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Andrew Brough Communications is made up of a team of highly qualified leadership and organizational consultants.

  Chief Learning Officer & Company Director

Andrew Brough

Andrew Brough is an international learning consultant and organizational development practitioner based in Johannesburg, South Africa.

As a facilitator, lecturer and broadcaster, Andy's wide ranging professional experience includes over 19 years as a communications and training consultant. Andy has invested more than half of that time working as an Executive Business coach specialising in Sales & Marketing and Leadership related subjects. He is well known in the industry for his work on his speciality subject - Commercial Negotiation.  He has lectured on Principles of Marketing and Negotiation and Influencing Results on a number of MBA programmes. 

As a qualified Chartered Marketer- the top professional marketing designation in South Africa - Andy consults for and with many international blue chip companies around issues pertaining to individual and team development. His research and facilitation in both an African and European context means that he brings a professional understanding to issues around diversity, teamwork and leadership.

As a student of Leadership and Management, Andy has spent his career trying to understand the keys to successful leadership and organizational development and he has had the privilege of sharing these insights to audiences around the world through keynote speeches, seminars, face to face contact sessions and webinars and teleconferences. Andy serves on the faculty of a global management development team and is often asked to form part of the external faculty at a number of universities. 

Professional Background:

Andy has designed and delivered a wide variety of programs ranging from basic Life Skills through to Global Corporate Branding through South Africa and Sub-Saharan Africa, and as far a field as Malaysia, Germany, England, Eastern Europe, Brazil and the USA. As a big picture-bottom line thinker, Andy facilitates around organizational and management development in Strategic Planning, as well as Transformational Leadership and Personal Effectiveness. His client base is made up of some of the world's top brands as well as smaller to medium enterprises who all testify to the benefit of working with Andy and his team. 

Andy has a passion for working in both the broadcast and narrow cast media (both satellite  television and the virtual classroom) as means of distance learning - and writes, broadcasts and presents targeted educational programmes for corporate clients.

Philosophy and approach:

Andy works to help learners understand how an individual's values and beliefs influence attitudes that determine behaviour, team effectiveness and potential. He prides himself on using a principle-based approach to training of "Equipping for Excellence" by demonstrating transfer of skills in an "applied-learning" context.

Relevant Training Experience:

Some of the programmes that Andy has designed and delivered include:

• Brand Behaviour and Organizational Assimilation

• Change Management

• Communication Skills - Verbal Interaction Analysis

• Conflict Resolution 

• Negotiation and Influencing Excellence

• Presentation Skills

• Principles of Selling

• Sales Management 

• Strategic Planning 

• The Manager Coach

• Transformational Leadership in the 21st Century

• Partnering across Cultures

Key clients include: ArcelorMittal, BMW, Boehringer Ingelheim, Chevron, First National Bank, Global Access, Heinemann, HP, McGraw Hill, Netcare, Standard Bank, Visa Inc.

Professional Qualifications:
Masters degree in Organizational Leadership (under completion - Regent University, Virginia, USA.)
Bachelors Degree in Education, University of Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa.
Chartered Marketer - CM(SA), Graduate School of Marketing, European Marketing Council.

 

 

 

 

 

  Principal Consultant

Dr Erna Fourie

Dr Erna Fourie is a senior financial and management consultant registered with the South African Institute for Professional Accountants.  Her teaching encompasses a wide spectrum, ranging from "managing your personal finances" on the level of ABET to the supervision of doctoral and masters degree graduates. As a facilitator she has conducted numerous Leadership and Management Development programmes, Negotiating for Results, Transformational Conflict Management.  She has facilitated many different programmes for both government and commercial clients requiring a variety of skills and expertise.

Professional Background:
    
Erna started out as an Accounting and Business Economics teacher and went on to complete a Bachelor of Commerce in Accounting and completed this leg of her formal studies with a Bachelor of Commerce (Honours) in Accounting. 

She then qualified as a Professional Accountant and has always had a foot in the business world although she diversified by getting serious about education.  This led to a Bachelor of Education in Economic Sciences.  She went on to attain a Masters degree in Education with a focus on the teaching of Economic Sciences.  She completed her Educational studies with a Doctorate in Educational Management with the supporting field of study in Curriculum Design, Implementation and Development.

Based in South Africa, Erna was previously a Professor at the University of Johannesburg where she implemented Computer Based Education and headed the group who implemented virtual classrooms and Web Based Education.  In 1998 she resigned from a professorship to return to the corporate environment and is now in high demand as facilitator.

Relevant Experience:

As a curriculum and training specialist, Erna does extensive training in Project Management, Transformative Conflict Resolution, Managing Small Businesses and Computer Use in the Educational and Business environment.  She has facilitated a wide variety of People Development programmes including Finance for Non-Financial Managers, Negotiating for Results, Performance Management and Leadership and Team Building initiatives.

Key clients include national and international organisations such as Bader Leather, Gundle Plastics, Guest Resource Services, HR Solutions Ltd.and Department of Water Affairs and Forestry.

Erna has several publications in accredited journals, nationally and internationally and has read several research papers at national and international conferences.  She has co-authored a number of books and was editor-in-chief for a publication on Online Education.

