Stephen serves as Managing Director of The Coaching Company (Pty) Ltd and practices as a Large Systems Change Facilitator and Organization Transformation Consultant.

He is a founding chair of COMENSA (Coaches and Mentors of South Africa), the professional body developing standards and ethics for the coaching industry in South Africa.

Stephen is a supervising coach and has developed internationally recognized models for managing coaching interventions within the corporate sector.

Stephen is a recognised authority on Executive Coaching and Change Management; is regularly asked to speak, write and lecture on Executive Coaching and current topics in Change Management and Leadership Studies and regularly lectures on the University of Cape Town’s Graduate School of Business Executive Development Programme on Coaching, Mentoring and Organisational Change Management.

Stephen has lectured in Systems Theory, the Coaching Method and Organizational Development at The South African College of Applied Psychology and is currently completing a PhD in Commerce at the Graduate School of Business at the University of Cape Town. His research should provide leading edge theory in the application of Systems Theory in the management and delivery of sustainable change management projects in South Africa.

Stephen has an LLB from UCT (specialising in corporate commercial law), an M.A. in Political Studies from UCT, and a B.A. in Political Science and Economics from McGill University in Montreal, Canada (specializing in large systems change).