Professional background and experience:

Lindiwe is a motivated, passionate and results-driven professional, coach and entrepreneur with more than 25 years’ experience as an Executive Director within the financial services, energy and higher education sectors. She has a wealth of diverse experience in driving change and transformation to enable organisations to attract, develop and retain talent successfully. Lindiwe has a track record of achieving business goals and bringing impactful and sustainable change across all job roles she led. As the Talent/Transformation Director, she influenced strategy decision-making at the exco/board level of the organisations she worked with. Lindiwe also operated at a senior level working in collaboration with heads of divisions and senior executives to achieve their strategic objectives.

Lindiwe worked for large organisations such as Deloitte, Standard Bank, Shell SA, and Wits University. She is passionate about harnessing the greatest potential of women and men in the workplace, and hence her role of mentoring and coaching professionals, a role she enjoyed immensely for many years.  

Lindiwe is currently a founder and Director of Uwezekona Consulting & Advisory Services – a firm dedicated to providing organisations with ideas, products, and services that improve organisational health, teamwork, and employee engagement. She is an organisational development and change management consultant, an international executive/leadership, business and career coach, a partner at Change Partners Coaches (CPC), facilitator, a conflict mediator, and a consultant at MAC Consulting.

Mediation experience and style:

Lindiwe has been mediating in conflict and dispute situations in her role as a transformation specialist in the corporate and education environments for more than 15 years. Most of the mediations she has conducted have been focused on workplace conflict, employment, and schools.

Her mediation style is based on facilitating a process of reconciliation, creating a common understanding and reaching a mutual agreement. She ensures that she facilitates in an objective and unbiased manner. She takes the role of a facilitator not that of a judge. The main intent is to always support the parties to reach an amicable agreement, and thus a win-win settlement. Her approach to the mediation process is to develop rapport and trust with all parties by creating a safe environment for engagement. This is done initially through her introduction by explaining the process of mediation, and then throughout the process through empathetic listening and sharing rational insights. She prepares the environment by ensuring that both parties have agreed to the mediation taking place and that they thoroughly understand the process of mediation. She has a high settlement rate, and the written agreement is followed up after two weeks.

Coaching experience and style:

Lindiwe is passionate about coaching individuals to transition through changes that they wish to make in their professional and personal lives. Her aim is to unleash the full potential of individuals to achieving greater results in their personal and professional lives. She has more than 20 years of coaching experience, coaching individuals, teams and groups from public, private and NGO sectors including MBA students. Her approach to coaching is entering into a partnership relationship with a client to embark on the transformative, thought provoking and an empowering process. She uses goal setting method and focus on the return on the client’s investment of time and energy. Lindiwe uses different methods to coach depending on the objectives of the client. Some of the methods are adopted from neurosciences, inner life skills, and appreciative enquiry. In addition, she uses different assessment tools such as the 360 Leadership Circle Profiling, Positive Intelligence Quotient, Enneagram to mention a few to focus the coaching process. The main purpose is helping the client abandon old patterns and habits that do not work, to adopt new creative thinking and become the best version of themselves.  

Facilitation experience and style:

Lindiwe has facilitated various processes and interventions with teams as small as five or twenty-five people, as well as with groups of up to hundred people.  She has facilitated Culture Change interventions for various organisations in the financial and educational sectors. As a consultant, she has facilitated various training programs including managing poor performance in the FMCG industry, and performance management and balance scorecard in the public sector including initiating a disciplinary action for the hospitality industry.  She developed and facilitated a management development programme for the public sector as part of ‘’professionalising the public sector initiative” As a trained Peace Circle facilitator, she facilitated interventions on building relationships of trust, managing conflict effectively, connecting through personal story telling at a private school for teachers and learners. As a coach she has facilitated learning teams for one of the large platinum mines. 

Comments from clients:

“I am deeply grateful and appreciative of your skilled mediation, care and support for the both of us in this important process.” 

“I have gained a lot of direction and confidence since having you as a life coach.”

“Thank you for your extraordinary ability to intelligently guide me towards better thinking and decision-making without condemnation nor sugar-coating.”

"Thank you so much for managing the mediation process so professionally and successfully." 

"Thank you for managing a very complex situation with so much patience and understanding."

"Your intervention helped us to find a way to work with each other in a collegial manner and have an appreciation for each other’s differences.“