ANCE STRYDOM / COACh, e-Learning Designer & RESEARCHER

Masters of Applied Psychology (Organisational)

Ance is a coach and facilitator who works with organisations to support employees in bringing their best qualities to their roles through a particular focus on employee engagement and wellness, interpersonal skills, self and other awareness, and personal resilience.

Ance believes that a healthy work environment is built on respectful and robust working relationships, and that means paying attention to the ‘people stuff’. There is no getting around it, but it needn’t feel awkward or forced! To the contrary, tapping into emotions, attitudes, assumptions and beliefs - all the ‘soft stuff’ so unique to humans - can turn your relationships, and ultimately your culture, around.

Ance considers her most challenging and rewarding work to date as working within the Waikato District Health Board to grow and embed a culture of psychological and physical staff safety. A key learning has been that organisations, rather than being static structures, are living, continuously evolving entities and that creating a desirable culture therefore requires focussed and consistent effort.

With a Master of Applied Psychology in the area of Organisational Psychology from the University of Waikato, along with certifications in psychometric assessment, Ance’s professional background includes experience in the areas of research, data collection and analysis, organisational culture, organisational development, employee well-being and learning and development, and personal efficiency coaching.