EXPERIENCE BUSINESS MANAGEMENT AND HR PRACTICES THROUGH OUR PROFESSIONAL INTERVENTIONS

BUILDING SUCCESS
THROUGH PEOPLE

We are a South African value-adding Consulting organisation that is committed to ‘’Building Success Through People” for the benefit of the organisation, its people and clients in South Africa and the entire African Continent. We are a principle-centred organisation that adopt best practice while offering qualitative Human Capital (HR) and Business Solutions.

We focus on the complete Human Capacity Development cycle.

OUR COMPANY PROFILE
COMPANY BACKGROUND

HR Optimization is a 100% black owned HR consultancy and a brainchild of young, dynamic entrepreneur.

Our main aim is to provide value-adding HR services and solutions that seek to optimize an organization’s human capital in order to improve productivity and efficiency.

OVERVIEW
We are a well-rounded Human Resources Consultancy that seek to provide core HR support and expertise to any organization. We serve our clients from our offices in Kwa-Zulu Natal, Gauteng and Limpopo.
VISION
Building Success Through People
MISSION
To develop human capital that aligns to organisation’s strategies as well as improve value per employee for world class organisation through:

  • Consulting
  • Organisation Development
  • Talent Acquisition and Retention
  • Skills Development
  • Coaching and Mentoring
VALUES
  • Integrity
  • Value-add
  • Efficiency and Effectiveness
  • Growth
  • Agility
OUR SERVICES
HUMAN RESOURCES CONSULTING SKILLS DEVELOPMENT & TRAINING COMMUNITY & CAREER DEVELOPMENT
COMMUNITY AND CAREER DEVELOPMENT

Services Value Proposition


HR Optimization is committed to development of South African Community. We partner with schools, corporates and other developmental institutions to offer practical youth & career development solutions to school learners, tertiary students, graduates, young professionals and entrepreneurs through the following interventions:



- Career Guidance
- Workplace Readiness
- SMME / Enterprise Development
- Graduate Development and Placements
- Personal and Professional Leadership
- Mentorship and Coaching
- Team Building
- Seminars and Conferences
OUR SERVICES
HUMAN RESOURCES CONSULTING SKILLS DEVELOPMENT & TRAINING COMMUNITY & CAREER DEVELOPMENT
HUMAN RESOURCES CONSULTING

Services Value Proposition


We start by the premise: “Good HR practices have positive impact on the organisation’s bottom line”. Our strength lies in our ability to accurately articulate and interpret organisational strategy, needs and challenges and then implement effective interventions / solutions in order to achieve the desired objectives. Our engaging approach will go a long way to assist the organisation in managing talent / employees from the recruitment stage to exit and moreover continually assist in maximizing performance and increase value per employee.

We have the experience, skills and knowledge to deliver our promise: “To provide effective interventions and Solutions that delivers results”  


Key areas of expertise:


- Management Consulting & Strategy
- Executive Search / Recruitment
- Organisation Development & Change
- Payroll
- Performance Management & Succession Planning
- Leadership Development
- Mentorship & Coaching
- Employee Relations
- Transformation

Personal Information

Employment Information

Other Information

Coaching

Background



We believe that success happens through people and with the correct guidance, all individual will be successful in their areas of existence /interest, hence we "Building Success Through People."
Our coaching approach is aimed at moving an individual/candidate towards unleash their potential in order to function optimally in all areas of existence i.e Personal, Leadership/Work/Career & Business.
We adopt neuroscience-base method, which is process-focused & results/outcome driven. It draws from research taken from positive psychology and change theories.

Our definition of coaching is the process of transforming an individual from any starting point into a highly effective, competence, high performance by changing/improving current habits and either adopting new winning habits for success in a structured manner. The focus is solely on ensuring that the client achieves maximum results through our interventions and assist you capitalise on your strengths.

We focus on both individual and group mentoring, aimed at helping then reach their personal and professional potential.

We focus on the following four areas:

Career Coaching
The focus is on an individual ‘s entire career lifecycle in order to optimize their progress and ensure higher rate of success in South Africa.

