Leadership Coaching for personal and professional development

Learn how to let go of old patterns and unlock your highest potential

A fast-paced and frequently changing environment seems to have become the norm: higher expectations, faster delivery, bigger impact.

We know it isn’t sustainable, but it’s also unlikely to change.

So what are your options?

  • You can empower yourself to take back control in the areas where you do have choice

  • You can learn to self-manage and self-lead so you’re well- resourced to face the challenges that come your way

  • You can equip yourself with tools and practices to optimise your growth and improve your quality of life.

Coaching empowers you to let go of what’s holding you back and to take ownership of the life you want to live.

    • Gain deep insight into your default operating system and the adaptive strategies you’ve been using to keep you safe

    • Understand how your beliefs, habits and stories have been holding you back and what you can do to shift them

    • Learn the power of self-reflection as a healthy foundation for self-responsibility and self-accountability

    • Learn to regulate your inner state and show up with emotional maturity and adaptability

    • Explore your communication and interaction style so you can improve your impact and influence

    • Increase empathy and understanding for other perspectives to create inclusive and trusting relationships

    • Learn how to work with different personality types and improve your communication effectiveness

    • Improve inter-personal dynamics and collaboration with your team/clients/colleagues

    • Start integrating more diverse perspectives into your thinking for improved creativity, innovation and growth

    • Learn to anticipate and proactively adapt to changes and dynamics within the bigger group

    • Develop a more holistic understanding of your environment for broader impact and more effective problem-solving

    • Learn to apply your insight and learning to different areas to bring about more meaningful change

When we choose the support of a coach, what we’re asking for is someone to:

  • Provide a safe container to discuss the real stuff of our lives, work and relationships

  • Help us identify our patterns so we stop pressing the repeat button on our habits

  • Help us look at things from a different perspective & challenge us on our crap

  • Hold up a mirror and help us hear the brilliant, insightful thoughts we don’t hear within ourselves

  • Hold us accountable to the lives we talk about living, and the teams we talk about leading, but aren’t doing anything about

  • Nicole Snyders - Strategy & Comms Director

    “Since we have begun coaching, I have seen an increased level of self-awareness and ability to cope with stress and change. It has supported individuals to become more effective in their roles, with less volatility, less stress and increased resilience. It’s created better working relationship with others and helped leaders manage their teams more effectively.”

  • Kevin Govender – National Sales Manager

    “The experience surpassed my expectations in every way. The coaching led to significant improvements in my people management and leadership skills, striking a balance between work pressures and personal life. This shift has not only elevated my confidence but also transformed my perspective, allowing me to think and act as a leader.”

  • Kelly Pringle - Content Creator & Copywriter

    “Jessica has a way of pulling information out of your head that is truly remarkable and I never walked away from one of our sessions without the feeling that I had had several profound AHA moments! The changes that present themselves after this kind of work are not always comfortable or easy but I have come away with a much deeper sense of knowing myself“

  • Kristin Tennent – Senior CMI Manager

    “Jessica was warm, engaging and interesting. In taking the Grade 11’s through the Enneagram, her explanations were clear and she kept them captive. She is incredibly knowledgeable and has the ability to share this knowledge in an easy-to-understand way. I personally learned so much and have used these learned skills in my professional and personal life”

  • Alli Bunting - Program & Ops Director

    “I absolutely loved working with Jessica - she embodies compassion, takes an incredibly personalized approach, and provides lovely insights through her questions and approach so that you can delve deeper into who you are and how you show up in this world.”

How it works:

Coaching programmes are typically 3-6 months (6-12 sessions) and start with:

  1. Goal setting session: 3-way discussion with your line manager to align your focus areas with the organisation’s needs (if relevant)

  2. Enneagram report & debrief:  deep-dive look at your leadership strengths, motivations, triggers and challenges.

If you’re unsure of what you need most right now, get in touch and we can chat about your options.

About Your Coach

Jessica Uys is an ICF-Credentialed and Trauma-Informed  Coach, Enneagram Facilitator & Organisational Culture Researcher. After an initial career in the corporate world, including a position as Consumer & Market Insights Director for Unilever, she’s spent the last 12 years supporting her clients in their personal and professional development. She believes in self-leadership as the basis for growth and her passion is in allowing each individual to discover their unique style of leadership so they can lead from a place of personal alignment and empowerment.  

My Approach to Coaching:

  • A holistic approach considers the person as a whole, because one aspect of our lives impacts all others.

  • The environment or system we’re in provides critical backdrop for how we move forward.

  • I believe in pushing people past their habitual levels of comfort but that it’s also possible to do so in a kind and supportive manner

  • I believe that learning is made all the richer when we’re able to laugh at life, and ourselves

  • We are more than our thinking brains and there is an intelligence to be accessed from our emotions and our bodies

  • Integrated insights from a variety of fields including the Enneagram, Conscious Leadership and Conversational Intelligence

  • Fundamentally, all of these elements need to be used intuitively so that we’re adapting to our moment-to-moment changing needs and not according to a fixed or formulaic approach.

** Please note: Whilst I am a trauma-informed Enneagram coach, I am I am not qualified to work with trauma. Should you require work that is beyond my scope of practice, I will refer you to the relevant professional.

Get in Touch

Get in touch to explore how I can support your individual and professional development.