About Derek

Derek Hendrikz Profile

Derek Hendrikz is an international strategic leadership & organisational performance specialist.

As renowned trainer, speaker and consultant, Derek has twenty years’ experience and have worked in South Africa, Austria, Lesotho, Swaziland, Botswana, Namibia, Mozambique, Zimbabwe, Zambia, Malawi, Uganda, Tanzania, Kenya, Sudan, Mauritius, Ghana, Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, United Arab Emirates, Qatar, Oman, Maldives and Malaysia.

He specialises in the training of executive teams and is mostly contracted to train Board Members, EXCO teams and senior managers. Derek trains in the vicinity of 3000 highly satisfied customers per year and over the past 20-years has worked with more than 170 companies and has trained more than 50 000 participants in various work sessions.

In consulting Derek has undertaken a myriad of projects, but holds highest acclaim for his work in the development, implementation and measurement of organisational strategy.

Academically Derek holds tertiary and post graduate qualifications in the fields of Business Administration, Labour Relations & Law; Training & Development; Facilitation Skills; and Group Process Consultation.

He plays a leading role in the occupational training industry as the founding member and first elected president of the Southern Africa Professional Trainers Association (SAPTA), who is the leading association within the professional training arena in the Southern Africa Development Countries (SADC) region.

As a well-respected presenter and motivational speaker, his lively and inspirational presentations have inspired many top business people and government executives to take action.

Derek regularly publishes articles in the field of Strategic Leadership and Strategy Development and has appeared in various television talk shows as a quest member. His current book “Wizard of Org – The Art of Leadership and Practice of Management” is due to be published in 2015.

He was the creator of various International events. Some of these were, ‘The Robben Island Diversity Experience ’, ‘The National Diversity Indaba’, ‘The Annual ‘Batho Pele’ Indaba’, ‘SA’s Top Gurus’, and many others.

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Strategy Development Specialist...

As consultant, Derek specialises in the field of strategy development, implementation and measurement. He offers comprehensive services in this regard and has worked with a myriad of clients internationally, including high level strategy development within the public, private and non-profit sectors. His process is scientific and methodological which ensures a clear translation process from strategic thinking to operational action.

In terms of consulting, Derek offers two programmes, namely:

Executive Trainer in Strategic Leadership...

As professional trainer , Derek annually trains Directors, Board Members, EXCO Teams, Senior Managers and other Organisational Executives in Strategic Leadership.

His Strategic Leadership Master Class is presented publically (participants from various companies attend) and in-house (programme is run for delegates from the same organisation).

The training workshop is a well-developed and researched programme and is suitable for executives who already attained an MBA or other advanced managerial training.

For more information on the programme content , target audience , in-house arrangements and publically scheduled workshops , click on the 'strategic leadership' menue tab.

Keynote Speaker on Strategic Leadership...

As keynote speaker , Derek tells the inspirational story of strategic leadership in an entertaining and humorous way.

Any person in a managerial and leadership position will benefit from this conference presentation and not only people who work with strategy development and implementation.

Derek's Customers...

Derek Hendrikz has worked with more than 170 organisations in more than 20 countries worldwide.

Click on the 'About Derek' tab to view a complete and alphabetical list of the customer companies who have used him for training workshops, conference seminars and consulting projects, mostly in the field of organisational strategy development, implementation and measurement, and strategic leadership programmes.

View a complete list of Derek's Customers

Derek's Projects...

To date, Derek has completed more than 40 consulting projects worldwide.

Currently he will only accept strategy development, implementation and measurement projects , and will no longer engage in consulting work outside this area of specialisation.

View a detailed list of Derek's Consulting Projects