Benefits

- Accurate career choice
- Fast-paced & structured career development
- Wider career opportunities
- Understand career landscape
- Attain greater job/career satisfaction
- Develop better work/life balance
- Become more self-aware
- Know your road blocks/challenges and how to get through them
- Improve chances of promotion
- Career success & growth

Executive Coaching
The focus is on assisting people/managers on how to increases rate of success in the workplace, thereby increasing productivity and how to manage the dynamic, changing environment as well as perform Optimally / consistently .

Benefits

- Identify executive strengths and development needs
- Leverage existing individual strengths and improve performance
- Better succession management
- Improve good corporate culture development
- Retain high performers
- Develop more effective leaders
- Fair & well managed staff development
- Improved productivity
- Reduce labour turnover
- Better employer/employee relationship
- Positive work environment, thus greater productivity

Personal/ Life Coaching
The focus is on the individual's personal activities and orientation and aligning the them towards their goals in order to improve quality of life and better performance in all areas of interest/life.

Benefits

- Improved confidence and self-belief(look into the future)
- Eliminate limiting beliefs
- Greater self-awareness
- Improved communication skills
- Greater wellness
- Effective time management & resource utilization
- Understanding effective conversations
- Creation of long-term habits that support goal achievement
- Ensuring high performance
- Enhance leadership skills

Business Coaching
The focus is on assisting businesses and their leaders to optimize on their resources(intellectual & physical) and investments to achieve sustainable business results. There is also an emphasis in corporate governance, compliance and best practise.

Benefits

- Clear vision
- Clear strategy with achievable objectives
- Developing proper systems to support the business
- Develop better and sustainable brand
- Increase market presence/share
- Attract top talent employees & clients
- Understand the industry and position business for success
- Re-invent business
- Innovate to success
- Eliminate bottlenecks in your business
- Improved performance and efficiency
- Communicate success and leverage

The duration and cost depends on the predetermined needs to achieve the desired results.

LEONARD MASHAO MAX MOYO LISA SUKDEV
Testimonials For Leonard Mashao
"Leonard was a well rounded and well versed individual in his area of discipline and reporting to Leonard was a career and character building experience. Leonard would coach and mentor you in your working life to ensure that at all times you reached your full potential and always exceeded expectations. Leoanrd is a multi talented and young man."

Sharlene Fayers
HR Coordinator at Assmang Manganese

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Leonard is a dedicated HR specialist who strives to deliver the best in everything he does

Dawid Swart
Change Manager at African Rainbow Minerals

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Leonard is that person who strives to get the best out of people, he is a good coach/mentor and was meant for the Development of people.

Mduduzi Ndimande
Training Manager at Pfisterer (PTY) Ltd

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Leonard possesses unique skills than most HR professionals because he worked as a process engineer before venturing into human resources, which he is really passionate about. This is demostrated by his ability to understand the appropriate skills and development needs that really impacts business operations. Leonard is open minded and is very good team player, I recommend him for any company that wishes to optimize its human resources to have a positive result on its business.

Cedrick Tshavhungwe
Executive Manager: Engineering at Rheinmetall Denel Munition

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Self-starter who is focused and is not afraid to move mountains to achieve his strategic goals. A valuable Asset to the HRD field Elelwani Tshikovhi
Group Transformation Manager at Aveng (Africa) Group Ltd

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Leonard is a tenacious, hard working individual who has extensive skills, firstly as a Metallurgist & HR/D practitioner. Has a vast experience acquired from different prestigeous companies he has worked for. A highly strategic individual with passion for growth & a huge investment in Human Capital.

Pinky Radebe
HR Business Partner at Unilever
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Leonard and I worked in the same department at Anglo American Platinum for a few years. Leonard was in a more senior position and I did not report to him. Leonard was an unofficial mentor to me. He went the extra mile to make sure that I and the other junior staff members were always kept in the loop. He would ensure that we had exposure to all the aspects of the business and would recommend us for acting in higher positions. Leonard is an excellent leader and has no qualms promoting and developing his peers and subordinates. He motivates those around him to strive for excellence and coaches his juniors. Leonard has an inherent positive approach to life, which he encourages others to adopt. I would love to work with him again. He is open and honest and carries other's best interests at heart.

