Heidi Carter

Heidi Carter is a co-founder of the Centre for Conscious Leadership. Her versatility and experience as a senior consultant, facilitator and executive coach has been acknowledged across a range of successful interventions and industries. These include the mineral and energy sector, financial and banking sector, fashion and retail, construction engineering, pharmaceuticals, higher education, provincial government and a range of non-profit organisations. Heidi has successfully partnered prominent public institution leaders, CEO’s, Boards and Executive teams over long-standing partnerships in dealing with whole-scale institutional repositioning and change, large-system organisational restructuring and turnarounds that have had significant impact on the bottom-line, leadership, values and culture of the entity. She has managed and steered a number of complex long-term projects with large multi-disciplinary and specialist teams. Prior to her consulting experience of the past 14 years, Heidi spent 9 years in JCI Limited, a South African Mining Finance house, formerly heading up Strategic HR and OD for the Multi-Commodity arm and, preceding this, as a strategic change agent accountable to the Executive for large scale multi-disciplinary projects. She combines a robust commercial acumen with a sharp and sensitive understanding of the interplay between the conscious and unconscious human drivers, structural, systemic and strategic dynamics that characterize organisations. She is passionate about contributing to the professional development of young Industrial Psychologists through mentoring assignments. She is energised and inspired by working with the Boards and Executive teams that display deep commitment to the sustainability of the South African democracy and the successful transformation of our society as an inseparable part of profitability and wealth creation.

Heidi is a Registered Industrial Psychologist with the Health Professional council of South Africa and holds a Master of Commerce Degree in Industrial Psychology (Cum Laude). She is a member of the International Coach Federation (ICF) and has completed two 9-month ICF Coaching programs: UK (CTI) and the USA (NCOL). She is a certified user of a range of psychological assessment tools used for teams and executive development. She is currently completing a 3-year post-graduate diploma in Mindfulness Based Interventions through the Stellenbosch University Health Sciences Faculty with a focus on applications to leadership in complex systemic change.

Contact Details

Email: heidi@ccls.co.za
Phone: +27 (82) 651-3872
Office: +27 (27) 888 – 5365
Web: www.ccls.co.za

Heidi Carter

Heidi Carter is a co-founder of the Centre for Conscious Leadership. Her versatility and experience as a senior consultant, facilitator and executive coach has been acknowledged across a range of successful interventions and industries.

Debbie Hanekom

Debbie Hanekom joined Centre for Conscious Leadership in 2006 and is currently the office manager based in Johannesburg. In her role she manages, organizes and coordinates the end to end project logistics client interventions, interfacing with the client and the Centre for Conscious Leadership associate team. She also manages the overall online psychometric assessment processes for client interventions when working with assessments such as the Emotional Intelligence 360 degree assessment, Enneagram etc. Debbie has an in-depth knowledge of the processes required behind our interventions and the assessment tools that we utilize. She is a key member of the Centre for Conscious Leadership team and has a unique people focus and problem solving capability which allows her to overcome most obstacles. Debbie started out her career in the accounting industry and has worked in a variety of industries including motoring, engineering and pathology.

Audrey Lebala

Audrey Lebala is an experienced Registered Industrial Psychologist, executive coach and facilitator. She brings to her professional practice broad corporate and consulting experience that she gathered in her roles as an organisational development consultant, management consultant and HR generalist in various organisations.

Ronnie Ndlovu

Ronnie Ndlovu is an experienced leadership development and strategy facilitator, head-hunter, career and executive coach. He started his career as an accountant for a hospital in Pennsylvania, USA. On his arrival in South Africa in 1989, he became a Business Councillor working for CE International, a division of Asea Brown Boveri.

Nolitha Tsengiwe

Nolitha Tsengiwe is an experienced Leadership Development Facilitator and Executive Coach. She is registered Psychologist. Her focus is on transformation strategies for growth and development of individuals and groups.

Lee Freemantle

Lee Freemantle is an experienced facilitator and executive coach who has a master’s degree in Industrial psychology. She works as both an associate of the Centre for Conscious Leadership and as an independent practitioner.

Vuyo Koyana

Vuyo Koyana is a facilitator, consultant and Psychologist / Coach. Born and raised in Umtata and currently living and working in Cape Town, Vuyo is an experienced facilitator who combines sound articulation and highly intuitive listening to the workshop and individual growth encounter.

Nolitha Tsengiwe

Nolitha Tsengiwe is an experienced Leadership Development Facilitator and Executive Coach. She is registered Psychologist. Her focus is on transformation strategies for growth and development of individuals and groups.

