Professional background and experience:

Lindiwe is an accredited commercial mediator with Conflict Dynamics and the Dispute Settlement Accreditation Council (DiSAC). She has over 25 years corporate experience at an executive level within the financial services, energy, mining, and higher education sectors. She is a consultant in organizational development and change management, a business and career coach in international executive/leadership, a partner at Change Partners Coaches (CPC), and a facilitator and consultant at MAC Consulting. Lindiwe's expertise lies in organizational development, mentoring/coaching, talent/transformation direction, consulting, and entrepreneurship. She has driven transformation in major organizations such as Deloitte, Standard Bank, Shell SA, and Wits University. As a talent/transformation director, Lindiwe has influenced strategy decision-making at the exco/board level and collaborated with heads of divisions and senior executives to achieve strategic objectives. She is the founder and director of Uwezekona Consulting and Advisory Services, dedicated to enhancing organizational health, teamwork, and employee engagement. 

Lindiwe’s tertiary qualifications include a Post-Graduate Diploma in Organizational Development and a Bachelor of Arts (UNISA). She has successfully completed studies in the Management Advanced Program (WITS); Executive Leadership Development Programme (USB); Inner Life Skills International Professional Coach; Neuro-Linguistic programming (NLP), Meta-States practitioner; 360 Leadership Circle Profiling practitioner (LCP); Enneagram 101 – Inner Life Skill Master Coach International and Brain-Based team coaching (Neuro Leadership Institute’s SCARF Model). 

Mediation experience and style:

Lindiwe is an experienced mediator focusing primarily focused on workplace, employment, and school conflicts. Her mediation style emphasises reconciliation, fostering understanding, and achieving mutual agreement. She maintains objectivity and impartiality throughout the process, prioritising the establishment of rapport and trust among all parties within a safe and engaging environment.

Facilitation experience and style:

Lindiwe has facilitated diverse processes and interventions for teams ranging from five to one hundred individuals. She has facilitated culture change interventions within financial and educational organisations and has designed and facilitated management development programs for the public sector, as part of ‘’professionalising the public sector initiative”. As a trained Peace Circle facilitator, she has facilitated interventions for building relationships of trust, managing conflict effectively, connecting through personal story telling. Additionally, as a consultant, she has conducted various training programs, including managing poor performance in the fast-moving consumer goods industry and implementing performance management systems in the public sector.

Coaching experience and style:

Lindiwe has more than 20 years of coaching experience, with individuals, teams and groups from public, private and NGO sectors including MBA students. 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. Her primary goal is to assist clients shed ineffective patterns and habits, foster innovative thinking, and realise their full potential. This is achieved through a goal-setting approach that prioritises the client's return on investment in terms of time and energy.

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.”

"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.”

“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.”