ASSOCIATES
THE TEAM
Callie Roos
Wanda Bierman
Erika du Plessis
Alette van Zyl

Callie Roos

Callie Roos is an ordained minister, with a BA degree, a BD degree and a Post-Graduate diploma in Theology. With his unique blend of experience as a field guide, outdoor specialist and army survival instructor, and later as military chaplain, pastor and community leader, he transforms people, their relationship and the way they do business. During South Africa's landmark democratisation, Callie played a pivotal role in the redesign and restructuring of the South African National Defence Force, with special emphasis on designing and facilitating a new organizational culture. Callie is a master at closing the gap between individual purpose and meaning, and professional business strategies, showing business leaders how to manage by values.


Wanda Bierman

Wanda Bierman has been a human resources development practitioner since the early 80's. From her humble beginning as a training assistant, she climbed the corporate ladder to become the Executive Director for Training and Development with the biggest metropolitan council in South Africa, where she was responsible for the training and development of some 3 000 employees at all levels. In 1999 she set up practice as an independent training consultant. She has three degrees: in law, training management, and a master's degree in Personal and Professional Leadership, which she obtained Cum Laude. Wanda is a coach, facilitator, and trainer, focussing on Interpersonal Skills, Customer Care Programmes and Leadership Development.


Erika du Plessis

Erika du Plessis is a dynamic and highly motivated person, driven by her passion to share her knowledge with people and make a difference in their lives. She has a masters degree in Organisation Development from RAU and a Higher Education Diploma, also from RAU. After completion of her internship in the teaching profession, she joined Eskom from 1985 as a Psychometrist in the recruitment department.

From there her experience escalated and includes training, train-the-trainer, customer satisfaction, mentoring and coaching, performance management, OD specialist, leadership and team focus, people development and as a facilitator across a wide variety of fields for the next 15 years. In 1998 she decided to pursue her dream to bring about meaningful transformation in companies through focusing on the value that people add to organizations to achieve organisational objectives.

Strategic Processes, and then Grownet Consulting - OD and training company was established, with the main focus being growing organisations through growing their people. The combined business and life experience of this people-person, as well as her diverse interests, makes for a highly creative and dynamic force behind the drive and desire to bring value to people and their organization.

She is a fully trained coach, mentor, trainer and qualified assessor, and has had great success in developing and growing people across all levels of the organisation, developing their team potential, leadership, people and communication skills.

Through her networking, as well as her theoretical business, practical and interpersonal expertise, she is able to provide diverse solutions to achievers who has the wish to increase their own potential and capacity for effective working relationships and efficiency within the organisation. Erika has successfully contributed to change processes in companies such as the AA, Harmony Gold, BRPM, Anglo Field Services, Standard Bank(Western Gauteng and Limpopo), Denel, Prosperity Health(South Africa and Africa) to mention a few.


Alette van Zyl

Alette van Zyl is a Training and Development Consultant who has specialised in the field of Human Resources Development for 19 years. She has completed her Honours Degree in Social Sciences (1990) as well as her Honours degree in Human Resources Development (1994). She then obtained a Masters Degree in Personal and Professional Leadership at RAU (Cum Laude) in 2000. She is also a qualified and licensed facilitator of the internationally acclaimed course: "7 Habits of Highly Effective People" for Franklin Covey Southern Africa.

She specialises in facilitating the broad spectrum of emotional intelligence and all its aspects for various companies. Since she started as an independent consultant in 2003, she has gained experience in a wide range of companies, such as ABSA, Nedbank, Standard bank, Anglo Gold, De Loitte, Sasol, Exxaro, Tata, Discovery, Stanlib, Investec, Southern Sun and many more. Alette obtained the qualification of National Assessor, and has an incredible passion and true commitment to the development of people on all levels. She has excellent experience in the Public as well as Private sector with regards to the Training and Development of people.

Her facilitation experience includes Secretarial- and Frontline staff training, Management- and Organisational development, Personal motivation and Self Development, Team Building, Emotional Intelligence and many more. She has completed her qualification as an Executive Business and Life coach, and practices this powerful tool in individual and group development and empowerment in many organisations.

She is head of coaching at the Wholeness Centre of the Mosaiek church in Fairland Johannesburg where she also presents parent guidance workshops, and acts as a spiritual coach. She sees her career as her calling and her passion. The development of each unique person is her main source of significance and energy!

   
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