 

 

 

  Principal Consultant

Dr Gustav Gous

Dr Gustav Gous obtained his Doctorate (cum laude), in Ecumenical Studies & International Relations from the University of Pretoria, following his research in Geneva, Switzerland. He also has degrees in Philosophy and Psychology. He lectured  at the University of South Africa (4 years) and the University of Pretoria (4 years), and has published two academic books. In 2009 he was elected President of the Professional Speakers Assoication of Southern Africa (PSASA)

Professional life & Career:

  • Executive Coaching: Gustav acts as a life coach for a number of senior executives. He has developed the Diamond Profiling©technique as structuring principle for psychometric information and the Life Mapping©method to integrate life/work planning.
  • He is also known for his counselling skills and acted as company counsellor for the international petrochemical company Sasol for nine years. He has developed and presented 'train-the-counsellor' programmes on 'Counseling Skills in Corporate Context' and 'Basic Counselling Skills: HIV/AIDS Counselling'.
  • Gustav is the founder and Managing Director of the company Short Walk Seminars (Pty) Ltd.
  • Gustav is also known for his 'Short Walk to Freedom' transformational executive leadership programmes on Robben Island.
  • Motivational Speaker: He rates amongst the best motivational speakers in South Africa, and also tours the international motivational speaking circuit. He has released three motivational audio CD's. He is known for his keynotes on:
  • The Diamond Team
  • Use stress to achieve success
  • Motivation beyond the summit
  • Emotional intelligence at work
  • Creating a great corporate culture
  • The game of life and how to play it

Gustav has extensive national and international experience not only as motivational speaker, but also as consultant and facilitator, serving clients in Southern Africa, the Middle East, Europe and the United Kingdom. Gustav's part time passion is to develop programmes to reconcile intra- and inter-religious differences and he has extensive experience in this field.


 

 

 

  Principal Consultant

Dr Mark Manley

Dr Mark Manley has led his own consultancy since 1988 specialising in the areas of Strategy, Leadership and Transformation.  Having developed a number of new processes that have been shown to be highly effective, he consults internationally to large businesses, key governmental departments, FBOs and NGOs. Practically this involves facilitating high level processes, leading and speaking at seminars and conferences, conducting tutorials and individual leadership coaching.

Philosophy

Growth is the right of every individual and community, and that embracing change and personal transformation is a prerequisite of growth.

The rich diversity of people should be collaboratively harnessed into a powerful force for social, group and individual development.

Development should focus on the practical change of behaviour which is a result of exposure to new information that impacts on the beliefs, values, attitudes and thus behaviours of the learner. This is best brought about by establishing in an adult learning fashion the benefit of belief in, and behaviour towards a new way of doing things.

Relevant Experience:

Head of Management Development at Liberty Life Limited
Author of a number of papers in adult education and leadership
Designer of the Liberty Life MDP and BDP
Originator of Leader Centrism ©
Has facilitated over 1000 people through management and leadership development programmes
Dr Manley limits himself to 40 hours of one to one Leadership Coaching per month
Has facilitated close to 100 strategic planning conferences
Dr Manley's client list includes multi nationals, blue chip companies, large international NGOs, Government, and smaller organizations, right down to groups in previously disadvantaged communities.

Professional Qualifications:

Training Certification Programme through Productivity Development SA
Many business certification courses at various institutions
BA (Natal)
Post Graduate Diploma in Education (Natal)
Post Graduate Diploma in Communication Studies (Witwatersrand)
Masters Degree in Adult Education (Witwatersrand)
Interdisciplinary PhD (Business and Education) in focused on Leadership Development (Commonwealth)

 

 

  Principal Consultant

James Mpele

James Mpele is a consultant based in South Africa. He has over 20 years experience as a change agent, coach, and trainer. He combines a detailed knowledge of personal, group and organizational change technologies with a broad background in business, entrepreneurship and education. He brings to his consulting and training work a broad multi-disciplinary background in business, organizational dynamics, and human psychology.

Professional Background:

James' ideas for creating dynamic learning organizations draw on a set of well-tested theory and research, having worked with the Business School of the Netherlands, the South African Institute of Management and many others. James has extensive knowledge of the challenges of participatory management, the introduction of technologies into organizations and the dynamics of life in non-profit making organizations. James has worked throughout South Africa, Tanzania, and Lesotho.

Relevant Experience:

Over 20 years of experience in Human Resources Management and HR Development and Organisational Development
Leadership and supervisory development 
Design of HRD processes; Job evaluations and descriptions
Experience in Training (Vocational and Technical Education)
Change and Diversity Management
Curriculum Development
Key clients include: BMW, Atlas Copco, South African Breweries, Oracle Corporation, South African Airways, Hewlett-Packard

Professional Qualifications:

MSc in Training and HRM, Leicester University, UK
B. Tech Human Resources, University of Johannesburg, SA
Personnel, Training, Labour Relations Management, Institute of People Management, SA

Languages:

English - Excellent
Afrikaans / Zulu / Sotho / Xhosa, - Good passive skills 
Sepedi / Siswati - Basic communication skills.