COACHING FOR GROWTH
Connect to what matters most,
unlock your full potential,
and thrive.
why work with me?
With over two decades of corporate experience, and previously Managing Director and Chief Strategy Officer of Saatchi & Saatchi Cape Town, I’ve worked with and developed strategies for many local and global blue chip businesses. I’ve also walked a successful entrepreneurial journey as Co-Founder of Wonder, a purpose-driven creative agency.
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My experience extends across multiple categories, including financial services, FMCG, retail, fintech, communication and B2B.
I’ve held leadership positions in businesses both large and small and am familiar with the business models and specific challenges faced by many industries and the leaders and managers within them.
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​​I also have firsthand experience of navigating an evolving career path in the context of changing conditions, both personal and systemic. So I have a pragmatic appreciation of what it takes to adapt and thrive when our circumstances change. I’ve changed careers, walked away from relationships, started a family, navigated loss, overcome health challenges, made mistakes, built businesses from scratch, and experienced both failure and success.
My own path of personal transformation has ignited my passion to support others on their journeys.
areas of focus
Impact
Development
Purpose
Leadership
Resilience
Integration
MY APPROACH
My approach to coaching is holistic, and grounded in mindfulness and Integral Theory. This meta-framework for understanding the human experience incorporates several models and offers a big toolkit on which to draw to help explore new perspectives and fertile areas for growth.
I’m an accredited Enneagram and Identity Maturity practitioner, and find these to be useful tools to deepen self awareness and support growth.
I also draw on my additional studies in psychology and holistic health.​ I am a longstanding meditation practitioner in the Buddhist tradition and have been practicing yoga for 20 years, completing my 200hr yoga teacher training in 2019.
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To my clients I bring my personal leadership experience, lessons learned as an entrepreneur, decades of strategy development and transformational coaching expertise.​​
WHAT TO EXPECT
During sessions, a fluid, conversational structure will guide you on an exploration of areas for growth, and towards deepening of self-awareness and the accessing of your own inner wisdom. You'll unlock new possibilities for action and identify and adopt concrete steps towards meeting your goals.
From me you can expect curiosity, deep listening, and questions designed to prompt new perspectives. I love the practices of mindfulness, yoga and breathwork as body-based tools for insight and integration, and offer simple tools from those traditions for you to draw on.
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Sessions are 75 minute Zoom calls and I’m available on whats app in between sessions.
what my clients say
‘The guidance from Helen, mindfulness exercises and how well structured the sessions were have really opened up opportunities to build self-awareness, critically think, gain new perspectives, be supported, challenged, inspired, encouraged and ready to change and reach new levels, not only in my journey as a leader, but as a human being.’
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~ Gorden
‘I am deeply grateful for the coaching sessions I had with Helen. She is incredibly professional without losing her warmth and empathy. She is authentic as a coach and asks very insightful questions that help you delve deeper in order to find clarity. She also challenged my thinking and I walked away from every session feeling renewed and inspired.’
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~ Marie
‘Helen as my coach has the ability to get me into the right frame of mind, allowing spaciousness to talk things through, paying attention to what the body is doing, what I am thinking, and how my emotions are feeling. Her coaching meant I was able to make beneficial changes in my professional and personal life that helped me to develop and to grow and to sustain real changes. I can highly recommend Helen to anyone wishing to embark on a journey of self-discovery and change.’
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~ Nasia