Dorothy Ndletyana

Dr Dorothy Ndletyana, a Fulbright Scholar, joined the University of Pretoria’s Gordon Institute of Business Science (GIBS) in 2017 and holds the position of Senior Lecturer. She leads the MPhil with a specialization in Change Leadership. Her research, teaching and consulting interests span across Humane Centred Leadership, Human Resource Management, Human Behaviour and Organisational Development.

Dr Ndletyana Chairs two GIBS academic committees and Webber Wentzel’s Empowerment Trust. She leads Ndletyana Learning, a boutique consulting practice, where she provides the following services to a niche client base: OD & Talent Management Advisory; Integral Coaching and Design, Development & Facilitation of deeply transformative interventions.

Dr Ndletyana amassed 17 years corporate experience in senior management roles before joining academia. She led Standard Chartered Bank’s Learning function in 15 African countries, overseeing delivery of the Bank’s learning & development strategy. At FirstRand she led a team that introduced and embedded the Learning & Talent Management practice at FirstRand’s Corporate Centre while concurrently leading Leadership Development at FirstRand Group level, for six years. Before that she served Deloitte for nine years, both as Head of Learning in South Africa and as Global Learning Manager at Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu in New York, where she focused on leadership development at different levels in South Africa and across 16 European countries.

Dr Ndletyana feels most like herself when she is teaching and coaching. She is an ICF-accredited Professional Certified Coach (PCC) and New Ventures West Certified Integral Coach . Her coaching practice focuses on developing the whole person where she helps clients to develop competence in the following streams: cognitive, emotional, somatic, relational, and spiritual. Clients develop a way of being that not only integrates the streams but enables them to live lives aligned to their own aspirations. Her clients report achieving the following outcomes: clarity, enhanced confidence & self-esteem, improved wellness including reduced stress and anxiety, improved performance, and relationships. Dr Ndletyana has mentored novice coaches at the Centre for Coaching at the University of Cape Town’s Graduate School of Business and has served on panels to certify coaches.

Qualifications

• EdD Adult Learning & Leadership (CU)
• MED Adult Education (Wits)
• BA Hons History (Wits)
• BA Education (Wits)

Core Discipline

• Human resources management

Work Experience

• Senior Lecturer (Gordon Institute of Business Science )
• Lecturer (Gordon Institute of Business Science )
• Director (Ndletyana Learning)
• Head of Learning: Africa (Standard Chartered Bank)
• Head: Group Leadership Development (FirstRand)
• Head: Learning and Talent Management (FirstRand)
• Department/division manager (Deloitte)
• Associate (Deloitte)
• Senior manager (Deloitte)
• Global Learning Manager (Deloitte)
• Staff member (Deloitte)

Significant Achievements

• 2020 Citizenship Award: Covid Student Team (Gordon Institute of Business Science )
• 2019 Citizenship Award (Gordon Institute of Business Science )

Teaching/Coaching Experience

• Individual and Team Performance in a digital age (Gordon Institute of Business Science )
• Foundational Leadership Skills Masterclass (Gordon Institute of Business Science )
• Manage a Diverse workforce to add value (Gordon Institute of Business Science )
• Transition Management Programme for Graduates (Gordon Institute of Business Science )
• AdvDip: Strategic leadership and management - GAD302 (Gordon Institute of Business Science )
• HR Management (Gordon Institute of Business Science )
• Tsebo Outsourcing (Gordon Institute of Business Science )
• Difficult Conversations (Gordon Institute of Business Science )
• Business Management and Development (BMD) (Gordon Institute of Business Science )
• Attracting, Motivating &Retaining People (Gordon Institute of Business Science )
• :Strategic Implementation (Gordon Institute of Business Science )
• Human behaviour and performance (Gordon Institute of Business Science )
• Leadership People, Leading the Business (Gordon Institute of Business Science )
• Mindfulness (Gordon Institute of Business Science )
• Team Effectiveness and Collaboration (Gordon Institute of Business Science )
• Shell Leadership Acceleration Programme (Gordon Institute of Business Science )
• Business communication for impact (Gordon Institute of Business Science )
• Leadership-MDP (Gordon Institute of Business Science )
• Leadership-FMP (Gordon Institute of Business Science )
• Leadership-EDP (Gordon Institute of Business Science )
• Effective Teamwork and Collaboration Practices (Gordon Institute of Business Science )
• Discovery Foundation (Gordon Institute of Business Science )
• Executive Leadership Programme (Gordon Institute of Business Science )
• Genesis (Gordon Institute of Business Science )
• People Management & Leadership (Gordon Institute of Business Science )
• Leadership & Management (Gordon Institute of Business Science )
• Creating Team Effectiveness (Gordon Institute of Business Science )
• Effective Leadership (Gordon Institute of Business Science )
• Authentic Leadership (Gordon Institute of Business Science )
• Human resource strategy (Gordon Institute of Business Science )
• People and Performance Management (Gordon Institute of Business Science )
• Organisation Development & Change (Gordon Institute of Business Science )
• Leading the Organisation, Leading Others (Gordon Institute of Business Science )
• Strategic Leadership (Gordon Institute of Business Science )