Nicolette has excellent people skills, she is intuitive and empathetic and able to assess individual’s capabilities and development needs quickly and accurately. She is able to adapt her style effectively to meet the needs of individuals from different cultures and academic backgrounds.  She practises a step-by-step approach to training that encourages and motivates. Nicolette developed a series of process-driven templates for my organisation that enabled individual staff members to map progress and track goals by breaking down tasks into manageable chunks. The training materials she provided were accessible and relevant to my business.  Nicolette has great passion for people. She has dedicated much of her professional life to developing individuals from less-advantaged circumstances, challenging norms and changing lives by fostering ambition, encouraging entrepreneurship and a ‘winning’ attitude.

Type:  Non-profit and social enterprise | Services: Consulting, training and social enterprise development

We contracted Nicolette’s  to support Wellness Foundation in transitioning from a not for profit organisation into a social enterprise/NPO hybrid. She delivered consistently and with integrity. To this end she also co-ordinated the development of a curriculum to train unemployed community care workers to start enterprises. I have collaborated with her over the last 5 years and I seen how she has refined her approach and understanding and understanding of adult learning and education. She is now accompanying our social enterprise TouchXperience to develop the economic wellbeing of poor, black women who want to start their own enterprises.

Type:  Non-profit | Service:  Strategic consulting, training, social enterprise development and implementation for non-profit

“Nicolette’s brilliance in simplifying complex problems for accessible solution development is a wonderful gift. Providing key insight to the stretched NPO landscape, I believe her knowledgeable and strategic approach has the power to shift struggling economies to growth for empowerment.”

Type:  Non-profit | Service:  Service: Public Benefit Organisation.

 

“Nicolette developed and presented the ‘Business Development’ module of both our 6 Month Programme and the Full Time Programme at the Orms Cape Town School of Photography. The programme is comprehensive and covers the essential business skills and tools an entrepreneur such as a photographer need to have. Our students range in age from school leavers to middle aged adults, and she is well received throughout. Nicolette shows great skill in presenting this topic and is an excellent lecturer. Her insight in terms of development is great.”

Type:  Tertiary Education College | Service:  Service: Training programme and material development and services.