Provide real-time learning, actionable performance insights and the practical tools to sustain change in organisations.
We work in four key areas linking leadership behaviours to business results.
CEO Consulting
The CEO Project is a Lockstep initiative offering four engagement options for CEOs who wish to achieve outstanding performance and personal fulfilment.
This 3-5-month programme builds a leadership mindset in your management team while providing skills and practical know-how for them to succeed in their role.
Lockstep partners with progressive organisations, ranging from listed corporations and family-owned businesses, to equity-backed enterprises and private companies. Our clients share our view that every business requires excellent leadership and experience a personalised process with us while gaining exposure to our proprietary Lockstep methodology.
“The value that Lockstep brings to our business is derived from understanding the multi-layered nature of business. Lockstep counsel is based not only in an empathetic and educated understanding of people and their motivations, but also in an awareness of the complexities and constraints of corporate environments. The Lockstep team bring a finely honed intuitive sense to bear in a participative and deeply caring way, which drives the trust needed to open new paths, and reconsider old ones.”
CEO of global advertising group
“As a team we are now stronger than the sum of our parts. Our outputs have already increased and as we continue to exercise what we've learned, I see a continual improvement in our collective performance. We now have a greater sense of trust and respect within the team, and are aligned towards achieving the same goal. It was startling to discover that our senior team wasn't operating at its best. This process, through Lockstep, has allowed us to really get to know one another - with the result being that we are now more decisive and effective in our delivery of work.”
Global solar energy provider.
“It’s not often one gets the opportunity to step out of the daily grind and invest time into one’s own development. When you do make the time, you expect and demand it to be extraordinary. This is precisely what the Lockstep CEO retreat offers – something truly world class. Every detail is considered: the venue, the catering, the activities, the facilitators, the material and perhaps most importantly the fellow CEO’s who were exceptional individuals. Highly recommended”
Global diversified financial group
“In general motivation levels are good, because our leadership is becoming more mature and engaged - both with each other and with their teams. The Lockstep Aspiring Leaders Programme gives people the space to grow. I think it fosters motivation and excitement in our business.”
CEO of South African property data company
About Us
We are a tribe of leadership practitioners, working towards the shared goal of enabling leaders of the finest caliber. Our team members are industry experts with a wealth of corporate business experience.
I believe that work should be an invigorating and fulfilling experience and in 2007 I founded Lockstep, a world-class leadership consultancy to achieve that end. Leaders have a singular ability to positively shape the lives of many and it is this leverage that attracted me to the leadership field.
My career has been dedicated to shaping business leaders across the African continent who are able to balance commercial performance with broad societal impact and who no longer see these outcomes as being mutually exclusive. We are living in times where the great companies of the world are forces for good and I have never been more excited about the era of business that we're entering into.
Lockstep partners with clients who are seen as trailblazers in their sectors, pushing the boundaries of what great companies can accomplish. My work across this client base centers around CEOs, either in a coaching capacity or through the Genius CEO Retreat. My particular excitement is seeing CEOs develop their own craft, a reflection of their own innate ‘genius’.
I spent my early years in South Africa before emigrating to the USA in 1988, where I was educated at Berkeley University and Harvard Business School. I have spent time in the consulting sector and within industry, primarily with General Electric in San Francisco and New York, before returning to South Africa in 2002.
Seeing people thrive and perform more optimally in all areas of life is something that excites me tremendously. As a Partner in the Lockstep business, I have the opportunity of working with teams and individuals in unlocking the innate potential that lies at the core of every human being. I am committed to driving business performance and bringing operational experience and an understanding of human behaviour to my role at Lockstep.
Having worked both locally and internationally, holding senior strategic roles within the retail market, I believe that high-performing Executive Teams are the greatest leverage point for organisations. In 2012, I departed my corporate career spanning nearly two decades to work closely with CEO's in developing thriving teams.
I am a senior associate at Lockstep, having joined the team in 2010. I consult and facilitate learning in the area of people performance and believe that there is a better way of being in the work space, one that is more engaging, more ethical and more effective.
I help clients build better workplaces by helping them achieve their strategy through positive cultures, strong leadership, effective management and engaged team members. I love working with people and helping the connection, growth and development of tangible skills. I lead the ‘measurement’ practice for our clients at Lockstep and believe that we can help people assess and measure their development and progress in order to be more focused and conscious of their growth journeys.
