Kirstie McFarlane

Business, Executive, Leadership Coach | Coach Mentor | Coach Supervisor

Kirstie is an internationally credentialed professional coach with the International Coach Federation. She has more than 25 years’ experience working in blue chip organisations in the areas of leadership and change and her coaching focuses on enabling sustainable change through the creation of fresh, positive habits. She partners with clients as they discover their unique way of being and doing whilst thriving and leading in the new disrupted era. Kirstie brings empathy, challenge, support and reflection to her coaching.

She established her coaching practice in 2005 and has since coached Executives, Managers, Graduates and private clients.

She partners with her clients to achieve speedy, increased and sustainable effectiveness in all areas of the client’s professional and personal life. She both challenges and supports the client with the specific aim of closing the gaps between potential and performance.

She is part of a group of coaches who co-created the first academic Coach Supervisor training at Wits Business School and is a member of various corporate External Coaches Forums.

Kirstie is passionate about personal human development in South Africa with particular focus on the importance of self-leadership. Coaching with Kirstie offers a higher understanding of oneself, greater wisdom and judgement, improved decision making, increased self-awareness and the development of intellectual, emotional and business intelligence.

Kirstie is committed to the creation of professional coaching standards grounded in the South African experience. Her pro bono work includes coaching leaders of Non- Profit Organisations as part of Investec’s Coaches Who Care initiative.