Who We Are
Kilpena Lalu

Kilpena Lalu

Managing Director

The change partner who aligns people, culture and execution when it matters most

→ Culture | Alignment | Transformation

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Background

  • 30+ years of business experience
  • Functional exposure and expertise: sales enablement, asset management, stakeholder relationship management, HR, compliance and diversity, product marketing
  • 14 years in Retail Banking
  • Head of Product Marketing and Investor Relations in Fund Management for Old Mutual Investment Group Property Investments
  • Operations & Human Resources Manager serving HR, compliance, marketing and communications and management accounting for Black Lite Group (Pty) Ltd
  • Associate of UCT Centre for Coaching
  • Associate with other providers
  • Coached and worked across 55+ countries (within Africa and internationally)

Areas of Expertise

  • Executive & Leadership coaching
  • Culture change & transformation
  • Conflict Resolution
  • Team performance & cohesion
  • Strategy formulation and facilitation
  • Independent chair for disciplinaries

Qualifications

  • ICF PCC Certified Integral Coach® (New Ventures West / UCT)
  • Certified Neurozone Coach
  • Enneagram Practitioner (Ennea International)
  • Conscious Embodiment Practitioner
  • B.Com Economics (UWC)
  • Marketing Diploma (UNISA)
  • Credit Diploma (CAIB)

Tools & Modalities

  • Integral Coaching®
  • Enneagram & PersProfile assessment
  • Leadership Embodiment
  • Business coaching & strategy facilitation
  • Restorative justice for conflict
  • Group Circle Coaching
Yahya Mayet

Yahya Mayet

Associate

The difference maker who works beneath the surface of human complexity to create real and lasting shifts

→ Purpose | Group Analysis | Diversity

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Background

  • 16+ years management consulting experience
  • Functional exposure and expertise: strategy, operational improvement, financial modelling, people & change, HR consulting, DEI, transformation, academia
  • Senior Manager KPMG People & Change Consulting division and transformation committee member including business development
  • Manager at Africawide Consulting and serving internal role of Head of People, Operations Teams, Training
  • Consultant at Monitor Deloitte
  • Associate of UCT Centre for Coaching
  • Faculty member, Ububele Psychotherapy Institute (Working With Groups)
  • Associate to other international based coaching, facilitation and mental health providers
  • Coached and worked across 58+ countries (within Africa and internationally)

Areas of Expertise

  • Group dynamics
  • Organisational systems consulting and facilitation
  • Leadership program design
  • Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, Belonging and Justice
  • Individual and team coaching
  • Wellness as strategy
  • Psychosocial support
  • Trauma debrief
  • Employee resource groups

Qualifications

  • ICF PCC Certified Integral Coach® (New Ventures West / UCT)
  • DEI Certified Coach (CoachHub)
  • PG Diploma Group Analysis (IGA London)
  • Jungian Analysis – Centre for Applied Jungian Psychology
  • Community Art Counsellor
  • Masters: Facilitation & Narrative Techniques (Wits)
  • B.Bus.Sci Finance Honours (UCT)
  • Enneagram Practitioner (Ennea International)

Tools & Modalities

  • Integral Coaching®
  • Enneagram & PersProfile assessment
  • Psychonomics assessments
  • Group Circle Coaching
  • Tree of Life (Level 1 and 2)
  • Group Analytic
  • Psychoanalytic & psychodynamic methods
  • Mindfulness stress reduction techniques
  • Art based techniques
  • Motivational interviewing
  • Social dreaming for innovation
  • Acceptance and commitment
  • Non-violent communication
Lynn Witten

Lynn Witten

Associate

The leadership catalyst that helps leaders navigate complexity with confidence

→ Balance | Executive Presence | Performance

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Background

  • 30+ years of financial services experience
  • Functional exposure and expertise: finance, insurance, risk, audit, compliance and HR
  • Currently is a non-executive director and committee member of the HR, TCF, Social & Ethics, Risk and Audit Committees at a South African Financial Services organisation
  • Held an executive managerial position at one of South Africa’s largest life assurers
  • Guest lecturer/speaker on the MBA programmes of 2 of South Africa’s largest business schools
  • Member of the Institute of Directors South Africa (IODSA)
  • Associate of UCT Centre for Coaching
  • Coached and worked across 23+ countries (within Africa and internationally)

Areas of Expertise

  • Executive and team development
  • Individual coaching
  • Facilitation
  • Career transitions
  • Board dynamics

Qualifications

  • ICF PCC Certified Integral Coach® (New Ventures West / UCT)
  • Degree in Ministry, Impact Christian University
  • Certificate in Ministry, Impact Christian University
  • Adfen E-Scale accreditation course, Adfen International
  • Master of Business Administration (MBA) (UCT): 2001

Tools & Modalities

  • Integral Coaching®
  • Enneagram & PersProfile assessment
  • Group coaching circles