Phephile Simelane

Executive and Leadership Coach

Philosophy and approach

Phephile strongly believes in unlocking the untapped potential that exists in individuals, teams and organisations. Her approach is founded on establishing thinking partnerships with leaders and co-creating solutions that best serve the client.

Work and Experience

Over the last 10 years she has been working with senior leaders in numerous large corporates across industries to develop and implement strategic programmes that drive organisational culture. Additionally, to enhance brand alignment between the promise and the experience and ensure business strategy is formulated, disseminated and understood by all employees.

She currently works with leaders in various organisations to:

• Articulate and implement business strategy
• Build cohesive and effective leadership teams
• Create high performance, strategy aligned organisational cultures
• Ensure that business strategy filters to all levels of the organisation
• Build fully engaged and committed workforces
• Align marketing efforts with service initiatives
• Enhance the service by aligning the brand promise with the customer experience
• Coach teams and individuals to achieve business objectives
• Define, implement and communicate change management processes

Coaching experience

Phephile is currently coaching leaders from Liberty Corporate and Standard Bank

Board Experience

Phephile currently sits on the board of Khulisa Social Solutions as Vice Chairperson

Educational Background

• Bachelor of Commerce (Marketing and Law) – University of the Witwatersrand
• MBA Candidate (Dissertation to be completed 2017) – Wits Business School
• SETA accredited Assessor
• SETA accredited Moderator
• Accredited Insights Practitioner
• Ontological coaching in action training – Ontological Coaching Institute
• Currently on the Associate Coaching Course through the UCT Graduate School of Business – to be completed October 2016

Areas of Expertise

• Business Strategy Formulation and Facilitation
• Executive and Leadership Coaching
• Organisational, Team and Individual Effectiveness
• Organisational Development
• Culture Transformation
• Employee Engagement
• Corporate Communications
• Change Management
• Leadership & Team Development

Client Experience

• Anglo American
• Liberty
• Absa, Nedbank, FNB, Standard Bank,
• Investec
• Ericsson
• MTN
• Cell C
• Kraft Foods – Cadbury
• South African Breweries
• Barloworld
• Old Mutual
• Sun International
• MultiChoice
• Pension Funds Adjudicator
• Ocean Basket
• University of the Witwatersrand
• University of Cape Town