Business & Executive Coach
Johan Southey
Western Cape,
South Africa
Contact: 082 496 7019
Email: johansouthey@actioncoach.com
Who I Am
I am Johan Southey โ an executive coach and business strategist who helps leaders grow their people, strengthen culture, and scale performance. My background in engineering, operations, and manufacturing means I donโt deal in theory. I work in the space where leadership, culture, and commercial reality collide โ and I help leaders turn that complexity into real results.
12 Week Programs
Minimum disruption / Maximum Impact / Maximum application / Maximum retention
We dont just do training, we install a system in your organisation over the course of 3 months
12 Week Management MasterCLASS
We’re dedicated to helping you become an exceptional manager. By addressing mindset and beliefs, we’ll enhance your success. We’ll simplify management and offer best practices to elevate your skills.
ย With tools to enhance communication, build effective teams, and establish efficient systems, you’ll excel. Our goal is to empower you to run your business more effectively, efficiently, and with confidence. Let us inspire, inform, and motivate you to reach your managerial potential.
12 Week Leadership MasterCLASS
Develop your leadership skills with our learning program, featuring twelve sessions for continuous growth. Engage in facilitated coaching and apply your knowledge with guidance from an ActionCOACH. Participate in live group sessions to network with like-minded leaders and business owners, ensuring accountability and real-world application of the lessons learned
12 Week Business MasterCLASS
Develop your leadership skills with our learning program, featuring twelve sessions for continuous growth. Engage in facilitated coaching and apply your knowledge with guidance from an ActionCOACH. Participate in live group sessions to network with like-minded leaders and business owners, ensuring accountability and real-world application of the lessons learned
12 Week Marketing MasterCLASS
Develop your leadership skills with our learning program, featuring twelve sessions for continuous growth. Engage in facilitated coaching and apply your knowledge with guidance from an ActionCOACH. Participate in live group sessions to network with like-minded leaders and business owners, ensuring accountability and real-world application of the lessons learned
12 Week Employee Engagement
Develop your leadership skills with our learning program, featuring twelve sessions for continuous growth. Engage in facilitated coaching and apply your knowledge with guidance from an ActionCOACH. Participate in live group sessions to network with like-minded leaders and business owners, ensuring accountability and real-world application of the lessons learned
12 Week High Performance Organisation
Develop your leadership skills with our learning program, featuring twelve sessions for continuous growth. Engage in facilitated coaching and apply your knowledge with guidance from an ActionCOACH. Participate in live group sessions to network with like-minded leaders and business owners, ensuring accountability and real-world application of the lessons learned
Blogs
To the Silent Warrior DadsโThis Oneโs for You
Some may know, most don't, My eldest son, Richard, is on the spectrum. He has the gift [...]
Where leadership becomes whole
I work in a strange space โ a no-manโs land between operations, leadership, and culture. Every organisation [...]
Why Teamwork Fails โ And How Leaders Can Turn the Tide
In almost every business I engage with, one sentiment echoes louder than the rest: โYou just canโt [...]
Building Stronger Local Businesses: A Call for Collaboration Between Clients and Entrepreneurs
Introduction: The Local Economy is a Shared Responsibility In small towns around the world, a familiar cycle [...]
Want a Better Team? Start With a Better YOU
Across every industry and geography, the data tells a consistent story: employee engagement is alarmingly low. Gallup [...]
The Engineerโs Hardest Upgrade
Why do so many promising young engineers faceplant when they become managers? Because they mistake management for [...]
Beyond DEI: Where Inclusive Firms Emerge A Manifesto for Rebels of Cultur
Many organizations cling to DEI like a talisman: Diversity. Equity. Inclusion. As if uttering the acronym guarantees [...]
The Paradox of Power: Why Serving Others Is the Ultimate Self-Interest
In a world increasingly dominated by individualism and competition, a radical reframe of what it means to [...]
Leadership as a Practice.
Many discussions on leadership concern themselves if leaders are born or if leadership can be taught.ย An [...]
The Hidden Human Factor: Why Every Scandal, Crisis, and Risk Traces Back to People
In the world of business, technology, and governance, risk is often framed as a structural or systemic [...]
Floss your Business
We all know we should floss our teeth every day. Itโs something weโve heard since childhood. Brush [...]
The Day Jeff Quit Studying
Many, many moons ago, in high school my friend, letโs call him Jeff struggled with the regular [...]
Articles
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