Herman boasts 30 years experience in business and management and specialises in business and personal development coaching.
His style is hands-on and practical with an honest approach. Although he is still involved in business, coaching is his passion. As he says: “I love to experience the difference it makes to people’s lives on a day to day basis.”
Herman feels privileged to help people become the best they can be in their business and in their personal lives. And with a powerful combination of advanced coach training and a wealth of business experience he is uniquely equipped to do just that!
Name of Practice: Herman Smit Business and Personal Development Coaching
Where: Swellendam to Somerset West, Western Cape
Born: 1960
Qualifications: New Insights VIP Coach, New Insights Advanced Coach Training, New Insights Certified Life Coach
Specialises in: Business and Personal Development
USP: A combination of many years of business experience and life coach training; Tweetalig
Fees: R300-R399 per session, negotiable
Website: www.lewensafrigting.co.za
Jenni refers to herself as a ‘True Essence’ Life Coach and focuses heavily on her clients’ personal development by taking them on a journey of self-discovery towards self -empowerment.
Jenni believes that with heightened awareness of who we really are, we can strive to live more consciously and choose to make choices! Thus, we begin to be in creative control of our own life experiences.
Name of Practice: True Essence life coaching
Where: Glencairn, Western Cape
Born: 1958
Qualifications: New Insights VIP Life Coach; New Insights Certified Coach (Advanced Coach Training)
Specialises in: Helping people to connect with their true essence, find their passion and grow and develop as individuals.
USP: Jenni offers an optional extra of tailoring her own gentle exercise technique, called Chi Moves, to the unique needs of her clients. Chi Moves, which activates the energy systems of the body, complements the life coaching programme to promote balance and harmony.
Fees: Available upon application
COMENSA Registered: Yes
Hayley Ryan believes there are three essential elements to living a healthy lifestyle, viz. living with a feeling of purpose and passion; eating tasty, healthy food for sustained energy and maintaining a fit, healthy body.
Hayley specialises in helping clients become aware that the body is a reflection of the mind. By taking the mind into a more positive and self accepting space, the body can be made to feel and look as fit and healthy as one desires it to be. Though her niche is healthy lifestyle coaching, she is also passionate about empowering people to discover their life purpose and build self-esteem, confidence and self-motivation.
Name of Practice: Gear Up Lifestyle Coaching Centre
Where: Durban, KwaZulu Natal (also international coaching via Skype)
Born: 1982
Qualifications: Marketing Management Diploma; International Fitness Trainer diploma; Body for Life consultant; Pilates Instructor (IOFP); Pre and Post Natal Exercise Certification (HFPA); New Insights VIP Life Coach; New Insights Certified Life Coach (Advanced Training)
Specialises in: Healthy lifestyle development, spiritual coaching, Self confidence and self esteem building
USP: An ‘Ironman’ triathlon competitor with firsthand experience of how to release one’s personal power with a positive empowering mindset
Fees: R300-R399 per session
COMENSA Registered: Not specified
Website: www.gearuplive.co.za
Penny Hennings is a Recovery Life Coach who works primarily with women. As someone who has been through many difficulties, she can personally attest to the POWER of life coaching to bring about the change so many people long for in their lives. If you are in the process of recovery from an addictive behaviour or co-dependency… If you have been through the trauma of loss due to illness, relationship difficulties or children leaving… If you have battled with depression, low self-esteem, low self-worth or loss of identity, then Penny will help you to take back control of your life and move forward into a new and wonderful future!
Name of Practice: Courage to Change
Where: Bryanston, Gauteng
Born: 1959
Qualifications: New Insights VIP Life Coach; New Insights Certified Coach (Advanced Coach Training)
Specialises in: Co-dependency, assisting those who are in recovery from an
addictive behaviour, depression, anxiety, loss – of self-esteem, identity,
self-worth, or loss due to illness or divorce.
USP: Uses a combination of coaching and counselling skills to ensure you get the best possible outcome
Fees: R300-R399 per session.
COMENSA Registered: Yes
Website: www.courage2change.co.za
Life coach Charmaine admits to having had ‘a lot of baggage’ in the past. For years she tried to ‘leave it in lost property’ but it always got returned. After much research, she found a way to permanently lose the baggage, live a life of passion, freedom and empowerment and be financially independent! Charmaine now works to share the tools and processes with her clients so they may start living life to its full potential. Whether it’s about career, starting a business, personal development, finance, health or any other aspect of life, she offers her clients an opportunity to live their dreams.
Name of Practice: The Turning Point
Where: Cape Town, Western Cape
Born: 1962
Qualifications: B.Soc Sci; Economics Honours (post graduate); New Insights Certified VIP Life Coach (Advanced Trained)
Speciality: General Life Coaching
USP: Will work outside business hours: After 6 pm and weekends. Free introductory consultation covering the basics of life coaching, what you can expect and a client assessment.
Fees: On application only
COMENSA Registered: Pending
Cherri has operated in the coaching sphere for many years having coached school and provincial sports teams. Now she has found her niche in life coaching.
Cherri loves working with people who choose to be proactive about their lives, desire to be the very best they can be, want to jettison negative influences and live positively; people who, when faced with change, choose to approach it with courage.
Cherri’s logo features butterflies, which she says symbolizes the positive transformation, unfurling of potential and opening to new ways that comes with coaching. She aims to help her clients to ‘fly’ with freedom and without limitations.
Name of Practice: Life Vision
Where: Hilton, KwaZulu Natal
Born: 1960
Qualifications: BA (HDE); New Insights Advanced Life Coach Training;
New Insights Certified VIP Life Coach (Advanced Trained);
Specialises in: Coaching middle-aged women, bereaved individuals, couples and 15 – 20 year olds.
Fees: R500-R599 per session, negotiable.
COMENSA Registered: Yes
Website: www.lifevision.co.za
Rosemary’s fundamental premise, as a certified life coach, is that each one of us has an inherent wisdom that knows the answers to the questions and challenges that confront us as we journey through life. As a coach she considers it her pleasure, and privilege, to provide the space and tools to facilitate the accessing of that wisdom in order that her clients might lead fulfilled and enlivened lives. Rosemary has a capacity for deep listening and she works intuitively with each client. She is passionate about personal transformation and is interested in working with people who have the courage to take responsibility for their lives.
Name of Practice: Think Big
Where: Johannesburg, Gauteng
Born: 1952
Qualifications: Time to Think Consultant; New Insights Certified Life Coach
Specialises in: General life coaching
Fees: R850 per session, negotiable.
COMENSA Registered: Not stated
New Insights certified life coach Alana, has combined Dr Patti Britton’s BEMES holistic sex coaching model with the power of the New Insights Life Coaching Programme to create a unique coaching experience. She is registered with COMENSA. As Alana puts it: “You are the greatest expert on your own life. I will help you to get in touch with that expert, your own inner coach. That part of you knows exactly what you want and gives you clues every day about what to do next. We will use those clues to take actions that lead to extraordinary results.”
Name of Practice: Meridian Coaching
Where: Cape Town, Western Cape
Born: 1972
Qualifications: New Insights Advanced Coach Training; New Insights Certified VIP Life Coach (Advanced Trained)
Specialises in: Sexual authenticity and intimacy coaching
Fees: R600 – R799 per session, negotiable. Limited number of places for discounted mentor coaching.
COMENSA Registered: Yes
