Nobantu Mpotulo

Nobantu Mpotulo is a sought-after Facilitator for Leadership Development programs and coaches internationally. She has experience in various sectors, and has worked with managers in the UN DPKO in Africa, Italy and the Middle East, facilitating Leadership/Management Development programs and coached the leaders and managers.  

Nobantu coaches both individuals and teams. Through probing questions and sharing just-in-time observations, she takes clients deeper, helping them to identify their blind spots and embrace their shadows. Clients dive into their subconscious and unconscious levels, daring to dance with what emerges. Nobantu provides a safe and open space for clients to do their work, focussing on unexplored territories. 

Nobantu moves on a continuum of being non-directive to directive, depending on what is missing in the client’s system. She uses mindfulness practices in her facilitation. No matter what she does, she gets to the HEART of the client and the HEART of the matter. As a Buddhist practitioner and teacher, she supports her clients in integrating the head, heart, instinctual and spiritual intelligence. She does amazing heart work with clients based on the principles of UBUNTU (“I Am because We Are”). 

Nobantu is an accredited Enneagram Teacher (Narrative Tradition) and Enneagram Coach (Enneagram in Business and Deep Coaching). She is a Buddhist Teacher, a Process Facilitator and Facilitator of Peace Circles. She trains, supervises and mentor-coaches other coaches. She has experience in the private and public sectors, NGOs, NPOs and Higher Education – both as a coach and an OD Facilitator. 

Nobantu has worked extensively with USAID Global Health internationally, facilitating leadership programs for Africa at their Headquarters. She has coached more than 50 officials in the Global Health Office. 

In 2020, she led an Organizational Development Intervention with the Tanzania Health Office. She facilitated 2 leadership programs virtually in 2020 with the Mozambique Mission and Headquarters and USAID HQ in Washington DC. Nobantu is developing training materials for the CSP program on Executive Leadership, and she runs Masterclasses for SALGA Women in Leadership Program and is an Executive Coach for SALGA WILD.

Nobantu’s work experience includes:

• Student Counsellor and Director of Counselling Services at University of Transkei
• Director of Counselling Services at University of Fort Hare
• Director of Strategic Planning at Technikon 
• Northern Gauteng Divisional Manager of Study Schemes at Telkom
• Head of Governance at the Centre for Higher Education Transformation 

Nobantu was also involved in developing capacity-building materials and facilitating Councils of Higher Education institutions. She also was involved in training planners in higher education institutions. Nobantu was involved in facilitating mergers of FET colleges and training of governance structures of FET Colleges under the auspices of the EU. She was also a Council Member at Tshwane University of Technology.

Nobantu has been coaching executives and teams for twenty years in the public sector, private sector, NGOs and universities, and international donor funding organisations. She developed a 12-month-long Accelerated Leadership program for 13 generals and senior management members of the Department of Defense in South Africa.  

Nobantu is also a Certified Trainer of Coaching and Mentor Programs under Clutterbuck Associates in the UK. She was a facilitator of Truth and Reconciliation Healing Workshops for victims and perpetrators of violence in South Africa, and was Guest Faculty in 2010 for the International Gestalt Organization and Systems Development. She has trained mentors/ mentees and coaches/clients in organizations in the financial, mining, and public sectors, and was a facilitator and group coach for candidates of the African Leadership Development Program under the auspices of NEPAD and GIBS in 2010. 

She has coached clients in the United Nations (Secretariat, Agencies and Peace Keeping Missions); USAID (GHPOD Globally); World Health Organisation (WHO); International Labour Organisation (ILO) South African Government Sector; Mercedes Benz, ICT-Works, First National Bank, Stanlib, Standard Chartered Bank, SA Homeloans, Adams & Adams, Vodacom, ABSA. 

Nobantu also facilitates Leadership Development Programs for UN (Secretariat, Agencies, Peace Keeping Missions); GHPOD (USAID); World Health Organisation (WHO); South African Home Loans, Financial Institutions. She is a Coach at Henley and GIBS Business Schools and facilitator at Duke for Corporate Education programs. She is a Faculty Member and teaches coaching at the South African College of Applied Psychology. (SACAP). Nobantu is also faculty for Duke Corporate Executive Programs.

Nobantu has an M.A. in Guidance and Counseling from Durham University, UK, a B.A. in Personnel Management from University of Fort Hare, South Africa and a Post Graduate Diploma in HR Management from University of Johannesburg, South Africa.