About Us...
Origo Consultants was established 30 years ago by Natalie Cunningham.
Origo is the Latin word for Original. Natalie has prided herself on the consultancy offering original, not imitative, strikingly new solutions to Leadership Development, Organisational Development and Talent Management. Origo has consulted to SME`s as well as large corporates on a variety of projects. Clients have included Wits Business School, Anglo America, SAA, Toyota, Gerling Global, TWP, Development Bank, Zurich, Sevens, Old Mutual, WCED, NBI, Bankseta, Lombard, Hatch, Sanlam Investments, Accenture, Standard Bank Namibia and Coopervision amongst others.
The offering by Origo has encompassed Executive Coaching, Strategic Planning, designing Performance Management System; Board Governance; Change Management; Development of corporate values; People Management Policies and Practices Review and Alignment Manager; Distance Education Student Development Programme, Training Team Leader for ERP Implementation, Facilitation of Group Counselling and Support Sessions, Design and development of Empowerment courses, Team Development.
Natalie was a recent Director of The Leadership Development Centre at Wits Business School. She was also instrumental in developing a Masters in Management in Business and Executive Coaching, as well as setting up a Coaching Supervision Certificate and Business Executive Coaching Certificate. She also headed up all the coaching in support of Leadership Development Programmes at Wits.
She holds a BA (S.W) Hons, an MBA and a PhD from Wits. Her dissertation, "Developing coaching theory based on the lived experiences of coached executives."
She was a founder member of “The Coaching Forum” – a supportive thought leadership forum for independent coaches. She attended the Global Coaching Convention in Dublin, Ireland in 2008 which resulted in the Dublin Declaration on Coaching (now signed by 15000 coaches worldwide) as well as presenting papers in Canada and Ireland in 2017. She is also one of 30 international experts who sat on the Worldwide Association of Coaches (WABC) to determine competencies of coaching. She also recently sat on the Board of Graduate School Alliance Executive Coaching (GSAEC). She has presented papers at several conferences, including New York, USA. She has also published articles in popular journals about coaching.
She has consulted in Leadership Development, Organisational Development and People Development for almost three decades.
Associations & Affiliations:
Natalie is a level 4 Accredited Facilitator with (TAN) The Achievement Network http://www.theachievementnetwork.com/
Natalie is also a Professional Associate at the(GIBS) Gordon Institute of Business Science http://www.gibs.co.za
Natalie is an Associate at Customer Diagnostics shttp://www.customerdiagnostics.com/
Natalie is an Affiliate to the (ECC) Executive Coaching Connection (USA) http://www.executivecoachingconnections.com/
