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Paulette hails from Johannesburg, South Africa. She began her career in a recruitment consultancy.

She has since had 25 years of experience in leadership, human capital, and consulting in the pharmaceutical, banking, and insurance sectors. In the past decade she has been employed in banking group Barclays/Absa and insurance group Sanlam.

As an executive she has overseen and implemented strategic planning, talent management and employee engagement initiatives to align HR with organizational goals.

Later, as a senior consultant, she has provided tailored solutions for clients, focusing on strategic planning and operational efficiency.

Paulette is passionate about coaching, mentoring and developing others – particularly people from disadvantaged backgrounds. In 2024, she founded her own consulting business.

She is guided by spiritual truth, faith, a deep sense of gratitude and abundance, which underpin her commitment to serving others. Paulette cherishes her family life with her husband and two sons in Johannesburg.

Dieter grew up in Johannesburg as one of two sons to German parents. After completing his undergraduate degree and compulsory military conscription, Dieter moved to the Western Cape where he worked in the defence industry and subsequently completed his Master’s degree at UCT.  From there he moved back up to Pretoria where he worked in research before joining the team at Tiger Wheels Manufacturing, an international supplier of automotive aluminium wheels.  Here his career went from design to 24hr production management, and finally an appointment to the board as the company’s HR Director.

It was during this time that Dieter began to appreciate the inevitable interplay between people, process and technology to achieve desired outcomes, and spent much of his time training himself and his team in leadership skills, specifically servant-leadership.  Dieter describes this period as one of the most rewarding growth phases in his career.

Dieter then went into the consulting industry, where he has spent almost two decades, consulting initially on business process optimisation, where he was the Western Cape regional manager for a boutique consulting firm, and then in leadership development and coaching after attending an intense program with Maxwell Leadership in the USA.

Dieter lives in a small village outside of Mossel Bay with his wife Marita, and is a keen trail and road runner.  While they enjoy exploring the off-the-beaten track areas in the Garden Route, they are often found elsewhere in the country for both work and personal reasons.

Dieter believes the style and culture of future leadership depends on us all to be good role models for future leaders, and is therefore passionate in developing himself and others to be just that, which prompted him to author his book Decision Point: How the decisions you make, make you.  He was introduced to the Legitimate Leadership framework in 2023 which strongly resonated with his beliefs, leading him to join the Legitimate Leadership team.