Our Trainers

ChangeAbility prides itself on the outstanding expertise and experience of its trainers.

Steven Cady | Whole system change BS Business Administration (University of Central Florida), MBA (University of Central Florida) & Ph.D Business Administration (Florida State University)

Steven Cady is a scholar practitioner committed to using cutting-edge approaches that inspire system-wide change in organizations, and he is actively pursuing research and practice that unleash passion at the individual and organizational levels. Steven is a Graduate Faculty member at Bowling Green State University, where he is director of the Institute for Organizational Effectiveness and has served as the director of the Master of Organization Development Program. He has also served as the chief editor for the Organization Development Journal. Steven publishes, teaches, and consults on topics of organizational behaviour and psychology, change management, and organization development. His clients include Daimler Chrysler, Dana Corporation, Diocese of NW Ohio (Toledo), and The Tavistock Group.

Nina de Klerk | Communication BA Communications (RAU); BA Hons (Communications) (Cum Laude) RAU; MA (Communication) (Cum Laude) (RAU); D. Litt et Phil (RAU)

Nina (Overton) de Klerk has an extensive background in the entire field of communications spanning internal (organisational) communication and external (marketing) communication. She has been Professor and Head of the Department of Communication at RAU (now UJ) for 10 years, thereafter Executive Director of the Association for Communication and Advertising (ACA) for 10 years, and since 2005 has been acting as a consultant for ChangeWright Consulting.
Nina is a member of the Board of Trustees of loveLife, one of SA's most prominent HIV prevention campaigns, and 2005 recipient of Rapport/City Press Prestige Awards for women achievers.

Marilise Smit | Change management BA Law (Stellenbosch); LLB (Stellenbosch); LLM (Leiden, The Netherlands); MBA (cum laude) (Cape Town)

Marilise has worked in the change management consulting and general management fields for the past 4 years. Prior to this she was a commercial attorney at a Bowman Gilfillan and in-house legal advisor at PetroSA for a total period of 7 years. Her special interest is the effective and practical management of organisational change with due regard for the interests of all stakeholders. Marilise is the managing director of ChangeAbility Training and ChangeWright Consulting.

Dr Xolela Mangcu | Communication BA & MSc (Development Planning) (Wits); PhD (City Planning) (Cornell University)

Dr Xolela Mangcu is a Visiting Fellow at the Public Intellectual Life Project and a Resident Equity Scholar at the University of the Witwatersrand. He is also a Visiting W.E.B. Du Bois Fellow at Harvard University and writes a regular weekly column for the influential daily, Business Day. Prior to joining Business Day he was Associate Director and columnist for The Sunday Independent.
He was most recently Distinguished Research Fellow and Executive Director for Society, Culture and Identity at the Human Sciences Research Council. He has also served as the Founding Executive Director of the Steve Biko Foundation, and a Senior Analyst at the Centre for Policy Studies in Johannesburg.
Dr Mangcu has held fellowships at Harvard University, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and the Rockefeller Foundation in New York. He is a regular political commentator and has been featured on both local and international broadcasting networks including the NewsHour with Jim Lehrer, National Public Radio, BBC Radio, and CNN.

Eriaan Oelofse | Research Methodology BA (Cum Laude) (UP); BA Hons (Psychology) (UP); MA (Research Psych) (Cum Laude) (UP); PhD (Psychology) (UP)

Eriaan has worked as a management consultant for the past 12 years, both in internal consulting and independent consulting roles, with a particular focus on organisational development and transformation, organisational change management (managing organisational and human impact of new initiatives), and social and organisational research.

Ivan Overton | Change management BA (Wits); BA Hons (Applied Psychology) (RAU); MA (Psych) (Cum Laude) (RAU)

Ivan has worked in the management consulting field for the past 15 years, both in internal consulting and independent consulting roles, with particular focus on organisational change management, organisational development, and the organisational and human impact of the implementation of new information technology.

Deon van Zyl | Change, conflict management, facilitation & training BA (Hons) (Cum Laude) (RAU); MA (Clinical Psychology) (Cum Laude) (RAU); D Phil (Cum Laude) (UP)

Deon van Zyl is a former Associate Professor in Psychology at the University of Pretoria where he worked for 13 years as a lecturer and a Clinical Psychologist. For the past 16 years he has practiced privately as a Clinical Psychologist and a Management, Training and Development Consultant, serving over 110 client companies.
He is a past Chairman of the S A Institute for Clinical Psychology, a former Foreign Affiliate to the American Psychological Association and to the American Society for Training and Development. In 2005 he did an intensive study programme at the C G Jung Institute in Zurich, Switzerland, and delivered a paper at an international psychotherapy conference in Kyoto in 2006.

Seugnet van den Berg | Change management BCom Industrial Psychology (PTA), HRD, PU for CHE, Hons: industrial Psychology- cum laude (UJ), Masters: Industrial Psychology – cum laude- (UJ)

Seugnet has worked in the management consulting field for the past 12 years. She has extensive experience in project based approaches to system and process implementations. She has played the role of Project manager, Change manager and business analyst on various projects and has a strong delivery focus. Her interest is the interface between people and new technology and new processes and on presenting Change management in a delivery orientated structured way.