WHO WE ARE

Clients:

  • Old Mutual
  • BP SA
  • Old Mutual Ilima Trust
  • Royal Swaziland Sugar Corporation
  • Department of Housing
  • Department of Provincial and Local Government
  • Local Government Administration
  • Municipalities
  • Non Government Organisations
  • SA Police

What delegates have said about the Building Resilience workshops:

  • “I will now change many aspects of my life, which I have needed to do for some time.” Chief Director, Department Local Government and Housing
  • “After the workshop I will conduct my usual Municipal Manager meeting very differently. They will see a completely different person. I intend having a good conversation with my wife and then with my team as a result of this programme. It will make a big difference in my life and in their lives” Municipal Manager
  • “Building strength for life” is something that each of us come face-to-face with in every hour of every day, and this programme has reinforced the skills I need to achieve and be successful in life”. Director, Department of Provincial and Local Government
  • “I am so excited about the knowledge I acquired about resilience. A personally enriching experience. Thanks Rod for the investment of your time in my life” Municipal Manager
  • “Warm and uplifting experience. Immensely beneficial way beyond the narrow course objectives. Enjoyed being able to understand the “how’s” and the “why’s” of resilience”. Consultant, Ilima Trust

 To read a typical report on the training workshop:

Click here to download a pdf document on training Educators in the Eastern Cape. It includes a description of their feeings and reaction to the workshop, which makes for interesting and inspiring reading.

 

Rod Warner

100408 Rod WarnerBuilding Resilience is based in Cape Town and headed up by Rod Warner. Rod has wide consulting experience and in-depth experience in learning design, facilitation and skills development.

He has researched, developed interventions, presented and published in the field of building resilience, change management and organisational performance. His clients include Old Mutual, Metropolitan Life, City of Cape Town, and BP. He has held positions heading up HR Development; managing administration teams and a national sales force for Old Mutual.

 Rod has a BA, TTHD, HIA, and is a Chartered HR Practitioner with the South African Board of Personnel Practice

 
Down load his full Resume

 

Shanaaz Majiet

Shanaaz Majiet is passionate about developing people to enhance the individual’s capacity through self awareness. As an experienced executive, who held various leadership positions in Government she has seen the tangible results of investing in people and its direct benefits to the organization. She specializes in transformational leadership capacity building to lead institutional change. The scope of her work includes executive coaching, mentoring, and the implementation of transformation and change management programmes.

Shanaaz posses advanced formal qualifications from Harvard Business School (2001); Kennedy School of Government, the University of Cape Town; the University of Witwatersrand; GESTALT International Organisation and Systems Development Training Programme (2007-2008), GESTALT: The Cape Cod Training Programme for intervenors, Resonant Leadership for Results (2005). Shanaaz is an accredited coach with the CODA COMENSA and GTZ Systemic Coaching, University of Cape Town, Performance Coaching.

Ant Ryan

Anthony Ryan has a broad range of managerial experience, with a special interest in change management and organization design. He is a Life Coach and is committed to helping individuals achieve their full potential. Some of his greatest learning have come through business redesign processes when he was a HR Manager in a multinational company. He has extensive experience in the NGO and education sectors, and retains an ongoing interest in assisting underfunded organisation to grow and thrive. He is a firm believer in the power of collective genius and he is energized when facilitating groups of people who expect great things from themselves.

Ant has studied at both local and overseas universities and has an MA,MPhil,BEd(Hons) and PMD and considers himself a life long learner.


Gareth Pyke

Gareth Pike, CA (SA), was the chief financial officer for the Old Mutual Investment Group, the largest asset management company in South Africa, before joining the Ilima Trust.  He spent  23 years with the Old Mutual Group, all in the asset management business including a 10 year spell with what was then Old Mutual Properties.  Gareth has extensive experience in the financial management, governance, property management and senior management fields.

 

 

 Carol Baron

Carol holds degrees in Psychology and Communication. She is passionate about the development and upliftment of the individual as the most powerful asset in building communities, organizations and the nation. She believes that strengthening resilience promotes self actualization and self empowerment.

 

 

 

 

James Forson

 James Forson James has had extensive experience as a general management consultant. His present interests are due diligence studies and corporate governance. His recent assignments have entailed leading and integrating the work of technical specialists on complex projects while managing the interface with clients. Other interventions that James has led include organisational realignment and restructuring, change management design and project management, mentoring and coaching of senior executives, organisational audits, strategic planning and strategic support. For fun James is currently re-reading Classical Greek and Roman literature in translation


 

  

Contact us at:

info@buildingresilience.co.za
Mobile: +27 (0) 82 456 0819