Corporate and private coaching

Coaching enables you to develop a new language, fresh insights about yourself, a distinct way of observing yourself and, ultimately, a new way of being. In doing so you are able to see what was preventing you from being both effective and fulfilled in life.

Coaching builds self-awareness and the ability to observe so that you have access to a greater range of choices and can act in new ways, rather than habitual patterns that no longer serve you. Through this approach you are able to see when you are off course and are able to choose a response (self-correcting), instead of simply reacting. In addition, as new actions become available, you can take your new skills into all the areas of your life (self-generating).

BDC offers corporate coaching, mentoring programs and coaching circles for organisations as well as for private clients.

Merlene Nieuwoudt provides a uniquely challenging and yet supportive working partnership that benefits the individual and the organisation in which executives/ C-clients and top talent work.  She has approx 30 years experience in the business world as a C-level exec/senior director in major international organisations which has given her deep insight into understanding that clients everywhere are searching for meaning, purpose, fulfilment and well-being – therefore she ensures that her clients receive a level of service, discretion and competence appropriate to their individual needs.

Merlene has her Masters in Coaching (MCC and PCC integral executive coaching qualification) from the University of Cape Town Graduate School of Business Centre for Coaching. She is accredited as an Integral Coach by New Ventures West in the USA, which is affiliated to the International Coach Federation (ICF). She is an International Award Winning Leadership Coach and also an accredited Enneagram practitioner having studied under Claudio Naranjo.

Merlene uses her learnings and experience including Mindfulness and Compassion Based approaches in her practice. She is a Leadership Embodiment and Somatic Intelligence practitioner and has specialized in End of Life Coaching and works with clients facing various forms of loss, death, dying and grief. This field of work includes retirement, redundancy, terminal illness, divorce, miscarriage and other forms of loss, death and grief.