Stephen serves as Managing Director of The Coaching Company and practices as an Executive Coach and Corporate Change Consultant.
He is a founding chair of COMENSA (Coaches and Mentors of South Africa), the professional body that governs standards and ethics for the coaching industry in South Africa.
Stephen acts as a Coaching Supervisor for professional coaches and client organizations, and has developed internationally recognized models for managing coaching interventions within the corporate sector.
Stephen is regularly asked to write and speak on Executive Coaching and Change Management. Interviews, publications and lectures include The Mail and Guardian, Leadership magazine, and UCT’s Graduate School of Business Executive Development Programme.
Stephen has lectured in Systems Theory, the Coaching Method and Organizational Development at The South African College of Applied Psychology and is currently working on a PhD in Commerce at the GSB. His research should provide leading edge theory in the application of Systems Theory in the management and delivery of sustainable organisational change programmes in South Africa.
Stephen has a BA in Political Science and Economics from McGill University in Montreal, Canada (specializing in large systems change), an MA in Political Studies from UCT (studied questions of personal identity in the context of systemic change), and an LLB from UCT (specialising in corporate commercial law).