Saturday 25th June
Venue 2 – 10:00
“Stop suffering and start living!”
GREG SMITH, PhD Counselling Psychologist and Executive Coach
MA Psychology(NMMU); MA MSc (University of Sedona); BA Hons Psych (UPE); BA Psych and Xhosa (UPE); B.MSc (University of Sedona); Certified Executive Coach;Certified Hypnotherapist
Apart from his role as a certified executive coach, Greg is a registered Counselling Psychologist in private practice. Prior to working as a psychologist and executive coach, Greg traveled extensively internationally gaining valuable life experience and the ability to work effectively in multi-cultural contexts. Countries visited include the United Kingdom (England; Scotland), Europe (France; Spain; Portugal; Netherlands; Luxembourg; Italy; Greece; Greek Islands; Turkey), Egypt, UAE (Dubai; Abu Dhabi), Thailand, Nepal, India, USA (California; Nevada, New York; New Jersey, Tennessee), Argentina and Peru. Upon his return to South Africa he founded Grewith Agencies and represented major national and international brands in the sport and leisure wear market (Oakley, Quiksilver, Roxy and Soviet) as an independent sales agent in the Eastern Cape and parts of the Western Cape for 12 years.
In 2004 Greg founded his own coaching and consulting company Fortogen. In his role as an independent peak performance consultant he has coached numerous senior executives internationally (e.g., Microsoft: Israel, Dubai, Morocco, Turkey), nationally (e.g., Eskom, SARS, Transnet Freight Rail) and locally (e.g., Investec, Continental Tyre SA, Oakley Africa, Woolworths, FML Holdings, Specsavers, Execuspecs, Ambiton Financial Services, Burmeister de Lange Attorneys, Atlas Security Systems, Medicus Footwear, Debt Reconstruction Services). In this role, Greg has worked with both teams and individuals in developing optimal leadership using an eclectic approach drawn from the fields of psychology, NLP and coaching combined with his own life experience.
He completed his Masters in Metaphysical Science in 2008 and in October 2010 was awarded his PhD specializing in Transpersonal Counselling. Apart from fulfilling duties for his company Fortogen, Greg is an associate executive coach at Johannesburg based: Resolve Encounter Consulting, Connemara Consulting and Talentline Consulting as well as Cape Town based Pygmalion Consulting.
Website: www.gregsmith.co.za
Skype: tallgregsmith
