De Nova Consulting has been providing personal, group, and organizational transformation services since 2001. They help clients enhance their talents and move beyond limiting beliefs. Their services include change management strategies and leadership alignment, communication planning, culture change, coaching, and trauma debriefing. Retha Els is the founder with over 25 years of experience in organizational change and executive coaching across many industries and geographies.

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Business Profile

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Company Culture Change,Executive Coaching,
Employee Wellness
De Nova Consulting has been in the business of dealing with personal, group and
organisational transformation since 2001. Changing demands in the environment create the
ideal opportunity for meaningful transformation: to become more of whowe areas individuals,
as teams and together as a connected organisation. We partner with people and organisations
that want to up their game by moving beyond self-limiting patterns and beliefs and
developing their unrealised natural talents to be the best they canbe.
“Individualisation is to divest the self from false wrappings" - Carl Jung
Organisational and Personal Transformation

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“One of the greatest problems we face today is how to adjust our way of thinking to meet the
challenges of an increasingcomplex,rapidchanging,and unpredictableworld.Wemust
rethinkourwayoforganizingknowledge" - Edgar Morin
Change Management Strategy &
Planning
Based on a thorough understanding of
the challenges and change requirements
of an organisation, create a strategy and
road-map to enable and support the
change initiative that fits best with the
broader business strategies and aligns
with the desired culture of the
organisation.
Leadership Engagement & Alignment
An aligned leadership team operates at a
competitive advantage where individual leaders
share the vision; understand the road-map and
bring alignment, clarity and agility to their
respective teams. We support senior leadership
createa sharedvision, define the processof
gettingthere;andestablishsharedsupport and
sponsorship for the change initiative. Executive
coaching to support the successful
implementationofanychange.Mentoring
training to managers to support an
engagement- approach to cascading the change
down the organisation.
Communication & Stakeholder
Engagement
Engaging internal stakeholders in the
change process, creating understanding,
mobilising commitment, preparing the
organisation for the change and assisting
them to make the changes "stick" after
the implementation. Creatingemotional
engagementofthe entire organisation in
strategic topics, such as understanding
corporate strategy, aligning individual
decisions with the company's vision and
meaningfully relate to the values. We will
assist an organisation take a strategic
topic and make it operationally
meaningful.
In-house Change Management
Frameworks
Designing and implementing a customised
change management framework and
methodology that aligns with business's
strategy, needs, requirements and culture.
Training, coaching and mentoring in-house
Change Managers to ensure change
management capability stays in-house.
(ICF Associate Coach Level)
Change Management
Our Service Offering

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"Out of your vulnerability will come your strength" - Sigmund Freud
Employee Wellness
Wellness has a direct and meaningful
impact on how employees make
decisions and solve problems in their day
to day work. Implementing a wellness
programme for employees to thrive on
four levels - Healthy Me, Wealthy Me,
Social Me and Career Me assists
employees to function better on all levels.
These four pillars of wellness accelerate
employee overall resilience and create an
overall sense of health and well-being, a
new energy, productivity, employee
engagement and prosperity in an
organisation.
Organisational Equine Assisted Team
Building
Presenceandmindfulness -howtostayinthe
hereand now and connect with fellow team
members in a meaningfulandprofound way.
Thewayofthehorsecan teachuswaystorelate
toeachotherthataredifficultto achieve in day-
to-day encounters. Always authentic,
empatheticanddirect- thisprocesscanassist
anyteam to bond in ways not previously
conceived.
Culture Change
Culture change is often spoke of as the
panacea of all organisational problems
and yet it is difficult to embed in an
organisation. We can help with designing,
planning and implementing strategies for
changing organisational culture towards
sustainable engagement by having real
conversations, focusing on employee
involvement on all levels, improving basic
trust, addressing sticky issues and
promoting cooperation. The results of
culture interventions have a direct impact
on the bottom line and sustainable
employee engagement.
Using the Enneagram in Business
Veryoftenwelookattraitsandbehaviourto
understand ourownandothers’ reactions. The
Enneagramexplores deeperlayersofpersonality
andhumannature.Team members get a deeper
understanding of each other that leads to more
compassion for the self and other members. It
can assist innottakingeverything personally
and developing a deeper trust and openness to
negotiate the nature and quality of the
relationships within the team.
Our Service Offering
Organisational Culture Change

