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We bring more than 50 years of experience and passion, to skill leaders in building winning cultures, focussing on high performance in organisations in Southern Africa.
HELÉNE VERMAAK
Chief Architect : Client Performance and Culture Solutions
Heléne Vermaak is Director and co-owner of The Human Edge. She brings more than 20 years of experience in consulting, training and organisational development. As a Clinical Psychologist and principal consultant for The Human Edge, she has extensive experience in implementing organisation-wide culture change initiatives. Her mission is to help leaders and employees influence positive behaviour change in both their organisations and their personal lives.
JAY OWENS
Director of Performance and Culture
Jay Owens is Director and co-owner of The Human Edge. For the past 20 years he has owned and operated two successful training and consulting businesses, representing international organisations in South and Southern Africa.
He has worked closely with many leaders and executives to conduct strategic and cultural change initiatives, to achieve meaningful results through proven and internationally researched methodologies and practices.
RENATE LANDMAN
Client Experience Ambassador
Renate Landman is an executive coach and inspirational speaker. She coaches individuals and teams and facilitates a variety of workshops in the public and corporate sectors. Renate hosts a weekly radio programme called “A Planet Called Work” in which she discusses work-related topics.
She is passionate about helping people reach their full potential and her engaging facilitation style has ensured long term and valuable client relationships.
“What an awesome workshop by an awesome facilitator, Thank you!!”
Delegate feedback
KHOSI JIYANE
Client Experience Ambassador
Khosi is an accomplished trainer and facilitator and her professional career spans across corporate consulting, NGO, international intergovernmental and community based initiatives. She is a registered Clinical Psychologist and speaks 9 of South Africa’s 11 official languages, with varying degrees of fluency.
Khosi has featured as a guest, on a variety of SA local television talk shows and co-hosted a show on HIV Aids, which was broadcasted in 8 African countries.
“Khosi was brilliant, on top of things from the word go to the end of the session.” Delegate feedback
NATALIE FOURIE
Client Experience Ambassador
Natalie has 18 years of facilitation and coaching experience and has had the privilege of working with internationally acclaimed speakers and authors, Dr. Stephen Covey, Joseph Grenny and Ron MacMillan.
Natalie has been interviewed on Gabs FM, Gabarone Botswana’s popular radio station, on the subject of Leadership and was the International Guest Speaker at the Botswana National Women’s Congress.
“Natalie is brilliant! She has a fantastic approach, kept the group awake and productive.” Delegate feedback
THERESA COUZYN
Client Experience Ambassador
Theresa Couzyn brings more than 10 years of experience in corporate facilitation specialising in the development of personal and interpersonal competencies. She is passionate about helping people reach their full potential and is a respected and valued facilitator. She a proven track record and experiences to draw on to deliver meaningful and engaging programmes.
“Excellent Theresa , very informative. Will definitely recommend to colleagues.” Delegate feedback
SUE SCHREUDER
Client Experience Ambassador
She has 22 years’ experience across diverse industries and her roles spanned from people development, employee engagement, communication, marketing, sales, project and event management, coaching and facilitation. Sue is passionate about personal fulfilment, living life purposefully and making a positive contribution to the world. She empowers individuals and teams to accomplish both professional and personal goals whilst providing them with tools to ensure their sustainability.
“Loved Sue’s delivery and her absolute knowledge.” Delegate feedback
TANJA CAMERON
Client Experience Ambassador
Tanja has 13 years of experience in the sales, marketing and management environments in the Corporate World. During her corporate years, she became aware that, people are often too afraid to speak up or stand up for themselves or what they believe in. The consequences of this were tangible, both for the company and on a personal level. These professional and personal factors were the major motivation to commit to the growth and development of people, teams and organisations.
“Thank you Tanja, this has been incredibly meaningful!” Delegate feedback
CHANTELLE SOLOMON
Client Experience Ambassador
Chantelle has 20 years of facilitation experience as a finance professional, and her own leadership journey which encompassed taking up formal and informal leadership roles in business. This experience allows her to understand the language of business, appreciate the significance of expected business outcomes to achieve business outcomes through their teams and through influencing others.
‘Chantelle shared an overwhelming amount of info, and is one of the best trainers I’ve had the pleasure of working with.’ Delegate feedback
ANJA VAN BEEK
Client Experience Ambassador
Anja trains executives and leaders from small businesses through to large organisations on all people-related aspects with a specific focus on integrating the talent of the business into the overall strategy.
She was part of the Sage global HR leadership team representing the Africa, Middle East, Asia and Australia region and has more than 20 years corporate experience. At Sage, she has lead multi-national teams through transition and change management.
‘Thank you to Anja who really engaged with us, listened and allowed us to explore’ Delegate Feedback
TRACY BOTHA
Client Centric Ambassador
Tracy has more than 20 years’ experience in the training industry. She is involved in managing special projects and ensures seamless delivery of all operations and logistics which support facilitators. She manages the admin team, to deliver superbly to our clients in a way that is both attentive and excellent.
ZANELE HLATSHWAYO
Client Engagement Administrator
Zanele provides valuable administrative support to our Human Edge facilitators and sales team. She also keeps our clients up to date and in the loop of all training initiatives across the country.
MICHELLE MAHLANGU
Client Engagement Administrator
Michelle provides valuable administrative support to our Human Edge facilitators and sales team. She also keeps our clients up to date and in the loop of all training initiatives across the country.
CARINA SERFONTEIN
Client Engagement Partner
Carina is passionate about creating lasting and sustainable culture change through people. She has a firm belief that through exposing and experiencing individuals and teams to our solutions, they are better equipped to drive systemic and effective culture change within their businesses through their people.
ILZE SWANEPOEL
Client Engagement Partner
Ilze believes that there are a set of crucial skills for organisations to achieve a winning high performance culture. Through her facilitation and business experience, Ilze shares her expertise and establishes long-term relationships with clients, to support them on their journey to engage, inspire and achieve sustainable business results through their people.