Stefaan, a South African, competed in the US collegiate golf first division and various professional golf tours for 10 years. He also traded on the foreign exchange market for five years. He now applies this experience of achieving in high-performance arenas in his coaching and leadership consulting with clients.
He has been involved with executive coaching and leadership consulting since 2007 in South Africa for major companies, at senior management and executive levels.
Stefaan says coaching helps him and his clients move away from the cycle of reacting habitually, to shift to a place where “one is able to pause, reflect and to respond skilfully … coaching is important because it helps people to question, to make sense and to find meaning in who they are and how they contribute to society.”
Stefaan has been involved with the University of Cape Town’s Graduate School of Business’s Centre for Coaching. He was also a faculty member of the South African College of Applied Psychology where he facilitated the Applying the Principles of Adult Learning and Change in Coaching module.
Josh Hayman has been working with the Legitimate Leadership Model for 15 years, and in that time, he has consulted to a wide range of industries, both locally and internationally, on establishing and sustaining organisational cultures characterised by ownership, trust and accountability, with the Legitimate Leadership Model as the foundation. His current responsibility in the organisation is for the South African business.
The first half of his career was spent first as a Project Manager and then as a Programme Manager. He led large, complex business transformation programmes and implemented project management best practices in the public and private sectors. During this time, he gained first-hand experience of how intent – and with it trust, accountability and legitimacy – impact business success. When introduced to the Legitimate Leadership model in 2012, Josh found the Model immediately resonated with what he had experienced as sustainable. He joined Legitimate Leadership and set about helping leaders to apply the Model sustainably in their organisations.
Josh grew up with one foot in Gauteng and the other in the Eastern Cape, which is where he now resides. He lives in a small coastal village on the east coast, outside East London, and enjoys an active outdoor life.
Leonie van Tonder was born and raised in Klerksdorp, a mining community in South Africa.
The first 18 years of her career were spent in the nursing profession, three of those as the Matron of the mine hospital at Vaal Reefs in Orkney. This experience gave Leonie some insight into the mining world from the health and safety/accident perspective.
When she left nursing, she joined the commercial world where she held a number of executive and senior leadership positions until she retired for the first time in 2009, after twenty-three years with the FirstRand Group. During this time, she held the positions of Chief Underwriter at Momentum Life, Head of New Business at Aegis, Head of Administration at Origin and CEO of Share Services at First National Bank, where at one stage she had over 3 000 people in her business unit. The most recent position was COO at Afrika Tikkun for 5years.
She has been working with the Legitimate Leadership framework for the last twenty years. Successfully rolling it out in different and diverse environments. The last and most successful intervention that she led was in Afrika Tikkun, a non-profit organisation (see https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BrP1IXvTvxM).
To quote Leonie, “I believe in Legitimate Leadership, I live it every day and I have seen the most amazing turn arounds in the hardest of managers to the most basic of ordinary people.”
She continues to work with the Legitimate Leadership principles and practices as an Associate of Legitimate Leadership sharing her wealth of experience in leadership with Legitimate Leadership clients.