GHM - Key Persons
Job Titles:
- Coach. Results Coaching SA
Job Titles:
- Group 's Manager
- Manager, Executive Coach & Facilitator
Edwin Louw is the GHM Group's Manager, so too a lead facilitator, coach and mentor.
His values are firmly aligned with that of GHM, a consultancy firm focussed on Organisational Development, Talent Management and Skills Enhancement.
Edwin's career spans over three decades of training and development at several levels in sales management, project management, performance and human resource management, financial management and technical management; he is also a motivational speaker.
Edwin is passionate about people and life itself, he has a constant desire to add value and bring out the best in everyone he comes into contact with. His style is upbeat, and he uses humour and a positive mental attitude in his delivery.
His vast experience spanning years spent in diverse business environments enables Edwin to portray a wide range of skills useful in that which GHM excels in. He is particularly great at imparting individuals with self-leadership, self-discipline and self-motivation skills, facilitating the holistic growth and development of the self.
Edwin is well entrenched in the principles of corporate communications and has a creative approach to managing effective communication for successful teams. He displays a strong work ethic and determination to get things done and imparts this on everyone he interacts with.
His leadership responsibilities include regional business management, client liaison, national sales leadership, coaching and mentoring and project management.
Edwin has vast experience in real estate development and sales resulting in leadership roles as a franchise manager, franchisee and principal/business owner.
Recognised as one who strives to live a healthy lifestyle, when Edwin is not focussing on getting people highly motivated or consulting individuals and businesses, you will often find him in the gym, on his bicycle or busy with self-development, so as to better serve those around him.
Edwin has competed in high profile cycling events such as the Cape Town Cycle Tour and the Coronation Double Century.
Job Titles:
- Co - Founder
- Director
- Executive Director
- Founding Member
Gary Hardenberg is a founding member & Director of GHM and is based in Cape Town South Africa. Gary has a long history of talent management, development, sales leadership, and operations in several market leading global organisations.
During his career Gary has helped develop countless leaders through his trademark sales leadership program and philosophy. He is a qualified facilitator, assessor, moderator, and verifier and has a passion for developing bespoke programs to suit specific business needs.
Gary has worked with several businesses in designing such programs for the successful achievement of sales goals. Gary has run massive sales teams with phenomenal success including hospitality to business, and services corporations. During his time with ADT Worldwide, he developed, while living in Birmingham, a training academy which was responsible for ADT's successful direct sales model. Gary's experience ranges from recruitment, on boarding, hands on training, management, coaching, career pathing, as well as team dynamics.
One of Gary's critical success factors is his understanding of the need to develop a talent chain at the middle management in level organisations, critical in driving talent and skills excellence in the businesses he has been involved with. Gary's passion for developing people is unique and has proven to be integral to his success. Gary is a jovial and vibrant trainer whose style is easy and accommodating to almost everyone who interacts with him. Gary's focus on measurable results is steadfast in driving the work that Gary does.
Having worked with a diversity of talent Gary is at ease working with teams that are at different stages of their life cycles. Gary adds immense value in teams that need critical introspection and drive to move towards achieving their pinnacle level goals by driving a unified approach in what is the basic tenet of building effective and successful teams.
Gary began his career in 1990 with RCI Group in the hospitality industry leading sales and operations, where he held the position of National Sales and Operations Manager, overseeing 40 sales staff and 100 call centre agents. Gary then went into ADT Worldwide and helped set up a new sales channel through the ADT Authorized Dealer model before assuming the role of training academy head, to lead a diverse, multi-skilled and dynamic training team to support the ADT business in SA and SSA.
Hennie Matthee - Founder, Managing Director
Job Titles:
- Co - Founder
- Managing Director
Hennie Matthee started his career in South Africa and moved to Europe servicing the sales and management sectors. Hennie later moved to Australia, New Zealand and Asia, driving sales excellence and training for global holiday behemoth, RCI. In his decade long journey on his international postings he was involved in talent recruitment, management, development, sales leadership and management development programs, with a core focus of building effective teams.
In his 20 year career enabling, up-skilling and developing individuals, Hennie has achieved numerous accolades and has been personally responsible for recruiting in excess of 10'000 sellers, he has trained in excess of 30'000 employees, and has been intricately involved in the development of more than 5'000 mid to senior level managers. Hennie is a qualified facilitator, assessor and moderator and is steadfast in his belief in lifelong learning, personal motivation, and coaching individuals to reach their full potential.
From international recruitment to managing top tier sales teams, developing managers within a variety of business sectors spanning hospitality, entertainment, food & beverage, service industries, and business corporations, his true passion lies in challenging the status quo and inspiring individuals to achieve more than they ever thought possible.
While at RCI International Hennie was responsible for all sales and management training in South Africa, Australia and New Zealand, during which time RCI achieved record sales and growth in these markets. Hennie introduced new systems, techniques, staff and activities, and played a part in ensuring that RCI Australasia enjoyed unsurpassed successes.
