Additional Qualifications:

Logotherapy certification (Unisa) (2002).

Fundamental Intensive Training in Ego State (Hypnotherapy) presented by The Milton H. Erickson Institute of South Africa) (2003).

Ongoing training in Creativity and Creative Problem Solving at the University of Buffalo, Upstate New York.

Training through service providers towards acquiring yearly Continued Professional Development Points as per requirement of the HPCSA.

Work Experience:

Associate Director at the Faculty of Business Management at the Witwatersrand Technikon. (1994 to 2004). This position included tasks such as:

• Management of various departments such HR and Communication.
• Initiation, design, and implementation of a bridging program for students who did not meet first-year entry criteria.
• Lecturing a variety of subjects such as Entrepreneurship, Organisational Behaviour, Statistics for MBA students etc.

Consulting and training for a variety of large corporate companies on:

• Identifying “champions” and assessing leadership potential.
• Cultivating a culture and climate for creativity
• Mentoring towards the development of creative and critical thinking, emotional intelligence etc.
• Developing change management skills in companies.
• Restructuring and facilitating change management.
• Team building and mediation.
• Research on various problems a specific company might experience on any level in the form of pre-test, intervention and post-test investigations.
• Teaching, implementing and mentoring Creative Problem Solving Processes in corporations.

Current Vocation:

Psychology practice 1995 to 2000 (part-time) 2001 to present (full-time)

Services include the following:

• Psychological therapy using a wide variety of approaches such CBT, Psychodynamic, Creative Problem Solving, and Positive Psychology Models.
• Mentoring, life and business coaching.

Special Achievements:

Winner of the De Kat/Johannesburgse Afrikaanse Sakekamer as one of ten unsung heroes of 1994.

Apla/Azapo and Volkstater students were combined in a three-day workshop at RAU. The purpose was to apply an advanced form of thinking called “paradoxical thinking” to shift existing paradigms. This workshop was partially sponsored by the Chairman’s fund of Anglo America.

Established a trauma clinic in Thokoza during pre-election uproar in 1994.

Leader of the International Homebase at the Creative Problem-Solving Institute at the Buffalo University, Upstate New York during 1994 and 1995.