Team

Craig O’Flaherty: Director

Craig is a highly experienced integral coach who has coached senior executives in leading South African organisations and trained prospective business and life coaches.

Previous background

Prior to his coaching work, Craig worked as a partner with two of the world’s leading consulting companies, Accenture and Gemini Consulting in the dynamic world of strategy consulting. Operating at CEO, board and senior executive level, he has designed and implemented strategy and organisational transformation programmes across a wide range of industries internationally.

Coaching work

Craig’s work in coaching has seen him travel to New Ventures West in San Francisco, California, where he has completed the year-long Professional Coaching Course, certified by the International Coach Federation (ICF).

In addition, Craig completed the year-long Business Leaders Training course which has accredited him to run New Ventures West’s coaching courses in South Africa.

He spends his time as a one-on-one coach to executives from leading South African organisations, with leadership teams as a group coach, as well as consulting on the design and implementation of coaching cultures, interventions and processes into organisations. He delights in working across cultural, gender and other category backgrounds in assisting people towards captaincy of their fate and the exploration of roads less travelled.

Educational background

Craig has a Bachelor of Arts degree majoring in Industrial Psychology from the University of the Witwatersrand and a Masters in Business Administration from Wits Business School.  He is also the Director of Weathervane, an executive coaching practice.

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Janine Everson: Academic Director

Janine is a certified Professional Integral Coach and Academic Director of the Centre for Coaching. She also holds the position of Senior Lecturer at the UCT Graduate School of Business, where she lectures in Coaching and leadership development to MBA and Executive Education students, and is currently doing her research in coaching.

Previous background

Janine spent more than 10 years working in the corporate, manufacturing and business environment at senior executive levels. She held positions as Director, Exco member, and Head of HR and also handled marketing, production and start-up operations. Janine has also held a number of musical positions in the National Orchestra before she started her corporate career and continues to play the violin when possible.

Coaching work

Janine has been coaching since 2002, primarily to senior executives who are often working on strategic, leadership and relationship challenges. Her work in multinationals has allowed her to develop a keen appreciation for the challenges facing leaders who operate in multi-cultural global organisations.

Janine lectures and facilitates all courses run by the Centre for Coaching as well as running in-house coaching workshops, Coaching Circles, and leadership development interventions for blue chip clients all over the world. She consults to organisations on the design and implementation of coaching cultures, interventions and processes as well as leading the implementation of such interventions.
She is a certified member of the International Coach Federation (ICF) and a founding member of the Coaches & Mentors Society of SA (COMENSA) and the Coach Educators and Training Association of south Africa (CETASA).

Educational background

Janine has a Bachelor of Arts from Wits University, a Postgraduate Diploma in Management (Human Resources) from the Wits Business School, a Licentiate from the Royal Schools of Music (Violin Teaching), a Masters in Business Administration from the UCT Graduate School of Business, and is a certified Professional Coach, having completed all the programmes run through the Centre for Coaching and New Ventures West (USA). She is also one of a handful of coaches in South Africa to achieve the status of Professional Coach through the ICF with over 1 000 coaching hours logged. She has done group facilitation and depth consulting (Feather Assocs) as well as Enneagram certification (Adfen International). She is currently advancing her work in coaching by participating in the rigorous PCC Leader in Training process run through New Ventures West in the USA.

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