Mark Fraser-Grant

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Mark Fraser-Grant Quick Facts

Main Areas: Coaching, Coach Training, Leadership developer, conscious leadership, executive coach
Career Focus: Coach, business owner, speaker, trainer, coach trainer
Affiliation: ICF, Comensa, CCA

Mark studied Human resources, training and development at Thames Valley University in the UK. He has been involved in human resources, training, recruitment, career counselling and development since 1993 where he started off in personnel and left as Human Resources Executive to return to SA in 1996.

He has remained in recruitment and HR consulting since 1996 to date, apart from a 2 year stint in business development for an IT company, successfully developing it into a multi million rand business in KZN. In association with The Marketing Connection he ran a successful recruitment venture for over 3 years, also providing HR consulting expertise to his portfolio of clients.

Mark has worked with and provided career opportunities to many executives across industries such as Financial Services, ICT, Consulting and Automotive.

Currently Mark has a large portfolio of coaching clients ranging from Multi-Nationals such as B.P and Masterfoods through to local firms such as Standard Bank and Lekana. He is a skilled facilitator and also coaches and trains other coaches in training. Mark feels that it really is a privilege to be in a role that supports and develops people to recognize their own greatness and will tell you there is nothing else he would be doing given a freedom to choose.

Mark is a Siyadala People Development partner; he is an examiner, coach trainer and co-trainer for CCI-Coaching Academy. He is also a sought after public speaker the coach of coaches.

Favorite Quotes & Thoughts from Mark Fraser-Grant

“The significant problems we have cannot be solved at the same level of thinking with which we created them.” Albert Einstein

Leadership development, developing emotional intelligence, advanced interpersonal and communication skills, performance/sales coaching. I use consciousness coaching, ontological and customised coaching models as directed by client. I enjoy achieving tangible successes with my clients and also these are the area’s I am personally most competent in.

With experience in Human Resources and recruitment and training I believe I was always headed in the direction of coaching. As the GM Recruitment for a People Development company I was introduced to the world of coaching through a coaching academy they had put together. The coaching academy was run by the People Business and as an introduction it served it’s purpose as I really felt natural and at home with the process, material and thought stream of coaching. I was aware that I wanted a lot more exposure and to immerse in this field so I left to complete an ICF accredited coaching academy in 2005. On that academy I have also become the highest qualified facilitator in South Africa and am still very involved.

I acknowledge and stay up to date with all philosophies and latest thought around personal development, transformation, emotional intelligence, spiritual intelligence and the coaching world. My personal philosophy is to stay open, stay in the realm of development, buy nothing as the absolute truth and rather focus on what works. This is different from client to client, so I believe that the ability to listen fully, have no agenda, be open to feedback, and ask quality questions and to have courage to reflect back directly is my personal approach and belief.

I do have the ability and knowledge to employ tools and models such as GROW etc though have them all behind me not in front as in I don’t lead with anything as it may not be what this client needs in this moment.

One belief I do have is to have integrated the various values, emotional maturity and higher levels of awareness myself before sharing the value with another so it can be present at an authentic level rather than conceptual.

The boundaries are the terms of the coaching engagement which are clear and can only be stepped outside of with mutual consent.