Our Founder

Our Founder

~ IAN KENNEDY – Founder of Integral Belief Coaching|

Experience & Background

Before Ian transitioned into Business and Performance Coaching & Team Facilitation, he spent the first part of his working career in the corporate and SME world’s where he was a part of the senior management teams. He is an entrepreneur with two separate businesses and has experienced the business highs and lows that are a reality in business and is acutely aware of the challenges that it presents an individual. He is an extremely goal-oriented and achieving person whose passion is to see others excel. Thus, Ian focuses his coaching practice on Business and Performance Coaching which is pertinent in business, sport and life.

Ian has coached or mentored an array of individuals across the private sector, at all levels of leadership. His approach is business focused, goal directed and informed by the culture and agreed outcomes of the sponsor organisation.

Qualifications & Training

BSc (Psych): Louisiana State University, USA, 1998

Accredited Heartstyles Associate

PC (Diploma in Practitioner Coaching), The Coaching Centre, SA, 2014

Member of COMENSA

Coaching Experience

  • Performance Coaching – Coach some of SA’s top professional athletes and coaches
  • Business and Executive Coaching – Had several years of experience with top Executives both locally and internationally
  • Sport Coaching – Coach some of SA’s top professional athletes and coaches
  • Leadership and Management Coaching – Executive, Senior and Middle management levels
  • Emotional Intelligence Coaching – Creating an awareness with clients of their EQ
  • Life Coaching – Coaching interventions always contains aspects of a client’s life
  • Self-Leadership – Psychological and coping skills, self-management and personal effectiveness
  • Private Coaching Consultancy: Business entrepreneurs, self-employed professionals, corporate, NGO and public sector employees at all levels.

Prominent Clients

  • Shoprite Group
  • Woolworths
  • Pick ‘n Pay
  • Yum! Brands
  • JTC
  • Coronation
  • RedBrick Consulting
  • Polyoak Packaging
  • SA Rugby
  • Philip Morris International
  • SA Waterpolo
  • Professional Golfers – several of the world’s top golfers

Coaching & Mentoring Methodology

It is my belief that one’s goals can be achieved through true self-belief. My coaching style uses integrated techniques to harness a person’s belief system for them to achieve and maintain their goals.

“What we can or cannot do, what we consider possible or impossible, is rarely a function of our true capability. It is more likely a function of our beliefs about who we are.” ~ Tony Robbins