Mandy Lane
HR D Practioner nKomati

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Besides being an A performer and an A player, Leornard is concerned with his team mates performance and departmental and business performance as a whole. He acted as a performance champion for the training department and discouraged working in silos within the HR department. He is a strategic thinker, compassionate and I found him to be very helpful, organized, forthright and reliable. He was always willing to give a helping hand and professional advice over and above his normal call of duty.In addition he is friendly and able to fit in with colleagues and co-workers creating a positive team environment at work. I found his technical skills, knowledge and qualifications complementary to his natural people management skills and a rare combination which I believe is his competetive edge. Leonard is an avid reader and I find myself still exchanging a lot of information/ material with him over 5 years post working for the same organisation. He is also a networker of note and maintains relationships. Leonard is passionate about personal development as well as education. He is career minded and constantly seeks feedback from others to improve his competence and skills in every role. I am fully confident that he will make amazing strides in his career and will prove to be an asset in his future positions as well

Fortune Masemola
Senior HR Manager at Barloworld Equipment

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Leonard gained valuable experience as a metallurgist/supervisor whilst working at Palabora. He demonstrated that his technical aptitude to learn new processes was a key strength and he utilised this skill to become proficient at his role. His ability to coach and mentor subordinates whilst using his technical background was identified as a strong skill which was fully exploited when moving Leonard to a training role. I will recommend Leonard to any position requiring a technical person in coaching and training of metallurgical staff.

Dennis Brazier
Managing Director at Verref Shaped (Pty) Ltd

LEONARD MASHAO MAX MOYO LISA SUKDEV
Leonard Mashao

Managing Director, Facilitator, Speaker, Author, Career Advisor, Coach


"Leonard was a well rounded and well versed individual in his area of discipline and reporting to Leonard was a career and character building experience....
Sharlene Fayers
HR Coordinator at Assmang Manganese
Leonard is a dedicated HR specialist who strives to deliver...
Dawid Swart
Change Manager at African Rainbow Minerals
Leonard is that person who strives to get the best out of people, he is a good coach/mentor and was meant for the Development of people...
Mduduzi Ndimande
Training Manager at Pfisterer (PTY) Ltd
Leonard possesses unique skills than most HR professionals because he worked as a process engineer before venturing into human resources...
Cedrick Tshavhungwe
Executive Manager Rheinmetall Denel Munition
Self-starter who is focused and is not afraid to move mountains to achieve his strategic goals. A valuable Asset to the HRD field...
Elelwani Tshikovhi
Group Transformation Manager at Aveng (Africa) Group Ltd
Leonard is a tenacious, hard working individual who has extensive skills, firstly as a Metallurgist & HR/D practitioner. Has a vast experience...
Pinky Radebe
HR Business Partner at Unilever

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Leonard Mashao is the Founder and Director of HR Optimization Consulting Company and the Chairperson of the LMEG Development Foundation. He is a registered HR/D Professional with South African Board for People Practise, a member of Institute of People Management with passion for people development.

He is a certified/licensed Provider of change management model (The Interchange Cycle), a Game-Changer at heart. He is a trained/experienced Facilitator, Coach, Assessor, Moderator of learning programs as well as Skills Development Facilitator (SDF).

He is a member of MQA Quality Assurance Sub-Committee as well as a member of Metallurgy & Assaying/Laboratory Training Technical Reference Group.

He has over 12 years experience acquired in various mining companies (namely Rio Tinto, Anglo American and African Rainbow Minerals) and other sectors as well as a Consulting Firm heading Production and Human Resources/Development Departments and managing Projects. Leonard has established and is a member of various HR, Development & Community Upliftment Committees/Projects. He has been coaching students in schools and universities on career guidance/development and personal & professional branding for the past few years as well as speaking in various platforms.

He had early career in mining, metallurgy and laboratory processes as Plant/Projects Metallurgist, Production Supervisor and Training Officer.

