Naomi Kieswetter (CEO)
Executive Leadership and Growth Mindset Coach
NLP Master Practitioner
EXPERIENCE-CERTIFIED-SUPPORTIVE
My metaphor as a coach:
I am a flight attendant, welcoming all the passengers on board – older ones, young children, mothers, fathers, sons daughters, business people, holidaymakers and ones with disabilities. I am making them feel welcome, comfortable, and safe by showing them the safety signs and procedures. But I cannot do it for them; they have to use the oxygen mask, and the safety jacket to save themselves. They have to fly themselves!
Naomi has always been a people person, who loves to interact with people both socially as well as in her career. Her decision to leave the corporate business sector in 2006, was to follow her dream to start her own coaching business.
Naomi developed her skills in facilitating training and development of staff during her 12-year association in the IT industry. It is here that she discovered her passion for coaching and mentoring teams as an enabler of efficient services. One of her key achievements was when she was part of a team that facilitated patient billing system training sessions for three large provincial hospital staff members, as well as private pathology laboratory staff training across South Africa.
Naomi is also the chairperson of a non-profit organization that offers training and development of business and entrepreneurial skills for adults and young people of historically disadvantaged communities. The organization aims to develop people to improve their lives both professionally and personally as well as help to up-skill the unemployed and get them off the streets.
Academic Qualification
- Associate Coaching Certificate – UCT Graduate School of Business
- Master Neuro-Linguistic Programming Practitioner
- Wellness Coach Certification
- Authentic Self-Empowerment Facilitator Certification
- Ericksonian Healing Hypnotherapy Certification.
- Business Administration and Finance at the University of the Western Cape
Coaching Experience
After completing her Executive Business Coaching qualification, she started working as an Associate Business Coach for Heartlinc, where she gained valuable experience in coaching Executives in the corporate environment. Naomi’s first assignment was at one of the largest Pharmaceutical companies in South Africa in Port Elizabeth. Working with executives, managers and key personnel in the likes of the Financial Services, Pharmaceutical, Construction and other industries gave her a solid foundation in Business Coaching and Organizational Change Management.
Amongst her clients being coached and trained are:
- Western Cape Local Government departments
- Momentum Holdings
- Sanlam Financial Services
- Financial Managers in the other Financial Investment Services Industry
- IT Support & Training Managers
- Engineering & Construction Managers
- Transnet
Her approach and style of work
Her ambition is also to change people in the way that they perceive their role in the business and how they can add value to their organization by changing their mindset, as well as generating personal momentum to achieve more.
She aims to enable individuals to translate greater self-awareness and reflection into improved execution and better results. She views all coaching as performance coaching, in the sense that it is always ultimately designed to enable an individual to achieve a change in behaviour even if that is in terms of consolidating and becoming more comfortable with existing strengths.
She believes that all greater self-awareness grows out of the ability to have firstly, a quality relationship with oneself, with others and with everything else that one interacts with.
This is why she integrates her coaching style with the Ontological Coaching ‘I, WE, IT’ model, which has a three-dimensional focus, from within, outward and with ‘things’, Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP), Ericksonian Hypnotherapy and Authentic Self-Empowerment techniques and processes.
She also looks at ‘where we come from, ‘where we’re at’ and ‘where we’re going. This enables her to assist the coachee from becoming unstuck and thus develop the competency to move forward.
Leaders and high-potentials who want to enhance their current capabilities, stay abreast of the latest strategies, accomplish their goals, surmount an organizational obstacle, and/or develop their group into a team and prepare them for new challenges, are some of the objectives of her coaching style.
Life experiences
Naomi is the eldest of 6 children born and raised in Cape Town South Africa. As a single mother, she has raised her two sons single-handedly.
She loves the outdoors, nature and travelling. Her travels have taken her abroad where she lived in the U.K. for a while. She has travelled to other parts of Africa, Europe and the U.S., because of her hunger to experience other cultures and her love for people, which has also served as a catalyst for a wide multicultural and diverse perspective of life.
Lizette Rorich
Personal Development Coach
Training Development & Facilitator
Lizette has more than 15 years of experience in Management and People Development including Team Capacity Building, Personal Development and Empowerment. She has held senior positions over the years in various corporate industries, for example, hospitality, retail, pharmaceutical and people development, coaching and training. During her tenure in the retail and pharmaceutical industries, she has gained extensive experience, managing teams and training individuals on financial and sales systems.
- Affiliations and Certifications
- – B. Com Hon. Business Management(University of Western Cape South Africa)
- – Relationship Coaching Diploma–Dr Karen Wells(Registered Psychologist)
- – Microsoft Office Diploma – Damelin South Africa
- – A+ Certificate and Computer course–W S & L College, South Africa.
- – Personnel Management Diploma – Damelin College, South Africa.
- – Financial Management Diploma –Centre for Business Management, South Africa.
- – Neurofeedback Facilitator Training – Brain Gain NeuroFeedback.
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