Tag: cultural transformation

An interview with Brian Mhlanga, Leadership/Executive Coach & Facilitator, and Dr Ivor Blumenthal, CEO, ArkKonsult, discussing that it is a myth that leadership and executive coaching is ‘not a Black thing’; that the concept is Western and therefore has no value in South Africa.

I asked the only woman to have made it to the senior ranks of a leading bank to what she attributed her success. “I was fortunate,” she said. “The bank hired a coach to teach me how to act and react like a man. I was even taught techniques to stop tears when I felt emotional.” Today this practice would be unacceptable, but the attitude still manifests in other ways.