Claudia Boers

With 18 years of corporate retail experience (working at senior line management level for companies like Arcadia Group and River Island in the UK, and Truworths in South Africa) Claudia has both the insight into and experience of the pressures, challenges and opportunities that leaders and team members in a busy working environment face. This understanding together with her ontological coaching and leadership development background, gives Claudia the skills to help her clients navigate increasingly complex work and personal lives.

Coaching Approach & Methodology           

Claudia loves working with leaders to enhance team collaboration and organisational effectiveness. She focuses on organisational cultures as networks of conversations (spoken, written and thought), and on how leaders can influence these conversations and the resulting action through their own way of being. This innovative approach creates an empowering shift in thinking and actions that helps leaders and teams get to where they want to be.

Claudia offers guidance, support and encouragement. She’s not a ‘fixer’ or advice-giver, but rather a partner who listens, offers frameworks and asks questions that may open clients to new or different ways of thinking and acting. Sometimes the process is difficult, but more often it’s lots of fun. Whatever’s unfolding, she brings warmth and humour to her sessions.

Background & Experience

After many years working in corporate retail, Claudia realised that it was the human relational and team development aspects of her role she enjoyed the most and which prompted her to follow her heart and embark on a coaching career. Her clients range from private individuals to leaders and executives in the retail, educational, media, and finance sectors. She is involved in the DG Murray Trust’s Innovation Fellowship Programme, which focuses on developing an innovation mindset, skills and knowledge in promising young leaders within the NGO and CBO sectors. She is also honoured to be coaching 18 amazing women from all around the world as part of News Corp’s ‘Rising Leader’ programme. No matter who she’s coaching, Claudia loves watching people overcome fear, get unstuck and embrace new possibilities.

Claudia chose to specialise in ontological coaching and leadership development because she believes it’s the most profound and effective methodology available. What you learn and how you learn it allows for deep self-awareness and real long-term, sustainable change. She enjoys sharing what she’s learnt and considers it a privilege to be a part of her clients’ journeys.

Credentials  

• Associate Certified Coach with the ICF – International Coach Federation
• 18 month Newfield Institute Certified Ontological Coaching and Leadership Programme, 2018
• 470+ hours of coaching
• iEQ9 Integrative Enneagram Accredited Practitioner, 2019
• Time to Think ‘Thinking Partnership’ Programme, 2017
• Certificate of Higher Education in Counselling and Counselling Skills from Birkbeck, University of London, 2012

You can read more about Claudia on her website: www.claudiaboerscoaching.com

Pippa Dowding

Pippa has worked in the organisational development fields of training, facilitation and executive coaching for the past 20 years and has a Masters degree in Coaching. Her coaching niche has been supporting the growth of mindfulness and emotional intelligence in senior leaders in order to skilfully lead in a complex world where ambiguity and uncertainty are increasing.

Coaching Approach & Methodology

Pippa’s coaching approach encourages the client to become conscious of what is causing them stress, through growing their mindfulness, awareness and capacity to live in the world with perspectives and behaviours that are constructive. Her coaching model is an inclusive and systemic framework based on Ken Wilber’s Integral model, which enables the client to reflect on their individual experience as well as the collective influence and choose ‘ways of being and engaging’ that feel congruent and inspiring. She draws on various leadership development models like the Leadership Maturity Framework, Wilber’s Lines of Development, Appreciative Inquiry’s whole system approach, mindfulness-based practices, The Enneagram, Transactional Analysis as well as Emotional Intelligence tools and practices to support the individual’s growth.

Background & Experience

Pippa has facilitated large summits in organisations using the whole-systems Appreciative Inquiry approach focusing on the development and implementation of vision, strategy and culture change. She has vast experience in facilitating emotional intelligence, resilience and engaging leadership workshops and has run many Insights workshops. 

Credentials

• Masters in Coaching (Professional Development), Middlesex University, 2006
• Accredited in facilitating and debriefing the Enneagram profiles (Integrative Enneagram)
• Emotional Intelligence inventory assessments (ESCI)
• Level 1 certificate for the Leadership Maturity Framework
• Certified member of COMENSA (Coaches and Mentors of South Africa) and the ICF (International Coach Federation)

Zeldi Hall

Zeldi creates a compassionate coaching space to support her clients to grow and develop into accomplishing their desires. She has a passion for witnessing people’s journeys and supporting them to unlock their potential. She strongly believes that transformation starts within, and is therefore passionate about supporting her clients to transform from the inside out through increasing awareness that leads into conscious action.

Coaching Approach & Methodology

Zeldi works with an Integral approach to coaching, taking into consideration the various aspects and layers of complexity that the client experiences in their world. She uses the Enneagram, Leadership Maturity Framework, Polarity Wisdom, Ontological Coaching, Neuroscience and Leadership Embodiment as primary tools when working with her clients. Zeldi’s coaching is influenced by somatic work and adult learning processes. She enjoys transformational coaching and supporting her clients towards self-mastery.

She has deep knowledge and understanding of the Enneagram system and has trained and certified with world leaders in the field. She uses the Enneagram to support groups and individual clients with their most significant business and life challenges.

Zeldi has a clear understanding of how humans change and understands how thinking impacts on feelings which impact on actions. She enjoys using creative processes with clients to help them shift their thinking into thoughts that serve their desires and outcomes.

Background & Experience

Zeldi has been coaching since 2008 and has gained over 3400 hours of coaching experience. She enjoys coaching clients within an organisational context and is also passionate about embarking on journeys with teams, helping them to develop and transform their ways of thinking, feeling and acting. Zeldi has extensive experience working with executives and leaders in organisations to support them to navigate the complexity of their worlds.

She is on the Faculty of The Integral Africa Coaching Centre as a Lecturer and Developmentor for the Integral Practitioner Coaching Programme, where she supports students on their developmental journeys.

Zeldi facilitates a range of soft skills programmes, including Leader as Coach/Mentor, Enneagram and Polarity Wisdom workshops in the organisational space.

Zeldi’s experience in coaching and facilitation includes clients and groups at Nedbank, Marsh, ooba, Pam Golding Properties, University of Johannesburg, University of Cape Town, Stellenbosch University, Maties Sport, Philip Morris, Nampak, Roche Sequencing Solutions, Discovery Health, Western Cape Department of Health, Provincial Treasury, Western Cape Department of the Premier, South African Revenue Service, Polymorph, Global Load Control, Action Aid International as well as with clients in the Call Centre industry, NGOs, NPOs and SMMEs.

Zeldi has over 20 years’ experience in working with various corporate organisations in the fields of employee wellness, behavioural risk management, resilience, human resource management, project management and client relationship management. She has been successfully self-employed since 2011.

She strongly believes in making an impact on society through social projects and also by daily habits of living a respectful, aware and conscious life in all aspects of her being. She believes in supporting people through empowering them to have sustainable solutions for fulfilment in their life experience.

Credentials

• BCom Communication Management, majoring in Communication Management, Industrial Psychology and Marketing (UP), 1996
• BCom (Hons) in Communication Management (UP), 1998
• Diploma in Integral Practitioner Coaching (DIPC), The Coaching Centre, 2008.
• Professional Certified Coach (PCC) with the International Coach Federation (ICF) | Practitioner Member: COMENSA | Senior Affiliate Coach, Facilitator, Faculty Member and Developmentor: The Integral Africa Coaching Centre | Associate: ICAS | Trainer and Coach: The Enneagram in Business | Organic Coach:  Transmind | Member and Research Leader: The Global Coaching Community | Woman Within Training Level 1 and 2 and Facilitation Track: Woman Within International | Certified Coach and Business Associate NeuroZone.