Caren Scheepers

Prof Caren Scheepers started her career in public service as a registered Counselling Psychologist at Department of Labour and then went on to join Sanlam Insurance Company as a management consultant for eight years, after which she gained international exposure through her role as a leadership consultant at Gemini Consulting for four years.

She then founded an independent consulting firm called Irodo Consulting that specializes in team interventions, executive coaching, psychometric assessments, and organizational development and restructuring projects.

Prof Scheepers joined the Gordon Institute of Business Science in 2007 as a part-time lecturer and since 2014 she has been a full-time member of faculty, lecturing in organizational development, organizational behaviour, strategic leadership, and contextual leadership. Prof Scheepers is an accredited professional coach with the International Coaching Federation (ICF).

She authored two books on leadership coaching and co-edited the Women leadership in emerging markets book with Routledge, Taylor, and Francis. She also recently co-authored the Change Leadership in emerging markets book with Springer. Prof Scheepers publishes in both local and international academic journals in these domains, as well as case studies.

Qualifications

• PHD Psychology (UFS)
• MSocSc (UFS)
• BSocSc Hons (UFS)
• BSocSc (UFS)

Coaching Qualifications and Accreditations

• ACE (ICF)
• ACC (GSB)
• PCC (GSB)

Core Discipline

• Leadership

Work Experience

• Professor (Gordon Institute of Business Science )
• Associate Professor (Gordon Institute of Business Science )
• Senior Faculty (Gordon Institute of Business Science )
• Part-time Executive coaching (Centre for Creative Leadership)
• Part Time Faculty (Wits Business School)
• Part Time Faculty (University of Stellenbosch Business Schol)
• Part Time Faculty (Gordon Institute of Business Science )
• Director and Account Manager - Irodo Consulting (Irodo Consulting)
• Leadership and Management Consultant - Gemini Consulting (Gemini Consulting)
• Psychologist and Management Consultant and Trainer - Sanlam Insurance (Sanlam Insurance)
• Staff member - Department of Labour (Department of Labour)

Significant Achievements

• Citizenship Award for contribution and care to students during COVID-19 (Gordon Institute of Business Science )
• First prize in the European Foundation for Management Development (EFMD) competition for the best Case Study in the African cases category (European Foundation for Management Development (EFMD))
• Most Outstanding Contribution to the case method by The Case Centre 2020 international competition (The Case Centre)
• Most Prestigious Journal article amongst GIBS Faculty members in 2020. (Gordon Institute of Business Science )
• Most Prolific Researcher amongst GIBS Faculty members in 2019. (Gordon Institute of Business Science )
• Most Prolific Researcher amongst GIBS Faculty member in 2018. (Gordon Institute of Business Science )
• Grant for co-editing: 2017 “Women leadership in emerging markets” (University of Pretoria)
• Third place in a CEEMAN’s International Case Competition (Central and East European Management Development Association )
• Case study nomination for European Foundation of Management Competition (Ivey Business School)

Teaching/Coaching Experience

• MBA stream on Healthcare Management (Gordon Institute of Business Science )
• Executive education (Gordon Institute of Business Science )
• Designed and conducted Case study teaching and writing workshop for Rwandan African Leadership University (Rwandan African Leadership University )
• Elective: Diversity and Inclusion (Gordon Institute of Business Science )
• GIBS online: Strategic Leadership course (Gordon Institute of Business Science )
• Open programme for online learning for women leaders (Gordon Institute of Business Science )
• Strategic leadership (Gordon Institute of Business Science )
• Dealing with Change and Emergence (Gordon Institute of Business Science )
• Applied Business Project (Gordon Institute of Business Science )
• Organisational Behaviour (Gordon Institute of Business Science )
• Contextual Leadership Intelligence (Gordon Institute of Business Science )
• Leadership (Gordon Institute of Business Science )
• Leadership Coaching (University of Stellenbosch Business Schol)
• Coaching Skills, Coaching Process, Building Coaching Practice and Ethics (Wits Business School)
• Organisational Development & Transformation (Gordon Institute of Business Science )
• Company Specific Programmes: Leadership in the 21 Century; People Management; Emotional Intelligence; Team Leadership Coaching Skills Change Management (Gordon Institute of Business Science )