Job Titles:
- Executive Coach & Facilitator
- Expert
James is the GHM regional manager for Gauteng. James is a highly capable and talented individual, a seasoned facilitator , coach and a trained performer and musician. He has used a healthy combination of these skills over the years to deliver facilitated learning programs for government, the private sector, the NGO sector, and a range of other major corporate customers.
James' facilitation experience has been significant and diverse in its application; as is displayed in the broad range of organizations he has worked with in this capacity including organisations like: Hollard, MMI, Kagiso Media, Dept of Forestry, Nandos, Standard Bank, PG Bison, Media 24, Ogilvy & Mather, Democratic Alliance, Ernest Oppenheimer Trust, New Leaders Foundation, PIKITUP, FNB, Brightrock Insurance, SAIA, Anglo Coal, Anglo Gold,, SAPREF, Mckinsey & Co, PWC Cement, BMW MINNIE, Sasol.
James is an expert in a variety of critical outcomes ranging from in-depth diversity workshops, strategy formulation, interpersonal communication, marketing, creative thinking team dynamics, and coaching.
One of James's true passions lie in personal recovery and personal transformation coaching; rethinking, rebuilding, reinventing! James is a recovery coach and his purpose and personal calling is helping people to recover from challenging life or work experiences which have severely and negatively impacted their lives.
James is a disruptor when it comes to assisting people in reconnecting with their purpose and meaning in life.
His Main Motivations For Coaching
He wants to help others to reconnect with themselves again, and through this process, find the recovery they need to transform their own lives.
The process of coaching has helped him the most in his own journey of discovery and fulfilment,
James has a highly developed skillset in interpersonal communication and consultation, and he is a proven catalyst for profound change.
Job Titles:
- Insights Practitioner, Coach & Facilitator
Job Titles:
- Executive Coach & Facilitator
- Soft Skills Trainer, Performance Consultant and Coach
Stephan has extensive experience in Project Management, Organisational Change Management, Strategy Review, Planning and Management, Supply Chain Management, Soft Skills Training, Quality Assurance and Functional Support in the Automotive, Financial and Public sectors. Sales and Customer Service are topics he finds rewarding to train as this results in building rewarding relationship with your stakeholders for any organisation.
Stephan's career highlights include roles as Training QA Manager at The Performance Hub and Training Project Manager at EOH. Delivering various solutions and interventions to the likes of BMW, Mini, Standard Bank, ABSA, FNB, Vodacom, MTN to name a few. These solutions and interventions were delivered in all 9 provinces and across 16 Countries of the African Continent.
Stephan is a certified Neuro Linguistics Practitioner, doing individual and team Coaching as well as Coaching training and master coaching.
Stephan is passionate about motoring, always looking for something to do in the industry. He always takes time out to study new features, products and technology.
Stephan hold global certifications in SAP, ITIL and Project Management and is currently conducting Leadership training and Sales Coaching in Standard Bank and Stanbic.
Job Titles:
- Executive Coach & Facilitator
As a ‘vision and values' executive coach, Vanessa is passionate about to helping individuals and teams find their wings by empowering them to live their best lives - one with less stress, more meaning and purpose.
She walks alongside leaders and teams on their journey of personal development, resilience, wellbeing, and self-leadership. Vanessa holds a BA Degree in Psychology, and a postgraduate Diploma in Business, and Executive Coaching.
Her work encourages individuals to achieve positive and sustainable change. A key to this, is raising levels of self-awareness and increasing understanding of the organisational context, to ensure alignment between individuals, teams, and business aspirations. She has been described by her clients as intuitive, insightful and incisive and her experience with clients spans FMCG, IT companies, financial institutions and hospitality.
Her outcome-focused approach blends traditional business coaching practice with insights from gestalt psychotherapy and organisation development (OD) knowledge. Her coaching approach is practical and integrative, informed by the heart-brain-body connection.
With over 22 years' experience within the customer relationship management, operations, learning & development and the business growth space, Zaar has established herself as a Strategic Transformation Executive, with many of her roles in the past 12 years having been focused on planning and directing operational activities that contribute to reducing company costs and increasing profit while enhancing the services or products of these companies.
Her responsibilities have always been concentrated on business transformation in terms of people, processes, and profit-making. Her roles throughout her career have been mostly on providing leadership, strategic management, and the vision necessary to ensure that the companies had the proper operational controls, administrative and reporting procedures, and people systems in place to effectively grow the organization and to ensure financial strength and operating efficiency.
Zaar's foremost skill is motivating people to meet or exceed organizational and sales goals; developing operational, growth and people strategies. She has a passion for coaching, mentoring and developing individuals to find the very best in themselves and in turn become true leaders in whatever capacity which in turn grows businesses. She has been known as one of those leaders that really care about the development of her teams in whatever form.
Her goal has always been to develop people's potential. She believes that every person has the potential to be great and has made it her personal mission to help others utilise their potential to experience success. She has always looked for ways to facilitate the learning process - from challenging people's thoughts to creating environments which would facilitate the learning process.
Zaar is an invaluable member in the GHM team and is constantly making a difference.