Nolitha’s competence as a facilitator and coach lies in her extensive knowledge in human behaviour and passion for people. She has completed a coaching course (Co-active Coaching) with CTI, and is working for ICF accreditation. She has also completed a 6 months course in Core Process n Work, with Karuna Institute (UK). From a core process work approach she is able to provide a safe environment for self- exploration, discovery and growth and helping team’s process and deal with challenging issues that are keeping them stuck. Her experience in use of clinical hypnosis for change enables her to guide individuals to uncover underlying unconscious motives, assumptions, drives beliefs that influence behaviour both at an individual and a team level.

Nolitha works both as an associate of the Centre for Conscious Leadership and as an independent practitioner. Nolitha has many years of work experience that include lecturing, psychotherapy and leadership training and research. She lectured at University of Transkei at post-graduate level for 6 years. In Cape Technicon she was a Student Counsellor for 5 years. She worked for 3 years as an EAP consultant for ICAS, an international organization specializing in Risk behavioural management. Nolitha is also a Psychologist in private practice. She was a former partner in the Centre for Conscious Leadership and was extensively involved as a facilitator and coaching the large-scale culture change and leadership development intervention that has spanned 8 years. Nolitha provides leadership training in varied industries, i.e. telecommunication, banking, government and non-government organizations.

Nolitha goes to retreats regularly as part of an important process of ongoing learning and reflection. She currently holds a M.Ed. in Guidance and Counseling from University of Toledo, USA. Nolitha is a certified user of a range of assessment tools (e.g. MBTI, Bar-on EQ, 360 degree) for leadership coaching.

Vuyo Koyana

Vuyo Koyana is a facilitator, consultant and Psychologist / Coach. Born and raised in Umtata and currently living and working in Cape Town, Vuyo is an experienced facilitator who combines sound articulation and highly intuitive listening to the workshop and individual growth encounter. She has a mature understanding of how individuals can free themselves from their limitations and change, releasing a transformed sense of their environment, their paths and their ability to hold the magic of what happens when we truly begin to live to our full potential with authenticity. She imparts this to all those she comes into contact with, with great charisma, enthusiasm, warmth, simplicity and humanity.

Vuyo works as both an associate of the Centre for Conscious Leadership and as an independent practitioner. Vuyo’s professional experience coagulates as an interesting crossing of various roads in the human development field, including Personal Growth, Leadership Development, Mediation and Conflict-handling. A particular personal passion of hers lies in how we as humans can learn to meaningfully negotiate the tenuous balance between our needs and growing understanding of ourselves and the groups through which we identify ourselves (when we do) and the needs and growing understanding of the greater and inordinately complex human race. Much of this passion for Valuing Diversity is lived in her management of the Pan African Market which is a space where divergent cultures and fields of creative expertise come together. She has also been extensively involved in assisting various clients across corporate, public, social and educational settings to work with their often complex diversity issues over the last 20 years. These interventions have often also included or been interspersed with the other vast array of above-mentioned facilitation and transformation consulting skills.

Vuyo specializes in conducting programmes such as Valuing Diversity, Leadership Development, Dealing with Self During Transformation, Presentation Skills, Effective Communication and Interpersonal Skills, Brand Ambassadorship Development.

Audrey Lebala

Audrey Lebala is an experienced Registered Industrial Psychologist, executive coach and facilitator. She brings to her professional practice broad corporate and consulting experience that she gathered in her roles as an organisational development consultant, management consultant and HR generalist in various organisations including Absa, Liberty Life and Gemini Consulting where she performed project roles across various industries.

Audrey Lebala works as both an associate of the Centre for Conscious Leadership and as an independent practitioner. Her areas of expertise include executive coaching, leadership and team development, group process facilitation, organisational development and design, change management, talent management, learning and development, and psychological testing. Audrey works as an associate of the Centre for Conscious Leadership and as an independent practitioner. She works with individuals, teams and organisations in both corporate and public enterprises and has conducted a variety of assignments, to name a few, at Absa, Nedbank, Discovery and Vodacom. Audrey has been appointed to the Momentum and Investec coaching panels. She has featured on radio shows on the discussion of race relations and racism in South Africa.

Audrey holds a Master’s degree in Industrial Psychology. She is a member of International Coaches Federation. She holds a post-graduate Certificate in Coaching Practice and has completed a coaching program with Coaches Training Institute. She is a certified user of various psychometric tools including Myers Briggs Type Indicator, Emotional Intelligence Inventory and the Hogan Assessment suite.