I am a Capetonian and before qualifying with Bachelor of Business Science degree from UCT, I spent some time working in London and travelling to all corners of the five continents. My formal career started in South Africa in the management consulting field with Accenture, and in 2007 my consulting focus shifted to people, team development and organisational change. Although traveling fairly regularly, home is in Cape Town where I value easy access to the mountain where I spend time either on a bike, trail running, or walking with my family.
Having an extensive background in communications, I bring a wealth of experience working in both large and small communications consultancies, as well as working on the client side as Head of Communications at a global not-for- profit organization.
Throughout my career I have always focused strongly on the development of the people in my team and it was through realising this passion and completing a yearlong internationally accredited Executive Leadership Coaching programme in London; that I transitioned from the world of communications, to working exclusively in People Development.
I am passionate and enthusiastic about communicating effectively with individuals and teams, and empowering them to communicate even more effectively themselves. As a strategic human resources consultant (with a specific focus on coaching and facilitation), my primary aim is to assist organisations in creating cultures that empower and energises their people; ultimately driving effective business performance from within. This aim is underpinned by the belief that behind every successful organisation, are talented people who understand their potential and perform to fulfil it.
I have a degree in Consumer Sciences from Stellenbosch University; a postgraduate diploma in Communications; and a Master in Business Administration (MBA) from UCT’s Graduate School of Business (completed at the London Business School in the United Kingdom).
My role is to help leaders and teams transition to new ways of working together - to escape the traps of busy-ness, politics or ego and attain high performance that can be sustained. People naturally want to do good work and to collaborate effectively. I bring frameworks and a facilitation style that enable them to do exactly that.
The early part of my work life was spent in corporate finance in London, before returning to Cape Town in 2006 and helping to set up the Democratic Alliance Leadership Academy, which I ran for the following four years. During that time, we ran programmes to develop leaders throughout the organization.
Since 2010 the majority of my time has been spent coaching and facilitating in businesses in South Africa and sub-Saharan Africa.
I was educated in Cape Town, and have degrees in Philosophy and Electrical Engineering. I also have a Professional Coaching Certificate from the Centre for Coaching at the UCT Graduate School of Business, which carries an International Coaching Federation (ICF) level accreditation.
I am a Senior Associate at Lockstep focused on co-facilitating leadership retreats, coaching senior clients and contributing to the personal development aspects of our programmes.
My first career steps were in academia, with the Wits Institute of Social and Economic Research, before joining the NPO sector with CIDA City Campus and Common Purpose. I then moved into senior corporate roles in Black Economic Empowerment and Corporate Social Responsibility with Investec and Hollard. I left the corporate world at age 29 to devote myself full-time to building a practice of intimate and cutting-edge personal development. I have thirteen years’ experience of being an intuitive coach, workshop leader, facilitator and speaker – with the intent on building bridges between doing and being; performance and presence.
My husband and I share a love of books, coffee, the West Wing and playing bridge and garden cricket with our sons.
I am a Senior Associate at Lockstep and bring expertise in personal leadership development.
I have significantly deepened our focus on crafting ethical and purpose-driven organisations that value and nurture all stakeholders. I am driven to unearth the innate goodness in people, and to inspire organisations to follow an ethical course with purpose.
My career started in the IT sector and then transitioned into the world of organisational and personal development consulting and facilitation, where my passion for envisioning and delivering engaging and sustainable learning journeys emerged.
Prior to joining Lockstep in 2016, I spent 11 years working with South African-based multi-nationals, focusing primarily on the alignment of individuals within organisations, enabling sales teams, developing the C-suite and growing the next level of leadership.
After completing my undergraduate and postgraduate degrees in English, Psychology and Marketing Management at UCT, I spent eight years travelling extensively and working in the UK, Europe and the US.
The word “resilience” means so much more than it ever did and the ability to ‘press on’, even when things are challenging, is a skill we all need right now. Can we potentially even see an opportunity to transform and come out better than before?
Life and work are undoubtedly intertwined, and it’s clear that the skills needed for both have blended. Lockstep Life is a progressive form of learning that contributes to building the skills needed not only for these times but for life.
Tough conversations are everywhere right now - from retrenchments to salary reductions, team accountability sessions and businesses being required to adapt quickly. Leaders are required to engage differently, to lead actively and to ensure that their full team is onboard at all times.
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