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About the Authors

John Gatherer

John has over 35 years’ experience in the fields of HR, labour relations, training and development, leadership and strategic change management, having held senior positions in Anglo American plc and the De Beers Groups. During this period, John worked as Training Consultant to the Anglo plc Group and as General Manager of the Maccauvlei Training and Conference Centre.

John served on the Executive Committee of De Beers as Group Manager – Human Resources between 1999 and 2005, and headed up a Global Centre of Expertise in Leadership Development and Talent Management for the Group. John joined Debbie Craig at Catalyst Consulting as Chief Operations Manager, and together they have forged a consulting business, specialising in strategic change, leadership development and talent management, working locally and internationally with a variety of clients from a range of business sectors.

Debbie Craig

Debbie Craig has over 18 years’ experience in the fields of strategy, leadership development, change management, talent management, high-performance teams and organisational development. She has worked for and consulted at leading South African organisations, including the Edgars Group, MAC Consulting, the De Beers Group, the Transnet Group and the Development Bank of South Africa. Twelve years ago Debbie started her own consulting business, Catalyst Consulting, which she now runs with her business partner, John Gatherer. Debbie, who is a skilled strategist, design architect and team builder, as well as a powerful facilitator, change agent and executive coach, has worked at executive level with individuals and teams in southern Africa, the UK, Australia, South-East Asia, China and the USA.

Debbie is also a co-founder of World Alive, which offers personal transformation workshops with a view to changing the face of education and business through greater awareness, empowerment and alignment of mind, emotions, body and spirit. Debbie is a qualified NLP practitioner, process facilitator, game ranger, reflexologist and Reiki master.

Catalyst Consulting

Catalyst Consulting is an established consulting business with a successful track record spanning more than 12 years in the design and implementation of organisation-wide strategic change and transformation journeys, leadership development, coaching and mentoring, high-performance team development, talent management, change management and culture transformation journeys. Catalyst has consulted to leading organisations in southern Africa, South-East Asia, China and America.

Our approach, which is built on a deep foundation of corporate and consulting experience, is designed to create an enhanced capability for leaders in which their strategic goals and business results are leveraged, through a better understanding and application of people management frameworks, processes and skills. Our focus is on ensuring impact and sustainability through our involvement and by building the capacity of clients and participants, through taking a strong change and project management approach to interventions.