COURSE DEVELOPER
Hester Verwey
Hester Verwey is an avid and passionate facilitator of wholeness, Emotional Intelligence, intra-personal and inter-personal change.
She has vast exposure in a variety of industries and organisations where she facilitates emotional intelligence, leadership, professional growth and relational dialogue. Hester holds a masters-degree in Organisational Leadership with the school of Global Leadership and Entrepreneurship from Regent University.
She is also a qualified ETD Practitioner; a registered coach; and a Persolog Profile Personality (DISC) authorised trainer.
Hester has established herself in the field of Organisational Learning and Leadership through the development and facilitation of a variety of different leadership, team development, mentorship and personal development programmes and interventions for different industries.
She specialises in the facilitation of holistic, creative and fun-filled team and personal mastery interventions. In My E- Learning, Hester is the developer of the EQ module and Leadership modules of the My E-learning programme and will provide guidance on this subject as a mentor and a coach. As registered executive leadership coach, Hester has been involved with executive coaching and mentorship for leaders and managers, professional persons and executive role players in large corporates and small companies.
Her registrations in the SAQA, SETA, and Higher Education and Training area include that of facilitator, assessor and moderator with SETA’s including Services Seta, ETDP Seta and Boodbev Seta, for a variety of management, leadership, business development and trainer development qualifications.
Hester was the founding member, in more than one small business, one of them is SIMS Khula Training, an accredited Skills Development and Organisational Development small business. Hester also acted as consulting director and co-owner of SIMS Khula Training.
Her exposure to entrepreneurship and the phases of small business development and growth, as well as the challenges that entrepreneurs face is thus based on personal experience. She retired from the board and leadership of SIMS Khulla in July 2019 after 15 years to avail her more time for her own consulting business; travel nationally and internationally, and spend time with her family.
Hester previously also owned her own pre-school for eight years, and also served as a senior manager in the Local Government sector. She also acted as director of a small non-profit organisation and is currently also a director in Domo Domini, an accommodation and consulting small business.