legacy PROGRAMME COMMITTEE
CHAIRPERSON
Yolandi Dercksen
mBIT Master Coach & Trainer, COMENSA Master Coach, and a Senior Mentor
Yolandi Dercksen is a passionate leader, executive coach, mentor, and industry specialist with over 22 years of experience in freight forwarding, logistics, and customs, and 18 years dedicated to executive coaching, mentoring, and leadership development. With a deep commitment to people growth and professional excellence, Yolandi has built her career on helping individuals and organisations unlock their potential, strengthen leadership capability, and create meaningful, sustainable change. Her unique ability to bridge the corporate world with human development allows her to support leaders in navigating both operational excellence and personal transformation.
She is a qualified mBIT Master Coach & Trainer, a COMENSA Master Coach, and a Senior Mentor, integrating neuroscience, emotional intelligence, and whole-brain alignment into her coaching approach. Through her work, she helps leaders reconnect the intelligence of the head, heart, and gut to improve decision-making, resilience, communication, and authentic leadership. As the founder of Reaching WISDOM and the creator of CoachGuide, Yolandi is deeply passionate about raising professional standards in coaching and mentoring while creating practical tools that support both coaches and clients. Her work is driven by a genuine care for people and a strong belief that when individuals grow, businesses, industries, and communities grow with them.
Her purpose is simple yet powerful: to make a lasting difference by helping people lead with greater awareness, courage, and wisdom.
SECRETARY
Ronel Swanepoel
Leadership and Transformation Coach and Facilitator
Ronel Swanepoel is a Leadership and Transformation coach and facilitator with over 16 years of senior leadership experience in international companies, and more than a decade in coaching and facilitation. She partners with leaders, executives, and professionals to strengthen resilience, elevate emotional intelligence, and lead with greater impact—especially in complex, fast-changing environments.
She is a certified Neuro Coach, NLP practitioner and a COMENSA Credential Coach. Her work integrates Neuro-Coaching, NLP, and leadership development into a practical, high-impact process. As a facilitator, Ronel creates powerful learning environments where individuals and teams develop sharp self-awareness, dismantle limiting patterns, and adopt more effective ways of thinking and leading. The result is not just insight—but sustained behavioural change that translates into real-world performance.
Ronel’s work has contributed to measurable performance impact, meaningful culture shifts, and a more human-centred approach to leadership and organisational development. She helps clients make powerful internal shifts that drive external results—because when leaders change direction with intention, everything around them follows.
Veronica Kietzmann Cronje
Transformational Leadership Coaching, Emotional Intelligence Development and Resilience Coaching.
Veronica supports people to discover their purpose and to become mindful of the legacy they want to leave behind.
Veronica’s passion for leadership development and sustainable community programmes soon translated into Neuro Coaching. She is a certified Neuro Coach, M Bit Coach, NLP practitioner and have just completed her Post Graduate Diploma in Coaching at SACAP (South-African College for Applied Sciences) in 2020. She completed her master’s degree in Emotional Intelligence and Coaching in Education in 2025.
She was appointed as the CEO of COMENSA in 2025 and still holds the position.
Vesper Nkoane
Life Coach
Vesper Nkoane is an experienced and passionate Life Coach with over eight
years of dedicated practice in guiding individuals to unlock their inner potential and
achieve transformative personal growth. Her mission is to help clients discover their
“inner magic” and make positive, lasting changes in their lives, fostering a ripple
effect of thriving individuals.
Coaching Philosophy and Approach
Vesper’s coaching philosophy is rooted in personal development and empowerment. She believes in building authentic and fulfilling lives by instilling confidence and self-discipline in her clients. Her unique approach is informed by a strong academic foundation, holding a BA in Applied Psychology and a Master Coach certificate in mBIT coaching, which allows her to integrate behavioural science insights and advanced coaching techniques into her practice. This is further complemented by her extensive corporate background, providing her with practical business acumen to address a wide range of client challenges.
Expertise and Experience
With a proven track record, Vesper excels at:
- Personal Empowerment: Guiding individuals to identify and leverage their
strengths.
- Goal Achievement: Developing actionable strategies for clients to reach their
personal and professional objectives.
- Authentic Living: Fostering self-awareness and alignment with core values.
- Positive Change Facilitation: Supporting clients through transitions and personal evolution.
She is also a children’s book translator, with her literary work earning her a nomination at the 2022 South African Literary Awards (SALA) in the Literary Translators category for the book “THINGAMAGIC” – “NTO THIZENI.”
Kyle Goulden
Impact Director & Transformational Coach
Kyle is an Impact Director and Strategic Consultant with 21 years of experience specializing in youth development, social impact initiatives, education, and entrepreneurship support. His work focuses on ecosystem development and brand storytelling for organizations operating at a pan-African to global scale. He has shaped the brand operations and launched impact initiatives for organizations such as the African Leadership Group, ALX, Umuzi, and Harambee, while working with major funders like the Mastercard Foundation. Through these collaborations, he has contributed to the growth of initatives that have reached and supported over 500,000 youth in their pursuit of economic opportunity, resilience, and agency.
As a Transformational Coach, Kyle leads We’re Wilder Within, a coaching practice focused on neurodivergent individuals, creative pioneers, social-impact leaders and purpose-driven leaders. A belief that the people who see the world differently and support others deserve an ecosystem to help them thrive, along with the resulting ripple impact. A space for people to navigate the complexities of the modern world, manage significant change, and build the resilience necessary to thrive professionally and personally.
Pauline Legodi
COMENSA-Registered and mBIT Coach
Pauline Legodi is COMENSA-registered and mBIT coach with over 30 years of expertise in learning & development, organizational transformation, employee relations and HR strategy alignment.
She specializes in empowering leaders to unlock their potential, foster high performing teams, and drive cultural change. Known for her empathetic and strategic
coaching approach, Pauline has successfully guided executives and emerging leaders across diverse industries.
