
At Ukondla we believe in nurturing homegrown talent to better equip them to tackle current and future challenges

“Clients do not come first. Employees come first. If you take care of your employees, they take care of the clients.”
~ Sir Richard Branson ~

“Leadership power and impact is created through the mastery of fundamentals”
~ Cameron Venter ~

“Six Hats gave me insight in how thinking styles impact decisions and
how to correctly use them to advantage in business”
~ Lianne Martin - Vodacom ~

“If opportunity doesn’t knock,
build a door”
~ Milton Berle ~

“Only when a team is aligned in their thinking will they be able to align their actions in order to produce meaningful results”
~ Verity Price ~
OUR VISION
Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit. Praesent tincidunt aliquam libero, porttitor ultricies dolor fringilla ut. Integer non porttitor sem. Vivamus venenatis, dui ac semper pellentesque, erat ex fringilla justo, sit amet viverra odio arcu nec justo. Nullam sit amet posuere magna.


OUR BRAND
Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit. Praesent tincidunt aliquam libero, porttitor ultricies dolor fringilla ut. Integer non porttitor sem. Vivamus venenatis, dui ac semper pellentesque, erat ex fringilla justo, sit amet viverra odio arcu nec justo. Nullam sit amet posuere magna.
OUR TEAM
Ukondla is a network of complementary facilitators who all believe in collaborating to offer a greater service together.

Seraj Toefy
Entrepreneur / Facilitator
Seraj is a serial entrepreneur with over 20 years of corporate experience. He currently runs a media company, lectures at University of Stellenbosch Business School, owns several Uber cars, and nurtures future standout performers.
Seraj has an MBA from University of Stellenbosch Business School, a Marketing Diploma from IMM and a Publishing Certificate from Stanford University, USA.
- University of Stellenbosch Business School
- Stockholm University
- Academy of Information and Management - Netherlands
- Kulea Consulting

Tanya Kabalin
Leader / Facilitator
Tanya is an accomplished leader with 20 years international experience in sales, marketing, strategy, portfolio and supply chain gained from the operational ‘front line’ to Board level.
She is recognised for her ability to lead major turnarounds in challenging environments, most recently as Managing Director for Shell South Africa.
She has an exceptional ability to simplify and resolve complex issues, making her a creative strategist with a pragmatic and entrepreneurial flair for delivering results. She has a highly collaborative and inclusive style with particular sensitivity to the behavioral aspects of change. Her track record reflects her passion for helping others develop their full potential.
- Inperial Logistics
- Thebe Investment Corporation
- Adapt IT

Ellen Nkosi
Tour Guide / Facilitator
Ellen is an experienced facilitator with over 15 years of facilitation and lecturing experience. She recently qualified as a tour guide and now delivers a powerful combination of training and touring.
Ukondla puts together a tour that is relevant to the particular training: i.e. a morning visit to the Apartheid Museum, Constitution Hill and Soweto ahead of an afternoon of diversity training.
- Liberty
- Department of Basic Education
- Tiger Brands

Verity Price
Singer / Facilitator
A former singer / songwriter, Verity gained acclaim for her innovative approach to the music industry when she sold an album that didn’t exist yet. Her story has been featured on Carte Blanche, is included in the HSBC ‘Top 100 Business Ideas’ in the UK and is currently a case study for the University of the Witwatersrand’s MBA students.
As an accredited Edward De Bono Six Thinking Hats and Enneagram Personality Styles facilitator , Verity enables companies to innovate, problem solve, and gain the competitive edge in their industries.
- Vodacom
- Woolworths
- Sanlam
- Engen
- Distell
- EOH

Michelle Bungey
LEGO®SERIOUS PLAY® Facilitator
Michelle is an accredited LEGO®SERIOUS PLAY® facilitator, Strength Deployment Index (SDI) facilitator and a certified Neuro Linguistic and Time-Line Therapy Practitioner. She is focused on exploring the future and alternative, agile solutions to current and future challenges in a holistic manner. Her approach is to unlock new thinking pathways through interactive and engaging workshops.
- Metropolitan Health
- Allan Gray
- Nedbank
- Clicks
- Cliff Dekker Hofmeyer

Cameron Venter
Golf Coach / Facilitator
Cameron is a former PGA Golf Coach, who has turned his international coaching experience into business inspiration.
His experience includes coaching across the globe in places such as Hawaii, Miami, Maine, Frankfurt and New Delhi. Cameron has also co-founded a technology start-up.
Cameron’s engaging, humorous and focused style has been well received by business and societal leaders and is sure to add value to your team.
- Deloitte
- Effcomm SA
- RLabs
- Advanced Leadership Academy
OUR PROGRAMMES
While we prefer to tailor-make training experiences to match the client's needs and objectives, we do have a list of off-the-shelf courses to choose from.
INTREPRENEURSHIP
Bringing lean start-up thinking into your organisation.
The Intrepreneurship programme taps into the essence of what it takes to be an entrepreneur, and harnesses it for the success of the organisation.
It follows the outline in the book The Innovator’s Method, and localizes it to the South African context.
We answer questions such as: How do we know whether this idea is worth pursuing? Have we found the right solution? What is the best business model for the new offering.
- Leadership in the age of uncertainty
The scale and speed at which innovative business models are transforming industry landscapes today is unprecedented – Oestwalder - Insight: Savour the surprise
If you want to innovate, savour the surprise. Too often we overlook the surprises – Clark - Problem: Discover the Job-To-Be-Done
No problem. No opportunity. No one will pay you for solving a non-problem - Khosla - Solution: Prototype the minimum viable product
If you can increase the number of experiments from 100 to 1000, you dramatically increase the innovations you produce - Bezos - Business Model: Validate the Go-to-market strategy
The innovation itself is not the goal, implementing it is - Toefy
THINK AS A TEAM
Want your team to be more productive? Think better together? Be more productive?

The course makes use of puzzles, team exercises, lateral thinking challenges and strategic thinking processes. They will end the workshop energized, connected and inspired.
FUTURE PROOF YOUR ORGANISATION
In the fast-paced, volatile and disruptive business world of today, creating ‘future-proof’ strategies is mission critical.
This 1.5-day course provides a dynamic introduction to building competitive strategies and how to stress-test them against future possibilities.
Using the principals of LEGO® SERIOUS PLAY® we create an environment where delegates undertake a series of exercises requiring them to “learn, apply, share, improve”.
Aimed at graduates and executives in their first 10 years in the workplace who are involved in developing and contributing to creative strategies. The course covers:
- Market scanning
- Opportunity identification, framing and assessment
- Making strategic choices
- Identifying signposts
- Managing uncertainty and risk
- The role of a leader in creating strategy
THE PHILOSOPHY OF SWING
Creating character and lasting patterns of success in life and business
- Leadership fundamental
Alignment / Posture / Grip / Coaching - Enhanced leadership performance
Making & managing change / Dealing with failure & disappointment / building a formidable team - Ultimate leadership
The 3 inches of success / Effective auto-response leadership / Leadership feel & finesse / Leadership accountability / The primary leadership purpose - Organisational synchronization
Systematic thinking / Strengthening the system assets / Maintaining effectiveness
OUR BELIEF
At Ukondla At Ukondla we believe in nurturing home-grown talent to better equip people to tackle current and future challenges
