“Nothing is more validating or affirming than feeling understood. The moment one begins feeling understood, that person becomes more open to influence and change”

I’m an executive and integral coach working in leading South African organisations. I’m the owner of Distinctions Executive & Business Coaching, a Johannesburg based coaching practice. I’m passionate about the field of integral coaching, self awareness and the development of others. I view these as vital components of succesful leaders who are able to combine increased personal awareness with their corporate knowledge.

At the end of 2005, I left Citigroup where I had been working as the Vice President for ten years as a Relationship Manager in the area of Corporate Banking, to pursue a career in integral coaching.

Whilst at Citigroup, I concentrated part time on organisational quality and employee development.

My strengths include Marketing, Sales and Relationship building. While still at Citigroup I also coached executives towards resolving specific and complex business challenges.

My skills are in the following areas:

Business and Executive coaching with measurable purpose and outcomes, covering topics such as increased personal awareness and balance, managment development, heightened communication skills and stress relief.

Developing the competencies required for managing both self and others.

Life or change coaching including a new life path or a change in career.

Overseeing coaching circles in which a group of managers coach one another towards successful outcomes.

Facilitating workshops on mentoring, coaching and leadership.

Some of my recent Coaching clients are: South African Breweries, Nedbank Ltd., Shell SA, Lexmark International, Land Bank and Investec Bank SA.

I have many professional memberships, among them the International Coach Federation and COMENSA (Coaches and Mentors Association of South Africa).

I affiliate myself for business with the Centre for Coaching Cape Town, the Oxford Group in the UK, and with Omnicor and Avocado Vision in Johannesburg.

If you would like to select me as your coach,                                please email Carla-jo Barry.