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The companies that Jacquie has worked for include
VWSA, Bostik and British United Engineering,
McCarthy Motor Holdings and Tongaat Hulett. She
currently serves on the board of the Durban Chamber
of Commerce and Industry as the first vice president.
Business Focus
Years of experience and success with people deve-
lopment make Jacquie an ideal person with whom
to work. Her company, Jacquie Bhana Consulting, is
a BBBEE level 1 entity. She is well equipped to work
as a high performance and life coach and mentor.
Jacquie has worked across the board, with executives,
managers, small business owners and women from DUT intern Xolani Magubane participated in a one year mentorship
various backgrounds. programme with project ties.
Jacquie says, “I work with people who feel that they a special interest in the coaching of women (as part of
are stuck in their careers by helping them to move the diversity pool).
into meaningful and impactful roles so that they can
help move their organisations forward. I know exactly Mentorship of Youth
how scary it can be to think about making changes Jacquie offers mentorship to young, talented employees,
because we’re so afraid of the unknown.” to build their capability and confidence – by providing
guidance, emotional support and insight into high
In order to assist people Jacquie has adopted her performance.
signature system of ‘U-2-Great’ for her individual
coaching methodology. This involves a bespoke Typically, they would include, but not be limited to formal
coaching process for every client covering goal trainees such as graduate trainees and professional and
setting, addressing their current reality, looking at skilled level workers and their mentors.
options and finding a way forward. Graduates
Current Projects For graduates a mentor is someone who serves as
Coaching and mentoring candidates on the a guide, providing both professional and personal
Beier Group bursary and education assistance advice, feedback and support in transitioning into
programmes formal employment.
Durban University of Technology and Projectised Bursary Candidates
graduate mentoring Jacquie coaches a number of bursary candidates
Succession, strategic planning implementation to deal with issues that come up in their lives such
and performance management at Royal Tyres as career counselling, life coaching as well as high
A keynote speaker on mental health and wellness performance management and leadership coaching.
Various high performance coaching initiatives
at leadership and SMME level Mental Health Counselling and Coaching
Working with the Sports Coaching Lab and the Jacquie has been working with people in business and
Da Vinci Institute to develop and professionalise graduates that experience mental health problems
sports coaching capability. through her coaching and mentoring programme.
She has done presentations at conferences and
AREAS OF WORK
has found that there is a strong need for business
Business Consulting to engage more robustly on this topic. There are
The experience that Jacquie focuses on involves emerging rich and vibrant discussions in this area,
the development and facilitation of a range of especially after Covid, and with younger employees.
leadership, management, skills training and graduate Counselling concentrates on the person’s past
programmes, as well as diversity management and deals with healing emotional pain or dealing
initiatives at both executive and non-executive levels. with emotional difficulties. It is therefore geared
Coaching towards understanding and resolving the past,
thereby helping someone move forward and be
Her focus is on executive, management and life
coaching, as well as coaching and mentoring small, able to reach their potential, and work towards
medium and micro enterprises (SMMEs). Jacquie has being their best selves.
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