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About Me
From Civil Engineer to Life Coach Trainer & Communicator
It took me a while ... but I found my life purpose and what ignites my fire!
It is my purpose in life to inspire people – people like you – to lead the life you know you love and which is your birthright!
Taken at face value, our world is a challenging place.
But what so many of us fail to appreciate is that there is so much more to life — and so much more that we are capable of, if we can connect with the purpose that we are here to carry out.
I see my role, as a professional communicator and owner of a life coach training institute, as helping people—like you—to question the status quo, identify your purpose and passion, appreciate your own brilliance and start to shine.
When you live the life you love, your joy acts as a beacon of light and inspiration for others and makes this world a better place.
Who am I?
I’m married to Jenni and have two adult children, Bianca and Casey.
I’m currently a professional communicator and the owner of New Insights Life Coach Training, which operates under two separate companies in the United Kingdom and South Africa.
After 27 years in employment, I left corporate life in 2007 to start New Insights.
In 2010 I wrote and published ‘A Boerewors Roll for the Soul – Awaken to the Magic of the Life you Love’.
The book, with its quirky title that would resonate with South Africans, was meant as a tribute to my first life coach, and the life coaching sessions that were so instrumental in helping me find my purpose and make the transition.
Looking back
I came from a modest family and my parents sacrificed a lot to ensure I would get a university education.
But, after finishing school, I had very little idea about which career route to follow.
I had achieved good grades in Accountancy and Maths, so I thought it appropriate to enrol in a Bachelor of Commerce degree … but my mind was soon easily swayed by a fellow classmate who convinced me to “take on something more challenging like engineering”.
And so, impressionable me made the switch to study for a bachelor’s degree in civil engineering.
After completing that I went to work as a site engineer for a large construction company.
Six years later I realised that this was not my calling. I left my job, took out a big student loan and headed back to University to study full-time for an MBA .
The postgraduate degree did what I had hoped and opened the door to some exciting new career opportunities.
I was to find myself in roles I had never before imagined: sales, marketing, retail, programme management, IT, and finally, internal communications.
Finding my calling
I spent my final six years of corporate employment in the London headquarters of the multinational company I worked for.
As my expatriate assignment drew to a close, it became evident that job prospects in my home country were less than exciting,
I was faced with some tough decisions.
As I began to reflect on corporate life, I realised that I was happiest when cast into the type of challenging roles that required me to motivate and inspire others.
In that uncertain time, Neil Asher entered my life. Neil was a ‘larger than life’ entrepreneur who had founded New Insights – a UK life coach training organisation with international ambitions.
Neil quickly identifed that I was facing a period of significant change and, despite my scepticism, strongly encouraged me to try life coaching.
I did, and it turned out to be a ‘lightbulb experience’.
To put it mildly, I was hugely impressed with the power and simplicity of the New Insights life coaching programme.
Thanks to New Insights, and my wonderful life coach, Sharon, I was able to find my life purpose and bring real clarity to what I wanted to do.
New insights on life
My exposure to professional life coaching awakened me to just how perfectly it fit with my purpose to inspire and motivate others to live the lives they love.
In 2007 I bought the licence to establish and run New Insights Africa and, in 2011—with Neil having moved on to other fields of interest—I took ownership of New Insights UK.
I remain as passionate about New Insights today as I ever was. It allows me to give rein to my passion for communication—and specifically communication that inspires and motivates.