator, serving clients in Southern Africa, the Middle East, Europe and the United Kingdom.
• Director: Blake Hall College, London, UK.
• Business Owner and Managing Director: KnowledgeWorkx Southern Africa, as part of the Dubai based KnowledgeWorkx International: Specialising in creating Inter-Cultural Intelligence in companies, presenting the Cultural Mapping & Navigation^© intervention.
• Gustav’s part time passion is to develop programmes to reconcile intra- and inter-religious differences and he has extensive experience in this field.
 
Personal:

Gustav was born in Namibia and is married to Annelize. They have two daughters: Jana & Nandi. He is a keen sportsperson (full provincial colours in athletics) and loves mountaineering and skiing.