PROFILE
Quentin Witten is an internationally certified professional Integral coach working in the corporate as well as NGO sectors. He works closely with individuals and teams to achieve their identified goals in the next level of their development. Quentin firmly believes coaching with a holistic perspective and in so doing creating balance in the lives of the participants, ensuring that they become more self-regulating and self-generating, especially during these uncertain times which we find ourselves. Quentin views coaching as a very special process that enables the candidate the time and space to focus on their next steps as they transition to becoming better leaders in their homes , work ,social and personal lives. He believes that the process gives one time to think about how to attain these goals and then to form a plan of action based on identified options. He is married with two wonderful daughters and loves to cook.
PREVIOUS BACKGROUND
Before being trained as a professional coach , Quentin held various senior management roles in the Cellular telecoms, Education and Management consulting sectors. It was during this time that he identified the benefits of Integral Coaching and how it could be applied in addressing situations where candidates wished to pivot or were feeling “stuck”.
COACHING WORK
Quentin’s coaching has been primarily in corporates and also included with privately-owned businesses as well as NGO’s. The coaching assignments mostly focussed assisting individuals with increasing leadership capacity, career transition and work–life balance. After completion of his Associate Coaching qualification in 2008 at UCT, Quentin has since completed over 2000 contact hours of coaching interventions and has worked with both individuals as well as with teams focussing on gaining a deeper awareness of the group dynamics and how understanding personality types can be used to increase efficiency of team communication.
Quentin is an certified enneagram practitioner , a powerful personality profiling tool that is used to understand and contextualise these group dynamics and how this information can be leveraged in creating more effective and successful teams as well as gaining deeper self-awareness and EQ with individuals.
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