Ashna has been a coach since 2016, when she founded CoachConnectCommit (PTY) Ltd, with the intention of assisting individuals and organisations in achieving greater clarity, focus, and daily satisfaction. Her areas of expertise include all levels of management in South Africa, West Africa (Nigeria and Liberia), East Africa (Tanzania and Kenya), Europe, and beyond, as well as Women Empowerment, Executive Coaching, Leadership Coaching, and Integral Coaching.
Professional Membership and Educational Background:
Professional membership
Confidentiality and trust are paramount in the coaching relationship; therefore, the coaching relationship is completely confidential. As an ICF member and credentialled coach, Ashna is bound by the ethical code of the International Coach Federation (ICF).
ICF coaches are held to very high professional and ethical standards, and this is reflected in Ashna’s coaching work.The ethical code is available at https://coachfederation.org/icf-ethics.
Educational background spans diverse programmes run within reputable institutions,
ICF Credentialing –Coaching for Development (CfD) and Professional Coaching Course(PCC)
Under the auspices of the Centre for Coaching, New Ventures West (NVW), and the University of Cape Town (UCT) Graduate School of Business (GSB).
Ashna has completed both the Coaching for Development (CfD) and Professional Coaching Course (PCC), which are both equivalent to 286 Approved Coach Specific Training Hours. This fulfils the ICF coach educational requirement to apply for the Master Certified Coach (MCC) Credentials with the ICF.
• New Ventures West is one of the top-coaching schools in the USA, and has more than 25 years of experience in teaching the philosophy of Integral Coaching as well as its application.
• The theoretical underpinnings of Integral Coaching and the teaching methodologies are aligned with the academic rigour required at the University of Cape Town –Graduate School of Business.
Women in Leadership
Executive Development course on ‘’Women in Leadership’’ through the University of Stellenbosch Business School (USB).
Global Strengths
This training meets the standards of the American Board of Neuro-Linguistic Programming (ABNLP), the American Board of NLP Coaches and COMENSA (Coaches and Mentors of South Africa).
• Certified Neuro-Linguistic Programming Coach
• Timeline Therapy Practitioner
• Certified Life Coach
• Personal Breakthrough Experience Coach
• Certified Master Life Coach
Executive Leadership Course
Executive Leadership Coaching Course through the University of Cape Town (UCT) Graduate School of Business (GSB).
Bachelor of Commerce (BCom)
Bachelor of Commerce (BCom) through Damelin, specialising in Business Management, Marketing and Human Resource Management.
Dissertation topic:‘’Workplace Diversity’’
The topic refers to the variety of differences between and among people in an organisation. That sounds simple, but diversity encompasses race, gender, ethnic group, age, personality, cognitive style, tenure, organisational function, education, background, and more. Diversity involves, not only how people perceive themselves, but also how they perceive others. Those perceptions affect their interactions. For a wide assortment of employees to function effectively in an organisation, there is a need within organisations to deal effectively with issues such as communication, adaptability, and change.
Previous Experience
Having had more than 25 years of experience, within the corporate business world, specialising in leading diverse sales teams, business consulting, business development and relationship management, Ashna is target-driven, with an entrepreneurial flair, excellent communication and articulate presentation skills, coupled with effective negotiation skills. She pride’s herself in the strong relationships that she builds with internal as well as external stakeholders, and she has the capacity to communicate on every level. She unarguably operates in a systematic and planned manner, to efficiently manage her time and prioritise tasks and projects.
Ashna’s personal experiences, from a graduate to an executive, and her business savvy approach to success, are the foundation on which her passion for high performance and respect for human dynamics are built. She enjoys engaging with all key decision-makers and strategising on plans to merge business concepts for a synergy between companies, to attain business sustainability and growth.
What Makes Me Different
Ashna has the capacity to promptly build a relationship of trust and safety with clients (this is the essential ingredient in getting the most out of a coaching programme). She follows an integral approach to coaching that focuses on the mind, emotions, and the body of the client, and draws widely from many disciplines and models.
Integral Coaching opens possibilities for leaders to think, learn and behave in new and more powerful ways. This increases self-awareness, builds ability to reflect and select appropriate responses, evokes excellence, and enhances relationships with others. Ashna also follows approaches that recognise and appreciate the dynamics in which the client operates. These approaches ensure continual awareness of the impact of the coaching process on everyone in the organisation. They also help the clients to recognise their interdependence with other people and processes in the organisation. In addition, they also facilitate transitioning into new roles, building presence as a leader, leadership alignment, workplace relationship coaching, shifting from managing to leading, dealing with burnout and stress, dealing with conflict, improving communication, and responding, rather than reacting.
Ashna’s passion is people, and she is driven to help each individual realise their full capacity for effectiveness in their lives and workplace. With a holistic approach that combines inspiration and adventure with innovative business strategy and wellness, she focuses on continuous growth and development to bring positive change in the individual as well as the workplace by the design and implementation of customised coaching programmes. This equips clients with highly effective and practical tools, with which to self-sustain, self-correct and self-generate.
Services
Each coaching journey is tailored to each client's unique needs:
Ashna works with and helps:
• Executives who want to craft a vision for a more structured business, and who are eager to inspire their employees toward acquiring a shared strategic vision.
• Women empowerment in the workplace.
• Transition from a management role into a leadership role and re-aligning to a common purpose.
• Professionals (at any level) within an organisation, who are aspiring to break through the barriers holding them back in their careers and personal lives.
• Business developments and performance enhancements within a sales and target-driven environment.
• Expat transition in personal and professional life.
• Workplace culture, change and diversity.
Ongoing Professional Development
‘’The illiterate of the future is not those who cannot read or write but
those who cannot learn, unlearn, and relearn”. – Alvin Toffler
CREATE UNIQUE SOLUTIONS FOR BUSINESS CHALLENGES
As an unflinching believer in on-going learning and professional development, Ashna earned the Master of Philosophy in Leadership Coaching at Stellenbosch University (S.A) as a solid body of knowledge that complements her growth and development on her never-ending journey of self-discovery and professional development.
Ashna maintains that this rigorous and highly beneficial programme equips her to engage even more critically and innovatively in finding solutions to personal and business challenges through strategic thinking, design thinking and systems thinking. Furthermore, it also inspires her to experiment, collaborate and design her own prototype, framework, or business model to address specific social, environmental, cultural and diversity challenges, from a coaching perspective.
