For over 44 years Carel’s passion has been the development of growth in business and people, whether it was in the position of Managing Director, CEO, COO, CIO, Consultant or Coach.

His experience, taught him that successful growth, is stifled by what most people label as “soft skills”, which can be divided into:
• Emotional Intelligence
• Leadership skills
• People engagement
• Innovation
• Mind management (State of Mind, brain & mind wellness).

He developed a unique and powerful method to deliver results that business/organizations/individuals strive to achieve in a volatile, uncertain, complex and ambiguous world (VUCA). Integrated into the process are personal and organizational strategy development, team building and development, EQ development, personality development, mind management and digital transformation through a well proven change program.

In order to ensure the successful growth of business and individuals he offers the following services:

• EQ assessment and coaching (Based on 6 Seconds methodology)
• Personality assessment and integration development (Based on the Enneagram)
• Mind & Brain management (Based on Neuroscience Leadership coaching methodology)
• Account management and sales coaching and proposal/tender development
• Business Strategy development and implementation
• Digital transformation consulting
• Leadership development
• Team Optimization
• Employee engagement
• Entrepreneur’s development

He provides these services to a diverse field of clients. His unique approach leads to well defined ready to implement, personal and business strategies, focused on goals that support all aspects of the strategy and well-planned operational tactics to make sure that all solutions focus on creating personal fulfillment and customer value-driven outcomes.

His experience is supported by the following qualifications:

• Diploma: Public administration.
• B-Iuris (law)
• Magister in business Leadership (MBL)
• ICF accredited coaching course in Neuro Science
• John Maxwell certified coach, speaker and leadership development
• EQ assessor, Practitioner and Facilitator
• Enneagram assessor and coach
• Post Graduate Diploma in Digital Transformation.

Summary:

Experienced Consultant with a demonstrated history of working in the Advertising, Marketing Communications services industry. Skilled in Advertising, Brand Positioning, Digital Strategy, Negotiation, Business Planning, Sales, and Market Research.

Experience

• Ujala Consulting Australia (Pty) Ltd Director / Co-Owner November 2018 – Present (1 year 6 months) Melbourne, Australia
• African Coin Exchange Chief Marketing Officer February 2019 – Present (1 year 3 months) Johannesburg Area, South Africa. African Coin Exchange designed a highly scalable trading engine to ensure fast execution of orders with multi-layered security for the highest level of protection.
  African Coin Exchange provides a trading platform/exchange to convert Fiat currencies into the most popular cryptocurrencies. The platform is designed and built in such a way as to allow both new entrants into the market and experienced traders to trade effectively and easily in a safe and reliable environment.
• Ujala Consulting (Pty) Ltd Co-Owner / Director April 2015 – Present (5 years 1 month) Pretoria.                    Ujala Consulting is a leading full-service Marketing Agency. We work closely with top brands and companies. We’ll help you hatch a plan for success that integrates all channels with correlating creative and a single, cohesive message to your audiences.
• Sales Outsourced Solutions Director August 2013 – April 2016 (2 years 9 months) Sales Outsourced Solutions is an external out-of the box approach to sales and consulting services whereby we offer you one point of contact for your sales targets.
• Total Asset Gearing Consultant 2011 – December 2014 (3 years)
• SA HairTech (Pty) Ltd Managing Director October 2011 – June 2014 (2 years 9 months) HairTech, the fastest growing hair wholesaler in South Africa.
• Liberty Lane Owner January 2010 – October 2011 (1 year 10 months) Centurion, South Africa
• MGM Brand Construction & Advertising General Manager May 2008 – November 2009 (1 year 7 months) General Manager, Ronald secured the iBurst business to move across to MGM. he was also succesful in securing the 1Lifedirect account in 2009.
• Afrikings Client Service & Executive Management June 2004 – March 2008 (3 years 10 months) With the Afrikings Group making a strategic decision to build one brand and consolidated all the brands under the umbrella of Afrikings, within this restructure of the business my role was to focus on business development.
• The Mix Communications General Manager Client Service & New Business 2003 – 2004 (1 year) I joined The Mix Communications in January 2003, which was part of the Afrikings Group. My role was a General Manager of Client Service & New Business was the overseeing of Motorola and other key accounts Then in June 2004, Afrikings Group made a strategic decision to build one brand and consolidated all the brands under the umbrella of Afrikings.
• Addfuel Communications Director: Addfuel Advertising August 2002 – December 2003 (1 year 5 months) Vasoline Advertising decided to do an empowerment deal and we therefore had to restructure and rebranded the agency to Addfuel Advertising whereby I was Director of new business and development from August 2002 – December 2003.

Education

• AAA School of Advertising Advertising & Communications · (1999 – 1999)
• Maurice Kerrigan Advanced Negotiation Skills · (2006 – 2006)
• IMM Strategic Brand Management · (2003 – 2003)
• Westering High School Senior Cape Certificate · (1991 – 1995)

Summary:

Pieter is an experienced Entrepreneur, Small Business Developer, and Advisor, Social Media Marketing Professional, Financial System assessment and integration, Strategic Sales Systems advisory and implementation; Health & Fitness Coach, Feast Lifestyle ambassador, and coach. 

Experience

For over 18 years Pieter functions in the Entrepreneurial world. He started several businesses in different industries. He successfully operated the following types of businesses:

• Refurbishment of Computer Hardware
• Software, Application and Solution Development
• Import and sales of electronic equipment.
• CCTV sales, installation and solution development.
• Family restaurant
• Catering and Canteen business
• Take-away business
• Consulting and coaching business

Pieter experienced the pleasure and hardships of an entrepreneur. The businesses were managed through the complete business life cycle.

During his career, he learned the difference between working in the business versus working on the business.

For the last few years Pieter entered the world of consulting and focuses on Small to medium size business in terms of the following:

• EQ assessment and coaching (Based on 6 Seconds methodology)
• Account management and sales coaching and proposal/tender development
• Business Strategy development and implementation
• Team Optimization
• Employee engagement
• Entrepreneur’s development

Education

• EQ Assessor, Practitioner and Facilitator (Six Seconds)
• Rethink social media marketing (Rethink)
• Sharetrackin NOW online share trading (sharetrsckin)
• University of South Africa (BComm – not completed
• Microsoft – A+, N+, INET+ ,MCSD, MCDBA and MCAD Diploma (Torque_IT)
• High School Uitsig – Matric