He is the Author of personal and professional leadership book called "Living Life to the FATEST". Leonard is truly committed to personal development, empowerment of others and the value of his brand. He is an award winner for "BMF KZN Province Manager of the Year" 2012. He a member of BMF KZN EXCO, Deputy Chairperson of BMF Durban Branch as well as Durban Chamber of Commerce and Industry for Northern Region.
Qualifications
- Executive Human Resources Programme, University of Stellenbosch Business School
- B Com in Industrial and Organizational Psychology, UNISA
- Programme in Project Management, University of Stellenbosch Business School
- Programme in Human Resources Management, UNISA
- National Diploma in Extraction Metallurgy, Wits Technikon (University of Johannesburg)
- Coaching Certificate (SKU)
- International Coach Federation Professional Certification (In progress)
Speaking Topics & Professional Engagements
- Career Development (including Guidance and Motivation in Schools/Tertiary)
- Workplace Readiness
- Talent and Performance Management
- Effective Coaching and Mentorship
- Career & Life Coaching
- Executive Coaching
- Business Coaching
- Personal and Professional Leadership
- Change Management
- Skills Development
- Professional Branding
- Fate
- Diversity
- Strategy
LEONARD MASHAO MAX MOYO LISA SUKDEV
Max Moyo

Speaker, Facilitator, Consultant and Human Transformation Coach


Max Moyo is a world-renowned public speaker, wealth creation expert and human transformation coach who blends his vast experience in the financial services industry with an affinity for inspiring people and galvanizing them into positive, life-changing action – be it in the workplace, business in the domestic sphere or in any other professional, informal or social grouping.

He has been Keynote speaker in Africa, Canada, India, The Middle East and The United States. He is the Founder and CEO of Ignite My Potential who believes that "Every single one of us was born a genius and a success” and he unleashes that potential through his love for developing others by visiting schools and other institutions.

Max writes a weekly inspirational column for The Star newspaper, with 618 000 daily readers, as well as for Jet Club magazine, which reaches 3.5 million readers every month.

He is in the process of writing a book to help people unlock their inner greatness, with the working title The 8th World Wonder: You.

He is a regular guest on media platforms on SAFM, Khaya FM, SABC 2 Morning life, ANN7 Vuka Africa, Zambia TV, Q FM.

His recent talks Include :-

- The Million Dollar Round Table Annual Conference Main Platform Speaker for 2013 in Philadelphia, USA.
- Keynote Speaker, State Farm Insurance, National Hispanic Agents Network Conference, Chicago
- Keynote Speaker, Million Dollar Round Table Experience Conference, Hydrabad, India
- Keynote Speaker, Life Round Table Conference, Mumbai, India
- Life Association of Jamaica Conference, Jamaica
- Keynote Speaker, Focus Financial, London Ontario, Canada

Education
- Heriot-Watt University - MBA (current)
- University of Manchester – Manchester Business School - Executive Development program
- Andrews University, Michigan - Bachelor of Business Administration, Management and Accounting

Experience
- Founder and CEO Ignite My Potential (Leader, Consultant, Speaker, Facilitator, Coach)
- Member of the Nicro Board of Directors
- Director and Vice President Marketing: GET IT ED
- Marketing Vice President for Africa: Infotelesys
- HEAD: Emerging Markets Development, Allan Gray Limited
- HEAD: Advisor Distribution, Allan Gray Limited
- Divisional Director – Sales Liberty Active
- Deputy General Manager: Discovery Health
- Regional General Manager: Sanlam Life
- Marketing Development: Old Mutual

Speaking Topics & Engagements
- Living Your Purpose
- Identity, Talent and Purpose
- Leading and Living Life in Full Colour
- Money and Identity
- Leading Innovation
- African Village Productivity Model
- Village Lessons in Leaving Organizational Values/Brand
- Life Coaching
- Executive/Management Coaching
- Business Coaching
- Keynote Address
- Strategy facilitation
- Strength-Finder

"Be a misfit if you want to succeed. Misfits change the world!”… you are the game changer! May Moyo


LEONARD MASHAO MAX MOYO LISA SUKDEV
Lisa Sukdev

Marketing Guru, Brand Transformation Expert, Life Coach, Personal Development Consultant


Lisa Sukdev is the Founder and CEO of Zoey Events and Marketing. After 17years in the industry, Lisa has established herself as an authority in PR and Marketing.

