South Africa

Danela has been involved in individual, team and organisational development at all levels of management, within a range of sectors including financial, manufacturing, mining, IT, telecommunications and pharmaceuticals, since 1989. 

She is Director of YSA, a leading consultancy in the field of Leadership Development. YSA enjoys a reputation as facilitators of complex processes in the business arena, addressing a wide spectrum of leadership issues including power and conflict on a personal and professional level.

She has expertise in developing practical learning and understanding methodologies which have consistently resulted in changes implemented at the strategic level, being understood and successfully translated into operational actions, and in improving overall organisational results.

She is also integrally involved in developing the Internal Consulting Skills programme to develop the capabilities of corporate human resources practitioners and other service functions such as Finance and IT The programme has been adopted by corporations world-wide and has been highly successful in developing sideways leadership, i.e having authority, impact and presence to influence internal customers. Danela has travelled extensively, both locally and internationally implementing the programme in major organisations such as South Africa Breweries, Eskom and with Bath Consultancy Group, Nokia world-wide, working out of the USA and Finland.

She utilises LifePi [LifePathInsight] as a coaching instrument. LifePi produces a report from a biographical questionnaire which develops awareness and responsibility in business leadership. Ongoing involvement with the training and development of LifePi analysts.

Prior to joining YSA she consulted for ten years in her own practise, in partnership and in association with other well-known consultants. She designed and developed training processes and learning material for all levels from executive to shopfloor, to support a wide range of organisational business strategy. She is recognised for results in training managers on how to coach and train staff to achieve real time learning. She previously held management positions in the human resources development function of Woolworths, Edworks and the Adcock-Ingram Group.

Danela is trained and qualified in Human Resources Development at the University of the Witwatersrand Graduate School of Business. Attained B.A. cum laude from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel.