Coaching is not about teaching

the caterpillar how to fly,

It’s about creating an opening

For it to see the possibility.”

                 Paul Lefebvre, Leadership Coach

The Coaching Community Academy for Coaching Psychology

The Coaching Community Academy for Coaching Psychology is now one of the Academic departments in our Centre for Work-Based learning. Our mission is to bring quality coaching and mentoring skills for individuals in organisations and as well as maintain high level coach/mentor practitioner development programmes. We are committed to bringing globally benchmarked Coaching/Mentoring skills to the Southern African region and our faculty members are committed to the advancement of ethical coaching practices in Southern Africa.

Our programmes are accredited locally and are in the process of getting accreditation internationally. We align ourselves with key coaching societies like The International Coaching Federation (ICF) as well as the Coaching and Mentoring South Africa (COMENSA), The Society for Industrial/Organisational Psychology of South Africa (SIOPSA) and recently the International Society for Coaching Psychology..

Our Approach is Practitioner oriented, which means we are committed to making practical the theory contained as part of our curriculum and our programmes retain a balance of reflective and experiential practice underpinned by theoretical content.

We endeavour to use experts in their respective fields because we believe coaches and mentors are role models to the people they are meant to coach and we therefore prefer to use the people that role model effective coaching and mentoring practices.

We do not subscribe to one specific Coaching/Mentoring framework- we acknowledge that each coach/mentor is unique and the design of our programmes aims to reflect this reality by encouraging each coach to interrogate what this unique value proposition is.

Our faculty boasts lineage of a very high calibre, having been trained by some of the pioneers in contemporary coaching/mentoring practices globally. We have also trained, as part of a global coaching academy, some of the top coaches in the country.

Our Programmes
 
 
To see our Coaching/Mentoring Programmes Click here

 

Application process 

To apply you will need to complete the application form which is subject to entry criteria assessment. On acceptance into the programme, you will receive a registration letter and an invoice as well as provisional dates of the programme. For the Basic coaching skills programme and the mentoring skills programme- the fees are payable in full 10 days before the commencement of the programme.

 

For the other programmes you are required to pay 20% of the fees to secure your place in the programme. At least 50% of the fees (inclusive of the initial 20%) should be paid at commencement of the programme and the rest should be paid before the beginning of the next quarter in a programme.


Faculty Members

Mongezi Makhalima- Programme Director

With over 20 years experience working with leadership and organisations, most of it in the financial services sector, Mongezi has gained valuable insight into the working of business systems- from initiation to termination, as well as leadership.

A great part of his corporate career has been in the Human Capital Management arena, heading human capital management & change management & coaching business leaders,  culminating as Head of Talent Management and Development for the Absa group. This places him in an ideal position to coach in areas of career & leadership. Mongezi has also worked with entrepreneur development agencies as a business mentor and advisor and is CEO for The Entrepreneurship Academy of Southern Africa and sits on several boards and is chairman of the board for the South African National Youth Orchestra foundation.

Mongezi’s current focus is on implementing organisational change management solutions through individual change & learning, with coaching as an underpinning. This forms the life work for his Ph.D in Organizational Psychology for which he is currently enrolled with the Commonwealth University in the UK.

He holds an MBA from the University of the North West, an MA in Work-Based Learning (Professional Coaching) from the University of Middlesex in the UK plus post-graduate training in business consultation, group process consultation and facilitation (Tavistock Methodology), organizational change management as well as strategy design and implementation.

Mongezi is also faculty member of the I-Coach academy, an International coaching academy that teaches coaching in the UK and the USA.

He sits on the Executive committees of Coaching Mentoring South Africa (COMENSA) as well as the Society for Industrial and Organisational Psychologists of South Africa (SIOPSA) and a steering committee member of the International Society of Coaching Psychology. Mongezi is a founding member of the Interest group in Consulting Psychology.


Ronel Vermeulen — Leadership Coach & OD Specialist

Ronél is an experienced coach and organisation development consultant with more than 17 years experience in the corporate world. Ronél has extensive experience and training in group consultation, change management, systems thinking, group facilitation, strategy formulation and translation and climate and culture diagnosis.

Her strengths lie in supporting leaders to identify behavioural patterns that impact on their effectiveness. She helps executives translate strategy into business goals and ultimately into results.

Ronél has studied Education, Psychology and Sociology at Goudstad College of Education, RAU and UNISA.

Dumisani Magadlela

Dumisani is a Development activist; university lecturer; executive coach and coach trainer with extensive experience in leadership skills development (training and facilitation); emotional intelligence training across different government spheres and in the private sector. He’s a process facilitator and trainer of professionals in Gestalt Organizational Systems Development (OSD); personal effectiveness coaching for leaders and managers across different sectors; and training manager/leader as coach using Ubuntu Intelligence (new concept); writing on mindsets for excellence. He’s an experienced writer, presenter and communicator.

Dumisani holds a PhD in Development  Sociology from the Wageningen University in The  Netherlands, a Diploma: Practitioner Coaching (The Coaching Centre,  RSA), a Certificate: Leadership in the 21st Century and Emotional Intelligence Certificate (Teleos Leadership Institute, USA) as well as a Certificate: Gestalt Organisational Systems Development: International Programme (Gestalt Institute of Cleveland, USA)

Audrey lebala- Leadership coach and Industrial psychologist

Audrey Lebala is a registered Psychologist and brings to her coaching journey corporate and consulting experience that she gathered in her roles as an organisational development consultant, management and leadership development consultant, HR generalist and executive coach. In her new role as an independent consultant, she works with both teams and individuals and is able to integrate her broad skills base to deliver impactful, outcomes-based and individualised executive coaching. Her current client is the Department of Water and Forestry where she is conducting both individual and team coaching to bring about heightened levels of individual and team performance and output, personal accountability, leadership competence and team effectiveness. She has recently coached senior leaders at Nedbank and Absa Barclays South Africa.

Audrey has an MA degree in psychology from the University of the Witwatersrand and is a Certified Executive Coach