ADORNO COMPANIONS - Key Persons

Job Titles:

• Adorno Training & Onboarding Coordinator

Debbie is a passionate social entrepreneur, dedicated to helping people develop to their full potential. She has a belief that the world needs better leaders and better people. Debbie is driven and dedicated to helping people reach their full potential and in so doing make a difference to the world we impact. Growing up in many different environments in South Africa, Debbie became a student of life. She also has a three year graduate degree in Public Relations and Communication from the University of Pretoria, is a certified Integral Coach with associate (ACC) and professional (PCC) coaching qualifications from the Graduate School of Business in Cape Town and Third Space in London. She has also completed a number of courses in moderating and facilitating, event management, personal development, coaching and leadership. Debbie has over thirty years of formal work, project and charity experience. This includes professional financial services recruitment for Grant Thornton and in her own business Prime Focus. She has owned and run a substantive Nursery School business, an event management company and was responsible for marketing and facilitating retirement preparation courses for Later Life. Debbie has undertaken numerous socio entrepreneurial and philanthropic initiatives, including fund raising for the Red Cross Children's Hospital. She has also served in numerous portfolio positions on the executive of The Young Presidents Organisation (YPO) Cape Town chapter and Africa Regional Board. She has Co-chaired three international YPO education events, served on the committee of eight international YPO education events and is currently a facilitator and trainer at YPO global leadership development workshops. Debbie has an abundance of positive energy with a strength of character coming from understanding who she is as a working mother of four children and wife of over thirty five years. Her personal interests include reading and a number of sports, like running, swimming, golf and tennis, while she has a deep love for wildlife and spending time in the bush with her family.

Job Titles:

• Adorno Founder
• Adorno Partner

Job Titles:

• Adorno Operations Manager

My degree in languages has taken me around the world and I have always enjoyed meeting and working with people. My background as a teacher has meant that I have always worked alongside caring and compassionate individuals and been involved in working with agencies that aspire to make a positive impact on the community. After working for a wellbeing company in Australia, I realised I had an enthusiasm for organisation and administration. Also working alongside the Marketing team allowed me to learn new skills. Following the birth of my two children, I was drawn to Adorno thanks to Emma's passion and the company's ethos of helping people to live their best life in later life. Emma and I are now working together to provide a quality companion service that we hope can bring hugely positive benefits both for our immediate clients and their family.

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• Adorno Client Liaison & Activity Club Coordinator

Mark joined our team in July 2019 and has been matched with two male clients with dementia. Together with Mark, the clients have enjoyed snooker, exercises classes, visits to coffee shops, walks in the countryside and jigsaws at home in colder months. Mark now runs our three Activity Club venues, as well as conducting initial consultations with our clients and on-boarding our newest Companions.