Taking Action

“Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life. Don’t be trapped by dogma – which is living with the results of other people’s thinking. Don’t let the noise of others’ opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.” - Steve Jobs

Clients who have worked with our coaches make the following comments about their experiences:

Yolanda:

Yolanda MacIntyre has been a valued, respected partner and senior faculty member with Integral Leadership Dynamics for the past ten years. She has been an integral part of our growth and success as a coach and senior faculty member serving our global clients, delivering programs and providing coaching support on an international basis.

Yolanda brings a calm, assured presence and reflective nature to the work she does. She is deeply curious and passionate about supporting her clients and their teams to be at their best. I highly recommend her as a professional coach and program facilitator. She regularly receives outstanding feedback for her ability to facilitate learning and supporting her clients in their personal and professional development.

~ Frans Campher, CEO, Integral Leadership Dynamics Ltd

Working with Yolanda greatly increased my recognition and reinforcement of my strengths, values and beliefs. I was able to clarify my thought processes, and explore issues in a way that I knew was supportive, impartial and empowering. She always shows empathy, and perception, while still keeping me firmly on track with my chosen goals.I have found coaching to be a hugely useful tool both personally and professionally, and would recommend it to everyone.

~Celeste Kostopoulos; Global Client Advocate Corporate Risk Solutions

My experience of being coached has been one of enlightenment and empowerment. Yolanda has provided me with the tools to unlock more potential in myself. Our sessions involve the unfolding of answers to questions I was not sure I even had as questions.

Our regular interaction keeps me focused on progressing in my career as I am now an entrepreneur and self-employed. This is largely as a result of my coaching relationship with Yolanda, which gave me insight to the endless prospects, by simply adjusting attitude and views.

I am grateful for her vision and for the time we have invested in this journey.

~ Kimberly McNamara CA(SA); Head of Department: Advisory and Learning 

Yolanda provided us with effective tools that we can continuously use to assess and measure ourselves regarding our progress from where we were and what we agreed to do to grow.

This ultimately resulted in a totally rehabilitated team, who were re-energised with a renewed sense of determination, a “we can” attitude, and soaring commitment levels on each one’s part to contribute to the success of the team.

Yolanda has been a real source of inspiration, a patient and impactful coach!

~ Michelle Nel; Southern Divisional Manager

At the present moment I can confirm that I reached 3 of the 4 goals that Yolanda helped me to formulate, and I also reached other goals that was in the back of my mind, but not ones I focused on. She assisted me in changing beliefs that were limiting me, in a subtle yet straight forward way.

She assisted me in realizing my own worth, my own goals, putting details into my dreams and to build accountability into my life, as we discovered that was one of my weaknesses.

The most amazing thing for me was that Yolanda didn’t coach you in a way that made you dependent on her. She did it in a way that you will be able to go through the same steps on your own, set new goals and achieve even more with the tools she equipped you with.

~ Cornel Janse van Vuuren; Principal & Property Professional, MPRE

Working with Yolanda provided the platform for open discussions and establishing areas of discomfort in the team. The open sessions were invaluable. Yolanda allowed me to introspect, self-evaluate and slow down and reflect. She listened attentively and provided valuable input.

This was a good process, which highlights the importance of teamwork and accountability. We learn about one another’s strengths and areas of development, and how to work closely for the benefit of all.

~ Ivo Barradas; Executive General Manager, Northern Division

I found working with Yolanda extremely powerful and impactful.

Her approach was very effective in enabling me to bring a focus and attention to the important areas of both my professional and personal life not just those areas that were most demanding.

Gaining a better balance allowed me to adopt a more strategic view of my professional life, achieving greater impact, influence and direction with ease.

I found Yolanda's coaching style to have just the right amount of support as well as challenge.

~ Louise C; Director - International Training Organisation London, UK

Working with Yolanda has made me more confident in who I am and in what my function within the company is. She’s always objective and gives very valuable feedback. I appreciate her...knowledge of people.

Chriselda Saaiman; Assistant Marketing Manager

As a result of working with Yolanda, I achieved a lot. My confidence in my abilities have far improved from when we began. Along with that I have been able, with her coaching, to improve upon the skills that I currently have and also discover that I can fine tune some skills that are lacking, so to speak. With her help, I have been able to discover things about myself that I hadn’t necessarily been aware of. I know which areas I need to work on and, because of the coaching, I have been given the tools to do so.

I appreciated…that the coaching was full and active participation, getting me to engage and think for myself. I learn best in this type of way because not only am I able to recall it better, more importantly my understanding is vastly improved. It was also quite nice to reflect on our past sessions and see what was working or not working for me and discuss what would happen going forwards.

I appreciated her guidance throughout the entire process and her confidentiality which was very important to me. I really appreciated the material she sent me, because it helped me immensely, and I refer back to all of it from time to time.

~Pamela Muliba, GM, Sumbandila Scholarship Trust

Coaching with Yolanda allowed me to gain greater clarity about my professional goals and increased my confidence in my new role. She helped me clarify areas of focus for our coaching sessions, and helped me to become clear about the steps I needed to take to achieve those goals. Over the year, she has helped me to grow and expand into my new role, to match my strengths to the company’s expectations. She reinforced my achievements which gave me greater confidence about experimenting with new more empowering behaviours.

I would highly recommend coaching with Yolanda to anyone wanting to develop themselves.

~ Catherine Walsh; Senior Client Advocate

 

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Andre:

Coaching with Andre is like a great work out at the gym… you put your absolute best in, feel the stretch and walk out on air at the end of the session. We have worked together over the last 2 years and I have found his style and approach a good match for me. He supports me to focus, holds the pace I need and sets the structure, yet is flexible in his approach and consistently supports my movement towards positive outcomes.

He’s able to draw out blind spots and recognise patterns to increase my self-awareness. He exposes the action plans in me that are necessary for me to tackle both strategic and tactical issues.

He offers a unique wealth and depth to our coaching from his own business experience and yet balances this with his core strength in releasing from within me.

I enjoy working with Andre because he continues to stretch me at a business, professional and personal level and would recommend him to others looking for a similar ‘workout.

~Sandra Lee – VP and General Manager, Fisher Clinical Services UK

Andre brings energy and an air of possibility to his coaching. He is pragmatic, solution-focused and at the same time he is able to work at many different levels according to client needs. He is a pleasure to work with – he is challenging and supportive and fun too.

~Sally Bonneywell – VP Coaching, HS&P Centre of Excellence, GSK

Andre is an energetic, challenging and passionate coach, who coached me to develop plans and practical steps to resolve business challenges that I was facing. He helped me deliver plans for business changes that were successfully implemented and I got to the solutions much faster than I would have done myself. I was able to achieve clarity over both process and implementation. Andre is a great coach and I would highly recommend him.

~ Group HR Director – Communications Technology

Andre has a strong commercial background and is a talented coach which positions him well as an executive coach. He is tenacious, conscientious and wants what is best for the client. Things will get done when Andre is around! Andre has inspired me with his energy and enthusiasm to make things happen. He has challenged my way of thinking. The benefits for me personally were balance - in both a coaching and commercial aspect.

~Learning Development Manager – Recruitment Consultancy