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Improve your personal and business performance! Janine Ahlers, Academic Director of the Centre for Coaching situated at the UCT GSB Janine is a certified Professional Integral Coach and Academic Director of the Centre for Coaching, a centre for excellence situated at the UCT Graduate School of Business. She also holds the position of Senior Lecturer at the GSB. She lectures at the GSB in Coaching and Leadership Development to MBA and
corporate career. She continues to play the violin
Executive Education students, and is currently
in orchestras and quartets whenever possible.
doing her research in coaching. She has delivered and published research papers at
Janine has been coaching since 2002, primarily to
several academic peer-reviewed conferences,
senior executives who are often working on strategic,
and has published book chapters and
leadership and relationship challenges.
articles on the topic of coaching in leadership development.
Her clients span a wide range, from South Africans to clients from Australia, New Zealand, Europe, UK,
Janine spent more than 10 years working in
Japan, Turkey, Dubai, East and West Africa and the full
the corporate, manufacturing and business
Southern African region. Her work in multinationals has
environment where she was required to
allowed her to develop a keen appreciation for the
network and operate at senior executive levels.
challenges facing leaders who operate in multicultural
She held positions as Director, Exco member,
global organisations. Janine lectures and facilitates
Head of HR, and also handled marketing,
on all courses run by the Centre for Coaching as well
production & start-up operations. Janine has
as running in-house coaching workshops, Coaching
held a number of musical positions in the
Circles and leadership development interventions for
National Orchestra before she started her
blue-chip clients all over the world.
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