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At De Nova Consulting, we believe in the appropriate mix of the best service providers
to support a global business in operating in a VUCA world. Each situation demands a
flexible, fast and adaptable solution. We therefore operate as a virtual organisation
and partner with a network of highly competent individuals. Our network members
bring a range of value-adding and unique expertise to provide afocused,clear, holistic
andclient-centred partnering service to our clients.
Retha Els
MA (Clinical Psychology), MBA, B Phil, Master NLP Practitioner, ACMC
(associate meta- coach), Certificate in Group Processes Facilitation,
Certified The Work facilitator, TRE practitioner (Level II) Eagala EAP
facilitator Level I) Certificate in using the enneagram in coaching.
Registered psychologist and coach.
Retha has functioned as a culture and organisational change consultant as well as
an executive coach for more than 25 years. She has been involved in several
large, complex global change initiatives and executive coaching engagements. She
is passionate about being part of a transformational journey to become more of
who you really are; whether it is an organisation, group or individual. She prefers
to operate across inter-disciplinary boundaries to pioneer more effective ways to
realise untapped value-adding potential. A thought leader with extensive
international experience, she has proven success in improving strategy and
measurable results for global clients in various corporate engagements. She has a
track record of delivering quality solutions to complex problems utilising broad
and diverse knowledge and an experience base spanning 15 countries across the
African, European, North and South American as well as Middle Eastern regions.
A highly experienced consulting executive, serving as a trusted advisor and
veteran coach, accredited with the International Coaching Federation, she has
provided coaching support to a wide range of individual leaders (from C-suite to
supervisors) and groups, spanning more than 15 years and 3800 hours of
coaching. She is passionate about driving development in the arena of
management consulting services to support leader and organisational
development, expanding innovation in change and cultural interventions.
Excellent communication, interpersonal and presentation skills are displayed
while interacting and coordinating with people in English and Afrikaans.
About De Nova Consulting

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We cultivate love when we allow our most vulnerable and powerful selves to be deeply
seen and known, and when we honor the spiritual connection that grows from that offering
with trust, respect, kindness and affection." - Brene Brown
Executive coaching
Facilitated conversations, mostly
through asking questions, giving
feedback, challenging and
holding the client's agenda
towards a well-defined outcome
of specific improvement in
personal performance. Executive
coaching conversations usually
involvea 20-hour commitment,
after which both parties consider
the wayforward. Depending on
the client's need, a three-way
conversation with the manager,
360°
assessment or other
psychometric assessments can
form part of the contracted
process. Often clients choose to
expand their coaching to include
a team session based onthe
Enneagram.Thisoften leads to a
new and deeper understanding
ofeachother.
Stress resilience &
burn-out coaching
This type of coaching is
specifically designed to help
individuals who are experiencing
chronic stress or burnout. It
combines mind and body
interventions from various
experts in the medical and
related fields to provide a high-
touch and very intense supportive
environment to help these Type
A individuals in the physical as
well as emotional recovery, to
make it a highly personal
transformational journey. This
type of coaching combines
conversational coaching with
various other bodywork
techniques to ensure a holistic
approach in dealing with chronic
stress and burnout as an
opportunity to get in touch with
what really makes us successful
in our lives and in our connection
with others
Equine-assisted
coaching
Facilitated coaching sessions
where individuals have the
unique opportunity to find their
own solutions to problems
through a cyclical process of
experiential learning and
immediate feedback with the
help of a horse and two
facilitators.
Equine-assisted coaching consists
of 30 minute equine contact
sessions facilitated by the
personal coach and horse
specialist. It is then followed up
by a coaching conversation to
debrief and internalize the
experience. (All activities with the
horse are on the ground and no
horse riding is involved). Often
these sessions can lead to a
profound breakthrough for
anyone who is open to the
experience
Coaching
Step into the real you…

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Trauma debriefing
The De Nova Consulting approach focuses on helping
individuals who recently experienced a traumatic event to
return to their previous level of functioning, and to use the
event as an opportunity rather than a crisis. The approach is to
start the trauma debriefing as soon as possible after the event
to prevent post-trauma stress disorder as far as possible. It
follows four steps - rapid response, defusing the
overwhelming emotional response, addressing the specific
presenting symptoms and integrating the experience.
The Work of Byron Katie
The Work is a simple, yet powerful, process of inquiry that
teaches one to identify and question the thoughts that
promote inner freedom and peace of mind. It is about
questioning the mind – meeting thoughts with understanding
and respect to notice their impact on one’s well-being and to
challenge their truth. Individual facilitation and programmes
on such topics as wellness, self-esteem and stress resilience
are presented either face-to-face or via Skype, facilitated in-
house or in public group sessions and require self-work
between facilitated sessions.