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Lita Currie

Associate

Johannesburgh, South Africa

Work history

Lita worked at SABMiller for 22 years (FMCG industry) during which time she held a number of roles in Learning and Development, consulting on and leading interventions across a range of functions. Latterly she was the Learning & Development Manager for Support Functions in the Africa Region, an executive role managing a team with responsibility for learning strategy and implementation in 17 countries in Africa. Lita spent time in charge of management training for Human Resource processes and Performance Management and has coached managers and executives on the Management Development Programme and Executive Leadership Programmes.

Consulting, coaching and facilitation approach

Many of Lita’s internal roles involved consulting. She has extensively coached in-house – both HR and Finance, as well as middle and senior management. She is skilled at instructional design and have developed and implemented various learning programmes in Africa, with live facilitation making up around 30% of her role. Since 2017, Lita started working freelance as a facilitator and coach. She has a specialism of graphic facilitation and visual thinking to add interest and engagement to my programmes.

Lita has a very inclusive style as a facilitator, and she enjoys working with groups, accommodating their needs and achieving the outcomes of the session. She prefers an interactive approach and calls on a variety of interactive exercises to get the people participating. She is experienced in being flexible in the moment, with over 15 years’ of facilitation experience to fall back on. Her delegates have given her feedback that she is excellent at listening, summarising and getting to the crux of the issue.

Lita uses a variety of coaching models in her work, adapting to suit the situation, from the simplest GROW structure, incorporating the ICF coaching competencies throughout. She uses the Gestalt approach within my coaching because of the great insights it can generate, and has also found Nancy Kline’s “incisive question” approach to be very useful. She has regular supervision, focusing on the Integral model, which she uses often to ensure that she stays grounded as a coach. What makes her coaching a bit different is the graphic approach she employs where the coachee creates a graphic representation of the conversation.

Education and qualifications

  • BA, University of the Free State, South Africa
  • BEd, University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa
  • Certificate in Professional Business Coaching with the Gordon’s Institute of Business Science, through the University of Pretoria (accredited with the ICF) (2017)
  • Certificate in International Systemic Team Coaching from the Academy of Executive Coaching (2017)

Accreditations

  • Qualified Coach

Working languages

  • English
  • Afrikaans