Ronnie Ndlovu

Ronnie Ndlovu is an experienced leadership development and strategy facilitator, head-hunter, career and executive coach. He started his career as an accountant for a hospital in Pennsylvania, USA. On his arrival in South Africa in 1989, he became a Business Councillor working for CE International, a division of Asea Brown Boveri. In this role, he advised small businesses and not-for-profit companies on various business strategies and their implementation. He progressed to head up the Corporate Social Investment division. Ronnie demonstrates a strong understanding of strategy, organizational dynamics and the role of people as a source of competitive advantage. Experience gained in large corporates and in the executive search business has exposed him to working alongside international executives from Kenya, Zimbabwe, Nigeria, the USA, UK, Ireland, Singapore, New Zealand, and Australia. He also has extensive experience in evaluating executives’ suitability, especially cultural fit, for roles in a wide range of companies, both South African and multinationals. These experiences and insights gained have proven useful in facilitation and coaching.

Ronnie works as both an associate of the Centre for Conscious Leadership and as an independent practitioner. He has conducted assignments for clients in the scientific research industry, transport, IT and education sectors. His facilitation and coaching experience spans both public and private sector companies, e.g. strategy for the Corporate Affairs Department for the then Department of Environmental Affairs and Tourism; Human Resources Strategy for the Human Sciences Research Council’s Human Resources Department; strategy for the Gauteng City Region Academy; and leadership development – personal mastery and team effectiveness for Nedbank and the South African Civil Aviation Authority. Ronnie holds a Bachelor’s degree in Accounting, has completed a 6-month training course in coaching with The People Business and a yearlong programme with the Coaches Training Institute.

Dina Oelofsen

Dina Oelofsen started her career as an accountant and migrated into the profession of organisational psychology. She was a founder member of Capitec Bank, HR director for STANLIB asset management and is now working as an external consultant, coach and facilitator with pragmatic understanding of the world of executive leadership. Dina Oelofsen works both as an associate of the Centre for Conscious Leadership and as an independent practitioner. She is recognized for her ability to work with a wide variety of complex leadership challenges, from strategy to organisation development and team dynamics. She works with individual leaders, management and executive teams in various industries. Designing and facilitating conversations between different businesses, functions and units to enable collaboration and innovation across silo’s are the challenges she enjoy most.

She worked on local and international business transformation projects over the past 17 years in Nedbank, Microsoft, Woolworths, Old Mutual, V&A Waterfront, Vodacom, The Jupiter Drawing Room, Volkswagen Brazil, Coca Cola, Department of Water Affairs, Discovery, Liberty and Total. She lectured at Stellenbosch Business School and is a plenary speaker at international conferences.

A variety of frameworks and disciplines inform her work: Psychology, business science, process oriented change, mindfulness, complex adaptive systems theory, organisation development, value chain integration, thinking environment and ecological intelligence.

Dina completed her degree in Management Accounting at the University of Stellenbosch in 1995. As she became more interested in the dynamics of systems, groups and organisations, she decided to study a combination of Industrial Psychology and Clinical Psychology. She completed her Honnours and Masters degree (Cum Laude) by 2001 at the University of Stellenbosch in South Africa. She is a registered psychologist.

Casper Oelofsen

Casper Oelofsen is an international executive business coach and thinking partner to his clients. His passion is to assist clients (individuals and teams) to develop best practices to increase the quality of their thinking in complex environments. He has a strong background in entrepreneurship, strategy, and business consulting. Casper is a founder of various enterprises where he’s acted at both executive and non-executive levels.​

​Casper is a leader in assisting clients to perform in the complexity and diversity of the “world of work”. He combines his knowledge and practice of business with tools and applications to help his clients understand the VUCA world, create capacity and healthy resilience in a world that is increasingly demanding. Casper is a leading expert on complexity and how applied mindfulness and the Enneagram Assessment combination can support clients to thrive, rather than just survive, in the everchanging world of today. ​

​Casper is a sought-after presenter on Mindfulness and the impact of complexity on resilience and the quality thinking of clients in the new normal. He has taught and presented on this topic internationally. ​

​Some examples of Clients of Mindfulleadership: Facebook, MunichRe, Hewlett Packard, Johnson & Johnson Group, Woolworths, Santam, British Petroleum (BP), CompTIA, Beiersdorf Intl, Discovery Health, Multichoice (Mweb), Jupiter Drawing Room, Quirk, Sanlam, Nedbank, Old Mutual SA, Standard Bank, ABSA, McKinsey India, CompTIA, Coronation, RMB, Londolozi, Singita, Relais & Chateaux, and other.​

​Casper is a registered member of Comensa (Coaches and Mentors of South Africa), the Neuroleadership Institute based in Sydney Australia, The Institute for Mindfulness in South Africa (IMISA), The International Regulator of Coaching (ICRM), The International Coach Federation (ICF), The Coaching for Stress Association. Professional Member of the International Enneagram Association​