Hello,
I'm Gadija Salie

InnerLifeSkills Master Coach and Trainer.

Conscious Change Leader by Choice

An unapologetic Conscious Change Leader, bringing a unique blend of intuition and expertise.

My superpower? Boosting change success by honing in on the metrics that truly matter, to quickly identify risks, and rallying collective action for resolution.

Why Conscious Change Leadership Skills Matter

Courage to Connect: Skilled in navigating tough conversations, Conscious Change Leaders build bridges, break down barriers, creating momentum necessary to align focus of key stakeholders.

Wisdom of the Sage: Drawing from the richness of collaborative creation, Conscious Change Leaders blend inner wisdom with insights from connections, to inform when to charge ahead and when to strategise.

Code of Honour: Proficient at navigating corporate complexities, Conscious Change Leaders uphold commitments, champion ethical practices, and inspire trust among peers.

Pioneering Change: They don’t settle for reactive problem-solving; instead, they inspire teams to elevate their game, driving sustainable impact and transforming organisations.

My Experience in Navigating Change with Purpose

Our Framework: Combines Metrics and Coaching

System Metrics Mastery

Using a practical framework to cut through theoretical jargon.
Empowering leaders to drive change beyond static communication and stakeholder plans.
Leaders understand which metrics to monitor across the change system.
Can proactively identify risks to ROI and adoption to focus on value realization in operations.

Coaching Skills as Catalysts:

Leaders equipped to improved change navigation with coaching skills.
Empowered to coach self through overwhelm, challenges and blind spots
Drives purposeful conversations to create win-win solutions.
Upskill leaders with coaching, consistently showed by research to be a key future leadership skill.

Extensive Experience: Change Leadership Roles:

Head of Change Management Office (CMO)

CMO in Information Technology (IT)
In the IT trenches, I’ve seen the battles around legacy systems, user resistance, midnight deployments and changes to core systems.
My forte lies in bridging the gap between IT and business. Given soaring technology budgets, it is becoming increasingly critical to ensure seamless integration into operations beyond just delivering working capability.
I've actively supported IT leadership through the full spectrum of strategic changes, from formalizing the SDLC process to embracing Agile Scrum Project delivery methodologies and supporting extensive systems overhauls.

CMO In the office of the COO

This role provided support to all leaders driving change across entire enterprise spanning:
Leadership, operational restructuring
Role changes (new roles, redundancies, redefining roles)
Full process repository change, adding, revising processes.
Policy changes
Office relocation (province and city)
Developing a Benefit Realisation Project Demand management component

‘Leader as Coach’ training accelerates leadership development.

Strategic Change Lead

Mergers and organizational changes supported, inevitably impact productivity if outdated leadership models followed. In these scenarios my focus was to support leadership to use coaching skills to create a supportive environment for teams to adapt swiftly and redefine their new way of work.
I've supported the Group Finance leadership team in creating an inclusive "Finance of the Future" campaign, actively involving teams at every level in the journey toward data-centric and automated operations. This proactive approach positioned leaders as change coaches, fostering resilience well ahead of the AI revolution.

Change Programme Lead

This role helped me refine a systemic approach to change to stay ahead of fifteen concurrent change streams across twenty-two business areas.
Despite the complexity and staggered delivery, this approach allowed our Change Team to proactively bring valuable insights to guide solution development in the programme.
Coaching Leadership – for Compassion during Organisational Changes
Retrenchments need not be heartless; they can be human. Here our support, helped leadership follow this to bring human element with crucial conversations and practically move staff forward –
Our engagements assisting those staying and those exiting. This support proved vital to pick up the people falling through the cracks and honouring their experience with dignity.

What sets our training apart

Immediate Impact: Our training enables leaders to make an impact from day one.
Cost-Effective: Skip the expensive retreats. Invest in training to yield impact on many fronts: Communication, powerful questioning, building rapport, coaching through overwhelm and many more
Tried and tested In the Trenches: I’ve been there—shoulder-to-shoulder with teams facing real-world battles. My insights aren’t theoretical; they’re based on practical, real-life experiences
Builds Practical Operational Savvy: Our training equips leaders to handle the daily grind of every day challenges to practically navigate ambiguity, conflict, and tight budgets.
Yields Results, Not Rhetoric: Forget flowery theories. We focus on actionable solutions that move the needle.
Tailored to your needs: No generic advice here. We tailor strategies to your unique context with our content lending itself to mix and match to serve many scenarios
Results-Driven Approach: We don’t just talk the talk; but have walked the walk. Proven results - from boosting team productivity, enhancing communication - to ensure benefits targeted are realized.
In my start up project, with a large blue-chip organization, I was assigned a failing project to demonstrate change management benefit.
The Project was put into operation within 6 months, and realized a monthly saving in excess of R100K, from the very first month.
Draws on Real-World Examples: Our experience with real-world scenarios will help you and your team with solutions proven to work in operations.
Factual Change Risk tracking: Use a factual checklist to proactively identify challenges and assess their impact, ensuring a data-driven approach. This approach to focus on overall risk, helped securing executive approval to set up Data Office capability and driving out the programme to set up the Data Office operations within a few months.
Bold decision making: Tools to overcome the fear of going against the grain—the established hierarchy or the “this is how we’ve always done it” mindset
Challenge to Opportunities: Coaching leaders help teams reframe roadblocks as opportunities.
Developing Change Agility DNA: Change is the heartbeat of progress. We help leaders cultivate agility—the ability to adapt swiftly to shifting landscapes. It’s not just about surviving change; it’s about thriving in it.
Extending Change Leadership Coaching Beyond Projects: The benefit of coaching skills extend beyond the project phase, ensuring that leaders carry their newfound skills into everyday interactions for long-term success.
Benefits Beyond Corporate Walls: Connect to purposeful leadership, practising the tools enables you to honor and balance the requirement to demonstrate profits while still honoring the needs of the people. You show up as a Trusted Leader with skills that spill over into your home and personal relationships.
My Diverse Experience: My coaching support approach in the trenches helped me gain trust across all levels of leadership from operations to executive to make difference in practical ways at the operational level.

Certified as Inner Life skills Master Coach and Trainer to deliver ICF accredited coach training at Associate and Professional level for clients to qualify and coach in all of these niche spaces:
- Business Coach
- Executive Coach
- Life Coach
- Enneagram Coach
Prosci, Change Designs Systems Change Leadership and Lean Six Sigma Change certification. I have sliced and diced in excess of 7 other change modalities
Degrees:
- Soc.Sci, in Human Resources
- Chartered Secretary with majors in Accounting and Company Law
Lean Six Sigma Green Belt
Scrum master training completed – not certified
Project Management
Flawless Consulting
Facilitation
Mindfulness Teacher Trainer
Access Bars Facilitator

My drive for possibility thinking goes beyond credentials. It’s fuelled by countless leaders I’ve encountered—ambitious individuals who yearn to make a real impact but find traditional leadership theories fall short in solving engagement hurdles. They just want to be authentic and leave a mark. That’s where I come in—to provide practical solutions that resonate in the real world.

This is the kind of leadership that aligns with the needs of our outspoken next-gen workforce, who insist on Conscious Leadership as essential.

If you’re ready to merge your expertise with the wisdom demanded by the next generation for ethical, authentic leadership, then our training is your express pass to begin that journey.

Hello, I'm Gadija Salie