Keith Harvey

Keith operates from a strong sense of purpose and is attracted to helping others, striving towards excellence with efficiency, precision and discernment.

Given his reliability, commitment to high standards and attention to detail, Keith is a sought-after executive coach with an ability to translate abstract approaches into well-structured coaching programmes for his clients. These programmes are designed to bring about a deep sense of purpose and clear goals. He uses well-researched methodologies and is committed to coaching that achieves tangible results and builds the competencies and resourcefulness of his clients that are sustainable over time. Prior to undertaking coaching on a fulltime basis, Keith spent 25 years in the corporate business environment in employee benefit, healthcare financing and risk management. He held a number of executive committee and board appointments and was managing director of Sovereign Health (Pty) Limited, a prominent healthcare administration organisation in South Africa. During the last 16 years, Keith has immersed himself in the realm of executive coaching with a view, prior to leaving the corporate business environment, to enhancing his own leadership capabilities and those of his colleagues at his place of work. He now specialises in coaching at executive level and the development of executive coaching skills through Coaching Circle facilitation. Keith is a certified integral coach having completed the Professional Coach Course in 2006 and Associate Coach Course (ACC) in 2004. Both qualifications were obtained through the Centre for Coaching who partners with the Graduate School of Business at the University of Cape Town and New Ventures West (NVW) based in San Francisco USA. The International Coach Federation (ICF) ranked the NVW coach certification programme as one of the best in the USA. In addition, Keith completed the 18-month Graduate Diploma of Ontological Coaching in 2011 at the Newfield Institute in Melbourne, the preeminent coach training school in the Asia-Pacific region and all foundation courses at the National Institute of Whole Health. He is a Professional Certified Coach (PCC) with the International Coaching Federation, and an Associate Coach with the Centre for Coaching and Integral Leadership in South Africa, both executive coaching practices. Keith has well over 2000 hours of executive and circle coaching experience. He also has extensive experience with the Enneagram profiling system and is certified to administer all 360-degree assessments in the Centre for Creative Leadership Assessment Suite.