I facilitate transformative workshops, host and moderate panels and provide key note speeches for corporates, universities, schools and non-governmental organisations. I am also regularly quoted in media on issues of diversity, education and other topics.

I have been trained in various coaching and facilitation methodologies to facilitate trauma informed, difficult conversations on race, class and gender, including Digital Storytelling, Gender Reconciliation, Open Design, Constellations, Time to Think and Design Thinking and many others. Over the years I have developed a unique model that helps everyone to recognise their common humanity while unpacking the differences and their implications on everyone’s lived experiences. My unique facilitation model is a Rehumanising Dialogue for Change model which relies on four key tenants. This model is based on my realisation, after years of leading institutional journeys of change, that for institutional change to happen – there has to be personal journeys of change for the people in leadership positions especially as they need to model the change the rest of the organisation must undertake. As a result, I start my facilitation process by engaging participants about their emotions and emotional responses to racial and other trauma and micro-agressions. Each workshop has the four components highlighted below.

The work of diversity is a process and a commitment that challenges individuals, teams and organizations to attune themselves to the harmful, obvious and subtle, sometimes hidden and unspoken forms of discrimination that permeate institutions and communities globally. Facilitation therefore is a system of accompanying individuals in their journey towards building a community that embraces diversity and values all members of the team. I walk alongside individuals and teams and support and guide the journey to discovering new ways of co-creating across difference and building communities where everyone belongs.

Schools

I have been working on long term and short term diversity and social justice interventions at various private and public schools in South Africa. The interventions completed have focused on all stakeholders including learners, parents, teachers, support staff and school management. I have also been part of mediation and crisis management efforts at various schools, following the outbreak of a racist incident. Our Diversity and Social Justice Curriculum is currently being taught at a private school in Johannesburg.

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Corporates

I have provided key note speeches and run diversity workshops focusing on race, gender and other issues for various corporate clients.

Universities

I have worked as an academic at University of Witwatersrand (Wits) and Cape Peninsula University (CPUT). Through my work as an academic involved in curriculum development for social justice, I started running facilitated diversity workshops post #FeesMustFall at various Universities in South Africa.

I have spoken to medical post grad students and student residence leadership at Stellenbosch and run digital storytelling workshops, the privilege walk exercise and world café sessions for students and learners in various departments and units at the Cape Peninsula University of Technology (CPUT) including marketing and architecture.

In terms of university organisational development and transformation strategy development work, I have completed a long term transformation process with various university units. Interventions conducted included running transformation strategy development, institutional power mapping, culture surveys, facilitating team sessions and providing Leading Diversity coaching sessions with managers.

I have also run a Co-creating curricula across Difference course via Cape Higher Education Consortium (CHEC) with fellow academics that focused on how to work across with different partners from students, communities and other social justice partners in curriculum development.

NPOs

I have facilitated conversations with various non governmental organisations. Conversations with NPOs have included sessions about how to decolonise aid, white supremacy in the NPO sector, engaging project beneficiaries with dignity etc.