Who We Are

Jake van den Berg

Jake is the CEO of Thrive Change Management and SheXec and is a professional Executive Coach and Leadership Facilitator with a background of over 20 years initiating and managing growth in leadership and change in cultural structures, resulting in growth in organisations of all sizes. He comes from an extensive retail and marketing background in the corporate world in a variety of leadership roles. His passion is female leadership development and he has influenced change in the lives of hundreds of women.

His 1st book, Essential Leadership Skills for Women was published in December 2019 and his 2nd book, Essential Leadership Skills for Emerging Leaders, a book aimed at senior school students was published in January 2020.

Jake is a Certified Professional Behaviors Analyst (CPBA) and a Certified Professional Motivators Analyst (CPMA).

Other areas of expertise include:

  • Executive Coaching
  • Female Leadership Development 
  • Organizational Behaviour and Culture Change
  • Leadership Development Programs
  • Team Coaching at Board, Executive and Operational levels
  • Succession Planning Programs
  • Behaviour and driving forces analysis
  • Teenage Leadership Development
  • Business Coaching

 

 

Lungisa Sonqishe

Lungisa is an Executive Coach with a background in international corporate branding and advertising which compliments her Business Strategy Coaching approach. She assists organisations to set clear objectives in their internal and external communication strategies.

Areas of expertise include:

  • Business Branding and Strategy Coach

  • Executive Coach

  • Personal Development Coach

  • Keynote Speaker

 

 

Izanne Reichert

Izanne comes from a health & wellness background with a degree in Sports Science from Stellenbosch University. She has 14 years’ experience in coaching, training and promoting change in organisations and people. She has spent the last 7 years lecturing on topics which include Corporate Wellness, Health and Exercise.

Areas of expertise include:

  • Corporate Wellness

  • Leadership Development

  • Women’s Health

 

 

Sylvia Walker

Sylvia has close on 30 years’ experience in the financial services industry and spent a large part of her career as a marketing manager with a blue-chip company. She left the corporate world at the end of 2014 to pursue her interests further afield.

She has authored, co-authored and contributed to a number of books. Sylvia is a financial educator, writes financial articles for online publications and conducts workshops on various aspects of financial literacy and planning.

She is currently the resident financial guru on the Cape Talk Early Breakfast Show on air every Friday morning. Her latest book, Smart Woman was published in August 2017.

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Areas of expertise include:

  • Financial education and training

  • Keynote speaker

 

 

Bridget Edwards

Bridget is a Stress Expert who spent the greater part of 25 years studying and practising health and wellness modalities. Allied to this, the consequences of her own stressful and traumatic life experiences deeply enriched her innate resourcefulness, wisdom and understanding which she applies to her work today. Bridget is an Emotional Freedom Techniques (EFT) ‘tapping’ practitioner, Hospice Caregiver and author of three books. Bridget conducts stress related counselling, coaching, talks and workshops for corporate and private individuals.  


Areas of Expertise

·         Stress Expert and Author

·        Corporate Stress Management talks & workshops

·         Keynote speaker

·          Personal development coaching

·        Counselling

Tessa Plen

Tessa offers 25 years of global blue chip experience in senior marketing, commercial, strategy and business development roles. She has spent the last 15 years reinventing second tier businesses to operate on the ‘next level’ global scale. She has a proven track record of twice doubling profits within a 2 year period at Colgate Palmolive and Unilever, and has lived and worked on projects in South Africa, Paris, London, Sydney and New York. Her last position at Colgate Palmolive was Associate Director of Innovation for Europe.

Tessa has used her corporate experience to develop a blue-print system which exponentially grow brands to a global scale of operation and has applied this insightful strategic thinking system to individual executive leader’s career growth and transformation. It’s a unique step by step strategic personal brand planning and implementation technology that ensures successful transformation through times of difficult change.

                        
Areas of Expertise

  • Growth Accelerator: research based strategic brand marketing guru
  •       Reinvention strategist
  •       Problem solver
  •      Consultant, Coach and Trainer