She founded Zoey in 2006 which gave her an opportunity to develop and grow her own brand. The company focuses on PR, strategic marketing, training and corporate events.

Lisa gives the highest respect to people and relationships, "I don’t do business with products and services, I do business with people, and hence I focus on building relationships” says Lisa.

Lisa is known for her finer taste, and that is evident in the positioning of Zoey Events and Marketing and that of her satisfied clients.

She has served the largest shopping centre in the Southern hemisphere (Gateway Theatre of Shopping), where she was a PR Manager.

Education & Work Experience
With a qualification in Sales and Marketing and a Business Management Diploma, Lisa says that her best education has been life.

One of her achievements thus far has been winning a Maxi Award for a "Say Yes” campaign at Gateway which generated approx. R2 million worth of editorial.

She was also recruited to do the unveiling of the largest statue of Shiva in Africa, this was an honour, being a Christian to be trusted with a project centred around a Hindu deity.

Asked about "How do you do it?” Lisa maintains "You can’t do the same thing the same way and expect to get different results, innovation, diversity and a determined attitude is key”

She held various positions in Marketing and Public Relations in East Coast Radio, Toyota & Gateway Theatre of Shopping since in 1996 until she founded Zoey Events & Marketing.

In 2006, Zoey Events and Marketing was born, a brand that has grown in leaps and bounds until today.

Lisa has the enviable ability to light up any room she walks into, with the ability to communicate effectively with people at all levels.

She is passionate about people, communication and service, hence she formed Premium Networking Forum, a forum for like-minded executives to come together, build quality relationships and develop themselves.

Speaking Topics
-The power of Personal Branding
-Master Networking
-Creating a great First Impression
-Customer Service
-5P’s of Marketing
-Marketing
-Communication


Purchase This Publication Now :

Living Life To The Fatest

This book was written mainly for people who aspire to dream, set goals and accomplish them. It highlights the fact that however bad you may think the situation is, it is not that bad! It is dedicated to and aimed at celebrating every single person who contributed to the author’s life. It is also a big wish to motivate kids to realise that there is always a way forward. Growing up can be a roller-coaster, but with good support and an open mind you can ace the puzzle called life to your satisfaction. The book also highlights the importance of a continuous sense of hope as well as dealing with issues diligently. Maproeza went through all the steps that a normal child in South Africa experiences, kept on dreaming, gathered what he could from every situation, and survived until today. Key principles in the book are:

- Accept the now.
- Be principled.
- When given opportunities, choose a path of significance.
- Enjoy the journey of life and pay attention.
- Recognise the greatness within you and others.
- Find your place in the world.
- Make a difference for the better.
- Learn to see virtues cloaked in vices and vices cloaked in virtues.
Maproeza’s mission is to add value to others’ lives while improving his own.

Publication Information:

Author: Leonard Mashao
ISBN 978-1-920-51361-0
Product Size: A5
Language: English
Format: Paperback
Price: R100.00
For More Information Contact Us On : info@hroptimisation.com

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OUR SERVICES
HUMAN RESOURCES CONSULTING SKILLS DEVELOPMENT & TRAINING COMMUNITY & CAREER DEVELOPMENT
Skills Development & Training

Services Value Proposition


The organization boasts experience and skills in Facilitation, Training and Skills Development in various sectors of South African business. Our strength lies in our ability to accurately interpret training needs, customize programs/interventions and implement in order to deliver efficient results. We offer a range of value-adding & customized training as well as skills development intervention in the following areas:


- SDF Services (incl WSP & ATR Report )
- Skills Audit
- HR Capacity Training
- Mining and Metallurgy Training
- Laboratory / Chemistry Training
- Manufacturing Training
- Health and Safety Training
- Workplace Assessments and Moderation
- ISO 9001:2008 – Implementations and Internal Audit
- Project Management Training
- SMME/Enterprise Development Training

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